You Want to Live in an RV?

Part 3 of 3

Life Follows You

Nature has a way of making our problems seem small!

Andrea at White Sands National Park, NM

The wide-open prairies, desert winds, ocean breezes, mountain pines, are where we can go to get away from it all.  Places we can examine our “no longer truths” and to put our mental well-being first.  Leaving your sticks and bricks behind for a never-ending road trip won’t do the self-help work for you, but it will open the possibility like few other changes you could make.

Gone are the daily distractions of your past life.  You just created the time to focus on YOU!

Slowing down, going introspective, peeling the layers, unburying your truths. Long hikes or “walkabouts” where you can get comfortable with your own thoughts, distraction free, no excuses, just the truth between you and you. 

How you fill all the time freedom you just created is one of the biggest decisions you will make.  Will you finally start doing things that feed your soul?   Arts, crafts, music, writing, singing or meditation? 

Yoga, hiking, journaling, calisthenics, listening to podcasts and reading are all activities we love to build our schedule around because we know it makes us happy. We have delved into a past talent we did not have time for by creating handmade craft gifts for friends and family.  While exploring another we lied to ourselves about by learning to play music.

Even the most introverted of people, will at times still need a community, and this one is like few others we have experienced. We have been amazed at all of great people the universe has allowed us to cross paths with… once we had done our self-work (still in progress) and were ready for them.

The traveling community is like no other!

Friends we spent the holidays with in Arizona, 2022.

Ji and his mom Virginia, Don and Mela, J and A

Authors, musicians, YouTubers, healers, clothes makers, single moms, retirees, remote workers, seasonal workers, vacationers, weekenders, part timers, full timers, and many more have crossed our paths.  From each we have learned something, shared something, and were grateful for the “randomness” of our paths crossing at that particular moment in time.

The depth of the conversations, the realness of stories, and the willingness to be vulnerable, in our new community is inspiring. With only a night or two, maybe a week, camping alongside someone, there is no time to put off really getting to know them for another day. 

Choosing this lifestyle is one of the greatest gifts we have given ourselves.  The space to truly learn who we are, are not, and how we want to grow together, is a benefit we had not expected to receive.  

If you are choosing to make this leap, the decisions you make with the time freedom you created will be some of the most important.  Problems, struggles, and the very things you are trying to leave behind can easily pack themselves in your rig and make the trip with you.  This lifestyle is place that slows life down allowing us to finally face our demons, to heal our wounds, and to “find” ourselves, but it requires your intention, attention, and willingness to do the work.

Conclusion

This lifestyle may not be for everyone but for us the power in knowing we chose it, is empowering, freeing, and exactly what we hoped it would be. Whether or not it is right for you is something only you can decide. 

Just know the next chapter of your life has yet to be written. 

What will you author?  What stories will you create?