June 29: Day 100

For a couple of weeks or so, I am parked in the driveway of a camera-shy relative in Middlefield CT. Today marks the 100th day I have lived in Katmalita. It didn't take but a week to put some skuffs on the beautiful wood floor. It took less than two weeks to realize my Travel Skoolie and my Stationary Skoolie would be Karmalita. It took 93 days to fall asleep on the couch while journaling and have an indelible pen leave its mark on the couch.

I am looking forward to Karma making someone else happy. There are personal items I will take off her, but there are bins of never really used junk journal supplies, books and some clothes that will need to go, but anything else that's on there can stay (the mattress, linens, portable room a/c, etc.). Perhaps even her protective dragon's eye over the back door. However, there is a painting on the bedroom wall and items filling two totes in the basement at Monica's that I might not yet be ready to release. On the other hand, I've identified a few things I have on Karmalita with which I am willing to part. They do not include any of the magnetic hooks stuck everywhere on the ceiling

Karmalita and I had too many early "adventures" ... from trying to get her registered on Good Friday, to the transmission blowing and all those tows, to the diesel heater magically working again. I’m happy to take things slowly. Pye has lost many nooks and the full-size bed – and he has not been off the bus once. I have loved my hammock, even more as it helped me survive days with temperatures 90-degrees and above.

We've stayed in the city and in forests, with family and friends, from Florida to North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. I am blessed to have so many people care so much about me.

In all, I've been living in a skoolie 1,355 days.

I was just telling someone today that being this close to wild and free rocks my world.