Downsized and Sustainable
By Sharon Lakey
Mildred LaBeur is presently happy as a clam and as snug as a bug-in-a-rug in her new small house in the woods. She is contemplating making a cross-stitch taken from a Vermont quote she likes: “I wasn’t born here, but I got here as fast as I could.”
It’s odd how things work out. In 2005, she and her husband, Howard, decided to travel the country as full-timers in their Pace Arrow motor home, so they up and sold their home in Milford, Pa., put their belongings in storage, and took off to spend the winter in Florida. It was there that Howard was diagnosed with lung cancer. Not long after, Mildred was alone, left with a motor home she didn’t know how to drive.
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