The Two Day Workweek & Small Sleepy Towns
Mari
Woo-hoo, we’re now in our fourth month of living full time on the road in our motorhome. At first, we found it a tad difficult to carve out work time with all the added moving parts. (Yes, we still run our businesses!)
Thing is, I love what I do in my online coaching and consulting business and could easily do it all day every day.
Ty has the luxury of much more free time and often gets itchy to be on the move. Each new town we visit offers opportunities to explore, photograph and report. I certainly enjoy the adventure too, it’s just there has to be some sort of balance between all activities.
And, much as Tim Ferriss espouses a four hour workweek, what do we do with the rest of the week? (Actually, if you’ve read the book, you know Tim’s workweek is apparently only two hours!) The other 40-50 (or more?!) hours per week are for doing your dream now, as Tim says. Don’t wait ’til you "retire."
So, Ty and I decided to designate specific days for work, and other days for travel and exploring. That way, we really can "have it all" (and I don’t feel like I’m playing truant on week days. LOL).
So far so good! I only schedule business appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays. We travel and sightsee between Wednesdays and Sundays.
Our goal is to enjoy local discoveries as we stop along the way, then on Sundays we look for an RV Park to stay three nights. (Ideally, with free wi-fi, as it’s much more stable than our Verizon EVDO Aircard and allows for clearer Skype calls).
This week, we’re in a small town in south eastern Oregon called Burns. The town was named after the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns. That tickled my Scottish side!
However, there is nothing going on here at all!! (That is, unless we were gamblers and drinkers, as there’s a casino and a few bars). We found a store with a great deal on DVD rentals, so got a bunch. Days on the computer, evenings watching movies!
Last week we toured through Alturas. It’s also a small town you’d miss if you blinked driving by.
We were about to move on when we discovered a gorgeous Wildlife Refuge with hundreds of birds, lots of deer, and plenty peaceful trails.
Plus, a fun little RV Park in the center of town with only 8 spaces (and 6 of them open. Ha ha). We had the cute little hot-tub under the stars all to ourselves.
Life in the "slow lane" is certainly an interesting ride. In the coming weeks and months, I’ll be sharing inside secrets about what we both miss "back home," a few challenges and mishaps we’ve had to deal with along the way, the hardest transitions and, of course, all the good stuff too! Stay tuned.
How about you? How many hours a week do you work? If you didn’t have to work at all, what would you do with your time?
Posted on: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 10:24 pm 
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