The Baughman Homestead
If you had asked me a few years ago about retirement, we were planning to buy a motor home and travel across the country. We had a nice home without a mortgage, a significant amount of money in the bank, and we were taking several nice vacations a year. We were counting down the days until retirement, and we were planning to climb the mountains. Little did I know that life was going to take a different turn. We began homesteading a year ago when we bought a house older than we are, renovated it, and now we rarely leave home. When I told a friend that we were planning to stay home for our wedding anniversary this year, she said if I had your house, I wouldn’t go anywhere either. I laughed but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I didn’t want to go anywhere and I was content with staying home. When we sold our house and moved a few miles across town, it was more than a move, it was a lifestyle change. We haven’t moved a lot, but we have lived in a few different...