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 climbing, or to the Outer Banks for some enjoyable salt life seaside sunbathing. It doesn’t matter. You’ve checked the climate, and also you’ve packed every part you’ll want. The automobile is filled with gasoline, and even made certain it’s updated on all the different upkeep. Nothing is stopping you from an outstandingly epic journey. Till…
You could 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 hold dying…
An sudden chilly entrance comes via and now the temps are within the negatives…
These are only a handful of the numerous issues that may happen while you hit the street 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 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 a minimum of considered one of our street journeys. A few of them on the identical epic street journey that we’re on at the moment. 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 might have stopped our journey in its tracks. Or stolen that pleasure about no matter journey we had been on.
Our journey issues aren’t restricted to our street journeys both. We write about and share our RV life, however we have now had a number of issues after we traveled via the airports too. On our honeymoon, we landed in Jamaica and we had been lacking a bit of our baggage. On the identical journey, we nearly missed our airplane for our return flight residence. On a visit to Las Vegas, we arrived on the lodge and had been instructed that they didn’t have a reservation for us. The primary time we introduced our son overseas, 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 after we lose every week in the midst of South Dakota to interchange a gasoline 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 might not be the identical journey that you simply set out for while you packed every part up and left the home. Nevertheless it IS nonetheless an Journey!
Clearly, that is an perspective. That is maintaining 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 have now 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… Typically 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. Nonetheless an journey although.
We’ve got realized to snigger. Personally, I snigger at every part… Doug has typically teased that he might 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 scenario. 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?
Once 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 concentrate on the damaging 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 purpose of dwelling in our camper and touring our magnificent nation for 2 entire years. Right here we’re, 2 months in, and we have now 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 challenge. Principally 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 cool 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 among 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 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 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 the whole lot 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 at all times an journey.
