Wow! Where to start? Maybe I’ll start by recapping the last few days/weeks. I started a journey to think it was truly a real possibility of becoming a full time working RV’er several months ago, and it was finally about two months ago I started putting my thoughts into action. Let’s recap:
Awesome! So, things were in motion to get started. The plan was to liquidate as much as necessary for items which I don’t currently need/use – there is unfortunately LOTs which I have that I don’t need/want/use. So, this is a good thing regardless.
What changed? Well, on Wednesday, I received a call about my role being sent over to the Netherlands for a year. Read about that here, but regardless with this news, even while not confirmed or a lot of details, it didn’t make sense to purchase a RV and have it sit in a storage unit for a minimum of 6 months to 1 year until I was home. So, unfortunately, losing the deposit, I had to give up the RV. My heart was crushed. In fact, more so, I had to tell my dad (who I secretly think was more excited about this opportunity than I was!)
Sure – I have researched quite a bit into full time RV’ing and I am walking into this knowing damn well it’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be a constant change of plans and unfortunate break downs, maintenance issues, and other set backs, but the price of the happy go-lucky adventures I’ll be undertaking someday would be all worth it – whenever that was given the recent news that I was going to be an expat overseas in the Netherlands within the next 30 – 45 days for a year.
Wait, so what is the latest change? Well, scratch the whole going over to the Netherlands! Instead it looks like our company is taking a bit of a different direction, and while I may need to do a short visit overseas, right now I’m not going to need to plan on going overseas. I’ll be taking on a new project that I’ll talk about on a future post, which does really excite me as well – but one I think will still allow me to be a full time RV’er. So, for now I’ll leave the work talk alone – you can read about that on my professional blog, but let’s get back to this change.
Not having to go overseas, while a fantastic opportunity I was honestly looking forward to, means I can get back to my RV shopping. As the old RV I was looking into wasn’t going to be an option as I gave it up, I’m starting to focus my efforts heavily on downsizing, purging, liquidating as much of my assets as I possibly can. I am not certain how long I’ll do full time RVing, where I’ll end up, but I do know that when my lease on my house ends in a few months (2), I’ll need to put everything I can’t put into my RV into a storage unit. And that’s not something I want to do long, so downsizing it is on to!
I sat and thought hard about this. It is pretty well known among friends and colleagues that I am extremely passionate about technology and what I support. I think because of this I was immediately thought of being one of those individuals for the international opportunity. (Ok, maybe it’s the he’s single and no kids thing too… :)) Regardless, I knew within five to ten minutes of being on the call today that there was a different opportunity and going overseas wasn’t going to happen. So, I immediately thought to myself “I gave up my RV, and now I’m not going overseas… did I make a bad choice? Did I move too quickly on giving up the RV?”.
All of this made me think pretty long and hard – and I honestly think I’m ok with it for now. This means while I’ve spent some significant money (camp grounds membership, deposit, etc.), I think everything happens for a reason. I’m still not completely certain on all the work details so I am sitting and waiting. But, whatever may happen, I still need to downsize for my move to wherever that may be. For the next few months it’s back to adjusting the budget in order to save as much as possible for my future adventure and focusing on downsizing. I am pushing out my timeline a bit for the RV purchase – closer to the October timeframe as a nice birthday present, taking my first adventure to the Coca Cola 600 race, and then off to explore some fun southern territories, starting with Florida!
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