RV or Mansion?

I can't believe it's Monday and my visit with my sweetie is coming to an end. Our time apart seems painfully long while our time together flies by. We've had a great time as always. We went to a Rockies game on Friday night which they miraculously won considering their recent poor performance. It was a family night with Mike, his daughter and her boyfriend, his son and his new sweetie and me, of course.

On Saturday we went to an RV show. It was our initial investigation into the world of RVing as we've decided to pursue that lifestyle. Our thoughts are that we will travel around this beautiful country trying to figure out where we will ultimately settle. The RVs were amazingly nice - some were downright luxurious - and I got very excited at the prospect of traveling for awhile. All I need is an Internet connection and my beloved and I'm good to go.

Then yesterday we went to a Parade of Homes. Talk about luxury and, dare I say it, over-indulgence. These homes were typically between 8500 and 9000 square feet and cost over $2.5 million. Of course, they were gorgeous but sadly, they were nearly on top of each other with very little yard and a beautiful mountain view soon to be obscured by continued development. Each home had great features but also things I didn't particularly care for. If I were going to pay $2.5 mil for a house, it better be exactly what I want and be sitting on a white, sandy beach. :-) I can dream, can't I?

Racking Up the Minutes

Each day we exchanged emails and each night we talked, always with me calling Mike after 9:00 PM. With each communication I was bursting with love, and the concerns of meeting his children faded into the background. It became apparent that waiting for free cell time was not going to work long-term. As it happened, our cell phone contracts were ending at about the same time so we decided to get on a plan that would allow us to talk anytime for free.

Mike lives in the foothills just east of the Rockies so not every service worked at his house. We decided to see if he could get Sprint service there since that's what I already had. As a bonus, his daughter's boyfriend had Sprint and they would be able to talk for free as well. It took a couple of days but the decision was made. I bought a new cell phone and renewed my contract and Mike signed on as a new customer. If Sprint ever quits allowing people within the Sprint network to talk for free, we just might be to blame. Now Mike could call me during his morning and afternoon drive time. And that's exactly what he did. We talked in the morning, we talked in the afternoon, and we talked at night. We talked for hours on the weekends. We even watched football games together over the phone. It wasn't long before we were talking over 3000 minutes a month. We never seemed to tire of talking to each other and we never ran out of things to talk about. Thanks to this wonderful technological age, we were able to breach the distance and get to know each other in great detail.