When we started the trip to get meds and go to New Mexico we didn’t have any idea how long we’ll be on the road for this time. Our trips have been getting progressively longer and this trip is no exception. I’ve mentioned when we were coming here that we had decided to stay here instead of going to Lake Arrowhead state park to just keep a longer stay here. We have thoroughly been glad we did this. We actually yesterday morning extended through until Friday morning putting us in this site for 11 days. Officially the longest time we’ve been in any campsite in our 16 months together camping. When we return to the house this trip will be at 1 day less than exactly a month on the road.
This length of being out and being in one site for a longer period of time has given us a very real sense of what it will be like to live on the road full time. It’s given us a chance to problem solve when things go wrong and a chance to have longer term stays in places. We have discussed that other than traveling to get somewhere that when we are on the road full time our stays will most likely be longer term 2 or more weeks at a time. This state park has given us a great chance to try out that longer stay in one place. To be fair we’ve been here before and we know that everything we could possibly need for resupplying or in case of emergency is nearby us. So this was a great place to test out this longer stay in one place as we’ve wanted to do.
There will be some slow downs and the blog will go to once a week for a bit with some catch up stuff over a few weeks as we head back to the house to start packing things up there. We are planning to leave the house again the beginning of September as we head for a week in Custer South Dakota with mom and pop. We’ve had reservations for a while now and had planned we’d be on the road full time by that point. However, we’re making things work and we’ll be posting all kinds of fun from South Dakota and wherever we head from there. We are hoping to be able to travel a month or so while things are finishing up on a legal front for us with the hopes that by October or November we’ll be on the road full time.
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