Winnie Woman: Part II

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it's also leaving behind.
Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return.
There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
--Jan Myrdal

I've been hard at work, researching my plan to live in a Winnnebago. I'm learning lingo, laws and lessons about living on the road. "Boondocking" is what hard-core RVer's call parking somewhere for free. I want to be a Boondocker!!! This week I rented the 80's Albert Brooks flick "Lost In America" where a couple cashes in everything that I own to tour America in a huge motor home. It's entertaining, though when I execute my plan, it will be much more thought out - and I don't think that I will loose all my money in Vegas {like the wife does in the movie}. What can I say, I've never been much of a gambler. While watching this movie, the man makes constant references to Easy Rider, and that being his inspiration. SO, yesterday when I was returning Lost In America, I picked it up -- research, ya know.

I've been working hard at getting all the details for becoming a Winnebago Woman, and here are some sites that have been helpful....or at the least, entertaining:

• http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0698/9806rv.htm

"I believe the Winnebago has set me free. It has made me swim and eat pancakes with strangers and turn down obscure roads with no worry about where I have to be and when." Ann Patchett

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/2263983/Selecting-A-Vehicle-To-Live-In-A-Guide-for-Wannabe-Car-Dwellers
• http://www.cheaprvliving.com/
• http://www.roadjunky.com/guide/795/a-travel-guide-to-living-out-of-your-vehicle