The Maiden Voyage

In a matter of a few weeks our lives have changed forever. We decided to buy a 31 foot RV and live in it for the next year of our lives. We dreamed up this crazy idea awhile ago when I thought that maybe someday Jake would decided to become a drummer and I told him we would follow him in an RV and I could just homeschool our children. That's seriously how this idea started. Then about 3 or 4 years later, we are actually deciding to give up our comfortable and predictable life and travel the U.S. which is very unpredictable and scary right now. But, that's what adventure is all about, right? It's that moment that you jump out of an airplane with someone you just met attached to your backside and hope that after free falling for what feels like an eternity, your parachute will really eject. It's also like purposefully getting into a raft and pointing it right at a rapid called "The Bad Place" on the White Nile because, why would you get out of the boat and end your ride early? Adventure is not about comfortability and I don't think that life is either. So, that takes me back to our story, we decided to buy an RV.

We have never RVed, we don't even know what all this entails! The first time that my husband drove over the mountain to take our RV home a few nights ago was the first time he had ever driven one. He bravely took the bull by the horns and drowned out the noise of our three rambunctious boys bouncing around in the back of the RV, and he drove that thing over the mountain in the dark. I am proud of him, and I am proud of us because we are going on an epic adventure and we don't know where it will take us, like literally, we don't have a plan, but we know that it will be really good. We also know that it will be hard, lots of people like to remind me of that. Yes, it will be hard. Sleeping in a 31 foot RV with 4 other people, leaving our home, our friends and our family will be hard. But we are choosing hard and we are choosing to live adventurously and courageously because it's the only way we like to do life. We think that life is an epic adventure and we think that means that our lives should be changed because of that and even if that means living adventurously right where you are right now, it can happen anywhere. I really don't think it takes an RV to live adventurously, but I do think that it means living on purpose. I want to live out of my passions and dreams and I don't want to have any regrets. We are youngish and able-bodied now and our children are growing up fast, so we are going to pursue the things that make us come alive and we are going to do them, even if it means that it may be hard. I'll keep you posted as we continue on this journey, bye for now!