Making My Dreams Into Reality? What A Concept!

 

Long before I bought my motor home I had contemplated purchasing a van and turning it into a campervan.  I follow a handful of vanlifers on Youtube and I really enjoy their content as they travel about and go on their adventures.  I have watched them build out their vans, rebuild their builds as their needs changed, repair their vans and go through the various ups and downs as they navigate this lifestyle and it has always intrigued me.  I really wanted to do it too.

 

As time went on I eventually changed those ideas and bought the motor home with the idea that we’d use it for camping while I still had kiddos at home and then I’d use it to live in the first few years I was retired and do some traveling.  At one point I was even ready to sell the house and load the motor home, but I was still battling some health challenges at the time.  For those that are new to this blog I had a series of mild heart attacks, a stay in the hospital, a trip to Minnesota and two weeks at the Mayo Clinic and then a battle to find a good cardiologist who would work with me to get my medication straightened out, all of which caused me to retire a year earlier than I had originally planned.  My, how our plans can change.  In a blink!

 

Now however, I am onto a future plan with no particular timeline and plenty of time to make my final plans and decisions.  As my BFF and I have been hashing things out and coming up with ideas one of the topics that popped up about two months or so ago was my very early ideas about building my own campervan and traveling in it.  As we were talking he said my face lit up, I was animated and passionate about the discussion and had a jillion ideas of what I would do, how I would do it and where I would go.  It was so fun to talk about it.  My BFF then told me that he thinks I should do it because if I don’t I may someday look back and really regret that I never did.  I think he is right.  Truth be told, I know he is.

 

I’ve been allowing myself to start thinking about this idea, this dream of mine.  I’m going to sell my motor home, my beloved Laverne, because regardless of what I end up doing she doesn’t fit into my plans anymore.  So if any of you want or know someone who might want a sweet little motor home that sleeps up to six people (four would be more comfortable) and has a lot of new stuff including tires (even the spare) and a nice heavy duty cargo rack (brand new, still in the box), at a really fair price, then email me.  She would make a really sweet weekend adventure mobile or a tiny home on wheels.

 

My new camp stove works very well

In the past few months I’ve been looking online at vans.  I’ve been making plans again.  I’m making lists.  I’m drawing pictures.  I’m looking at maps and travel guides.  I’m looking at the stuff I already have and re-evaluating it.  Could this work?  Could that work?  I’m coming up with a plan.  I’m getting excited.  And, oddly enough, what has given me the confidence to jump back into this idea, this long abandoned dream of mine, was the Subaru.

 

So does the new coffeemaker! 😍

Working on the Subaru really reinvigorated my inner “gear head” as one of my friends likes to say.  It gave me that boost of confidence that I didn’t know I needed to tell me I can still do stuff.  Stuff I really love to do.  It brought me back to a place where I used to be before all of the medical crap hit me in 2021.  It restored my faith in me as a physically strong and mentally capable human being and in my abilities.  The Subaru project gave me back…  my sense of self.

 

Will I do it?  Will I buy a van, build it out and hit the road to travel and see all of the places I’ve ever wanted to?  I don’t want to look back with regrets.  I don’t want my dreams to just be dreams.  It is definitely an idea that is in the running, that’s for sure.  I guess we will just have to wait and see... but, I wouldn’t be too surprised if I end up doing this.