Ready to transition on the road full-time 2013

I have been trying to come up with reasons why we need to do a blog.  Everyone has one and I seem to be the last one on e-Earth to do so.
We are going to join the growing number of people who have sold, given up, lost, or otherwise left their permanent home and become modern day nomads.  21st century Ma & Pa Joad heading wherever the winds will guide us.  Us being myself, Tim and my wife Mary.
Part of it is the disillusionmment with society.  We have been teachers for nearly 25 years.  We have barely gotten by on teacher's salary and when our eldest daughter, a high school graduate, is earning more after being employed 7 months than we are after 25 years...we feel society has spoken clearly about what they feel for teachers....
Part of it is adventure.  To be able travel and see the country, for which we can thank Ken Burns and all his great documentaries on PBS, before the landmarks are either destroyed or we are too old to enjoy them.
Mary and I have been married eight years this May 23.  Our house was a quaint bungalow built in the early 1920s.  We loved the place from day one.  We tore it apart and put it back together again--inside and outside.  But the real estate bubble burst just as we were beginning to see the light at the end of that proverbial tunnel. 
But, before it happened, before we left, the RV bug had taken hold.  We bought a 30 foot 1968 Holiday Rambler travel trailer.  Suddenly, we were talking about what it would be like to be on he road during the summer months and beyond.
We left Michigan vowing to never own real estate again.  LOW rent was our objective, and money for travel.  Just the two of us and our two hound dogs--Lola the Plott Hound and Kramer the Wonder dog--born to be wild.
We quickly realised that living full time in an RV would require more than a 30 foot trailer 8 foot wide.  So we found ourselves a 33 foot 5th wheel with two slides--the sofa / dinnette slide and the bedroom slide--which seemed to have more room than our first apartment in Detroit had--in fact it is bigger.
So this blog is dedicated to the 21st century Joad families, on the road for whatever reason.
And to our parents, who gave their children the sense of wonderment and adventure.

We will be chronicling our preparations to be full timers while we continue to explore our adopted state of North Carolina and our summer trips to Blue Road destinations...as we pay homage to William Least Heat-Moon and his book Blue Highways, our final inspiration.

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America/dp/0316353299


Tim and Mary Johnson
Bunnlevel, North Carolina
http://www.blueroadblogger.com/