Home is where you park it...

Eric and I have been crazy busy getting our new home ready for our travels. I say home because that is exactly what the Airstream is now... we have been living full time in our Airstream since just after my last post. It has kind of been a construction zone the whole time, but slowly it is feeling more and more homey.

We are lucky enough to be able to park our new home at my family's nursery. I am literally living in a trailer, parked in the truck bay of a warehouse. So yeah, our view isn't exactly amazing right now, but it's nice because I'm like 2 seconds from work and the parking is free! Also my parents are always close by if we need help, which is often.

I've been so busy actually doing projects that I haven't had time to blog about them. We did have to do some repairs. When we got the Airstream we didn't know it, but the fresh water tank was leaking, luckily it was just a drain valve so that was a pretty easy fix. We were also unaware that the water pump wasn't working, that was a little more in depth but Eric fixed it. He's awesome like that.

There were a few upgrades we planned on making from the beginning. Before we even bought the Airstream, Eric and I decided to upgrade to a composting toilet. The thought of emptying a "black water" tank (ie sewage) really grossed me out, so this was a must on our to do list. We decided to go with the Natures Head composting toilet. I read a lot of reviews written by other RV'ers, the Natures Head was by far the most popular choice and everyone seemed extremely happy with it. So far we have no complaints! I'm sure you have questions about how this works... I'll be happy to answer them in another post.

Because its normal to take a photo when you get a new toilet...

We also painted the entire interior, made new curtains, updated the dinette cushions, got a new sofa, installed an aluminum back splash, repaired the awning, removed a ton of dated stuff and had a new AC unit installed. Oh and my personal favorite we decoupaged a bunch of maps on the end cap.  

Progress...
(idk what we will do about our painted sofa, but check out those maps!)

I'm not sure we expected any of this to take so long. Originally we planned to be on the road by APRIL! I think one of the biggest life lessons we are learning with all of this, is to be patient and enjoy the process. I have been so busy, anxiously preparing to finally begin our adventure, that I hadn't stopped to realize the adventure has already begun. The other night I was sewing our curtains, Eric was working on the water pump and Winston was busy painting our sofa (no, not really. He was napping under the dinette, but he did get white paint all over our new sofa the other day). I looked up from my needle and thread and thought "OMG we're actually doing this... this is really happening". I realized how far we had come in such a short amount of time. We had this totally nuts-o idea just a few months ago and we made it happen!

Y'all stay tuned because next week we are taking Petunia on her maiden voyage... well at least her first time out with the new crew ;)