Where We Are Now

What a crazy last few weeks! Honestly it has been a crazy month for us! I have had little time to work on the blog so I am hoping this pause in life will allow for me to write more. I have many unfinished blog posts I want to get up. I know it has been crazy for so many of us. Our life on the road has definitely taken some twist and turns. Big plans have been placed on hold with each day looking like the rest of our trip to go up north may not happen. I have spent countless hours over the last year and half thinking about all the places we would go. What would they look like? Excited to explore new countries and states I have never seen, as well as show these things to my kiddos. But here we are, quarantined in Baja. Yes, it is beautiful and we are isolated where it’s 80 degrees and sunny every day. We can walk to the beach and run into no one along the way as well as have the beach to ourselves. I can hear and see the ocean all day from where we are staying, but my heart still aches for all that is happening in the world and selfishly for what this virus has done to our plans. One of the best parts of traveling is meeting new people and exploring the towns and areas we pass through. That all is halted for who knows how long.  Though I remind myself that we started this journey with the desire for adventure, to take whatever life on the road was going to throw at us and welcome it and find the joy in getting through it. Well life decided to throw down hard! Just 3 weeks ago we were getting ready to say good bye to Baja and drive out to start the next part of this journey. As much as we loved Baja, we were ready to say goodbye and excited for what was head of us. Planning to meet friends in San Francisco for a week of laughs, dinners, drinks…a little slice of life from Denver. Scott’s mom was planning to meet us in Vancouver Island for a week. Then like many of you, with each passing day changes to plans made were changed again and again, until finally all was canceled. Leaving us now to just stop planning and just enjoy each day as they come. 

 So after crossing the border back into the US and staying in Joshua Tree for a week we made the decision to turn around and drive the 20 hours back to Todos Santos and set up here for a while. I know many think we are crazy for doing that, but I assure you, Scott and I are sane, reasonable people and knew out of all our options this one felt the best. So far it has proven to be a good decision. Plus, there is plenty of toilet paper!

 So we sit here in Baja, quarantined. I am not sure how long we will stay. But like many of you with young kiddos, we continue to homeschool our kids. And let me tell you, please don’t be hard on yourself with this. I have learned so much over the last few months about having to become a homeschooling mama without ever really wanting to do that. It is hard. Some of us have more strong willed children than others and having them listen to us as parents AND as teachers is almost impossible (Crosby, I am looking at you!)

 So for now I will force myself to find the good in all this. One has been that our family really needed a slowdown, to find a house and settle for a bit. Even though Crosby has been having a blast, he also has really struggled with the lack of structure and he misses his friends.  I find comfort in being healthy and that my family is healthy. We still having access to the outdoors on a regular basis and not to mention that includes an ocean 100 meters away!  For now, that is all I can come up with. I hope you all are doing well.