Life on the Road

I have in-laws who are from Ohio. I know, that doesn’t say a lot for the state, but they’re nice in-laws. Or more precisely, I have ex-in-laws who are now good friends and an extra set of grandparents for the kids. I guess you can never have to many grandparents to spoil the kids. Anyway … so I know a little about the state. I don’t think I ever thought to myself (much less said aloud), “I want to move to Ohio.” But here we are in Ohio and we are only a couple days from maybe owning a place here. We really thought we would be on the road full time for a year or two, but we just found out that we were expecting another little Holley. Now we’re thinking it might be a good idea to settle down for a while. In the search to find a settling place we found that there were plenty of cheap places in Ohio for sale, lots in the Dayton area. Yes, a lot of them are not very nice places, but things might be working in our favor here. It started when we came to a trailer park in Middletown, OH that we found on the Internet. We are parking our RV for $15 a day with full hookups. It’s a great little park south of town on state highway 73. A bunch of retired or soon to retire folks who lived here all their life. This was our first little thing that made us start thinking things were going our way.

Then we went into Dayton. Screech … put the kibosh on it. I don’t like the big city. I didn’t imagine Dayton would be that city like. This made us start looking at other areas. There are several small towns around the Dayton area. Well, as God would have it, we ran into some plain folk at the local Cracker Barrel (one of our favorite restaurant chains). They live in New Lebanon and love it there. So, we’re off to check out New Lebanon. A quick call to our new found friends and we are in touch with a local realtor, Mark Miller. He drops everything and spends the evening giving us a three hour tour. (The weather started getting rough). We actually had a great time. The sun was shining with not a cloud in the sky and we told him all about our situation. He didn’t think it would be easy to find a home in our price range, but he was more than willing to help us search. He made a few calls to his broker partner with no answer. We said goodbye and went our merry way. After we parted company the family made a pit stop for dinner and we said a quick prayer like, “God, please help!” As we were driving back to our RV we got a call from Mark. “I told my broker about your situation and he said he has a place for you. You can move in with no money down and he’ll carry.” We are going to go check it out tomorrow.

Chalk up another one for God’s plan in action … in OHIO …