When we decided to settle down, Tim agreed to continue to look for volunteer opportunities at national parks. We had kept the RV primarily for that purpose, in fact. While we were traveling full-time in the RV, we volunteered and/or had contracts at national park units throughout the United States. Most of these projects involved working with museum collections. In exchange for at least one of us volunteering 32 hours per week, we would receive a free RV site. Our assignments had ranged from two weeks to two months in length.
In addition to travel, working at national parks has become my favorite activity and something that has given me purpose. In a small way, it’s enabled us to give something back in retirement. Plus, it gives us extended time in each park, allowing us to really get to know a park.
During the summer and early fall of 2019, we completed a museum project for New River Gorge National River (NERI). We didn’t travel there, but worked remotely at home. NERI had sent us boxes of archeological artifacts to photograph and rehouse.
We set up a small photo box on the
desk and laid out each set of artifacts.
We photographed them and then rehoused them into new bags. Kitty was always available to help us with
the project.
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| Tim ang Kitty Hard at Work |
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| Photographs of Archeological Artifacts |
