There is nothing too interesting to report. My weekends were as follows (skip to the next paragraph if you are prone to boredom)- watching general conference at my Nephew's house an hour away- Loved it! We had a store house assignment for our youth followed by a Mormon prom. A campout over Easter weekend with our ward got replaced with 6 days of various family members having various illnesses: strep, vomiting, achy body and fatigue. The weekend of the month, I honestly have NO idea what I did besides my daughter's weekly sand volleyball game. Such is life.
So what will I share? The most interesting thing I did in April was meet a family that has spent the last 10 years traveling. First they sailed around the world in a catamaran, followed by racing all over in an old Porsche, followed by driving through Europe in a VW bus, followed by sailing all over again, and now they have bought an old classic motor home to travel all over again. Yes, that is 5 once in a life-time dream experiences.
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| Their current "home" a '66 Dodge Travico |
My husband started following their blog, bumbuzzle.com when we got home from our year traveling. It was a rough transition into regular life (I know poor us) and following another family traveling helped him adjust. Here is a link that has a picture of my husband an I taking a look at their new "home" http://www.bumfuzzle.com/blog/2014/04/21/texas-bbq/. If you take a look at it, we are in the third picture down.
The event we went to was a pot-luck barbeque thrown by some of the blog followers and open to the public. I am a bit shy with new people so those kind of events where I know no one are not my favorites. However, this one I enjoyed because it was fun to meet so many people with wanderlust- lots of kindred spirits with my husband. I enjoyed seeing his eyes light up as he heard adventures and shared adventures. Several of the families were living aboard boats and two were getting ready to set sail. It is an interesting life, but the boat thing would not suit me.
It was great to be reminded to focus on obtaining experiences and relationships in life not on obtaining stuff. I left the experience with a renewed desire to build relationships even if it involves being in what seems like will be uncomfortable situations. Who needs nicely caulked showers anyway?
2 comments:
I know how a month can slip by! So of course I slipped over to the Bumfuzzle and read all about fixing up the boat when their little girl was little. What amazing journeys they've been on. When I get wanderlusty I read the Blue Lily Photography blog, but they've really slowed their posting down. Now I've got a new one to replace it. I saw you on their blog though, you and tall Rich. And I so get not wanting to caulk bathtubs!
That sounds so fun to travel like that! Sometimes surviving a month really is all you can do though, seriously!
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