Freedom in a Can: Adventures with Hamlet

Just a few days ago, in a Walmart parking lot, a young man approached, "Hey, aren't you the folks with Freedom in a Can?"  Now, this doesn't happen to us very often, and if you think I'm sharing this to sound famous...think again.  This young man came to our seminars at the Raleigh RV Show in North Carolina earlier this year and left inspired to give life on the road a try in the small truck camper rig that he had, rather than buy something bigger and less affordable.  We made a connection at that seminar, and he approached us 9 months later when we happened to bump into each other in Idaho, just to say thank you!  Actually, my friend, thank YOU!  Connection -- that's really what this whole rolling shindig is about for us!  It's the reason we left our home to color in the blank spaces on our map in person, the reason we started sharing our journey through pictures and stories, the reason we became speakers at RV Shows and on college campuses, and the reaso...

We are thrilled to have so many new folks join us for our midlife journey as well as this newsletter!   For those of you who haven't heard Hamlet's origin story, we thought we'd share a bit about our early days... On September 3, 2012 we took a deep breath, and made the first of many leaps of faith by pulling out of our driveway.  We had just quit our busy university careers, downsized our life, rented out our home, said goodbye to friends and colleagues, and hit the road in a restored 55 year old camper which Shari had purchased on eBay for $900.   That special day was our 12th wedding anniversary, and this midlife adventure was intended to be both a gift to ourselves and our marriage. Simply put, it was time for a change to something more sustainable, and drastically different.  We thought it would be for a year, maybe two at most. We often refer to everything in our crazy lil' lifestyle as #canlife. You may have heard of #vanlife, which came on the scene...