Getting Ready for Our Big Adventure
It all started with a Zoom beer tasting with friends from Wisconsin. "Come to the State Fair", they said. "Ok", we said. The Zoom meeting ended, we finished our beers, were a little bit drunk, and we said, "Hey, we're planning to sell the house and we'll already be halfway across the country so let's just keep going!" After a quick sober check the next morning, we were still in agreement to take on the adventure. Ten days later, we purchased our van and put the house on the market. Now we were committed! We started building out the van while, at the same time, sorting, purging and packing. We took many van loads to Savers and the recycle center and the rest went into storage. Our house sold in two days so we were under the gun to finish everything and hit the road. We closed on the house Friday, July 11th. We said Good-bye to family and friends. Our friends, Audrey and Les, blessed and smudged our van with some special sage to send u...