What is priority while full-timing?

Mary and I ask this question everyday. Why are we going on the road? Why not stay in a stick structure and be content? Common sense tells us if we can create a means of income on the road, we should be able to do so from a permanent location as well.
While there are some great points about staying in one location--you can have a garden, people can come by to visit, you have regular mail service, and you can have STUFF around you.
All this is great, we have done this. When we were married in 2003, we bought a nice little farm house in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. (Does Detroit really need to be identified as being in Michigan? Like Cher, it is able to stand on one name, isn't it?) We remodeled it from the studs out. New dry wall, 3/4 inch copper plumbing, 12 gauge wiring, 200 amp service, and the interior was Craftsman style / Frank Lloyd Wright.
We removed 2 rooms from downstairs and made it an open floor plan. We had a wonderful veggie garden and Irises that were the envy of the town. Life was good. But when it all fell as the economic bubble burst, we realized it was just stuff. It wasn't easy to accept at first. Then a few friends all commented on how they would live to pack up and move, to see new places and people--but they wouldn't part with their stuff or comfort of being in a permanent location. Mary would tell them it was actually quite easy--all you had to do was LOOSE everything--and that the choice was really quite obvious.
But there are many positive things about being on the road full time as well.
Since we have to do some type of work to earn money, and we could do it here, we feel by being on the road we will have the benefit of seeing how the other half lives. We will have less responsibility pieces to care for. Our home will be paid for. We will have more control over our expenses. We can choose our climate.
I suppose what we really really want to do is experience the way other people live in this country. We want to be a witness to the diverse traditions and cultures that exist within our state, and country.
The hard part will be deciding where we stay and how much time we want to use to experience that environment. Then there will be the process of how and what we document since there will be so much to see. Every stop is a potential treasure trove of life.
We want to be travelers. We want to be tourists. We want to be photographers. We want to feel history.

In short---

WE WANT TO LIVE....

Tim and Mary