She and Don counted their retirement dollars and figured out a way to make it work. Before they sold their house, they asked their three grown children to come and take whatever they liked.

"We have a laptop and a cell phone and our cameras, so I guess we're not exactly roughing it," says Jo. "But life is much less complicated. That's for sure."

Don especially enjoys watching the transformation that overtakes city dwellers when they breathe in fresh pine. "Once the tent's up, it's nice to see them relax," he says.

Unless, like one group of Girl Scouts, "they can't tell the difference between a cat and a skunk." Then, says Don, things can get a little too interesting around Jordan Pines.

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