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 enjoyable salt life seashore sunbathing. It doesn’t matter. You’ve checked the climate, and also you’ve packed every thing you’ll want. The automobile is stuffed with gas, and even made certain it’s updated on the entire different upkeep. Nothing is stopping you from an outstandingly epic journey. Till…
You’ve 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 maintain 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 if you hit the highway on your grand journey. Your as soon as in a lifetime journey. The one that you’ve thought of for years, and have been planning about for simply as lengthy. Now it’s ruined. No extra highway journey. No extra outstandingly epic journey.
You probably have learn any of our earlier articles, or adopted any of our YouTube channel, then you understand… We have now had each single one in all these issues occur to us on no less than one in all our highway journeys. A few of them on the identical epic highway journey that we’re on at this time. All of them. Some greater than as soon as! Just like the twister! And the jacks. And the batteries. We have now by no means taken a single highway journey the place SOMETHING didn’t go awry that would have stopped our journey in its tracks. Or stolen that pleasure about no matter journey we have been on.
Our journey issues aren’t restricted to our highway 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 have been lacking a chunk of our baggage. On the identical journey, we nearly missed our aircraft for our return flight residence. On a visit to Las Vegas, we arrived on the resort and have been instructed 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 a substitute of the scheduled 30-minute layover as a result of the flight for the subsequent leg of our journey saved getting delayed.
So, it’s actually an Journey?
YES!!!!
Even after we lose every week in the midst of South Dakota to switch a gas pump positioned contained in the fuel tank of the suburban with nothing greater than a pair of vice grips in a fuel station car parking zone. IT IS STILL AN ADVENTURE!!! It will not be the identical journey that you simply set out for if you packed every thing up and left the home. Nevertheless it IS nonetheless an Journey!
Clearly, that is an angle. That is conserving 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 unhealthy is decided by how we deal with it. We make it epic… Typically the epic doesn’t come till you’re telling the story to family and friends and so they can’t cease laughing at no matter loopy factor occur this time. Nonetheless an journey although.
We have now discovered to chortle. Personally, I chortle at every thing… Doug has usually teased that he could possibly be stung by a scorpion and that my first response goes to be to chortle. 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 are able to management? Is it one thing one in all us can restore (by one in all us, I actually imply Doug)? Can we work round this, proceed on, re-adjust timing, or do we have to flip round?
After we’re little, grandma at all times stated, “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 objective of dwelling in our camper and touring our magnificent nation for 2 entire 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 mission. Largely we miss our assist 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 objects off the itinerary. We’re nonetheless seeing a number 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 automobile 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 thing 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.
