So here’s what’s exciting to me about blogging. Talking about issues that are real and unresolved, as I write. I have been tempted to not post at all, since we have waited almost a week now for our VA appraisal on the house we’re moving out of. If the appraisal is less than our asking price, it could wreck the contract we have in place, which could wreck the sale, which  could wreck the trip we’ve been talking up for awhile. Or at least shorten it considerably.

It is easy under the circumstances to rationalize that I should just wait and see how everything plays out. If it turns out to be a non-issue, won’t I feel a little silly in our next post? Maybe, but this has been a lot of what preparing for the trip has been about. Many moving pieces, some of a size that they could simply squash the plan altogether.

So cross your fingers too. We are inside 30 days of lift off, and so far, things have been working out amazingly well. I will continue to write my obscure books, and teach online. Jen, my wife, has a fulltime telecommuting job that she’ll continue on the road, and all the way to Florida! I am also the principal of our one-room rolling schoolhouse, and am in charge of reading and riting and rithmetic. Hopefully I can stay one lesson ahead of our young scholars.

We are also looking forward, very much, to seeing family we’ve not seen in a long time, and…well, there you have it!The appraisal unofficially looks good. We are closing in on very few reasons not to do this adventure.  The plan now is to hand over the keys at closing on Friday, March 14,and become officially, and happily, homeless.

This is the kind of stuff I do that drives Jen crazy: each year that we go to the Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Washington, DC, I think how cool it would be to do a family float.  Since the parade is only two days after closing, I signed us up. Told them that we’d have a motorhome, about 20 adults, and 25 kids doing….I don’t know what. Any ideas?  Jen’s already said I can do what I want, but she and the motorhome will be in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee on Sunday.

So who can bat 1.000?