Happy where you are?

We recently had an experience with a rattlesnake and some friends said, "I wouldn't go back outside, I'd be leaving there, Yikes, Oh my, that's scary, OMG, and I'd be packing my bags and heading out."

 Western Diamondback Rattlesnake 

The question is, where would you want to go? To Louisiana with the floods, to California with the earthquakes, to Hawaii or Washington with the Volcanoes, to Oklahoma with the tornados, to Arizona with the dust storms, to Boston with the snow and cold, to Florida with the hurricanes, bugs and gators, to Chicago with the shootings and crime, or to Missouri with tornados, mosquitos, chiggers, floods, humidity, cold, and snow? Been there and done all that!

                        Storms

                         Drought

                   Snow and Ice

It seems every place you go there may be some negatives. Most of us are where we were born and raised or where our work has taken us. Only a few move to an area just because they make the choice to be there. But  being a retired senior you can decide where to be a little easier. A location that suits your wants, needs, health, interests, personality, or whatever.   

We have been to lots of beautiful and wonderful places which we might have enjoyed living at one time but now for one reason or another we have ruled them out. Finally we decided the hill country

              Hill Country in green.

             Can you find Medina?

of Texas is where we want to be at this juncture in our lives.

We love the area, the hills, 

the ranches and wildlife, 

               Texas jackrabbits

the people, 

            Hot summer weekend.

the trees, 

                  Live Oak Tree

the cactus,

 Mesquite Trees/Prickly Pear Cactus

 Bluebonnets,

                Spring Blubonnets

 Crape Myrtle, 

                  Crape Myrtle

Purple Sage, 

                 Purple Sage Bush

wildflowers,

and Longhorns.

And I almost forgot the rivers and the Cypress trees that line them,

the "Real" country music, Cowboy Capital Opry and KNRH FM 92.3, (The Ranch.)

And of course the western cowboy towns.

And yes, we have the snakes, lizards, centipedes, and scorpions along with occasional flooding of low crossings and storms with hail and days and days with HOT temperatures.

No place is perfect but to us it's much like the song that says,

"Well, when I die, I may not go to heaven, I don't know if they let cowboys in, If they don't just let me go to Texas, Texas is close as I've been." Or as the posters say, "I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as quick as I could." Some of you should get a chuckle from that. Anyway we really enjoy hill country.

These are some of the reasons we have chosen to be here. One of my often used quotes is, "Everybody is where they are because they want to be there."

And how correct that is. If you aren't happy with your life, change it. You don't get different results by doing the same things. 

WHEREVER YOU ARE IN YOUR LIFE AND TRAVELS, ENJOY THE JOURNEY.