“I have a crazy idea.” When my husband starts a conversation like this I worry. He lives outside of the box; I, however, live very comfortably in it with coffee and a good book. “We should sell everything, live on a catamaran, and sail the world.” My nonchalant reply, with said coffee and nose in a good book, “I will go by land, but not by sea,” would set the wheels turning for a year that would change our lives. In under a year we had quit our jobs, rented our home, and set off to roadschool our children and chase extraordinary.
June 27, 2016 Two weeks in and of this I am sure… – The West family is truly learning what it means to conserve water. – We are slowly being poisoned by the smell of the black tank. – I love everything about being in nature as long as it doesn’t touch me. – No…
June 26, 2016 Fishing down by the lake with his Barbie rod – Shawn really needs an upgrade – and my phone pings. “Congrats! You’ve made it a full week on the road! Celebrate!” Cast. “Surely that’s wrong.” Cast. Reel. “Woah.” We are moving way too fast. We’ve been following the blogs of many full…
June 14, 2016 How is RV life? Well, day one… We ran the air for the first time and it smells like fish… enough said. The trip almost ended when a HUGE roach appeared above my head. I took out my kids, one of them may or may not have suffered harm, only to have…
May 18, 2016 There are to do lists scattered all over our home – on paper, on white boards, taped to exits – lest we forget the insurmountable tasks necessary in planning for a trip of this magnitude. I knew the lists were there, and I knew they were long, but while trying to work…
January 27, 2016 To buy or not to buy a new song on iTunes… This was the $1.99 question of the day when my husband reminded me we had just entered the frugal five. “The frugal five?” I asked. “Five months and counting until our departure,” he replied. Our family has decided to embark on…