Born2Explore
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Hello from sunny Florida!
So in March (2017) my wife and I took our Subaru on a 5,200mi cross country trip to CO, AZ, UT. It was my first time ever going further West than Dallas, TX... and it was AMAZING! We were able to find a few free campsites using resources Bob mentions frequently, and for 4 nights, we lived/camped out of our little car. On our drive back home we drove 26 hours straight with no sleep from Denver, CO back to North Florida (I do NOT recommend, it was stupid and unsafe), but we used that time to really start thinking about what we wanted to do with our lives...
Fast forward a month, and I turned down a promotion. Fast forward another month, and we sold nearly everything we had. Fast forward another month, and we moved out of a 3bdr house we were renting and moved in with a relative (not because we had to, but because we wanted to save as much as possible!). We set goals and set our minds back in March to eventually buy a vehicle to more comfortably travel in. At the time, we were not sure what we would get, and that has evolved over the last 6 months. We thought maybe a small travel trailer, or even a cargo trailer. Then we began looking at Class C RV's, then Class B's. But this weekend, we sold our 2016 Subaru and bought an Extended Chevy Hi-top van!!
My wife and I look forward to sharing our adventures here on the forum as we continue to figure this whole thing out. For now, I just wanted to pop in here and say, "HEY!", and remind you all that YOU were Born to Explore!
For anyone who may be interested, we recently started a youtube channel to document our adventures! We just posted a video from our cross country trip which shows the sleeping platform we built for our Subaru and shows the free campsites we used in Colorado!
-Born2Explore
So in March (2017) my wife and I took our Subaru on a 5,200mi cross country trip to CO, AZ, UT. It was my first time ever going further West than Dallas, TX... and it was AMAZING! We were able to find a few free campsites using resources Bob mentions frequently, and for 4 nights, we lived/camped out of our little car. On our drive back home we drove 26 hours straight with no sleep from Denver, CO back to North Florida (I do NOT recommend, it was stupid and unsafe), but we used that time to really start thinking about what we wanted to do with our lives...
Fast forward a month, and I turned down a promotion. Fast forward another month, and we sold nearly everything we had. Fast forward another month, and we moved out of a 3bdr house we were renting and moved in with a relative (not because we had to, but because we wanted to save as much as possible!). We set goals and set our minds back in March to eventually buy a vehicle to more comfortably travel in. At the time, we were not sure what we would get, and that has evolved over the last 6 months. We thought maybe a small travel trailer, or even a cargo trailer. Then we began looking at Class C RV's, then Class B's. But this weekend, we sold our 2016 Subaru and bought an Extended Chevy Hi-top van!!
My wife and I look forward to sharing our adventures here on the forum as we continue to figure this whole thing out. For now, I just wanted to pop in here and say, "HEY!", and remind you all that YOU were Born to Explore!
For anyone who may be interested, we recently started a youtube channel to document our adventures! We just posted a video from our cross country trip which shows the sleeping platform we built for our Subaru and shows the free campsites we used in Colorado!
-Born2Explore
