After 13 years living in the Westham neighborhood near the University of Richmond, Ellen and Larry Campbell found themselves spending less and less time at home. Their sons had grown up and moved to Chicago and Long Beach, California, and Ellen and Larry were traveling more.
Upon returning from one of their trips, they stepped onto their front porch and surveyed the yardwork that awaited them.
“We like to travel,” Larry says. “But every time we’d come back, we’d spend weeks getting the place shaped back up again.”
Larry set out to mow the grass, and Ellen got ready to trim the trees — and then they stopped. “We just looked at each other,” Ellen says, “and asked, ‘What are we doing?’”
Feature originally appeared in R-Home magazine.