Wheeler Dealer
I keep waking up around 5 and not being able to get back to sleep. On previous visits to the US, this has been the norm for the first few days, because of jet lag. Hopefully that is what it is. However, I have a feeling it might be because there is money in my pocket and it is burning a hole in it. If you know me well or have read my memoir, you will know that spending money is not high on my list of priorities. Being used to frugal living with an occasional splurge for clothing or a meal out (weaknesses inherited from my mother who had an eye for style and whose cooking I still hanker for) has not prepared me for what I am about to embark on. Basically Richard and I are starting from scratch. We have to buy ourselves a truck and a 5 th wheel trailer which we will have to kit out so that we can live in it full time. While we are doing this, we are staying with Richard’s cousin and his lovely wife near Austin, Texas. They are RVers, and we ar...