Saturday, July 30, 2011

Investing in good times and great kids


I sold our boat yesterday.  Calm down. Get control of your emotions and let me explain.
I want to preface this with FACT that you can't put a price on all the experience, memories and patients our boat kindly named "Hole in the Water" has afforded our family. Memories that will last a lifetime for our kids, friends and other boaters who have had to put up with her over the last 2 summers. Admittedly, I only got a fraction of the $1,000,000 asking price.


We raise our kids with adventure in mind. Constantly forcing them out of their box and comfort zone. And us out of ours. It build confidence. It builds character. It builds trust.

So by now your asking "then why sell out?"
To put it simple, our boating season is wrapping up this year as school has started for the kids, and we won't have the opportunity to go boating next year because..........
Were planning a 9 week super adventure for next summer!

Were planning to travel around the good ol' USA for 9 weeks in our Excursion, visiting family, friends, and once again shoving our kids (and ourselves) outside our box.

Were buying this "Truck top tent" for the Excursion.

To be able to afford a trip like this, were not going to be able to stay in hotels, eat out 3x a day, etc. So with our boat money were buying a truck top tent and other supplies needed for our journey that will again build character, confidence and.... you get the point.

Let us know what you think!











4 comments:

Colleen said...

You are crazy, that's what I think! It would be fun to grow up being a kid belonging to you and Holly! love you guys!

Rachel Denning said...

This is great! What a wonderful adventure you'll have.

Is your excursion already veggie powered? Who are you buying your roof top tent from?

Our's is from CVT

What a beautiful family.

N8 said...

Thanks Rachel!

Our Excursion is not Veggie powered yet, but were ironing out a plan to get it converted by next spring. We have a lot of work to do to get ready for our road trip.

We like the CVT, but will probably go with the bigger model or maybe get 2 regular sized. How does yours do in inclimate weather? How was it in the snow?

Lynn said...

You know what I think. We will meet on the road somewhere.