We are officially nomadic and have been for the past ten months – and we are loving it! Wifi is hit and miss so getting posts anywhere other than on Instagram (@wanderingmnm) hasn’t been happening… but I’ve been dreaming up things to share and dreaming up ways to make this happen more easily… so if you are seeing this, stay posted! In the mean time we’re off to wander some more…
We’re parked behind an Arco next to the freeway entrance. We’re only a dozen miles from where we pulled out of an icy driveway, hauling our temporary tiny home behind us. We headed out slow and it stayed that way. The truck hasn’t switched out of 4wd low and we haven’t gone over 25 miles per hour.
So we sit. Mark peruses the owners manual for a solution and we munch surprisingly tasty truck stop cinnamon rolls. I fortify myself with a cup of Brahmin #18 tea.
Be easy about this. That’s what my inner wisdom says. So I turn my attention to the nature just outside the window.
And I find myself birding in the middle of it all. Snipe, Dunlin, Blackbirds, and Killdeer circle round and round, a hawk sweeping in looking for lunch on the wing. It’s cold today, fog settled over the valley. Everything is white and mist.
I look out the passenger door window. Icicles line up and drop along leaves, vines, and old dried up fruit on the tangle of blackberries next to the truck. There is beauty all around me, in this wintry landscape. Their’s beauty in the calm within in me too, so grateful for the calm.
I don’t know if we will continue on towards the mountain or be turning around and going back home to the farm. We passed a KOA on the way. I smile at how that is possibility too now. This is mobile living. This is all part of the adventure.
We attempt one of the solutions in the manual and the truck finally agrees to switch out of four wheel drive. Mark celebrates by going back inside the truck stop and getting a cup of coffee. He hears the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the sound system while he pays. He smiles at the lyrics.
“Can’t stop the spirit when it moves you. This life is more than just a redo.”
We start up the truck and head on down the road. The mountains are calling and we are on our way.
Grab a yummy beverage and come hang out with me for a while! My first episode of Creativity Ramble, a new series of videos on my you tube channel all about the joy of creative living. 
In Part One of Introducing The Tiny Idea I pointed out that tiny houses had been on our radar for a while. We were interested in them but there was still something missing that kept us from being sure. That something came to us while watching the video I put at the bottom of Part One. So what was the missing link, the puzzle piece that finally made it all click?
Mobility.
Up to that point we thought we would have to find some place to either buy or lease land to put a tiny home. Needing to choose where to settle was keeping us from embracing the idea. We didn’t know this until we watched that video and realized what was really calling to us on a deep level was the ability and freedom to explore. We discovered a need to not be tied down to one place or one job or one way of living.
I guess we have gypsy in our souls. When we saw that video of a tiny house traveling to places that called to the people’s spirits, it was like we finally gave ourselves permission to follow a dream we kept ignoring, kept thinking wasn’t possible, kept denying ourselves. A shift happened and all the what ifs and the doubts and the worries about how to make it work moved aside and we knew we could figure it all out along the way. With that shift the ideas, the excitement and the inspiration started pouring in.
So no, we don’t have it all figured out and we are OK with that. We have to be. I think that’s part of following a dream. We’ll work on the parts we do have figured out and trust the rest to come to us as we move forward. No, that won’t always be easy. But that’s OK too. Dreams are worth it.
There is a lot of work that needs to happen before we have a tiny house and hit the road. We have a lot of stuff that needs to be gone through and then gone through again and, yeah, probably again. We have debt to pay off. We have savings to build up. We have lots of learning ahead of us, about ourselves and about our relationship to stuff and what it takes to see a dream, we finally have dared to dream, come true. That’s what we have started working on while we keep our eyes, hearts and minds focused on The Tiny Idea.
following her curiosity 