Bricks to Aluminum in 3 Weeks.

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One day to launch. Right now, my wife and I are sat in an empty house, our last night in a "real" house before we leave our traditionally "normal" lives and start a new career in a new home, a 1986 25' Airstream. How we got to this point is lost in a blur of craigslist, ebay and gifting of items. We are, or were 3 weeks ago, a young professional couple, a PhD in particle physics a piece and a career in a major research company. However, looking back I don't think either of us were happy. We were not doing very interesting or useful research and the company we worked for was a truly unpleasant environment. Just as we started to look for alternative careers, the choice was taken out of our hands; our department was cut.

This forced our hand and we jumped. In the last month we launched a physics consultantcy company and decided that we were going to try take a different route to the path we had been following (house, mortgage etc...). We had been keen on airstreams for well over a year and had some experience with an older trailer (65 22footer). Indeed we had been looking for our own for the last six months. Well something must have been going right for us that week, for as soon as we decided to jump the ideal trailer came along at a price we could afford. We jumped.

Reducing our life down from a 2000 square ft townhouse to 20x8 aluminum box has been a challenge to say the least. Furniture was sold, items were ebay-ed, and family heir-looms were sent back to distant relatives for safe keeping. Now, nearly 1 month after we made the choice, we are ready to go. We vacate the rented house tomorrow and will tow our airstream out to the local state park, our first very small step on the full timing road. We will need to spend a week sorting things out and relaxing at bit. I dont think either of us has slept more than 4 hours in weeks.

We have probably forgotten lots of things, some vitally important I'm sure. Hopefully, half the fun will be finding out what.

Will let you know what happens and post some picks of the rig.
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