I’ve begun to write how our story began, this is a continuation. I decided that I would email the couple that I met in North Carolina and share our journey and how they are a part of it. Here is the email I sent:
My name is Jessica. My friend and I met you and your wife and boys at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway the end of last April. You shared with us your travels and philosophy. When my friend told you I was a nurse you encouraged me and told me how easy it would be for me to travel.
After meeting you I returned home and relayed all the information you shared with me to my husband and children. Quite honestly after speaking with you traveling with my family was all I could think of.
That night after speaking with my husband I filled out an application with a Nursing Traveling agency. The next morning I had a telephone interview. By the end of the week I had an assignment and I resigned from a hospital in which I had worked for 17 years.
The first assignment I had was two hours from our home so we could test the waters with travel nursing. I worked the weekends in Florence, SC and returned to my family during the week. I was able to stay with my in-laws in Marion, SC for free.
I did this for 6 months. We sold a trailer, our pop-up camper, boat and then finally my husband’s truck.
We bought a 32 foot Coachman Freelander with bunkhouse and a car dolly to pull our van. My husband quit his job. Last week we drove 2200 miles from Summerville, SC to Buckeye, AZ. I start my first out of state assignment on Monday.
Sorry for the extremely long email, but I want to convey to you that the conversation we had has changed the course of my family’s life. We had two girls, 11 and 8 years old. We have always homeschooled them, but now we have the opportunity to actually see with our own eyes as opposed to only seeing a picture in a book.
This time that I will be able to spend with my husband and children will be priceless and always remembered. Life can be short and after losing a dear friend in October I am reminded to cherish these moments we are in right now because we aren’t promised tomorrow.
So thank you! And with your permission, when I begin to blog, I would like to tell of how I met your family and direct my readers to your site. I haven’t published anything on this blog yet, but it is www.wanderingtent.com
I hope you and your family are doing well.
Sincerely, Jessica
Their response:
I am absolutely so grateful that you reached out to tell us about your new found journey! Although we are terrible about blogging(so busy doing stuff) I am glad you guys are doing it! So far you are the 11th family to have joined us on this adventure! I can’t wait to follow your story! Feel free to email as long as you like 🙂 and as often. We are currently in Colorado for the winter and we love it. We are hiking and soon to be skiing.
Safe travels!
Sincerely,
The Ferullo family
This email pretty much sums up what happened when I went home after that trip. Even now as I sit looking at the mountains of Arizona I can’t believe we did it.
If you’d like more information on this great family we met and to follow their journey you can read their blog at www.ferulloscoasting.com Or follow them on Facebook, Ferullos Coasting.
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