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I am of the opinion the same as Arnold Palmer.

“The more I practice the luckier I get”

Well travel is no different. I see lots of articles on travel, how too do it right and that sort of thing. This tells me that there must be a huge market of people that don’t travel.

Weather it’s by air, car, train, bus, rocket or Uber ( still not sure who named this company. Sounds like eww and booger if the Jabberwocky would say it) they all take practice.

The articles are always trying to tell you the best way to do things but with no practice this is just fruitless reading. You have to go and do it yourself. You can’t become a better golfer no matter how many issues of Golf Digest you read.

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I think we are just weird, and I’m totally ok with that if it’s true.

I have had many different reactions when I tell people what we are doing. Most say it sounds very exciting, but others look at me like we are crazy or as if we are going to ruin our kids chances at a normal life. As if somehow missing going back to the same school with the same kids is going to make it so hard for them to adjust to school life once we land somewhere.

To be real, I have had doubts about our plans, and have wondered how the kids will adjust to a new town or school. I also have concern about them making friends along the way. In the end, I realize that seeing the world, and meeting new people will actually make them more prepared for what real life will be like for them when they get older. I also think back to our other travels and remember that they managed to find kids to hang out with at stops we made, and learned to accept others who were different because we went to places where the kids were in fact different than them.

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We’ve been in the camper for about 10 days and there is still a lot of work to do. This morning I managed to unpack our one set of dishes. I found this really nice tree design by Corelle that I figure might actually make it out of Alaska in one piece. Figured I would see how it went before buying any more.

The design really made me think of nature and the purpose of this trip. We will see if my nonskid idea works to keep them from clanking together as we drive down the road.

We also got Addy’s hammock put up in the trees just outside the camper. Apparently I didn’t do a very good job checking the knots that were already tied in the lines, because not 15 minutes into her horsing around, it fell out of the tree. She’s pretty happy now however, pretending she can’t touch the ground which means everything she wants she gets someone else to get for her.

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Thanks for joining us on our next life adventure!

This journey has been in the works for just over a year now when after going back and forth on whether to find a new job (since I was due to be laid off) or do something different, we decided on the something different option.

One night while sitting on our couch, surfing Facebook, my husband was sitting there laughing to himself. Of course, his laughter piqued my interest, and what he told me was “the people on this Full Time RV site were cracking him up”. Now, my husband has been the cause of many adventures in our 16 years together, but Full Time RV’ing was not something I ever imagined would be in our future. But, my interest in his laughter caused a movement in our household when I joined the same site and started to get interested in what this lifestyle would be like.

Seeing posts about families on the road, visiting places we only dreamed of, and making it all work in their travel trailer, 5th wheel or other RV made me start to wonder if this is something we could manage while we figured out where our feet would land next. Continue reading “The Journey Begins” →