Val and I, both being unemployed at the moment, have decided to treat this as an opportunity and are planning on leaving town for awhile. We’re loading up the Airstream now with the goal of rolling out on Tuesday. Our initial destination is the Grand Canyon, but our larger plan is to head east via the southern states, potentially getting as far as New Orleans.
We had plans to meet friends in Fruita and Moab the first week of May for a bike trip, and we now plan to meet them on the way back from this trip, which will make this about a 5-week excursion. We’re planning on being very flexible and taking more time if we find something really interesting and so aren’t putting too many expectations on distance.
We should be well-connected technologically-speaking—I’ve equipped the Airstream with a WiFi router that uses a 3 G wireless card to give us a mobile internet station, and of course we’ll have our phones. We’ll start looking for jobs remotely on the second half of our trip and hopefully have some interviews queued when we get back.
Anyway, we’re excited (and of course a little nervous) about such a large trip and the unstructured nature of our lives at this point, but we both think it’s something we’ll look back on as having been worthwhile, and hopefully that will bear out. Hopefully we’ll be able to, pardon the cliché, turn these lemons into lemonade.