Sure! The day has come. Everyone seems to be all packed. You’re going on an ADVENTURE! Possibly you’re headed out to the Grand Tetons for some thrill-seeking mountain climbing, or to the Outer Banks for some stress-free salt life seashore sunbathing. It doesn’t matter. You’ve checked the climate, and also you’ve packed every part you’ll want. The automobile is filled with gasoline, and even made certain it’s updated on all the different upkeep. Nothing is stopping you from an outstandingly epic journey. Till…
You will have a flat tire…
You hit a tire tread flying off of the semi-truck in entrance of you…
Your transmission coolant line blows off…
You end up within the path of a twister…
The jack stops working in your camper…
The batteries preserve dying…
An surprising chilly entrance comes by way of and now the temps are within the negatives…
These are only a handful of the numerous issues that may happen once you hit the street on your grand journey. Your as soon as in a lifetime journey. The one that you’ve got considered for years, and have been planning about for simply as lengthy. Now it’s ruined. No extra street journey. No extra outstandingly epic journey.
You probably have learn any of our earlier articles, or adopted any of our YouTube channel, then you already know… We’ve had each single one in every of these issues occur to us on at the very least one in every of our street journeys. A few of them on the identical epic street journey that we’re on in the present day. All of them. Some greater than as soon as! Just like the twister! And the jacks. And the batteries. We’ve by no means taken a single street journey the place SOMETHING didn’t go awry that might have stopped our journey in its tracks. Or stolen that pleasure about no matter journey we had been on.
Our journey issues aren’t restricted to our street journeys both. We write about and share our RV life, however we’ve got had a number of issues after we traveled by way of the airports too. On our honeymoon, we landed in Jamaica and we had been lacking a bit of our baggage. On the identical journey, we nearly missed our aircraft for our return flight dwelling. On a visit to Las Vegas, we arrived on the resort and had been informed that they didn’t have a reservation for us. The primary time we introduced our son in a foreign country, we sat within the airport for a number of hours as an alternative of the scheduled 30-minute layover as a result of the flight for the following leg of our journey saved getting delayed.
So, it’s actually an Journey?
YES!!!!
Even after we lose per week in the midst of South Dakota to exchange a gasoline pump situated contained in the gasoline tank of the suburban with nothing greater than a pair of vice grips in a gasoline station car parking zone. IT IS STILL AN ADVENTURE!!! It might not be the identical journey that you just set out for once you packed every part up and left the home. However it IS nonetheless an Journey!
Clearly, that is an angle. That is maintaining that positivity flowing and desperately in search of the silver lining of a crappy scenario. Or perhaps, it’s coming to phrases with the truth that I can’t management the universe and shit does in deed occur. That’s an journey too.
An journey isn’t at all times good, it isn’t at all times grand. That’s why we’ve got at all times used the phrase ‘journey’ to explain our journeys. It IS at all times an Journey, good or dangerous is decided by how we deal with it. We make it epic… Typically the epic doesn’t come till you might be telling the story to family and friends they usually can’t cease laughing at no matter loopy factor occur this time. Nonetheless an journey although.
We’ve discovered to snicker. Personally, I snicker at every part… Doug has typically teased that he might be stung by a scorpion and that my first response goes to be to snicker. The reality is he isn’t teasing… This actually WILL be my first response. However then we determine it out. We assess the scenario. Is that this one thing we will management? Is it one thing one in every of us can restore (by one in every of us, I actually imply Doug)? Can we work round this, proceed on, re-adjust timing, or do we have to flip round?
Once we’re little, grandma at all times mentioned, “we don’t cry over spilled milk, espresso perhaps, however by no means milk.” If we simply deal with the detrimental of the journey, we neglect to recollect the enjoyable of the journey.
We actually offered our home, Doug offered his enterprise, I resigned from my work, and we launched into this loopy as soon as in a lifetime journey that many individuals solely dream of doing. We set out with a purpose of residing in our camper and touring our magnificent nation for 2 complete years. Right here we’re, 2 months in, and we’ve got had a number of points. Loads of moments which have made us wish to second guess the choice we made to go out on this grand journey.
We miss our buddies. We miss our household. I do know Doug misses’ entry to all of his instruments, and buddies with the instruments he doesn’t have, or assistance on a undertaking. Principally we miss our help system. However on the finish of the journey, whether or not we make it the complete 2 years, or we’ve got to quiet down in 6 months… We’re having fun with the Journey. We’re nonetheless doing this! We’re nonetheless checking bucket record gadgets off the itinerary. We’re nonetheless seeing a few of the issues we at all times dreamed of seeing, and doing issues that we’ve at all times needed to do. Even when there are some velocity bumps alongside the route.
So subsequent time your automotive breaks down, or your holed up in an airport ready on your flight that has now been delayed for 3 hours, or your seashore trip has been a whole rain out – take a second to guage that. The three hours within the airport, or the rain on the seashore shouldn’t be allowed to outline the whole lot of journey. They’re simply little hiccups on the journey. On the finish of the day, the journey is the half we have to proceed to deal with. It IS at all times an journey.
