The Mission
Last year I finally achieved one of my life long ambitions, and that was to own a Motor Home. The idea was that after a stressful week at work I could pack my family in to the van and take off somewhere at a moments notice and just chill out in a field , but still have all the creature comforts of home. So now we had a nice shiny Motor Home complete with cooking facilities, a large fridge freezer, toilet and shower, and of course a nice comfy bed to sleep in. The problem was it didn’t quite turn out like we planned, there was always something got in the way. It was either we couldn’t decide where to go or something else cropped up that took precedence, or we just felt too lazy to go and fetch it out of the compound. Something quite clearly had to be done, we needed a ”Mission”, something that would drive us on to use it, something that was so exciting that we would purposely look for time off.
A flash of inspiration came whilst watching an episode of “The Coast” on television. I’d never seen the programme before and haven’t done since, but watching it gave me an idea. We have this great Motor Home so why not travel the coast of the UK and discover the places, people and history of our very diverse coastline. The next job was to sell the idea to my wife Kim, and fortunately it was quite an easy sell. She seemed to be as keen on the idea as I was.
The problem was as we were both in full time work and had Thomas, our youngest, still at school this was something we would have to do in small chunks at a time. It means finding a weekend here and there, or a few long weekends etc, as well as using our summer holiday time. All in all we expect it to take around 10-12 years to complete the journey. But the idea had been born and one day in February just as the heaviest snowfall in almost 20 years had almost thawed away we set out on our “Mission”.
Last year I finally achieved one of my life long ambitions, and that was to own a Motor Home. The idea was that after a stressful week at work I could pack my family in to the van and take off somewhere at a moments notice and just chill out in a field , but still have all the creature comforts of home. So now we had a nice shiny Motor Home complete with cooking facilities, a large fridge freezer, toilet and shower, and of course a nice comfy bed to sleep in. The problem was it didn’t quite turn out like we planned, there was always something got in the way. It was either we couldn’t decide where to go or something else cropped up that took precedence, or we just felt too lazy to go and fetch it out of the compound. Something quite clearly had to be done, we needed a ”Mission”, something that would drive us on to use it, something that was so exciting that we would purposely look for time off.
A flash of inspiration came whilst watching an episode of “The Coast” on television. I’d never seen the programme before and haven’t done since, but watching it gave me an idea. We have this great Motor Home so why not travel the coast of the UK and discover the places, people and history of our very diverse coastline. The next job was to sell the idea to my wife Kim, and fortunately it was quite an easy sell. She seemed to be as keen on the idea as I was.
The problem was as we were both in full time work and had Thomas, our youngest, still at school this was something we would have to do in small chunks at a time. It means finding a weekend here and there, or a few long weekends etc, as well as using our summer holiday time. All in all we expect it to take around 10-12 years to complete the journey. But the idea had been born and one day in February just as the heaviest snowfall in almost 20 years had almost thawed away we set out on our “Mission”.
Nice weblog Steve.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on your "Mission".
You've got a lot of coast to get round. I'll be interested to follow your travels.