“It” never stops

I am sitting stagnant… I feel like I am going stir crazy.

We have been in this vacation rental house for a little over a month. I now know, 100% for sure, this is not what I want to be doing. I need to seize my opportunity. I have to travel…

I was standing in the kitchen just now making my third cup of coffee for the day. I was looking around and  I see I have house chores I need to do. Dishes, laundry, vac, pick up dog poo, trash out, sweep floors…YUK

This is just not what I want to be doing.
Or at least if I have to be doing this, I want to do it somewhere else far far away.

We are almost free. We would be willing even to sell the rest of our furniture and some how consolidate our personal belongings to travel more. I just can’t sit here, we can’t just sit here. We talk about it every day, at least once, if not several times. When I am not talking about it with the hubby, I am thinking about it, scheming on how to make it happen. And my road block always comes back to ONE thing, yes only ONE thing…

The Dog…

We own the one breed of dog that has been banned by all airlines and can’t fly…The English Bulldog, my love…Dumont! We had at one point conjured up a plan to get him over to Europe on a cruise ship. But trying to make him poop in a 4x4x4 box on a cruise ship for eleven days, just doesn’t work for me or him or us. We did have an option through Cunard which actually has on-board kennels, but there is a year or longer waiting list for a kennel to open up.

We really wish we could leave the dog with our son, but at 20 years old, we just don’t think we can count on that and don’t think we should burden him. We tried to make a deal with him, that we would give him a place to live, furnish it for him, he pays utilities and takes the dog. But with a girlfriend 40 miles away, no job yet, not sure of what he wants to do and enjoying being 20, it just doesn’t seem like it would work. But that would be the best option.

Of course we could just settle down, settle in, live a normal life and spend the next few years with our dog. Travel here and there and plan for the day, but we are too impatient and maybe even selfish. Maybe we are even too over indulgent. But I believe you have to do what is in your heart or you will regret it. So some how, some way, I have to figure this out.

We have talked about hiring a dog sitter. We have talked about taking dog with us, as mentioned above. We have talked about asking someone to take the dog temporarily for up to a year, we cover all his expenses. We have gone in circles about it, but we just can’t fathom leaving him behind and making him someone else’s responsibility. He has health issues, he is a handful, plus he is our best friend and companion. And what if something happened to him while we were gone?

What to do???

The RV is officially for sale, once it is gone we could apply for Visas and go…we could really be free…

Maybe we should just pack up the dog, pack up the Jeep and head back to Florida. We loved it there and would love to hang out in the Florida Keys or Fort Lauderdale, but honestly Europe is our calling.  Or so we think it is…

I read an interesting article today about Spain having so many houses on the real estate market because their market tanked. Spain is considering a law that would grant residency to people who buys homes over $160k (Euros). How awesome would that be. So see where my mind is….always dreaming of that far away land…always…it never stops, lessens, subsides, goes away….it is in my blood, my heart, my passion…….it being travel!

We almost booked tickets for Christmas in Europe last week (we actually found seats and it would have cost us $260 total to fly using miles), but we have a lot going on trying to sell the RV, plus we didn’t want to ask anyone to dog sit. If the RV would have sold by last Sunday we were going to book tickets, O’well….

Ciao for now my friends….

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November 20, 2012 | Categories: Europe Travel, Travel | Tags: Bulldog, cruise ship, CruiseShip, Cunard Line, cup of coffee, English Bulldog, Florida, Spain | Leave a comment