My struggles after 6 weeks of living on the road.

Its mainly stuff out of our control that makes it the hardest. When you are in comfort of your home it doesn’t matter, you can adapt your house to suit. But when you are living in a caravan and living off solar panels there are just some comforts we have to go without. No TV as we wanted to run fans as it was hot but because it came in overcast we could only run the fans long enough to fall to sleep. No air conditioner power just doesn’t allow for that. Then we moved on and something is happening to our battery or something is drawing too much power as no tv again as we needed to charge phones after we spoke to some loved ones and our batteries started to go flat. Did you know your phone uses a lot  of power just searching for signal or Internet. 

Then the wind picked up and our poor little van felt like she was going to take off. The boys were scared. Oh how I wish I was at home. 

It’s the small things that make you feel more at home than the bigger things. I have been using a different fabric softener then when I was at home and it has run out now so I brought our normal and now our clothes smell clean and its that smell from home. Arhh I love it. It’s amazing how much it those small things mean.

Now we have been on the road awhile our budget is starting to settle down. So we are now making a few tiny adjustments, as we started drinking more beer than at home and  in SA it’s dearer so we have changed over to goon. After half a cask we are finally getting use to it.

With all the negatives there are definitely positives. We are seeing some amazing places. We are meeting some fantastic people that with small gestures make us feel like they are family. Helping us out with their good will and advice. They have been great help in keep us sane.

OMG Nate has started talking. The words that he has always mumbled now are starting to sound like words. But he has also learnt new words. And his getting more confident in that people can actually understand him.

Ethan well he is getting clumsier but with that he is getting more caring towards Nate. Worrying about what his doing and how he might hurt himself. He gave up on school work. It just wasn’t worth the fights but now is liking to do a little bit. Maths is his favourite.

Together the boys relationship is changing. They are playing together so well. They are still fighting, a lot. But they are playing so well together.

Like we have been advised by other fellow family travellers. The highs become more frequent but when you get a low it is always lower than the one before. 

As my dad told me “Just keep heading West”. And that’s what we’ll do. 

Love Courts xoxo