What's the Plan?

The most common question I'm asked right now is, “Where are you going? Do you have a plan, or....?” The answer is... yeah, that.

The plan right now is that we'll put the house on the market at the same time that we're leaving town- the first of March, we hope. Of course we won't leave town if it's a blizzard that weekend, but we will put the house up that weekend for sure, so... let's just all pray that March comes in like a lamb.

From there, we head south. We have friends and family somewhat on the way to better weather, so we'll stop and say hi to people that we meet along the way. We want to get to where it's warm enough to not have to worry about pipes freezing. Hopefully, that's the Ozarks, but we're not really sure that's south enough- we'll find out when we get that far, I guess. We'll stop wherever we stop for a while- a month or so, until actual nice weather hits, and then head westerly.

When the house sells, we'll head back here to pack up all our stuff and decide what to do. If we want to keep traveling at that point, we'll put it in storage and move on. If we feel we've been on the road long enough, we'll start looking for property around here.

There are a variety of variables here- we don't know how long it will take to sell our house (and consequently, how far away we'll be when that happens). We don't know if we'll even like this lifestyle. Or if our internet connection will be good enough for Nick to work- he has to be actively connected to the internet in order to do his job. And if the connection is not good enough, we'll have to find someplace better. So, we're leaving a lot up in the air and playing it by ear. Luckily, we both really like adventure so this suits us just fine.

So, there you have it. Our plan that is barely a plan. Which is why I keep thinking about Abraham, when God told him to get up and go “to a place I will show you”. I've always liked that passage. I like it even more every year. For the past year or two I've done a lot of stepping out in faith.. faith that God and Nick really do know how to communicate without my help, faith that God wouldn't lead us down a wrong path, faith that it's actually God I'm speaking with and not the voices in my head.

It's gonna be something new and interesting, I can be sure of that.