Long Term Travel is Glamorous
In the last 2 years, we’ve met some of the most incredible people (both online and in person), seen some of the world’s most amazing places and grown closer as a family. Here’s to year #3!
We also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us along the way, to those who have given us advice or encouragement or other support, and to the folks reading our blog. Although it’s a big effort, we enjoy it and we hope you enjoy it too.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
– Unknown
Angela and Jason, it’s been a pleasure following your blog. Thanks for collaborating on this Q&A, which I think your other readers might enjoy: “Two Years Traveling, and No Return Date: The BodesWell Family Talks About Life on the Road” http://www.therunnerstrip.com/2011/08/two-years-traveling-bodeswell-family-talks-about-life-on-the-road/
Reading your prose and viewing your pics helps me and others think of life’s possibilities.
I’ve just to post your new”http://buslifestyle.blogspot.com/2011/08/httpbodeswellorg.html ” .Life on the road!!!ah man how i wish it!Greetings from Mallorca island!
Congratulations Bode, Angela and Jason. Thank you so much for the hard and time consuming work in taking us with you on this amazing journey. The wonderful blog, stunning pictures and you have become a vicarious part of my life. Keep on truckin’ with love.
I follow your blog everyday, I enjoy your stories and the photos that accompany them. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Still like to know the story behind the beautiful German Shepard a few posts back.
Jason, Angela, and Bode, (and RedBeard!!)… Congratulations on 2 great years on the road.
Here’t to many more ecstatic experiences and awesome adventures…may the journey never end. i wish I could be toasting the occasion with you all, anda frosty cold beer!
I’ve thought about you and these lyrics several times on your journey….enjoy.
Brokedown Palace, by J. Garcia and R. Hunter…
Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone
Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time – in my time – I will roll roll roll
In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home
It’s a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I’ve come
since I first left home
Goin’ home, goin’ home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go – the river roll roll roll
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Jim
Hello Guys !!!
This is a great photo, where is it?
Here my website. http://www.myonewayhome.com
I have two more before I departure on my journey
from Austin to Venezuela.
Thanks
Ossie
It’s been a wonderful journey and I don’t begrudge you a minute of it. But we miss you. I look forward to the time I can pick up a phone and hear your voice anytime I want.
Don’t let Bode grow any more untill I can see him or he’ll be to big to want any kisses.
As Roy Rodgers used to say:
Happy trails to you
Untill we meet again.
“Way to go” to Team BodesWell (that includes Red Beard)!
Thanks a lot for all the effort & hard work that goes into the blog. Nobody does it better & it really makes our day.
Great campsite pic. It looks like you’ve definitely got things down to a science.
Here’s to year #3-take care & have fun 🙂
M&M
I’m still amazed at you four. Just for memories, here’s a picture from day one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjalau/3828078689/in/set-72157620730289752
Bus Fest was today in Vallejo.
Happy road trip anniversary.
-P
Oh who needs glamour in their life anyway. Our boys still talk about y’all all the time (as do we). Keep having our dream vacation for us, and be sure to schedule a visit on your way back through Austin (2015?). I promise to hide all the toy weapons before you arrive.
love, Carlos
Happy Anniversary! I regularly read your blog and enjoy the window you offer into your lives and the world you are seeing. So glad you decided to bring us all along for the ride. Thanks and wishing you continued safe (and fun) travels!
First thing I did when I got home from my week and a half motorcycle trip to N.C. for the Horizons Unlimited meeting (http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/meetings) was to check in with your blog. I have read lots of good blogs about many people traveling in different ways to different destinations but none is as compelling, engaging, user-freindly and heartwarming as yours. I hope that someday (hopefully out on the road somewhere) that I have the opportunity to meet all of you and thank you in person for inviting me along on your journey and filling me with hope and inspiration especially at the times I feel most mired in “the real world”. I hope someday to not only experience similar adventures of my own but to also share the togetherness and joy with my family that you all have with each other. Thank you so much, happy travels and mucho congrats on year 3!
All of these fine folks have said it so well, the only thing I can add is that our little family is better knowing your little family, even from so far away. We can’t wait to see you again. We miss you so much!
Inspiring. Thanks for sharing it with us. 🙂
Congratulations on your two years!! You really have been an inspiration to me – my daughter loves seeing the photos of your travels. And just yesterday my wife and I were talking about wanting to do a trip like yours – I’ve brought you guys up to her many times! We have concerns (fears) about the money, but I guess at some point you just have to take a leap of faith, right? (love the quote btw!) – may you have many continued safe travels!!
i miss you and love you = )
feliz tres!
Thank you for letting us all tag along via your these past two years. That is really, really cool of you. To your continued travels!