It’s been over a year since the two of us and our dog left South Carolina, to drive across the country. We have been humbled by the experiences and we are thankful to have made it from one coast to other, safely. There were ups and downs all along the way and we were challenged, as individuals and as a couple, to find comfort in traveling and living out of a 1978 VW bus, with no a/c or heat.

During phase 1 of our Simple Life With Big Adventures on the road, little challenges (like random bus repairs), taught us patience and to slow down, while big challenges (like our miracle crash in the desert), taught us to accept and overcome the things that were outside of our control. The trip was the ego crusher of a lifetime…and we needed it.

Each leg of the trip broke us down and pushed us forward. The layers of beliefs and fears we had accumulated over our lives, were falling to the wayside. We were turning back into excited spirits, like when we were young.

Now that phase 1 is complete (yay!), we are onto phase 2 (double yay!), which just so happens to align with the Total Lunar Eclipse + Super Blood Wolf Moon, that occurred on January 20th, 2019.

This alignment supposedly represents a shift in our experience here, where gates are open for us to clear our energy, heal and break old patterns. Let’s encourage one another to rise above the negative energies and ride the positive wave. Anyone who is going through big changes at this time, is in a wonderful position to redirect their energy toward positivity, joy and happiness.

Something that we’ve learned that is invaluable to us, is that, whenever there is something keeping us down or forcing us to stop, it is an opportunity to create a “zero resistance policy”. It’s a principle we’ve practiced, based on the idea that resistance creates conflict, while acceptance + solution-based thinking, creates fluidity and forward motion. We are what we think, so if we tell ourselves we can’t and if we focus on what is wrong, we are only giving our power away to the darkness. Why would we do that?

We are working on waking up every morning and reaching to sky with joy. Knowing that half of the world is living on 50 cents to 1 dollar a day, we are choosing to see ourselves as lucky. We are beyond excited to share our stories, our philosophies and what we’ve learned on our 1+ year adventure across America! We hope to inspire others to shake their fears, take care of one another and find their bliss!