If we were going to rank 2020 in order of the best and worst things to happen, this would be close to the top.
The timing was sort of ironic because we had been planning on buying a van to convert for a while, and we finally found the one in mid-February (before life as we know it imploded!).
Little did we know, we had not only gotten ourselves into a big project to keep us busy (and distracted!) during the peak of quarantine, but we also were building a social distancing machine that would allow us to do a little domestic traveling over the summer.
In retrospect, building this campervan was one of the best things we could have done in 2020, and we’re so in love with what we’ve built!
Why do we love #vanlife so much? Oh, lemme tell you…
5. The Cancelations Begin…
You know what’s coming…
The first of many cancelations was on the weekend of March 14th. We’d scheduled a Wilderness First Aid Class months in advance, and at the final hour, the in-person workshop was no more.
Bummer, we thought, but things will likely be better in a month or so.
Oh, how wrong and naive we were.
The cancelations started piling in after that. Here are just some of them:
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Havasupai permits we had painstakingly secured (with time & lots of $$$) after 2 years of trying to get them and failing
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Two different summer concerts
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Multiple friends & family who had planned on visiting us in Oregon had to cancel
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Our reservation at a fire lookout (which are remote “cabins”
you hike to) was canceled. These are notoriously competitive to book, and we had spent months trying to secure ours. -
Several partnerships we had set up in 2019 (and thus income) started falling through
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A girls trip to Vancouver with longtime friends I haven’t seen in years
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Fun trips (Hawaii, Alaska & Chile) we had booked had to be canceled
I know I’m sounding like I’m complaining, but truly, at this point I’m over it. And I realize that in the scheme of it all, our cancelations we’re all that big.
We know a handful of people who had just begun a year-long round-the-world trip only to have to return to a town where they had given up their apartment, quit their job, and sold most of their belongings.
And we received dozens of emails from readers who had to cancel their weddings and honeymoons.
The silver lining for us has been more time spent exploring our (new) backyard: aka Oregon. And it’s not a bad backyard to explore.
Which leads us to our next point…
6. Oregon Coast Road Trip
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