Thank You.

IMG_1514.jpgIt’s official – after several weeks in limbo, staying at different family members’ houses, we’re finally shipping out. It feels both good and sad to be leaving on what seems like a long awaited and much anticipated trip.

We’d like to say a big thank you to all our family and friends who have shown us so much love, support, and generosity as we prepare for this trip. It is always uplifting when we share our plans to hear people’s responses of joy and excitement for us. It has been an intimidating process getting ready and we still aren’t completely sure of what we will encounter with life on the road, but having all of your support has helped to keep us moving forward.

To all the folks who have given us gifts, thrown us parties, or just shared heartfelt well wishes as we finalize our plans…THANK YOU! Your love and support means so much to us and it is spending time with our friends and family that we will miss the most.

We have talked to many of you about meeting us while we’re out on the road, just suggest a time and place and we’ll let you know if we can make it work – we’d love to see you! For those of you who aren’t in the Atlanta area…get ready because we’re probably scheduling you into our travels!

 

Run Before You Walk

Despite buying our travel trailer this summer, and it sitting in our driveway for at least two months after finally bringing it home, it’s taken us until the Christmas holidays to hitch it up and take it on a test run. So we figured what better way to ease into the RV lifestyle than by taking it on a 12 hour drive from Georgia to Delaware. 

We spent the first night in our trailer at a Walmart somewhere in North Carolina. After pulling in at 3am and parking next to some truckers, we weren’t in much of a state to take in our surroundings. And after another 8 hour drive the next day we were just thankful the trailer made it up to Delaware in one piece….well sort of in one piece.

It wasn’t the most glamorous first voyage, but we’re certainly getting more comfortable with the trailer and have learned a thing or two. The most important of which is that we now have a pre-departure checklist to make sure everything is in its place…We may have misconnected a few pins and left the trailer post down a time or two (whoops!) but we’re getting the hang of things!