Welcome to "The Emrick's Epic Journey", a blog about our planned journey around the USA. We want to keep everyone informed about our activities and our progress, problems and blessings encountered. We hope you will read it occasionally and respond with your comments and news from home or wherever.
While no one has expressed it directly, surely some of you may think we may have slipped a cog or something. Why would anyone give up a comfortable life in retirement to live in a relatively tiny motor home and spend a lot of time on the road in who knows what kind of weather. Oh, and did I mention the cost of gas to run this small home but monstrous sized vehicle?
As we approached that point when both of us would be fully retired, we began talking about what we wanted to do with all this wonderful free time. Lynn expressed a desire to spend time with our far flung family members and Grant wanted to see all of this beautiful country. In the past Lynn had also said that if she could travel she wanted to see all 50 states, rather than go to various exotic locations around the world. When we considered the possibility of travelling to visit everyone, it soon became apparent that the expense would be more than we could bear.
So, we decided to think about an alternative means of travel that might be within our means. We had known others who had done this and quite frankly, we thought they were crazy when they talked about their plans. However, when we began to consider just how we could accomplish our retirement goals, the idea didn't seem nearly so crazy. We are in effect "turtles", carrying our home on our backs. We sleep in our own bed every night and we can have home cooking when we want it. We can tow a car so that we can have transportation when we are at a stopping point. We can spend as much or as little time as we want at any location. We can arrange our travel to be at any chosen location for birthdays, etc. Thus, a plan was born.
Tell us what you think. Are we crazy?
The next post will tell you about how we implemented our plan and some of the surprises and blessings we encountered.
