Me, dog, car.: The Adventures of Asher and Journey

My most recent Boondocker's Welcome guests here in Norwalk are a family of four living in a 17 foot trailer! I remarked, if you guys still get along and love each other, you know you're doing something right.

Journey, Michele, Keith and Asher

And that's what matters for Dad Keith, a retired military vet and law enforcement officer from Los Vegas who decided that he wasn't seeing enough of his family. So he bought an RV and they started to travel the country with two three year old twins, Asher and Journey (Asher is the boy, Journey is the girl. Cool names!)

Journey

They've been all over the country, and Journey's favorite place is Leggo Land and Asher's was the bumper cars. I get it. It's all good.

Mom Michele is really amazing at how she organized her family in this small space. "Their toys go here" she pulled out a small drawer that would have held about 1/10th of most kids toys.

I remarked "You don't do much impulse buying for the kids do you because there's no place to put stuff."
"That's right," she said "and they hardly play with these, there's so many other things to explore out there."

Sounds pretty good to me. Less stuff you have, less stuff you want or need.
Even kids feel this way if their lives are rich in ways that matter!

Adding Connecticut to their map

The long range plan is to do something called "Space A Travel" that the military offers (this stands for "space available"). Apparently, Army vets can get on cargo planes and travel anywhere for free if there is room. So Keith, who says he can do something for about three years before he wants to do something else (they've been RVing for three and a half years), thinks that's what they'll be doing to start to travel internationally.

Meanwhile, today, they're off to see the Statue of Liberty.

I can't think of a better way to bring up kids.