Kate Oliverさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Kate OliverInstagram)「More house details. Thank you all for the beautiful words welcoming us home. Maybe this seems out of the blue, this house. In some ways, it was. This house, in the location we’re in, was the surprising bit to us. We started this year with tentative plans to buy a home and settle down, but ultimately decided to keep traveling. Ellen and I are both moving in new directions professionally, and we weren’t sure where those directions would take us. Committing to a location as we explored our options felt like we were pushing something before it’s time, and we have always let our lives unfold organically. This is not to say we don’t put in hard work, it means we work hard, listen to ourselves, have deep conversations, and listen to the timing of things. As nomads without a home base, this was essential. We constantly checked in with one another about how we were feeling. Many of you know that while on the road, we experienced homophobic assault. We also experienced abuse that we haven’t yet spoken about. Within the same six months of those incidents, we also lost our dog and cat on the same day. They died within four hours of one another. We weren’t the same after any of these things. Our very business and the work we were doing was ridden with trauma triggers and responses. So was our Airstream. In the spring, I signed a book deal and I was contracted to go and write and photograph my book. We are SO thankful for last year, so thankful that we didn’t end our travels on a bad note, but a high and happy one. Last year was beautiful and healing. We loved meeting up with so many incredible people all over the continent for this book and for friendship. Yet we were still so tired. Exhausted. The constant of travel, the never-ending movement, the difficulty of basic things like getting mail or taking a shower, in addition to the work we were doing to try to heal...was too much. We were working and still building out our home and homeschooling and parenting and trying to have a marriage and healing and doing it all from 200 square feet while rolling down the road every few days for my book. We knew we were ready to settle down. The question was when - and where.」6月12日 22時29分