“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
I think this quote captures pretty well why I live the way I do. 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. As our children grew up the bus got a little cramped so we bought a slightly larger school bus and outfitted it for life on the road.
Perhaps we will run into each other one day, somewhere on this marvelous planet.
–Scott Gilbertson