The Traveling Kind

We didn't know this at the time, but as our dreams of RV life were coming true our world as we knew it was about to be shattered. The day we bought the RV we had taken Pearl to our vet for a cluster of seizures she had that morning. We were continually reassured that dogs just sometimes have seizures and that they would watch her for the day and start her on an anti-seizure medication. No big deal, we'd give Pearl her medicine twice a day and I was looking forward to not having to see her seize again. However, Pearl continued to have seizures the rest of the evening and through the night at the ER vets office. After a couple of days of continued seizures despite increases in meds and then eventually immobility our vet had met the extent of his expertise and advised us to take her to Boise to see a specialist. Ryan went down with her first in the RV and I went down the next day because I had to work. Once she had been seen we were given three options: seizures, meningitis, tumor...

Y'all. If you've been following our travel adventures for a little over year, you might remember all the drama with our tiny house/RV. If not let me catch you up here  and  here . The latter link has all the drama. I went back and read through it for the first time and dang, all those emotions came right back up. That whole process scarred me for life. Looking back, we learned so much even if it was pretty sucky, but it really helped us in the long run. After our huge disappointment last year, it took us a while to get back into finding the perfect tiny living situation for us. We would talk about it off and on and probably within the last month we started seriously considering going the RV route again. Initially, Ryan was wanting to see if we could find a trailer we could tow with our Escape. But after a couple of mildly disappointing realizations (the lighter trailers don't have toilets or showers, no thanks), we started to entertain the idea of getting a motorhome again....