by Sharon Waters
I downloaded this through Kindle Unlimited and due to the large amount of repeated content, I suspect it was self-published. But very much a lot of fun and inspiration, too.
This old woman--my age!--decides to buy herself a small RV and give up her house. And for three years she travels south in the winter and north in the summer, more or less retracing the same route. She visits with friends and relatives along the way, but her primary point of nightly residence is Walmart. Many, many Walmarts. She doesn't care to drive very far--fifty to a hundred miles a day (or less)--and so she gets up in the morning, walks her dogs, goes through her pre-departure checklist, and travels the next leg, then parks for the rest of the day.
At the time RV-ing was fairly novel and Walmart was very welcoming of overnighters. Toward the end of her three years, all that was changing, but mostly she had an easy choice of it. Not my cup of tea, but you have to admit it sure beats a retirement home!
The repetition was annoying, but not a killer. As I started a new chapter and I realized I already knew the events she was imparting, I simply skimmed forward to get to something new. In an audiobook this would be bad, but not on paper. Virtual paper.
She didn't have too many death-defying adventures, although her experience of departing an automobile ferry she ended up on by accident....well....that was a nail-biter. But mostly it was an introspective, amusing but seldom funny, sweet story.
And true.
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