Be Your Own Superhero
In this episode, we visit with Jerrod Hardy, husband, father of 3, "retired" police officer, mixed martial arts fighter, entrepreneur (owned MMA gym, currently train LEO around country, Podcast), author, and most recently full-time traveler with his wife in their Airstream. He believes in chasing dreams and living life on your terms and in a manner that you are proud of.
Purpose is key to a fulfilled life. His is honoring his mom's sacrifice choosing to have him at 16. You discover your purpose when in action not waiting for it. Happiness/your Best Life is a CHOICE.
You Want to Live in an RV?
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.
You Want to Live in a RV?
No sir or ma’am, we are going our own way. We will be the king, sheriff, and sole determiner of how we spend our days out in nature. We are done answering to anyone else it’s just us and all this beauty. That is…. until your gray and black tanks are full!
Our Vision for the New Year
Welcome to the new year and thanks for joining us on this adventure. This week we wanted to share one of the rituals we do to focus our thoughts and energy for the year.
The Big 50 and Family
When we drove away from our community for the first time, Andrea set an intention that every year we would find a place where our friends and family could gather with us. These would take place somewhere new each year. A place none of us had been before. Where we would be free to create new memories without previous experience or expectations for comparison.
Never Have We Ever - Full Time RV Life Edition
We thought it would be fun this week to break down some myths and stereotypes people have asked us about in this new lifestyle. Here are a few things we have never done as full timers. Never slept at Walmart, arrived in the dark, been homeless, ran out of money or driven into Mexico.
How We Choose: Boondocking, Harvest Host, Campground, and the Pink Thong?
How We Choose: Boondocking, Harvest Host, Campground, and how a pink bikini can change it all.
That’s a Wrap – Summer 2022 Gig
We are grateful as we depart the place that brought us laughs, new skills, friends, and memories that will last forever. It’s hard not to have a good time when you are serving beer, wine, and good food to people on vacation from all over the world!
Where will the Kids Call Home?
During our planning and preparation for life on the road this was a question we struggled with.
Where would our children go for the holidays? To have a home cooked meal, a bed with extra pillows, and just to be comforted by the love of mom and dad?
A Life Lesson from Mother Nature
Our brief “winter” will help us appreciate these long summer nights all that much more and allowed us to reflect on the importance of what you don’t want in life at times.
Wildcat Philosophy, French Rum, and The “Happiness” Business
It got us thinking though as we left the next day, westbound stocked up on the best French rum, stories, and a slight hangover.
What if we were all in the “happiness business”?
Living The Dream
We are blessed to be told by many that we are in fact “living the dream”. Some who aren’t quite full time yet but aspire to be will even add that we are “living THEIR dream!”
I find that last statement to be quite an honor. In choosing this life for us, others are seeing possibilities in their lives as well.
What people find interesting though is when we share our TRUTH with them.
What Size Camper Do We Need?
This is a question that is bantered about by those wanting to get on the road and those already on the road around the nation. It seems to be an almost endless pursuit of the “perfect rig”.
The truth is you will not truly know until you answer a couple questions for yourselves.
4 Steps to Full Timing Part 2
Some moments we were in sync financially. Saving first and living comfortably but well within our means.
At other times, we were not. Finding ourselves with credit card debt rolling over month to month, a car payment, and a lifestyle that felt good in the moment but was not sustainable. Reflecting on this now it is clear, we got caught in “keeping up with the Joneses” syndrome.
4 Steps We Took To Full Timing
In the spring of 2014, our oldest daughter graduated high school. Wasting no time, she embraced her sense of independence and adventure by moving out of our home that summer.
This moment was a wake-up call for us. While were proud of our children’s independence, we were a bit saddened by the end of their childhood.
We also knew we were facing the same reality with our younger two children in only a few years.
We began questioning what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives?
Detours, Speed Bumps and U-Turns
A life on the road tends to lend itself to seeing everything as one big road trip.
Here are three inevitable actions you’ll be faced with on the road trip of life!
Why Did We Choose an Airstream?
The airstream creates conversations in every place we have camped. We feel blessed to meet people and hear their stories about their desire to have an airstream at one point in their adventure, while seeing their current adventuring rig. The fact this happens all over the country is a testament to the history of Airstream as a company and inspires us to live up to that legacy in our full-time adventures in the “Queen”.
November 2021 Full Time RV Recap
Three months into living full time on the road and it is still hard at times for Andrea and I to accept this is our life.
There are still mornings we wake up and must remind ourselves this is not just another vacation, a weekend getaway, or a holiday trip, but it is our life!