from 5,000 to 500

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.

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and so it begins…

(photo from June 2012, 37 years old, after climbing a 50 ft rope wall and riding the zip line)

 

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.

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