Let’s sell our home, buy a motorhome, travel fulltime and tell our story on our blog!

Last year we did all of these things. Sold our home, all of our belongings, bought a motorhome and have been traveling full time since March. We just left one part off, writing about it on our blog.

That was going to be the best part, sharing our adventures and experiences with you as we travel. We were going to take turns writing about what we did, where we went, where we were going and everything else, but it turns out it takes a lot of energy to just travel.

We have put more than 10,000 miles on our home. We’ve stayed in campgrounds, casinos and parking lots. We have replaced a roof, a water heater, an alternator, a refrigerator, the floor. We’ve boiled a battery, burned up an inverter and a transfer block and let the smoke out of a washer and dryer.

We’ve seen so many cool things, and have had so many amazing experiences, but we didn’t tell you about any of them. Why???

We have talked about this over and over. We need to write; we need to record these memories. But it hasn’t happened.

I think I am finally starting to understand why. We haven’t had the capacity.

We have been focused on living this life and have not spent much time documenting it.

 

There was this one time where… no, I guess you had to be there.

But there was this other place we stayed that… nope, it just won’t make sense.

Part of me is frustrated that we didn’t do a better job, but part of me is proud that we lived in the moment.

It is so easy today to spend every minute looking for that perfect picture, focusing on photographing the day, the meal, the view, the people to share online. It’s easy to spend time capturing the moment and not living the moment.

This isn’t me preaching about not taking pictures, this is me admitting that it has been a problem for me in the past. Looking for likes, fishing for followers. I put a lot of my self-worth in how many people were interested in what I was doing online.

But not this year.

This year we just enjoyed the moment. Not focusing on documenting, but focusing on being present.

This year we lived. We explored. We ate. We traveled. We met people. We found each other. Our little family learned to live together, and we healed. We did exactly what we needed to do.

And now I think we are better. Not perfect, but healthier than we have been. We are working together, playing together, eating together and living together.

I think we are ready. Well, at least ready enough to sit down and write this. But also well enough to start sharing more. It feels like it’s time.

We have some videos that we are putting together to share. Triann has blogs that she is getting ready to post. Our family is ready to open up and show you the amazing things we see out here.

But with balance. Remembering to live in the moment.

We’ll see how it goes.