Honey RV There Yet?

In a world where you are measured by the amount of your possessions, honored for your wealth and material things, and given great respect for your money and job title. In a society where more is better, big is best and only those who have the most are consider successful .
My wife and I have chosen to live small, to have less, to live in peace with the very least. To live light, travel light, to eat light and live in the sunlight.

This is where our story begins;
After running a business for 6 years and a 5 acre farm for the past 2 years. My wife and I had an epiphany. We realized that we have no mortgage , no car payments and that all our debt and bills come from running a farm and business .
So why are we running a farm and business ? I love to be in the garden, to play in the dirt and to grow plants. We are farming to be more sustainable and to have healthy food. We also would like to support our community by providing healthy organically grown food. In our hearts we believe all these thing to be important, but at the same time we felt held down by both the farm and the business . In order for us to take a four day weekend vacation, required a 4 man team of people willing to take turns feeding the animals, watering the gardens and taking care of our greenhouse. Even then we would wonder and worry if everything would be ok when we got back home, not to mention the debt we were creating monthly, while trying to create an income to pay for the debt we were creating monthly, while trying to create an income to pay for the debt!… I could write this over and over again because its the same vicious cycle that happens over and over again every month. We had bills for the farm and the same bills for the business. We had two water bills, two phone bills, two electric bills and so on and so on.
My wife, Mayo, and I both love to travel. My wife’s Father was a Park Ranger so she grew up moving from one state park to another. She’s grew up spending more time outdoors and near nature. I grew up in the inner city, but have always wanted to see more of the world. My full adult life I have moved around constantly seeking nature and the adventures of the outdoors. I met Mayo because I was looking for a place to camp during the summer months. I had an apartment but no backyard. In my local paper there was an ad for 2 acres of land in the country for rent. I planned to rent this land to camp on the weekends and my days off. On my way to rent this land I missed my turn and ended up on the wrong road. At the end of the road there was a huge greenhouse business named “Painter’s Greenhouse”. Because of my love for plants I stopped to chat with the owners, who were very impressed with me, they offered me a job on the spot. A month after working there Mayo walked in looking for plants. She found me and we found endless love,… That was the start of our wonder marriage.
It’s winter time now, and my wife Mayo who is from Florida does not like the winters in Asheville North Carolina even though she has lived here 21 years. To me, winter is always a time of planning for warm weather and waiting. I hate waiting……. We usually plan a weekend trip somewhere sunny and warm, but were having trouble coordinating a team for the farm.
It was at this moment that it hit us……Well, it hit my wife first and she bounced it off to me. She said, “Why are we doing this, why are we planning to go traveling for the weekend or just a few days, why not make vacationing and traveling our way of life” It was so amazing to me because I had just read a quote that said , ” I’ve spent so much time making a living I forgot to make a life”, or something to that effect. So we began to think about our situation and realized we really have no bills or debt if we just traveled. We have an RV that’s paid for, and if we rented out the farm and business we would make more income than we’ve had running the farm. Now I don’t have a doctrine or PHd but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this one out .
We thought about it for a few days and each day the thought of traveling became more and more appealing. Like a bright light going off in our heads we said ” lets do it, lets see all there is to see, let’s boldly go where we have never gone before, meet people we’ve never met before, see nature and live stress free . Our thoughts went from why, to how and then to When?!
My wife, Mayo, began her research. She is the google gypsy queen, if there is information out there to be found, she will find it! Lol, and if she finds it I’ll hear about it.
She has researched RV living, living in small spaces,tiny house living, boon-docking, cheap places to camp and all of the national/state park camping. I can’t wait to see what she’ll research tomorrow ….smile. Ajani Eagledove