Sure! The day has come. Everyone seems to be all packed. You’re going on an ADVENTURE! Perhaps you’re headed out to the Grand Tetons for some thrill-seeking mountaineering, or to the Outer Banks for some stress-free salt life seaside sunbathing. It doesn’t matter. You’ve checked the climate, and also you’ve packed the whole lot you’ll want. The automobile is filled with gas, and even made positive it’s updated on the entire different upkeep. Nothing is stopping you from an outstandingly epic journey. Till…
You’ve gotten 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 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 while you hit the highway on your grand journey. Your as soon as in a lifetime journey. The one that you’ve considered for years, and have been planning about for simply as lengthy. Now it’s ruined. No extra highway journey. No extra outstandingly epic journey.
When you’ve got learn any of our earlier articles, or adopted any of our YouTube channel, then … We’ve 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 as we speak. 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 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 have now 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 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 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 subsequent leg of our journey stored getting delayed.
So, it’s actually an Journey?
YES!!!!
Even once we lose every week in the midst of South Dakota to switch a gas pump positioned 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 will not be the identical journey that you just set out for while you packed the whole lot up and left the home. However it IS nonetheless an Journey!
Clearly, that is an angle. That is holding that positivity flowing and desperately looking for 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 all the time good, it isn’t all the time grand. That’s why we have now all the time used the phrase ‘journey’ to explain our journeys. It IS all the time an Journey, good or dangerous is decided by how we deal with it. We make it epic… Generally 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 realized to chortle. Personally, I chortle at the whole lot… Doug has typically 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?
Once we’re little, grandma all the time mentioned, “we don’t cry over spilled milk, espresso perhaps, however by no means milk.” If we simply concentrate on the unfavorable 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 objective of residing in our camper and touring our magnificent nation for 2 complete years. Right here we’re, 2 months in, and we have now had a number of points. Loads of moments which have made us need to second guess the choice we made to move 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 venture. 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 have now to quiet down in 6 months… We’re having fun with the Journey. We’re nonetheless doing this! We’re nonetheless checking bucket checklist objects off the itinerary. We’re nonetheless seeing a number of the issues we all the time dreamed of seeing, and doing issues that we’ve all the time wished to do. Even when there are some pace 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 seaside trip has been a whole rain out – take a second to judge that. The three hours within the airport, or the rain on the seaside 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 concentrate on. It IS all the time an journey.
