“We are from Oklahoma. We sold our house and everything in September and bought a motorhome and are living in that full time. We are in Gulf Shores right now. Everything we have fits in a 28-foot motor home. It has been a little scary to leave everything.”

“We left our mamas in Oklahoma. His mama is 90 and mine is 85. We have 7 grandkids.”

“I retired in April and we decided to downsize.”

“We needed to do something for us. We raised our three kids. We raised our niece and we had a foster child that had cancer and died. We finished raising kids and his health wasn’t great. People say, ‘One of these days we will do this.” We didn’t wait for one of these days or until we are 70, we are doing it while we are young enough. We love the beach and doing what we want to do. We are going to be beach hoppers. We have our dog with us and there is no plan.”

“Before it happens we were excited, but when we sold the house we hoped we were doing the right thing. I like not working and having the freedom to go where we want when we want. I draw a pension from American Airlines. We are living in close quarters but we are still getting along.”

“We did this to just be us. When the little girl had cancer, I was with her all of the time for three years. My nephew had leukemia and met her when he was in the hospital. She had a mama who was schizophrenic bipolar and they allowed me to be her foster mother. They made me step away when she was dying in the hospital because her mama was there but she was filing her fingernails when that baby took her dying breath. I spent all of my time taking care of her and after she died I lost track of myself. I hadn’t been with my husband or family for three years. I was lost and even tried to commit suicide. It has taken me down many roads. I spent a week in a mental hospital and saw the many faces of depression. I have a better outlook on life, and that is the two of us. I was 16 and he was 18 when we got married. We have been married 43 years. I came back to he and I are the most important and I am holding on to that.”