I just posted a rather lengthy tale about how we arrived at our decision to become a family on the road. Be sure to check it out, as it fills in a lot of gaps that aren’t obvious in the blog posts.

Hannah and I came across this quote during one of our late-night information-gathering internet sessions. This will be hanging somewhere on the walls in of our new trailer when we get it.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

~ Mark Twain

So I was surprised to receive an anonymous comment earlier today that chastised me for wanting to make our kids “homeless.” This struck me as odd because the only place I’ve mentioned this site is full-time RV forums. Which means there’s someone trolling full-time family RV’ing forums who is against full-time family RV’ing. Go figure.

Anyway, to be clear:

We won’t be homeless. We will live in a home that we have the joy of being able to move anywhere we want to. If our daughters have a science project on sedimentary layers, we can move to the Grand Canyon and go see some great sedimentary layers. If they have to learn about alligators, we can move near the Everglades and go on an airboat to observe them in the wild. Or if they want to have their birthday pary on houseboat, we can move near the Mississippi River and live there for a while.

If this person believes that everyone needs to settle don and buy a house, fine. But that’s not our American Dream.

This book changed the way we see the world virtually overnight.

Hi. We’re the Paulleys and pretty soon, we’ll probably be driving through your back yard, pulling a trailer and shushing two rambunctious kids that want nothing more than to run full-speed in any direction you point them in.

We’ve decided to become a full-time RVing family on the road. We’re still not exactly sure of all the hows, but we know it’s going to happen. The lease is up on our current house and we really don’t want to sign another one. If we have to, we’re going to get a popup and brave the bitter winter in Florida. After that, by February or March of 2009, we should have enough saved up to buy a truck and trailer and hit the open road.

We are looking at the rest of our lives as our Unending Adventure. A journey with no boundaries, no limits, and no plans except where the Lord leads us and where our hearts yearn to go. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be a little scary. But, holy cow, are we ready!