I’m working on writing the whole, very long, sordid backstory of this shit-fest. Quarantinis were definitely not in the vision for this adventure we’re on.
When you wake up one morning and you realize you’re a refugee on top of it all, that’s the rotting cherry on top of the shit sundae. You see the cycle?Īnd before we could get our feet under us as full-timers, we found ourselves having to react to a pandemic and having nowhere to go as parks and campgrounds closed everywhere. Which requires yet more layers of damage control. My path is littered with the mangled carcasses of the mistakes I’ve made while living in a constant state of reaction. Molehills become mountains and there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to triage everything that needs attention.Īnd so I’ve fallen woefully behind on basically everything. And it means we don’t have enough mental bandwidth to absorb the normal hiccups of life. We’ve been reacting, reacting, reacting-without enough space to reset in between.
Almost every day has had some element of damage control to undertake along with the learning curve of managing life on the road full-time. What’s not normal is that we’ve been scrambling to manage our basic living situation-food, water, location, waste, mechanical systems-one day at at time for months. It’s an unsustainable amplitude and I’ve had nothing left in the tank to pull from.Ĭertainly obstacles and hiccups happen in life. And all of those qualities have been tested to the nth degree during this.
Here’s the thing-I’m strong, resilient, tenacious, and flexible. If you follow me on Facebook or in the newsletter, you know the process of becoming digital nomads has been an utter shit-show for us.Īnd I’ve been spent for months. The last six months have been a never-ending string of are-you-effing-kidding-me moments in the Val in Real Life world. Because at least there’s some comedy in it. Personally, I think the hamster wheel sums it up best. The light at the end of the tunnel that you can never seem to reach. Pick a metaphor for working hard and getting nowhere.
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