So the time has come to hit the highway. We have now spent the final 6 months residing in our RV, not removed from house and close to all of our family and friends. At this time we are literally hitting the highway and residing the Nomad Life for the subsequent 2 years.
We’re going to cease and see a number of buddies who dwell out of state over the subsequent couple weeks, however then, the place we’re headed subsequent is a thriller.
Haven’t we been planning this journey for the final decade? Shouldn’t we all know the place we’re headed? Sure we undoubtedly have been speaking about doing this for some time. So lengthy the truth is that everybody saved saying we had been all discuss. Nicely guess what, we’re doin it.
And so far as having a plan on what we’re doing and the place we’re going, nah.
My total stress stuffed life has been deliberate, and scheduled, and ready for, and skilled for. I’ve bought the gray hair to show it. So at present we’re leaving all of that behind. I’m hitching my pony to my wagon, tipping the brim of my hat down, then cracking the reigns and getting the hell outta dodge.
We undoubtedly have it a lot simpler than the pioneers that headed off to the west with out realizing what’s on the market. We’ve bought our highways, and grocery shops, and bridges. We don’t even want to consider fjording the river, we will simply drive over it.
The thrill tho… that electrical feeling… We’re doin it.
For most individuals freedom is simply an concept. An idea that all of us inform ourselves we’re having fun with to the fullest whereas we’re chained to our bosses schedule to pay for a home that the financial institution truly owns for many of our lives.
Not us. Not anymore.
The place will we go?
I dunno, I’m gonna comply with the setting solar till I can’t see it anymore. We’ll make camp for the evening beneath the celebrities away from the large metropolis. We will all stretch our legs for a bit, the horses can relaxation, and we will get some slumber till we really feel the heat of the solar kiss our pores and skin once more within the morning.
And for the primary time in a very long time, there’s no hurry to saddle up at present. No, At this time we will take our time and sip our espresso whereas we watch the canine run via grass kicking up the morning dew as she performs within the open air. Even she will really feel it. Even the canines face has a smile that gained’t go away.
At this time we get to look to the horizon in each course and resolve which manner we need to go. Will we head south in direction of Texas? I hear they’re giving every household 4,000 acres to lift cattle.
Will we head north to the Dakotas? We will comply with the bison via the Black Hills, and disappear into the dangerous lands like Jesse James.
Will we head west towards California? I heard individuals say there’s a lot gold all you must do is stick your shovel within the floor and you may decide up a nugget the scale of a potato.
Hell, I don’t care which manner we go, so long as we don’t keep right here watching our lives dwindle away just like the fog of your breath within the wind on a chilly January morning.
For me I don’t actually care in regards to the vacation spot, I’m trying ahead to the journey.
I’m trying ahead to revisiting The Dakotas. I can’t wait to go again to the Unhealthy Lands far-off from anybody else. Possibly we’ll simply head to Yellowstone and hopefully I gained’t must struggle a bear this journey. Hell perhaps we’ll go proper previous it and straight to the Large Redwood Timber earlier than exploring the California coast.
I’ve stated for a very long time I used to be born within the unsuitable century. Not having a plan for our locations is as shut as I can ever come to that Lewis and Clark expedition into the unknown lands previous the place the map ends. Every single day goes to really feel just like the day my spouse stated get within the automobile lets go for a drive, and we ended up at Niagara Falls.
We will take this journey as significantly as we would like or not significantly in any respect. Greater than seemingly it is going to be a mix of each. I can see us doing all of your regular journey weblog stuff like mountain climbing within the Grand Tetons, and the next day heading as much as Washington for the Sasquatch conference.
Possibly we’ll head off into the desert and camp within the again nation the place nobody else has been for a century, or perhaps we’ll spend every week at an RV resort hanging out with different nomads within the sizzling tub buying and selling tales of our adventures.
We spent the final decade taking small journeys throughout the nation to go to all the decrease 48 states no less than as soon as, and now we get to return and go to them once more and spend much more time in all of them. We have now met some superb individuals alongside the best way and are actually trying ahead to creating new buddies on this subsequent model of our adventures.
Small city America right here we come.
When you’ve got any, and I imply ANY strategies, regardless of how bizarre, on locations we should always go, or issues we should always do, please tell us. We have now stopped in all places from the Large Ball Of Twine, to Captain Kirks Future Start Place, to The Museum Of Pure Historical past and Yellowstone. Assist us make this subsequent 2 years as fascinating and as quirky as potential, and if ya see us on the highway, Come Say Hello!
Nicely, I suppose the one factor left to do now could be whistle for the canine, crack the reigns and holler Yippee Ki Yay.