I've debated for years now whether I should write something like this and one day, about a month ago I finally came up with the particular set of circumstance that made for a good story to illustrate the point of writing something like this. It all just sort of came out, felt right, so why not?

I hope that the handful of you who follow along by reading this site realize that what is documented here are only the highlights. While we are fortunate to have what we consider interesting day, adventures, and what have you, it's not like we do that all the time. That would be insane.

One thing I don't think I've ever written about is how damn hard it is to live this way. Some times anyway. There are roughly four weeks a year my job more or less sucks. Which is to say I don't enjoy it. Which is amazing. I mean that's 48 weeks in which my job is more or less amazing. I get sent things in the mail, I use them, I write about them. I am amazed I get paid to do this. but then there are those four weeks. And somehow, heading into them, I've also got to fly to Dallas, pick up the bus, drive it back to Athens, not knowing mind you if it will even begine to make it, it hasn't been driven more than five miles in 18 months. That's nail biting stress. And my wife and kids are back in the GA in a bus they can't even move, have never driven and depend on me to deal with, and we're trying to buy a car in GA, with a loan from a bank in California, while registering it in our home state of South Dakota, while our other car may well stop working at any moment and I'm the one who can fix it and I'm 800 miles away and did I mention I might not make it any closer to home? So if you think living on the road is all fun and games and whatever you see on the internet, instagram or youtube. It's not. Life on the road is harder than the life you live right now because it's everything in the live you live right now, plus all the extra stress of all kinds of weird shit like I just listed.

So the question becomes, why do we do it? There's probably a different answer for everyone you ask, but for me it's pretty simple: it's just more interesting.