Home Sweet Home

So, this is going to be our home for the next 9-12 months. We are very busy preparing. The bed has been built. The fridge/freezer is in. We have a solar shower, kitchen setup, and a pop-up sun/bug screen tent to play dominoes in and eat our meals when we set up camp. It's going to be small but it will be all we need really when the world is our house. Things are coming together and it is only a few months now until we leave. This weekend we head to Nova Scotia with 2 great friends for a week of Canadian Fun! It will be a nice pre-roadtrip to get us back in the feel of traveling. We plan to visit Acadia, Bay of Fundy, Cape Breton, and then on the way back to the states we'll hit up Uncle Nick's place in Maine at Sebago Lake for the infamous Labor Day Weekend Get-together. Cheers! Marcie

Onward!

A few things have changed and we are starting our adventure this fall. We are leaving Massachusetts in September heading to a wedding in Charleston on Oct. 1st, making sure that things are secured at the Homestead, heading to the Ohio Valley to visit family and friends for a few weeks, then another wedding in WV on Oct. 22, then we finally will begin our adventure. We have decided to break up the trip by only overlanding in the Americas in about 9 months starting Oct. 23rd. Then we will return home, secure our vehicle and backpack across Europe, Asia, and hopefully the Pacific countries. It became clear in our research and planning that it would be really difficult to drive around the Middle East, through China and then we couldn't figure where the heck to ship from Asia to the US again. So, we have decided to drive starting in Massachusetts, across the US, down through Baja, ship across from La Paz to mainland Mexico, then down through Central America, shipping to Cartahegna, Colombia, driving down to Chile and back again, shipping back to Panama, driving back up Central America, and again across the US. We expect to take around 9-12 months. We have shifted into high gear for preparations. They are exciting but I constantly feel that we are overlooking things. It is a challenge to decide what things we really need to get and take with us and what things we won't need. We can only take what will fit in the truck but I'm sure that I won't think that is enough. Check back to see how our prepping is going as I should be adding blogs more frequently. Marcie