God made Life a Gamble

This past weekend Barb and I went to a concert in the park to see Joe Diffie. If you're not a country music fan then this might be lost on you. He played all of his greatest hits and then some. Everybody there had a great time in spite of the rain.



Joe Diffie

Anyway, (an this might be a stretch) one of his songs is called “Ships that don't come in”. It's about the struggles service men and women can have when they return from duty. Drinking, drugs, not able to find work, mental health issues.

A line in the song goes “God made life a gamble, and we're still in the game.” Barb and I are still RV Dreamers but we plan to make it to Fulltime RV'ers before the end of the year. Now I'm not trying to compare our struggles with any service person. No struggle could come close to what they might have gone through.

We all struggle in one way or another, plenty of unanswered questions still ring in my head every day. The biggest of course is can we do this financially? All RV Dreamers have unanswered questions and worry about making the right choice when faced with one of a hundred problems that we all know is going to pop up as we try our luck in exploring this country or whatever your idea of fulltiming will be.

I've read hundreds of blogs and forum entry's about RV'ing to know there is NO right answer for everybody. Some folks say they need $5000.00 a month to live this lifestyle, while others post they live quite comfortably on $1500.00 to $2000.00 a month. So who's to say which ones are right and wrong. God sure did make life a gamble.

But isn't life suppose to be a gamble? Who can say staying in a house that never moves is the right choice in life. We've played that game, and honestly. I'm tired of it. I'm ready for something new, something to inspire me, something to make me want to get out of bed in the morning. Every Morning. We're still in the Game. We just want a different game to play.

I'm not so naive to think life will become a bed of roses when we get on the road, even roses have thorns. Just because we will be living in a recreational vehicle doesn't mean we won't have struggles, of course we will. I'll still need to work somewhere, just not as much as I am right now. And as long as I'm able to be in the game, I feel the gamble is worth it.

As a kid growing up my dad seemed to have a saying for everything about life. Yes I remember most of them. Especially, “Can't never did do anything.”
Well I CAN and I Will some way, some how. And I hope you Stay In The Game and take your Gamble along with us on the road.

Safe Travels and I Hope To See You Down The Road