our epoch… one year, 48 state adventure
join us on our adventure as we visit all of the lower 48 states in one year!
In 56 days we will be starting our 52 week voyage across the USA. Our family of four (along with our pug) will leave our 5,000 sq. ft. house and we will be making our 5th wheel, Gipzee, our home for those 52 weeks. Gipzee has a bit under 500 sq. ft. Looks like we’ll be living in 10% of the amount of space we’re accustomed to living in.
Is this bad? Not really. But I’d be lying if I said it wouldn’t be an adjustment.
You know that Geico commercial that takes place in a boring, white office lunchroom and some guy is heating up a burrito in the microwave? For some reason, they thought that the song, The Final Countdown, by Europe, would be an appropriate theme song. For heating up a burrito.
I don’t like that commercial. Ask my kids. As little as we watch TV (no cable in this house), every time that one comes on I cringe. I might also lament out loud in anguish just so everyone around knows how much I despise the commercial.
Remember how simple life was when we were kids? We just got up everyday and lived. In the middle of living, we’d eat, get dirty, make messes, do chores, ride bikes, eat more, laugh, play stupid-yet-fun games, eat again, laugh, run around outside until dark, take a bath, go to bed….then get up the next day and do it all again.
Simple.
When Kari and I first started talking about this crazy idea that turned into epoch48, we naively thought that we must be the only ones to have dreamed of something so crazy. That we were going to accomplish something that no family has accomplished before. And that we were doing it for great reasons. Enter perspective…
As you get to know me, you will learn the hard truth that I like “lines”. Not cheesy, pick up lines, come on! Although hubby tries those every now and then, along with a rooster-style tap dance around me – and neither work. Ever. When my roosters do this dance around the hens, it doesn’t work for them either. Why am I not surprised?
Silly boys.
No – not pick up lines! Lines, as in movie lines, song lines, quotes…you know…lines.
It’s January 1, 2018.
Wow.
As always, time goes so fast these days, but these past 4 months, since we decided to take this road trip, well, just flew right by!
Up until now I had other things I needed to concentrate on. Things that were higher priority than thinking about a year-long road trip. Family vacation. Family birthdays. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Shutting my business down. You know – those kinds of things.
So,,,, I have spent many, many many. MANY, hours planning the route for our epoch journey. Many… I would be lying if I said I really enjoy it. Because it’s really not my thing. And as bad as it is, what’s worse is, the whole time this plan is mocking me.