I was reminded the other day about a basic premise.  One that I apparently forgot to remember.  The photo you see poorly displayed with X’s is a list of all the things I need to do to the skoolie bus in order to get driving to Miami … there to start working on a separate and perhaps equally endless list.

Nikki asked why aren’t we just drinking from water bottles and pooping in a bucket … and working on the bus along the way to elsewhere?  Why are we sitting in Central Virginia with a checklist? 

She has a good point.  Don’t get me wrong, I love staying with my daughter and grandson, but the point of all this is to live a life that doesn’t involve normalcy and checklists.

Is it fear that’s keeping me here with tasks that keep getting added?  Complacency?  Guilt?  Honestly, I have no idea.  

LOOKING BACK

Last February we left the US and spent a few weeks in Costa Rica.  Puerto Viejo to be specific.  Our hostel had no potable water, internet was a joke, and we had to walk a mile to get to anything resembling a store.  AND WE LOVED IT!

Life was casual.  We explored, we rested, and we just lived.  Not to First World standards, that was never our expectation.  And truly it was one of my happiest times in all of this year.

The next two locations were just as “primitive”.  In fact in Panama we were on what was basically an uninhabited island.  We couldn’t even walk to a store if we wanted to.  And again, that was the life that makes me whole.  The life I want to bring to you.

Living Just TWO FEET OVER WATER? 🇵🇦 Bocas Del Toro Panama
https://youtu.be/fKGZd6u74dc

LOOKING FORWARD

A little behind the scenes for ya.  YouTube isn’t just about filming something and uploading it.  I probably spend 15x the effort in planning and strategizing as I do with the camera.  YouTube is a business … only I seem to have forgotten that it’s also not.  It’s you.

Our channel is about life.  Finding the ordinary in extraordinary places.  Or just having a laugh and a struggle in day to day affairs.  And checkboxes do not a life make.  So let’s make a pinkie promise, you and I.  I’ll get cracking on the next adventure and worry about bus cosmetics for later … and you find something amazing right outside where you’ve been sitting.  

So … let’s get this bus back on the road!  (See what I did there?  Get the bus … back on the … yea, sorry.  LOL!).  

Thank you for your support and we’ll see ya soon!

How TERRIFYING is Climbing a MAYAN PYRAMID?
https://youtu.be/izHYVK7W1_0