When Mariani Barry’s mother died in 2014, Arizona nurse knew that she needed to change. For years, her life was about the care of her elderly parents and work as a heart A nurse outside Phoenix.
Travel nursing colleague-paid-paid work would allow her to explore the country. Three months after Alaska, Barry knew that she was life for her. She sold her 16 -year -old home in Maysa, bought a mobile housing vehicle named Mirna, toured the west of the United States, worked in a large number of hospitals and interviewed all kinds of people along the way.
She was “completely loved” to be a nurse and thought she would work well in her golden years. But when the epidemic was hit, that changed. Watching countless patients who suffer and die without a family on the bed side. “Hell was. It was terrible in the hospital,” Barry said.
After 30 years of nursing, she started thinking about retirement. I remained in some national and governmental parks during the travel of nursing and noticed that the garden employees and the volunteers I met were noticeably happy. Therefore, I applied to get an disturbance of a seasonal volunteer in Diamond Lake, Oregon.
She said: “After leaving work during the first 15 months of Covid in hospitals, it was the case,” Oh my God, I am in nature. This is amazing. No mask, no stimulant equipment for equipment. “
Barry’s RV and a camp in the natural Beaver Creek State area near SEAL ROCK, Oregon.
From the way of courtesy Mariani Barry
Now, it’s a full -time “Camp”, lives and volunteers in parks with other people like her, and many of them are also retired. She spends her days in rowing, cycling and directing visitors in the gardens. She leaves her nursing license ending next year.
“I can’t imagine a return to any type of stress,” Barry, who is now 71, said.
Paris is part of a much larger direction. Working in American parks in American parks is a long lifestyle, especially for the elderly who need living or low -cost adventure, or both. But since Americans live longer and face high housing costs on fixed or low income, it has become more attractive.
Barry camp in the National Wildlife Wildlife Refuge in Nevada, where it spends winter.
From the way of courtesy Mariani Barry
Living outside social security
Barry made good money as a nurse, but she does not have much in savings. So she lives off social security checks monthly monthly. She is now running as she boasts a rented car for the summer.
Live in a very cheap mobile housing. In the camps, you get a free full connection-including water, electricity and sanitation-in exchange for their work.
She says it was easy for her to live in a small place because she was “never a kind of people.” And she spends a lot of time abroad.
From the way of courtesy Mariani Barry
Over the past four years, Bari has spent October to April in the National Wildlife Wildlife shelter in Nevada, 90 miles north of Vegas, and from May to August in the natural area of Bever Kreik on a coast in the center of Oregon. It takes September to spend a vacation.
She loves the dramatic landscape and is enthusiastic about wildlife.
“I literally live in heaven,” Barry said. “I definitely love my life.”
She says she does not feel lonely because she made friendships with her volunteer colleagues and employees. Her days are spent on chatting. She said, “I love talking to everyone.”
Barry has become especially common in Oregon, where there is a BlackBerry lover, MarioneberiHe plants. Local residents and visitors to the garden get a kick from its name.
The welcoming center in the natural Kreik State area in Oregon, where Barry and volunteers live from May to August.
From the way of courtesy Mariani Barry
She said, “Every day when I say what my name is, they are like,” Oh, I will never forget that. “I am like celebrities here.”
A group of fans brought Marioneberry pie.
Barry, who did not marry or have children, hopes to continue to live in the gardens in Oregon and Nevada for the rest of her life. Her brothers and other family members are spread throughout the country.
She slips with one of her daughters, who lives on a farm in Indiana, that if she loses the ability to live independently, she will stop her rack in a field in her property and live her days there.
“Frankly, I do not have a long -term plan, this is just a fun thing to think,” she said.
