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Yep, we began touring once more.

However it isn’t what you suppose.

I’ll get again to that in a second.

Our entire lives for the previous six years have been about journey.

Visiting all fifty states. Re-visiting 45 states and dreaming about driving to Alaska once more. Setting our sights overseas to different international locations the place we are able to RV. Making enjoyable maps of all of the locations we’ve been.

Nicely now journey plans in all places are being canceled. Our pal Nate who runs Faredrop instructed us that there are practically 90% fewer planes within the air proper now in comparison with standard.

That’s an enormous dive for the journey trade.

However what about RVs?

We journey in our houses. We use fewer public services as a result of we’re self-sustaining. Many campgrounds are using contact-less checkins. Most of us spend the remainder of our time in nature—six-feet away from strangers by choice—anyway.

I’ve heard many individuals say RVing could growth this summer season as a result of it seems like a safer technique to trip in comparison with flying. I’ve seen pals on Instagram getting again on the highway prior to now week.

Can we return to journey as standard?

Heath & I’ve talked about this rather a lot over the previous month.

Our beforehand deliberate travels this 12 months had us spending April & Might in Tennessee. Driving as much as spend a few of our summer season in Michigan—one of many few states we’ve got solely visited as soon as and are dying to discover once more! We deliberate to fly to Oregon to go to pals, attend a rally at Winnebago HQ in Iowa, after which end out the 12 months within the Rockies—Colorado, Wyoming, perhaps even Montana.

We scrapped all of our plans.

After Ellie’s well being scare final month and speaking to fellow full-time vacationers, we knew we needed to throw that map out the window. We would have liked a brand new plan that allowed us to journey within the most secure means attainable.

Since you see, we journey full-time.

We have now no dwelling. No property. No land. No place to remain put for some time.

“House is the place you park it” as they are saying.

We couldn’t keep in Alabama without end. So we got here up with our personal tailored journey plans.

Step One: Drive to Texas

Ellie turns ONE () this month so she has her one-year-old verify up at her pediatrician right here in Texas.

When the stay-at-home order in Alabama expired final week, we packed up and drove to Texas. Her appointment isn’t till the top of the month, so we’re conserving it in park at Heath’s dad and mom’ home and spending time with household.

We considered extending one other month in Alabama earlier than driving again to Texas, however needed to ensure we had been within the state a minimum of two weeks previous to her appointment. Plus we’ve received full hookups together with 50 AMP service right here within the driveway! It’s luxurious moochdocking.

Step Two: Summer season journey?

Heath and I are enjoying it cautious.

We didn’t need to hold our outdated journey plans traversing a dozen states. There’s an excessive amount of danger with getting sick, spreading the virus, or ending up caught someplace.

However we additionally don’t need to keep in a driveway in Texas all summer season.

After we sat down to debate all of our choices, we talked about selecting only one state. One state the place we’d be blissful spending June-October. Someplace with good climate, a day’s drive away from Texas if we would have liked to return to household, and ideally someplace we would need to open our first campground.

Colorado.

It’s been on the high of our record as we’ve looked for a campground (together with Tennessee and Maine) and it ticked all of the packing containers for a spot the place we would need to spend an prolonged time frame.

How We’re Touring Transferring Ahead

After we drove from Alabama to Texas (roughly 11 hours Google Maps time or 15 hours RV/child time), we made the entire drive in someday. Usually we’d cut up the drive in two, however with the Texas-Louisiana border being monitored, we didn’t need to cease in Louisiana.

(They did cease everybody on the border on I-10. They requested us after we pulled by at 11 PM the place we had been driving from and the place we stopped alongside the best way earlier than they waved us by. The entire dialog lasted lower than 15 seconds.)

Whereas restrictions are being lifted throughout the nation, nobody is aware of how this can play out and the way journey will proceed to be affected.

That’s why we selected one single state for our travels this summer season. We have now family and friends throughout the state. We will fortunately keep parked for a month with out worrying about tornados.

I don’t know if our one state thought is the perfect technique to spend our 12 months. I feel most individuals would agree that the most secure factor for everybody to do can be to remain near dwelling this summer season.

However as full-timers and not using a homebase, we knew we would have liked to the spend the subsequent few months someplace.

And what higher place than the place you may park with views like this?

These are our plans as of at this time. They are going to in all probability change by the top of the month. However it’s the place we’re proper now.