Robert Brobst:  

Retirement Lifestyle You can have ''Endless Summer'' Michigan / Florida. I ''retired'' March 31, 2005 after 42 years with the same small company. Pat, my wife "retired" ten years ago, 1998, after a career as a RN for 27 years with a specialty in pediatrics, to attend to her flower gardens and adjust to being a step mom to 4 grown children and step grandmother to 9 at the time and now 14 grandchildren. Quite a shock for Pat, she did not have any children when we met.. We bought our Motorhome in 2003 and love traveling in it. Prior to 2000 I never even considered a motorhome a possibility in my life. And then thinking about retirement and what I would like to do, travel and see this beautiful country of ours, is when a motorhome came into mind. September 2003 Pat and I went to the campers show in Novi, Michigan and within three weeks we were the owners of a slightly used (almost new, ten months old) 2003 Itasca Sunrise 36M motorhome with 8,628 miles on it. My first experience driving a MH, drove it home to Michigan from Indiana 360 miles. Enjoyed it. Now we have a total of 33,000 mile to date. It is 36 ft. class A with 350 sq.ft. of living space. The original owners lost a lot of money and we got a pretty good deal. We will keep our house, we have a great location on the water, where we can keep our boat on a hoist behind the house, life is good! Also Pat loves her flowers and flower gardens around the house. We are in southeast Michigan, north and east of Detroit about 42 miles. We are on a canal in a subdivision of canal lots. The canals are 120' wide in our ''Venice of Michigan'' off the North Channel of the Saint Clair River just north of Lake Saint Clair. I bought the lot in 1984, designed and built the house in 1985-86 moved in 1986. That was a dream and goal of mine to design and also build a house by myself since I was very young. Kind of a hobby of mine, building houses and additions on to many homes in the past. Thought I might continue building homes in retirement after working in sales, however now I do not want to work that hard. There are many wonders of God and Nature to take a look at and use our five senses, Sight, Sound, Smell, Touch and Taste to enjoy life. We need to use all of them while we can. I realize that life's journey is taken a day at a time and while tomorrow may come, I can't afford to pass up this day and now for it. I will make every effort to be happy and treat others as I wish to be treated. Pat and I don't consider ourselves campers we have a nice condo on wheels we move around this country to sleep in our own bed, shower and use our own bathroom when and wherever you are. Pat and I spent our first night at a Super Wal-Mart March 2004 in Lantana Florida. We were a little worried at first but Wal-Mart had security all night long and allows you to park your RV overnight. The next morning I said to Pat that her and I are officially Gypsy's. You cannot beat the sightseeing from the height of your seats in a class A motorhome. We look forward to traveling our United States in t...Expand for more