My mother always called me a "free-soul", and that I was born in the wrong decade and I should of been with the hippies in the 60's. I couldn't agree more. I've never understood the society we live in. The great conquer to own more materialistic possessions than you'll ever need. I've lived in every state along the west coast, and have travelled to many places. But somehow it was never enough to just go on a vacation for two weeks. The hardest part for me was always coming back home. Back to the same society I hated. The continuously flowing monthly bills just to have a place to live. Every day you work a job you hate. To pay your rent and bills. The open road has always been my desire. To break away from the grid and truly be free. The moment I knew I had to get away from it all, was when I saw the movie Into The Wild with my wife. If you have not read the book or watched the movie, then you need to! It changed my life. His story of self discovery and adventure. I wanted to feel the freedom he felt. It was our favorite movie, and getting an RV and escaping was the only thing we would talk about. Everyday for the past two years, we have been searching for a perfect RV for us and today we bought it.
We are going to take a cross country journey tracing Christopher McCandless footsteps and adding some of our own as well. Life is too precious to hold it in a snow globe, it has to break free. I need to journey out into the world and find myself. Who I really am. I will keep records of journey on here as well as photographs for all who is interested. I will also specifically note when we are in an place that McCandless visited as well. On Monday, we go to take the RV to the repair shop to go get it a good bill of "health". So, it will be ready for the road. We decided to be rubber tramps, or travellers with a vehicle, rather than a leather tramp (walker). Although I like the great outdoors, I don't like sleeping out in it. lol. The bugs always bite me. If anyone has any suggestions of great places to visit or if you've also taken Christopher McCandless journey and would like to share your story, then please leave a comment! This is also, our first time RVing! So any suggestions would be appreciated as well.
~Rain
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