Change is Afoot: Unemployed & Homeless

As the title eludes, we have traded in our jobs and our apartment in Vancouver for a bit of an open-ended existence. The long and short of it is that for a long time we've been seeking a shift in our life balance. However, dismantling a comfortable life is scary, so we had settled for daydreaming. Then comes along a baby and the desire and necessity to prioritize the things we value in life becomes immediate. 

Being teachers, we see children toddling off to school, being wonderfully independent everyday. In three short years, we know that will be our child too. Presently, if we didn't change a thing, Baby J would be in daycare while we both work for 10+ hours a day. He's awake for about 12 hours a day, and basic math tells me that just doesn't leave us enough time in the day. So we've decided to prioritize and value this fleeting time in our lives. 

He thinks he's helping--Moving with a baby is hard!

That's the why, but actually what in Sam Hill are we doing? This question has the potential to keep me up at night.

Spoiler: We don't know what we're doing, but we're taking a pause to figure it out.

Our plan at present is to leave Vancouver and take three-ish months to drive&camp across Canada in our converted van. Last time, we made the hurried pilgrimage across Canada in four days, and are definitely looking forward to a much more relaxed pace-- Somehow driving for 17 hrs and eating 3 Big Macs a day does not fall into that life balance we're talking about. Besides some cool sights and cool people to see, and a general direction on the compass, we've got no real plan. Reminding ourselves to live in the day, not to borrow worry and to be open to what comes our way has us jazzed. 

And come Thanksgiving we'll reevaluate, because ya know, life ain't free. 

So yah, living in a van with a baby. We'll let you know how that goes.

Oh! And if it all goes tits up (which it totally could), or we make it 100kms down the road and decide to set-up shop, then that's cool too. Really feeling like we're in a can't-lose place right now.