When we bought the trailer in 2004 I never imagined we’d be living in hotels more than camping. I am really missing my “home” this trip and if we drive to the US again, we’ll be dragging our house behind us. I was very glad NOT to be dragging the trailer when the boys and I left PaaMul, but once I got some kilometers under our wheels, I really started to miss having our home with us. And now that we’ve spent almost 2 weeks in a hotel in Wisconsin, I’m REALLY missing having our home. It is like living in limbo, calling the front desk every few days to extend our stay and never feeling like we can relax and let our hair down – worried the kids are keeping neighbors up (they certainly keep us up) at 2am. I don’t particularly like our area of town for exercising either, but they do have a fitness room here at the hotel with weights, bike, something that does legs and arms (eliptical?), stairstepper and 3 treadmills.
We chose this hotel because we knew we were going to stay about a week (I was hoping for 5 days or so) and needed a place for Kilo and the boys to have a dedicated bed instead of sneaking them in and having them sleep on the floor. The room and hotel itself are AMAZING and if we ever come back to this area we won’t stay anywhere else. But it isn’t home. It does, however, have an amazing courtyard that runs a nightly fire, a gigantic recreational/breakfast area with fireplace, large pool, hottub, sauna, pool table, game room, football tables, etc. The room itself is actually a suite with 2 rooms separated with a door, a fridge/microwave/bar area, 2 full closets and a separate office/desk area. It is HUGE and perfect for us. So I really can’t complain. It must be the continual grey skies and cold weather though – I have been SO ready to leave for over a week. It is also expensive – even at $80/night, it kills me to stay here knowing that Jamie’s mother’s house sits empty and available.
The kids are hoping for snow, I’m hoping I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel (Jamie promises we’ll leave on Monday) and we’re all more than ready to get home. We’ll first make a quick stop to see my sister in Minnesota and then make a run for the border. Honestly, I can’t get there fast enough. We might even take the interstate.
I miss the little house when we travel too. We were supposed to go to Galveston in it for T-giving, and the kids wanted hotel all the way and I wanted the 5′er. It is just so much easier to have your hotel dragging behind you. And $15 beats $80 any day.
Thanks for the Oak street image. I am passing it on to my brother to see. So nice to see the house again.
“We might even take the interstate. ”
WHAT have you been smoking girl?
Who has taken my Kitty?
love, papa
A hotel isn’t home. But girl you have to get out of that cold weather. You are going to have a hell of a time readjusting when you hit the Yucatan.
I can really understand… we live in Mexico too, but in a sailboat and on the Pacific side. We spent nearly three months back in the US this summer visiting family and friends. It helped a lot to stay many nights with good friends or relatives, but still, we missed our home so badly! All roughly 500 sq feet of it… we had more room almost everywhere else, and wonderful company most of the time, but there’s no place like home.
Wow! How small the world is! I have been following your blog since my wife and I became interested in traveling to Mexico quite some time ago, but I hadnt been keeping up real well since you have been in the USA. Now I read on your blog that you were in Dennison and Auburn Iowa. So that means that you must have traveled through Carroll Iowa. I live about an hour south east of Carroll! It would have been great to meet you. Perhaps another time.
Good luck in your travels!
Paul
So where are you now? I’m missing you.