Marion: What did your friends think?

Zoe: That was a definite negative. Our friends knew we

were insane. They did not understand. None of them,

not one of them, understood. They couldn’t relate to

it; they couldn’t relate to us.

Marion: But what was that response about? You traveled a lot. 

It wasn’t about the traveling then. It must have been the RV?

Zoe: It was because we didn’t have a home. We went off

 

and sold everything we owned, and went off into

the wild blue yonder. They couldn’t deal with this

notion because we didn’t have any roots. We didn’t

even try to convince them otherwise. That’s what

spawned the RV travel club. We needed connections

who didn’t think we were crazy.

I felt, Lovern didn’t care—she was having a good

time—but I felt I needed connections while I was on

the road. I needed to be able to see people and visit

people and have something in common.

Marion: I want to come back to your friends’ reactions.

Zoe: It wasn’t discussed. Everybody was very polite about

it. You just knew they didn’t know what was going on.

Now, the very same people understand completely.

We’re all good friends again. I don’t know what

to tell you.

Now this sounds easy. But any time you move

to another community, or move out of a community,

there’s a lot of emotional stuff going on. Some

people give up at that point. They say, “Well, there’s

this little thing to overcome and that little thing to

overcome, and I guess it wasn’t meant to be.” And

they give it up.

When you set a goal, you can’t let little things

get in the way. You can’t use them as an excuse not

to meet your goal. You just set a goal and you deal

with all the obstacles that get in the way until you

get there. But you don’t say, “Oh well, I guess it

wasn’t meant to be,” and give it up. You do it. Then

if it isn’t right, you can always quit. Nothing’s cast

in concrete.

If you look at it like, ‘this is the end, it’s all over, I

can’t change,’ you’re going to believe it’s impossible.

The truth is, you can change anything in the world

you’re doing.

Once you don’t have to work, then this philosophy

can be actualized. When you’re working, things are

different. Or when you’re raising kids, things are different.

You just do what you have to do. Once you’re

free, you haven’t got an excuse.