Tom and Mary Claire Wahl are homeless. Well, kind of homeless. They don't have a house. Or a hometown. What they have is a 41-foot recreational vehicle that they are driving around America, joined by their three children: Joe, 12, Anna, 10, and Sam, 7. In the past eight months they have traveled almost 16,000 miles, visited 26 states, stayed over at 29 national parks and clipped at least seven trees. They're about halfway through their journey. Sometime in the next six months, they'll pick a new hometown, buy a house and settle down.
"We always kind of joked about this kind of trip, but it never seemed it could be a reality," says Mary Claire, 46, a nurse/midwife who retired as a lieutenant colonel from the United States Air Force last July. "Then at retirement we didn't have a home, we had no job, and we realized that was a blessing."
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Monday, May 18, 2009
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