While we were traveling around Las Vegas and Hoover Dam, a good friend called us and she was going to be in Phoenix Az for a month house sitting for some friends and we should come on down…we shrugged and said ..Why not?
Hindsight is a funny thing, the chain of events that followed this one decision…changed our lives forever…
But I digress…
You know...every major change in our lives has lead us into something greater than before and all our big shifts in life were not without some type of emotional upheaval ..but every single time, when we come out on the other side...we are better, stronger...
When my world is rocked, like it was..it takes me a long time to get my feet under me again, and this time has been no different!
Sharing our adventures with everyone has been a pleasure, and while I welcome with open arms any new adventures...I find myself questioning the choices I am making because of the trauma I endured before and after Hurricane Michael…
When last we left off we were in Las Vegas heading for Arizona. Things kinda went south after that and our lives changed drastically
Esprit caught fire in Phoenix and Pierre was hurt really bad..he severed his Achilles Tendon and had to have emergency surgery to repair it. When he was in recovery the Doctor told me he had a long recovery road ahead and he was not going to be able to recover properly in an RV..that I needed to get him somewhere where he could go to physical therapy and have more room.
At that time our house in Panama City was empty…we had no renters…so I called a good friend and flew him in to Phoenix to help get everything back to PC
we arrived in PC 10 days before Hurricane Michael hit
I didn’t even know there was a Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico!!
When we arrived in PC I was so busy with getting everything done…Our belongings back in the house and making the house comfortable for Pierre..he was on crutches and could not walk…we also had no TV.. I was not even aware of the storm!
I’m going to stop there!
I still can’t talk about what we went through!
I still have a lot of heart ache..PTSD..and anxiety just thinking about what happened days before and after Hurricane Michael hit! But I am going to say…just surviving a cat 5 storm with winds clocked over 200 Mph…for over 5 hours showed me just how strong and powerful I am.
It was a year of hard back breaking work just to get our house, Esprit, docks and property back to livable, but..Pierre and I did it! We survived a 200mph hurricane!
but…the storm really effected me …so negatively ..in fact..that I just couldn’t live in that house anymore, so we decided to go back to Texas. We bought 12 acres and I tried…I promise…to settle down…nope…didn’t even come close!
So we went back on the road again and sold our place in PC.
So, I know in my heart that this glitch in our lives will be the beginning of something even greater and we'll be back to living our dream in no time, of that I am certain. We have committed ourselves to a life less ordinary, a life where adventure is the rule and not the exception.
