Practicing Patience
I took a small break for the holidays, it wasn’t really a planned break but a needed one and I’m feeling refreshed and ready for 2022!!!
RV life can often be a big question mark! Which has taught me the hard way, that you can’t plan everything like planning to be somewhere for 6 months going, hating it and leaving after 2 months or those flat tires that happen when we’re making good time trucking down the road it can be both exciting and stressful.
Exciting- your “backyard” changes whenever you want it too! Helps you appreciate life all the small things around you and the beauty the Earth has to offer. It’s given me the outlook that everyday is a day full of new opportunities to learn, grow, experience the world around you. Knowing that whenever you want you can pack up, pull in your slides, and go anywhere down the road and you have everything you’ll need is just a cozy feeling to me. I don’t have to pack an extra bag for my pillows, sheets, and blankets instead I sleep in My bed, in My sheets and My pillows so I have a 95% chance I won’t wake up with hives all over my body or feel like my skin isn’t burning/ stinging/ itchy. All the food in the pantry is safe for me to eat so if I’m hungry on the road (of course I have road snacks) but I can’t eat at fast food places so when we stop for gas we pull over and get in the trailer I made food for everyone, and we eat and hit the road (also helps breaking up time spent in the truck and strapped in car seats.
Stressful- Finding a park to call home for months at a time is easier said than done. Bigger cities aren’t as cracked up as you think they are, first thought that comes to mind… Loud. In the 2 years of living this life I have found my “Must Haves” and I have a lengthy check list but it’s all from experience. For me food doesn’t come easily, I have to search and know where to go for what (again I have my favorites) I made it a habit to stock up on favorites that I’ve found and keep track of what it is and where I got it, but that’s not fool proof… sometimes the new store doesn’t carry the brand I’m looking for or the gluten free section is tiny… or nonexistent. Hours stuck in a car with a toddler that normally climbs, jumps, and hulk smashes stuff all day long and a doggo that feels he needs to protect you from passed motorcycles or howls when one of us gets out of the car without him… it’s physically, mentally and let be honest emotionally exhausting. We have a system, and everyone adjusted to road trips fairly easy, but it still takes a toll. Lastly parks are not always in the most ideal places or as close to the jobsite as we would like them to be (my hubby has had to drive for 2 hours one way, luckily, we were with our traveling tribe when he had to do that, so he had a driving buddy). Sometimes you have to settle with a less than awesome park.
Through it all though RV life has given us the chance to give our son experiences and let him see the beauty this world has to offer and help show him why it’s so important to take care of this planet. It’s true we have no idea where we’ll be in a month from now, currently it’s between 3 different places and those decisions can be stressful, but the journey, the experiences, the time spent driving down the road singing silly songs and playing fun road trip games. The days that seem “lost” as we travel from park to park, the days that seem so long but get us right where we need to be, kind of puts patience in a different view. We’ll always get to where we’re going or where we need to be we just need to sit back, soak it in and we’ll be there before we know it.
