Yes! The day has come. Everyone is all packed. You are occurring an ADVENTURE! Maybe 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 car is stuffed with gas, and even made certain it’s updated on all the different upkeep. Nothing is stopping you from an outstandingly epic journey. Until…
You 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 sudden chilly entrance comes by 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 to 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 street journey. No extra outstandingly epic journey.
If you could have learn any of our earlier articles, or adopted any of our YouTube channel, then … We have had each single one among these issues occur to us on no less than one among our street journeys. Some of them on the identical epic street journey that we’re on immediately. All of them. Some greater than as soon as! Like the twister! And the jacks. And the batteries. We have 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 have 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 once we traveled by the airports too. On our honeymoon, we landed in Jamaica and we have been lacking a bit of our baggage. On the identical journey, we virtually missed our airplane for our return flight house. On a visit to Las Vegas, we arrived on the resort and have been informed that they didn’t have a reservation for us. The first time we introduced our son in another 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 following leg of our journey saved getting delayed.
So, it’s actually an Adventure?
YES!!!!
Even once we lose per week in the midst of South Dakota to switch a gas pump situated contained in the fuel tank of the suburban with nothing greater than a pair of vice grips in a fuel station parking zone. IT IS STILL AN ADVENTURE!!! It is probably not the identical journey that you simply set out for once you packed every part up and left the home. But it IS nonetheless an Adventure!
Obviously, that is an perspective. This is holding that positivity flowing and desperately looking for the silver lining of a crappy scenario. Or possibly, 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 ‘adventure’ to explain our journeys. It IS at all times an Adventure, good or dangerous is set by how we deal with it. We make it epic… Sometimes the epic doesn’t come till you might be telling the story to family and friends and so they can’t cease laughing at no matter loopy factor occur this time. Still an journey although.
We have realized to snicker. Personally, I snicker at every part… Doug has usually teased that he might be stung by a scorpion and that my first response goes to be to snicker. The fact is he isn’t teasing… This actually WILL be my first response. But then we determine it out. We assess the scenario. Is this one thing we will management? Is it one thing one among us can restore (by one among us, I actually imply Doug)? Can we work round this, proceed on, re-adjust timing, or do we have to flip round?
When we’re little, grandma at all times mentioned, “we don’t cry over spilled milk, coffee maybe, but never milk.” If we simply concentrate on the unfavourable of the journey, we overlook to recollect the enjoyable of the journey.
We actually bought our home, Doug bought 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 aim of residing in our camper and touring our magnificent nation for 2 complete years. Here we’re, 2 months in, and we’ve got had a number of points. Plenty of moments which have made us need to second guess the choice we made to go out on this grand journey.
We miss our mates. We miss our household. I do know Doug misses’ entry to all of his instruments, and mates with the instruments he doesn’t have, or assistance on a mission. Mostly we miss our help system. But on the finish of the journey, whether or not we make it the complete 2 years, or we’ve got to cool down in 6 months… We are having fun with the Adventure. We’re nonetheless doing this! We are nonetheless checking bucket record objects off the itinerary. We are 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 if there are some pace bumps alongside the route.
So subsequent time your automobile breaks down, or your holed up in an airport ready to your flight that has now been delayed for 3 hours, or your seashore trip has been an entire rain out – take a second to guage that. The 3 hours within the airport, or the rain on the seashore shouldn’t be allowed to outline everything of journey. They’re simply little hiccups on the journey. At the tip of the day, the journey is the half we have to proceed to concentrate on. It IS at all times an journey.
