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 every little thing you’ll want. The automobile is filled 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 preserve dying…
An sudden 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 whenever you hit the street in your grand journey. Your as soon as in a lifetime journey. The one that you’ve got 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.
In case you have learn any of our earlier articles, or adopted any of our YouTube channel, then you already know… We’ve got had each single considered one of these issues occur to us on at the least considered one of our street journeys. A few of them on the identical epic street 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’ve got by no means taken a single street 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 street journeys both. We write about and share our RV life, however we’ve got had a number of issues once 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 airplane for our return flight dwelling. 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 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 saved getting delayed.
So, it’s actually an Journey?
YES!!!!
Even once we lose per week in the course 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 car parking zone. IT IS STILL AN ADVENTURE!!! It will not be the identical journey that you just set out for whenever you packed every little thing up and left the home. But it surely IS nonetheless an Journey!
Clearly, that is an perspective. That is holding that positivity flowing and desperately searching for the silver lining of a crappy state of affairs. 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 ‘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… Generally the epic doesn’t come till you’re 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 got realized to snigger. Personally, I snigger at every little thing… Doug has usually teased that he may very well be stung by a scorpion and that my first response goes to be to snigger. The reality is he isn’t teasing… This actually WILL be my first response. However then we determine it out. We assess the state of affairs. Is that this one thing we will management? Is it one thing considered one of us can restore (by considered one of 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 possibly, however by no means milk.” If we simply give attention to the adverse of the journey, we overlook 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 need 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. Principally we miss our help system. However on the finish of the journey, whether or not we make it the total 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 listing objects off the itinerary. We’re nonetheless seeing among the issues we at all times dreamed of seeing, and doing issues that we’ve at all times wished to do. Even when there are some pace bumps alongside the route.
So subsequent time your automotive breaks down, or your holed up in an airport ready in your flight that has now been delayed for 3 hours, or your seaside trip has been an entire 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 everything 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 give attention to. It IS at all times an journey.
