Our crazy adventure

Well hello there!!  I'm excited that ya'll have decided to join us on this crazy adventure that Kyle and I are about to embark on with our three crazy labs.  I know most people probably think that we are a little insane to be doing this.  Its not entirely normal for a couple in their mid-thirties to quit their jobs, sell pretty much everything, and buy a camper to travel for a while.  For us tho, its seems perfectly normal, because bottom line is why not doing something crazy at least once in your life right!  We know that we had a really good thing going for us in New Castle.  Both of us had great careers, we had beautiful house and really life was pretty darn good, but sometimes you just have to break away from the daily grind and wander.   There are so many amazing a beautiful places out there if you'd just be willing to go find them.  So that is what we decided to do!

Its going to be a definite adjustment to move our entire world into a little 19ft camper, but I really don't think that we will struggle too much with it.  As we started to go through the house and sort through the stuff that 10 years of being a couple has accumulated, we discovered that we really don't need much.  We were fortunate to be able to sell most of our furniture, or find a good new home for what we didn't sell.  Then the things that we did keep, we were able to fit into a 10x10 storage unit. Then only put the essentials into our camper with us.

For those of you who know me well, know that I LOVE to bake.  One of the questions that we get asked most frequently is "am I going to be able to still bake?  And yes, there is a full oven in our camper!  So i can still bake cookies, which is like therapy for me, I don't think I will be baking cake anytime soon, as all my cake baking goods are boxed up in storage, so I will have to wait a few months to do that.  I am also very excited to learn how to use my new cast iron dutch oven that my coworkers gave me.  I am fairly certain that, as much as Kyle thinks we will just switch back to eating Ramen noodles and PB&J, we will still eat really well. I like real food WAY too much!

These last few weeks have been a definite roller coaster, as we quit our jobs, move out of our house, and the hardest part, say goodbye to all of our friends who have really become like family to us.  Ive started to stop looking at it as goodbye though, we will see you all again very soon, its kind of like we are just going on an extended vacation :)

We have had several people ask what our plan is, and the truth is we don't really have a complete plan, just the skeleton of one.  We have a general idea of the direction we want to go, and some places that we want to see but everything else we'll just figure out as we go.

When we pull out of New Castle tomorrow, we will head to south western Colorado and explore there for a week before heading up to Moab next weekend.  I will definitely keep you all posted on what fun discoveries we have made!

I better wrap this up for now, but I want to thank you all for tuning in as we embark on this crazy adventure! I can't wait to share more stories with you!