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Couple Lives For Free As Texas State Park Volunteers
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth News' website.
Bruce and Nan Nance are park hosts at Tyler State Park, a tranquil haven in the pines with 100-foot-tall trees that surround sparkling waters of a spring-fed lake. As Park Hosts, volunteers can work up to 24 hours a week for the park, and in exchange, they live there for free. "When you're park hosting you don’t have an electric bill, you don't have a water bill, you don't have property taxes that you're paying so you’re saving money on that," Bruce tells Kristin Dickerson of NBC 5 Dallas News.
Bruce and his wife, Nan, are Park Hosts for Texas Parks and Wildlife. The Nance's sold their house in Grand Prairie, got rid of most of their stuff and moved into an RV, which is now parked at Tyler State Park. "This is your backyard, you know, you get up in the morning like, 'Yes! Yes!'" Bruce said with a laugh. "Only regret of that is that we didn't do it sooner." As a Park Host, he has a continued sense of pride and ownership over a place that is intended to be shared. "This is not my state park, it's our state park as Texans,' Bruce said.
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