Background

We're Roger & Rainy Pulley. We'll be married 21 years this July 4th. We have four children (Tennessee/Missouri/Oregon/Florida)and five grandchildren, who are the grandest things since we took our first breath. We have lived in Florida for the past 9 years. Roger is in local government work, starting out in 1979 as a small town (less than 3000) city fireman and working his way up through the years being city manager, economic development and public works directors, assistant county manager (county in excess of 150,000) & county manager (county in excess of 30,000). Rainy had a long history of administrative and high level management in the private sector and retired her career in 2002 after the sale of the company she worked for and had a little ownership. The sale obviously allowed her the flexibility of retiring her career.

Due to unfortunate circumstances, Roger resigned his last position as a county manager and has been applying for similar positions since. As many of you know with the current economic conditions, the search has been gruesome. As of this posting, he is in the running for a couple of positions and time will tell how that goes. However, if we have learned anything over the past year is that you can't bet on anything until signed paper is in hand so we have decided that now would be a good time to do a major road trip, one that we have talked about doing for some time but never made the leap. So, we decided yesterday that we are doing it! And not only are we doing it but we're going to bring you along with us!!! We will be blogging the good and the bad (hopefully there won't be too much bad - keep your fingers crossed and say your prayers for us).

You'll also be meeting family along the way (Heaven help us - hehe). We have very large families - Roger comes from a family of 8 kids and Rainy from a family of 6 kids). Roger's family leans toward the quiet and conservative and Rainy's family leans toward the loud and colorful. They're all a good bunch of folks though and have open hearts.

We are planning to obviously start from Florida and then head west and eventually north and back south - that's the plan anyway.

So since we decided to take the leap yesterday, today Rainy started this blog so we could have a record of everything from the beginning and Roger is looking into pop-up campers. Depending on when we can get some appointments, we are planning a departure date somewhere around the end of the month.