Today
is my birthday, and I am celebrating it by starting a new blog. On May 9, 2014, Tim and I sold our house in
Estes Park, Colorado, and began a new chapter in our lives as full-time
RVers. We
have been camping at Ridgway State Park in southwestern Colorado for the past week or
so, and I will write more about our stay here in a later post. It has taken me a while to get
this blog up and running, so I have some catching-up to do. Over the next few days and weeks, I’ll
backtrack a bit and talk about how we came to this momentous decision to full-time in our RV, as well
as what we did to make it happen.
In the meantime, here’s a little background that led up to our May 9
departure date.
Traveling in an RV, let alone
full-timing in one, is not something that either Tim or I ever envisioned
doing. That all began to change in 2010,
however, when I proposed the idea of taking a year off and traveling throughout
the United States. Tim agreed to help make
this travel dream of mine a reality, and he was able to take a nine-month leave
of absence so we could travel from September 2011 to June 2012 in an RV.
We called the trip our “Road Trip
Ramble,” and viewed it as a trip-of-a-lifetime.
I kept a blog about our trip, and you can check it out here. Little did we know when we returned to Estes
Park that we would sell our house and hit the road on a full-time basis in less
than two years.
Our Road Trip Ramble Journey |
But didn’t I mention that we traveled
in an RV? Sarah (and Tim, for that
matter) in an RV? Surely, that can’t be
true. Two people who swore they would
never even set foot in an RV traveled in one for nine months. And not just any RV, but one that is about
the size of a large walk-in closet.
This Is Our RV |
You might ask why we selected this mode
of transportation. It’s simple,
really. It’s all because of the
cat! You see, Tim had a cat when I met him
in 2008, and I quickly grew to love her.
When I broached the idea to Tim of taking an extended road trip, I had
thought we would travel in a car. But
what about Kitty? If we left her with someone
for nine months, she would no longer be our cat when we returned. Traveling with her in the car, however, did
not seem to be feasible. So the idea of
an RV slowly emerged as the only way to go.
You can read more about Kitty here.
The cat made us do it!
The Kitty and the RV |
At the end of our amazing trip, Tim
returned to work, and we considered selling the RV. Tim had no plans to retire for at least four
to five years, and we never really considered ourselves weekend campers. We changed our minds, however, when we
realized that we might need the RV after Tim did retire. There was still the cat to think about. The RV continued to be the only way we could
travel with her.
Wow! I'm so excited for you guys! Can't wait to follow along.
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Jenny,
DeleteThanks for following along with us. Hope things are going well with you and the family. We would love to get back to Nashville for a visit. Take care.
Sarah
Happy (belated) Birthday! We are looking forward to following your adventures. XO LaVonne
ReplyDeleteThanks LaVonne! We're so happy you are following our adventures again. Take care.
ReplyDeleteSarah