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We purchased a home.
Like an actual home, not a house on wheels.
After six wonderful years of journey and RV adventures, Heath and I now have our first ever everlasting deal with right here in southwestern Colorado.
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We stated again in 2014 that certainly one of our targets as we traveled throughout all fifty states was to discover a place to dwell. A spot the place we may see ourselves elevating children, constructing companies, and happening adventures. But we by no means discovered that place the place settling down felt proper and we liked touring as a lot as we may.
So we saved touring full-time with the thought of settling down farrrrr at the back of our minds. We liked full-timing and touring the world with Ellie.
But 2020 was the primary time that we began feeling rootless in a unfavorable method.
In the spring when every little thing was on lockdown, we had been in a tiny not-so-nice RV park in rural Alabama. Ellie was studying to stroll and eat gravel and we didn’t really feel like we may get again to our households due to journey restrictions. We felt remoted and bored and craved our personal house.
So whereas we looked for a campground to purchase, we began fascinated with shopping for a house too.
And then this summer time, Campground Booking bought an funding right here in Colorado with the stipulation that we transfer to rural Colorado…which principally means we HAD to maneuver to the mountains (twist my arm).
The entire thought of shopping for a home all the time appeared to overwhelm us (one place? for years?!?!), however now that it’s completed, we really feel so blissful understanding this was the suitable transfer for us proper now. We love seeing mountains in all places we flip. We love being 20 minutes from a National park and even nearer to BLM and National Forest lands.
Our households are slightly rightfully bummed we’ve chosen a state so removed from Texas, however Colorado has all the time been a spot we’ve dreamed of dwelling since earlier than we met. We’re so excited to lift Ellie in a state that’s stuffed with so many nice outside actions.
Our travels aren’t over (we’ve been making an attempt to plan a option to get overseas once more in 2021), however this was an excellent high quality of life determination for our household this 12 months.
We haven’t given up on our campground dream both (we hope to have an replace on that in January!) however determined to prioritize a house base first. The extra parks we toured this 12 months, we rapidly determined we did NOT wish to dwell on web site like many owner-operators do. Which meant we would have liked land to park an RV…and likewise we would have liked to then purchase an RV, since we had been borrowing the Forza from Winnebago this 12 months…or a home.
We selected home ????
Or residence base as we wish to name it.
We’ve talked for the previous few years—principally as quickly as we went to New Zealand in 2018—about how we wished a house base. Some place to come back again to the place we liked being, however that additionally allowed us to maintain happening adventures everywhere in the world. This feels quite a bit like we lastly discovered that steadiness. A spot to come back residence to with adventures proper outdoors our door.
