Embrace the Hack
Laying on my back in the pass-through storage compartment of our camper, wearing a headlamp and testing the limits of my own contortionability, I was trying to track down the source of a slow drip on the back side of our water control panel. A months-long dribblet bent on maintaining a shallow puddle where I want only desert. Oh what I would have given for a golden nugget of knowledge to remedy the issue. I need a hack.
What’s in a Name?
We had a solid question come in on our Facebook page asking why we chose Team Hinty. While we may have labored long and hard over naming a vehicle or a family pet, we settled on the identity of our online presence and business fairly quickly.
Connections and Relationships
After a month on the road, despite being surrounded in campgrounds full of people, it surprised me how lonely I had become for friendship. James and I are best friends and I adore traveling with him. And yet, other individuals and personalities also fill an important void. After talking with a few other campers, I found that I was not alone in this feeling.
Creepy Crawlers
There was a shriek from the living room that made me bolt down the three stairs, grabbing a towel along the way for a certain clean-up of something. Thankfully, it was only my big, strong husband coming face to face with a spider. While we disagree on the size of the arachnid, as it grows an inch or two in each retelling, that spider reminded me of all the “nature” we have encountered along our journey so far.
Happy New Year!
It took us about 10 years of planning to reach the end of 2024. Oh sure, the inevitable march of time would have found us in the same place on the calendar but we’re looking at the rear-view mirror from a different angle this year. With three months under our belt, our adventures can already be broken into phases: Nomads and Squatters.
Journey of Thankfulness
Six weeks in to a wanderer’s existence I can’t help but ponder the things I’m thankful for. Perhaps it’s the Holliday right around the corner. Perhaps it’s the things we’ve done or the people we’ve met along the way. More likely its the forced pause in our lives, one which we’ve longed for and dreamed about for years while enduring a self-imposed calendar chaos.
Journeyist Mindset
I’ve often said there’s a fine line between a rut and a groove. Dig the rut long and deep enough and those walls become pretty comfortable. The places you frequent become comfortable. We decided it was time to get up and dance while singing a different tune. We are journeyists.
Rolling with the Change
One of the lessons we have gleaned in this journey is how much we have taken for granted in our “old life”. Groceries, laundry, purchases, healthcare, we didn’t even think about them, we just used them.
Hitting the Open Road
Sell everything you own and hit the open road. Sounds tempting and we bit, not fully realizing the complexity of this lifestyle.