“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river… Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” —Anthony Bourdain
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” —Gabriel García Márquez
I think these quotes capture pretty well why I love living on the road. For me the movement, the journey, is the goal. It’s an urge to discover, to escape the insular navel-gazing of civilization and encounter the unexpected, the challenge, the difficulty. To get outside and tell stories about it.
On 1 April 2017, my wife, our 3 children, and I moved into a 26-ft long 1969 Dodge Travco motorhome. We called it the big blue bus. We traveled around the United States and Canada in the big blue bus for seven years. Eventually we found a place we wanted to spend more time and so we bought a home base in Washburn, WI. We still spend several months a year on the road.
Perhaps we will run into each other one day, somewhere on this marvelous planet.
–Scott Gilbertson