Six Year Nomadiversary!

Hey Guys! It’s been awhile. How have y’all been?

Today marks our six year Nomadiversary! You know, when we started this whole nomad life, we were only planning on living in our home-on-wheels for maybe thirteen months and then as I kept researching places to go… it got pushed to two years…and then three years… and now we’ve been living the nomad life for six years!

This Nomad Year was pretty different for us. It was definitely the most stressful year we’ve had. I’ve never had to re-plan our nomad year sooo many times. Some cities were basically closed down to everyone except residents, some cities were wide open, but most cities were something in between. We started out in Logan, UT waiting to see what was going to happen with the whole global pandem thing and hoping things would start to normalize. Y’all know that things didn’t normalize at all, but some National Parks started to semi-open back up. In light of how some of the states we had reservations with were handling everything, we’d already canceled all of our remaining plans for 2020 except our reservation for Yellowstone. So, when some of the parks started to open with limited services…we made a new plan to try and see as many national parks that were on our original plan for the year as we could.

We only made it to thirteen National Parks during our sixth year of nomad life. But, Guys…they were some pretty amazing parks. We still talk about our time in Glacier and the bears we saw in Grand Teton. We found a few very cool State Parks too.

We spent a larger portion of this nomad year in Missouri with family than we’d originally planned. Jerl had to have another eye surgery (he’s doing well now) and then between all of the civil unrest and the continued global pandem troubles…we decided to winter in Missouri mooch-docking in my (Jennie’s) parent’s driveway…which was kind of nice since it allowed us to be around for the holiday season for the first time in a long time. After we had ice growing on the inside of our bedroom walls for several weeks (yep, we had both of our furnaces going and a couple of space heaters), we decided wintering in MO in an RV just isn’t for us. It was so stinkin’ cold!! I’m not sure where we’ll go this coming winter…that’s an entirely different conversation.

It was a good year for wildlife sightings! Our favorites were the bears in Grand Teton National Park. We ended up seeing a total of ten bears (a combination of black and grizzly) between Glacier and Grand Teton NPs.

I think the biggest thing we learned during our sixth year of nomad life was patience… Patience in our everyday life. Patience in our nomad planning. Patience with other people. Patience to overcome difficulties. Patience to wait for the right path to open up.

We’re just starting our travels for this nomad year…we’re hoping the year goes as planned! We’ve got some great parks planned so stay tuned for more of our crazy nomad adventures!

Thanks for coming along for the ride!

See y’all down the road!

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