Thanks to RV-Boondocker-Explorer we enjoyed reading a new and very interesting blog:
vagabondjourney.com .

I am copying a quote from his entry yesterday because it hit home for us. Here it is:

"To be free, you had to be alone, always, everywhere, and above all amongst people. . . Wandering and alone in a world in which he could always stay unknown, Orschanow was really free. He thought and acted as he wanted to, and no one could pretend to control his thoughts, since all he needed to do was to leave, at the first clash of views, and set off on the road again."
-from Isabelle Eberhardt's Vagabond

This is a book we want to read. We understand the need to be alone. The open road has obstacles (tiresome people who drain your energy) but is this so different from sedentary life? YES! The difference lies in that when on the road these obstacles are passed by and left behind.

We met some Escapees. And by that (if you are a fulltimer) you know what I mean. We THOUGHT they were our friends. But when it turned out their views were different from ours there was some unyielding confrontation. We don't like Rush Limbaugh... we're not far right wing, and we don't consider ourselves to be so damn special and immune from today's problems just because we reside in an Escapee RV park. Paying $100,000 for a gravel lot in the middle of a desert doesn't make much sense to us but I guess it is their Never Never Land. The only thing missing was "Peter Pan". There was a lot of sand out there. It seemed like they had buried their heads in it.