A dream a long time coming. There was a moment when we were finishing Louise, our house had sold, and most of our things had been donated...and Ellen looked at me and said, "We could do this for a living one day. Renovate vintage Airstreams together. We're a great team." I laughed and said we'd need to do another one to gain more experience before we started offering services to paying clients. Little did we know we'd have the opportunity to do so ten months later when we had to sell our beloved '57 Airstream, Louise and stop traveling earlier than planned. While in so many ways this past year has been incredibly difficult (financially, personally, work, familial), we didn't give up on any of our dreams. Our dreams to travel again, our dream to live in a self-renovated vintage Airstream, our dreams to renovate them for others. We didn't know how to make those elements work together, and for a long time - they were impossible. Out-of-reach. There were literal ties to our situation that we were completely aware of, but we worked anyway. Carving out a niche job seemed idealistic and difficult. We did it anyway. In the past two months, since we decided to offer vintage Airstream renovation services on @themoderncaravan, the response from the community has been so beautifully overwhelming. Inquiries poured in that first week, and then the next, and the next. They haven't stopped. We have signed clients through Summer of 2018, and will be hitting the road to travel around North America renovating others' Airstreams - really incredible folks we are so grateful for and so excited to create magic with. We had to reimagine our dream. We had to wait. It wasn't always easy - the loss of a dream and the loss of things worked so hard for is never easy. In fact, it was often absolutely heartbreaking. But we did not give up, even when everything was against us and things were falling apart. Don't give up. Don't stop trying. The loss of something can often lead to a more beautiful, more meaningful, far richer things you could ever have imagined or hoped for. See you on the road, folks. We are headed HOME.

birchandpineさん(@birchandpine)が投稿した動画 - 2017/03/01 05:11:34