3000 sq ft vs. 30 ft

Like I mentioned previously, we used to live in a beautiful 3000 sq ft home (picture to the left) with a gorgeous view of the lake and "purple mountains majesty"....but we had a beautiful, big house payment too!  We loved our home and our neighbors and our private access pool.  But we didn't love our big house payment :)  So... Nick and I mulled over other options.  We had often talked about wanting to purchase an RV and go on weekend camping adventures as a family.  Plus Hestar, our 12 year old daughter, had always said her "dream car" was a motor home.  Well, our mulling started to grow into full fledged dreaming.... What if we lived full-time in a motor home and traveled around the U.S.??  We began pricing used motor homes and realized that they were much more reasonable than we first imagined.  For the cost of a couple house payments, we could buy a home on wheels.   But then what...what about our house and all our 3000 sq feet of STUFF?  Once we decided to 'go for it', our excitement over-shadowed the chaos. Fortunately, we were able to get out of the house with out much loss... AND we sold most of our furniture and the rest went to goodwill.  Basically we only saved our best camping and outdoor gear, select tools of Nick's, rainy-day/ family games, a weeks worth of cloths for each of us, minimal kitchen supplies and some bedding.  We rented a small storage unit for our filing cabinets and "memory boxes", and we left a few winter clothes at my parents house.  Whew...I must say, getting rid of so much stuff was rather liberating!  Yes, many of our friends and family voiced their concern about this unusual lifestyle choice, but over all, they realized that our free spirit's were well suited for such a nomadic life.  Like modern day Gypsies, with most of our belongings in tow, we began our journey!  I have to admit, our first destination was merely a skip and a hop down the road.... some friends were kind enough to let us stay in their drive way while we ironed out the rest of the details.  For the next month and a half, we became accustom to living in our new motor home.  How to organize our stuff?  What curriculum to use for "road-school"?  What's the best way to get internet for our electronics?  How to find privacy for 6 people in our 280 sq feet?  And, as you can probably imagine, that's just the beginning of the adjustments we've embraced....but it's been a grand undertaking so far and we are enjoying it more each day!!