Moving Across Town

We were once again putting the mobile in the mobile home

My dad found some property across town with an old house on it that had enough land to move our mobile home onto. It had hundreds of old trees and an irrigation ditch, pretty much everything a kid could ever want. We loaded up our stuff, said good-bye to the neighbors and were gone to live among those who didn't have axles on their homes. The trailer park had been brutal in a lot of ways but there was also a lot of camaraderie and friendship. There were so many kids around that you didn't have to plan out playtime you just walked outside and saw what was going on. In our new neighborhood the families were much more structured in their time and there were not any common spaces that kids could just hang around in, so they didn't.