A TRANSITORY LIFE; Coalinga-CA

September 17th: This afternoon, we drove to the Save Mart grocery store in Coalinga: it's the largest grocery store in the town, kinda like an Albertson's store. We went basically for a loaf of bread (the kind my husband prefers - he really is a name brand person; if it's a house brand, he turns his nose up at it) … and came home with $170.00 of more - $25 dollars of that was a meat variety combo.

But before we went for that loaf of bread that morphed into a little bit of everything; we stopped at Taco Time for a couple crunch wraps, and pulled over alongside a side road curb to eat them. While munching, I watched a few locals enjoying the sunny day, visiting over fences, and car pooling … and I mentioned to Holland, "Every time I watch people that have grown up in the same town for generations interacting, I think how nice that feeling must be; I've never had that. There have been places I've lived in and enjoyed, throughout my life - but I never felt like any of those places were truly 'home'. Even Cathlamet-WA, where I lived for 3 years with my parents, and 18 years with Bob; and Longview-WA, where I lived with Bob for 23 years, & 4 years solo lobo. I always felt like like those places were transitory; there was no real permanency about those places. No real roots. I wonder about these people's connections to the towns they grow up in, live their whole lives in … and I can't identify on any level." Holland swallowed his bite, and said, "Maybe that's because, as a Christian, you know this Earth is not your home - it is transitory: this is not your Home."

I think maybe my husband has a point 🤔😘; I never thought of my transitory musings in that way - but, it makes sense.

A Coalinga local walking with an umbrella, to shade the 98-degree sunbeams.

A colorfully tiled house …

This conifer tree looks like overgrown dillweed - I don't know what it is, because nothing the internet was coming up with, matched it; Taco Bell drive through; Coalinga-CA

This tree with a pretty, frilly flower; is a Mimosa tree.

Yellow Trumpetbush & Fan Palm sprouting in a hedge - Taco Bell drive through.

Coalinga Save Mart (internet pic).

We walked 1.5 miles today - in the grocery store.

$25 Meat Combo - broken down at home.

And, on the way back to Independence after buying our expensive [loaf of bread], we talked about our pick up & move to Brookings-OR the end of this month, with Holland saying, "I really don't know where else to go. So, we're going to Brookings … and we're gonna stay there until God tells us it's time to move on." I agreed, saying, "I agree: after all the research yesterday, it's really the only place that seems to suit our lungs. That's what internet wool gathering says, anyway." Then, Holland asked, "And if God says WA - you'll go?" I replied, "I know where you're going with this … and I already said I would do what God wants me to do; I'm not a Jonah - I'm not going to argue with Elohim's directive for my Life. But, I want to be sure it's His prompting, and not a redmill enforcement." He said, "You'll 'do what God wants'? You have the temperament of a goat …" And I interjected: "Yes, I am a goat - I was born in the Capricorn season, but I don't argue with Elohim. I won't like going back to WA; because I can't take an easy breath, there, that's a fact …. and I'll probably dig my heels in if He specifies that he wants me back in WA, but I'll go even while resisting the thought of returning. I don't have to like going Holland; but I will do it. I just want to be sure it's a God thing, and not a redmill babysitting thing - not a husband insistence thing. We're leaving here because you are seriously struggling to breathe here - all I'm asking is that you have the same consideration about my struggling to breathe in WA. That said, I'm with you in regards to not knowing where to go from here."

When we got back home, we ate a light Supper.

I relaxed by relaxing my body with toning exercises.

1 hr. workout combined with in-store walking.

And Holland petitioned Elohim for guidance, wisdom, and clarification 🙏 - we don't know where we'll end up after leaving here the end of the month: but, He does, & He will direct us to a place where both of us will be able to breathe comfortably at the same time 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 And in that we trust 🕊️

I have enjoyed out transitory Road Gypsy lifestyle - and my husband has been a good sport about ferrying me from place to place, making my 'Tour America' Dream, a Reality 💖

Neither of us control the weather - Yeshua has His own reasons for the dustups; and the demonrat governors 👹 will have to answer for themselves as to why they are letting their States go up in flames … either by poor eco-freak-text book-forest mismanagement, or by terrorist groups setting cities on fire in angry protests just for the Hell of it 🔥

Holland has actually even been enjoying the lifestyle himself, too: seeing scenery, and have adventures, he was never able to when he was a 9 to 5 working man; the retirement life was finally being embraced.

Even today, he said, "We can still be Road Gypsies, Baby - we just have to try a different approach." 

So, that's what we're going to be focusing on … a different approach 😎

*September 16, 2025~WAITING OUT DISASTERS; Coalinga-CA: https://roadgypsiesvalandholland.blogspot.com/2025/09/waiting-out-disasters-coalinga-ca.html