Three years ago today, Sandy, Youk, and I set out on this crazy full-time RV journey.

Since that time, we’ve been to 43 states and a little piece of Canada.  We have traveled over 56,000 miles, and made countless new friends and memories.  We’ve been awed by God’s beautiful creation time and time again.  We have visited family and friends that we hadn’t seen in years.  We have also made sure to get back to see our family and friends that we had left back in Pennsylvania often.

When we started this journey, I felt it was a calling to write more.  I’ve published three books since we’ve started traveling full-time.  I mean, technically, I guess you could say that I published two and Youk published one.  More books are in the works.  Although I have not published a blog in quite some time, I am writing, working on The Journey of My Mother’s Son, Volume II.  I’ve done two book signing tours with more on the horizon.  Oddly enough, most of those book signings have taken place in grocery stores, of all places.  I’ve had the opportunity to share our story with more people than I would have ever imagined.

We’ve volunteered on some amazing projects with some incredible people.  Some of those projects, we have been able to go back to and see how the community is enjoying the work that we did.  It’s a pretty special feeling to see that impact.  Even the projects that we don’t get back to, we know that the impact is great.

I know that some people don’t understand why we do what we do, and that’s ok.  This is our journey.  It works for us.  It won’t work for everyone.

But for us, it’s about freedom.  The freedom to wake up in the mountains one day and on a waterfront the next day.  The freedom to know that we are always home.  The gratitude to understand that what I treasure the most, Sandy and Youk, are right here within the walls of this tiny little house on wheels.

Don’t be mistaken though, we have had many sad times in these three years as well.  We’ve lost friends and loved ones along the way.  Those losses, as painful as they are, are also validation that we’re doing the right thing.  Validation that time is not on our side.  Validation that the only thing that we have is this moment that we are in right now.  We can’t change yesterday, and tomorrow is not guaranteed.

We have no exit plan.  We will do this as long as we are healthy and as long as we can.  We have no regrets.  We fully understand how blessed we are to have this opportunity.  To travel across this beautiful land and see what we have seen.  To meet the people who we have met.  Both those that we are still friends with today as well as many who we only shared a few minutes with in passing, we are truly blessed.

We’re not sure what the road ahead has in store for us, but whatever it is, we will meet it head on with awe and gratitude.

Cheers to three years, cheers to a lifetime left on the road.