What this page is all about is the travels that Clint and I will encounter on our trips back and forth across this great nation of ours that we have so many liberties in.

But first, let’s introduce ourselves. We are a husband and wife team that are able to travel courtesy of the company that the husband drives for as a specialty marketing trailer that is delivered, set up, and broken down to be moved to the next location. There will be a separate post later showing what it is exactly that he does.

My name (the one who types all this stuff up) is Michelle. I am quickly approaching being a half a century old this year…50…for those who don’t know their time frames. I am legally blind and do not work so I am fortunate enough to be able to trek with him all over the country and find all the fun things to do, see, and eat. I do a lot of research while on the road with him and he merely navigates the excursions.

Elaborating on the “legally blind” part, I was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentose Usher’s Syndrome Type II, which is a degenerative eye disease that can cause total blindness in the unfortunate worst case scenario. I was diagnosed with this eye disease when I was 19 years old and have lived with worsening eyesight over the years. My central acuity (20/20 numbers) can no longer be corrected to 20/20 with glasses so we just make the best of it when we see the eye doctor. (Do I really see them though? Since I AM blind.)

Further information about the portion, Usher’s Syndrome Type II, connects my hearing to my vision. I have worn hearing aids since I was 5 years old and we later learned with the vision problems I was having at a young adult age that it was connected and have technically been dealing with this eye disease all my life.

Moving into my later young adult years, I had pursued a potential career in education and completed my degree in Elementary Education but was never offered a position except once and that didn’t last that long at all. I chose to move onto other career options and was never given an opportunity to prove my level of intellect in various fields and move “up the chain” within a company. All that said, leads us to where we are now. We sold our home, made sure my kiddos were living in a safe place, and put all our stuff into a storage unit and now we travel as a way of life.

Clint is the husband of our team and he had been a commercial truck driver in the past and was miserable with running the same loads day in and day out. He thought to himself, “I’m better than this,” and chose to pursue a career in management and had succeeded until policies affected how management did not have any authority in one position he held. So he hung up his management boots and moved back into the truck with this driving job.

This “truck driving job” is not just an ordinary “truck driving job” like others. All drivers on the road play an important role in transporting goods for people daily necessities. This is somewhat a necessity as well though; he transports a specialized “dry” medical lab for a prominent diagnostics company and the trailer helps people get their diagnoses from their doctors and know how to pursue life when faced with a medical condition. Once the trailer is delivered to a location, we (I don’t work for the company but I do help my husband because they allow me to go with him on these travels) set the trailer up for the area’s local representatives to come in and present the machinery to the local hospitals and lab companies. Once the reps are done, we tear it down, pack it up, and move it to the next location.

We are at the liberty of the company plotting our travels to which destinations, but we are free to explore whatever we want once we arrive and have all work responsibilities out of the way.

I apologize for the long introduction but I wanted to provide as much detail as I could. Hopefully that was enlightening reading as much as it was for me to put it down in words.

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