Too Soon to Open Shutters?

Hurricane Dorian, now a category 5 storm, has stayed offshore of Florida and spent most of yesterday wreaking havoc in the Bahamas.

In relief, we met friends for a late lunch at a Greek restaurant on Hollywood (Florida) beach. As too often happens, I agreed to ordering a huge amount of food and, because it was sitting there... Too many calories which cost more than I like to spend. We do so much better when we share an entree and an extra salad. Will I learn to hold my ground?

I am feeling pressure to decide what our next move will be, if it even is a move. Perhaps staying another year on Key B is the right option. It certainly is the easiest, but it comes with the hidden cost of lost opportunity. We have few years for active adventures. 10? Probably too optimistic. Since we cannot do everything, how do we prioritize?

On the way to the restaurant, we decided on three possibilities: stay where we are, move to another apartment/house, or buy an RV and tour around. Back and forth, back and forth on the 40-minute drive, we weighed the pros and cons of each. Finally, I suggested we pretend we each have 10 colored dots, each dot representing how much we were interested. Grant put 3 of his on each option, with the last dot probably on staying put. I placed all my dots on buying the RV next spring. He agreed that it would be exciting, however he's worried about having his own space. I hear his need and know I probably need it even more.

Perhaps that is why over-ordering and over-eating weighed heavily on me after lunch. I lived on a 31' sailboat for seven years. I learned to live small. Can Grant and I adjust our way of life to fit into an RV?