Airstream Dreams

Last weekend Sterling and I made the beautiful drive up the mountains to his work. Have you heard? He got a new job. He quit his job last January and it's been a rough few months. He was working at GoPro as tech support, while he loves GoPro, and is happy he was able to get cameras from them, he didn't like his job very much. It was mundane, and his brain and body wasn't challenged enough. So, he quit. He got a job as an arborist for a week or two, but that didn't work out. As scary as that was, we knew it must be because something better was out there for him... and boy were we right.

 Sterling just landed a dream job. You all know our dream to live in a tiny home, trailer, or RV full time one day? This is something both of us wanted before we even met! We are one step closer to our dreams.. Sterling has been hired to help rebuild old vintage Airstream Trailers. He helps renovate, rebuild, and get them ready for people to live in them. He is learning from first hand experience how to build a tiny home for us. From drafting, building furniture to wiring, he is learning it all.

The company he works for only does Air Stream Trailers. They rebuild them from the ground up, put in new appliances, and  rewire them. Though, Sterling and I are unsure if we want to go the route of Air Streams, it sounds more and more appealing as he learns about them. Especially if we can make a steampunk one.
Last weekend, he showed me around his work. I met his boss, and saw the empty trailers. We even talked about me doing some art pieces for the company. Sterling feels at home with his new coworkers, and is challenged enough to where he comes home totally and utterly exhausted. He works 10 hours a day there for 4 days a week, and drives nearly 45 minutes each way to work. Luckily, the drive is breathtakingly beautiful.

For the first time in quite a while, we feel like we are on the right path again. More often than not, this feeling comes only after letting go, and trusting the universe.

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A Normal Typical Couple

It's been a very long time since I've been on a "date." 

Like dinner and a movie type date.

 It's been even longer for Sterling, so we decided to try it.

I was barely even awkward! 

Sterling and I have known each other since April, 

and were writing letters and taking on the phone since the fall.

Now that he is in town we are official, and our date last night was our official "first date."

We wanted a date like a normal, regular human couple. 

We started off looking at trailers.

Sterling and I both share the dream of selling all of our stuff and living full time in a trailer.

This is a very important trait that I look for in a person... 

So, we went "shopping." 

We pretended we had 10,000 in our pockets that we were ready to spend.

We asked lots of questions and told the salesman we were sick of society.

We asked about solar panels, and adding wood to the outside.

He raised his eyebrows at us and asked what we would do for income and how we would live.

I think he was secretly jealous. 

 We took tours through a few trailers and actually found that they were quite spacious and comfortable.

It got me really excited. Too excited probably.

I was already thinking about the stuff I'm going to get rid of.

Then Sterling and I went out to eat Thai food.

Since we plan on visiting Thailand one day.

We talked about our dreams of living in a trailer and traveling the country.

How I would decorate the trailer, what kind of truck we would get.

It turns out we share a lot of the same dreams and ideas on this. 

Score.

 

We talked about the typical things couples talk about.

Like making a truck ready for a zombie apocalypse.

Terrorist attacks, and tidal waves.

Using candle light instead of light bulbs. 

72 hour kits and natural disasters.

Paint balling and combat training.

Typical, normal things. 

 

We then went and saw the movie Red Dawn.

Which got us talking even more about normal typical average things. 

Like war, and survival skills.

And we ended the night like a normal typical couple in love.

We looked at Christmas lights and kissed under the trees.

Then he walked me to the door where I slyly asked him in for hot cocoa.

I was going to show him my all natural herbal first aid kit, 

but I forgot.