An empty house and open road

I’ve said it before…coming up with the idea is the easy part. The devil is in the details. The list of details was seemingly endless. There were home repairs and over due maintenance items to be done, as well as vehicle repairs and maintenance items to cross off the list. Furniture and toys no longer deemed “necessary” went up for sale and went out the door. Other items found their way to the local thrift shop. We got all our financial ducks in a row. There was gear to be sorted, new gear to be purchased, old gear to be repaired (if possible), other gear to be created to prepare (hopefully) for all anticipated weather conditions. The most enjoyable item was the process of saying our goodbyes to a long list of friends in town. But on Saturday, April 17 – the day finally arrived. We had an empty house, a full vehicle, and an open road before us.

It was surprisingly easy to drive away from “home.” While we very much like our house in Flagstaff, “home” has always been more about family than towns or buildings. So we made sure to spend time with Ethan in Tempe before leaving AZ. We’ll spend time in Durango hanging with Aaron, Vanessa, Oliver and Kiri, the in Loveland with Kevin and Katie. After that, home will be the Tardis (its bigger on the inside) our Teardrop trailer, and home will be two bicycles and our trusty tent. As the song by Kimya Dawson says, “And if home is really where the heart is, Then we’re the smartest kids I know, Because wherever we are in this great big world, We’ll never be more than a few hours from home”.

So, the adventure begins…or more accurately I suppose…the adventures continue. We are super excited for Jack and Abby and their adventure in parenting as they take over residence in “the Treehouse”. And as we all finally start to crawl out from our collective Covid rocks and get back to living life again, we are excited to hear about your adventures. We may be off the grid for periods of time, but we’re not going to the far side of the moon. We most definitely are not looking to downsize or purge our circle of friends. We very much want stay connected.

That’s all for now. Many of you have expressed your eagerness to follow us on our journey. I will try to make this interesting and worth your time. If you haven’t already done so, scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your email. You will get a notificiation whenever I update the blog. Until next time…happy trails!