We Stopped White-Knuckling It | Road Life Two Years In
About this episode
James and Cara reflect on their journey of off-grid living and the changes they've experienced over two years on the road.
Two and a half years ago we were gripping the steering wheel so hard our knuckles were white. Trying to figure out how to keep this life we'd built from slipping away before it had even really started. This week... we're not doing that anymore. This episode is a road dispatch from Kansas and Iowa; tornadoes we almost panicked over, soul people we tracked down in Kansas City, a wedding memory that hit James somewhere tender, and a quiet realization that we've actually, genuinely arrived at the life we were fighting so hard to keep. We also talk about what it felt like to drop into the grind-pace of regular life while visiting people we love... and how strange it is to live outside that rhythm now. Not better or worse. Just different. And how much we notice it. What you'll hear in this episode: The tornado that turned out to be mostly in our heads (and the neighbors playing in the rain while we were ready to flee to a storm shelter) Kansas City through the windshield of a 26-foot trailer; six lanes, kind strangers, incredible food Cheyenne (from our Safe Space episode) in real life; her bookstore, her world, her people The wedding James doesn't remember attending... because he was…
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