How It All Got Started

My husband and I had, what we called, our pipe dream since before we were married. We were going to sell everything, pack what little we had left and travel the country. Then life happened. We got married, bought a house, had kids. There was always something keeping us from seeing what else was out there. Then one day in July of 2009 there was a hail storm that went through North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Kelly was selling roofs and siding at the time and so he and his co-worker decided to check it out and see if they could sell some roofs. They did. For the rest of the summer they drove 4 hours from home to Crookston for 4 days a week. At the beginning of fall, as they were finishing their work, Kelly found out that the motel they were staying in was for sale. He came home and talked to me about it and we figured, "what the heck." We figured that maybe this was Gods way of telling us it was time to stop talking about the pipe dream and actually live it. Well, a scaled down version of the pipe dream. We were not going to be seeing the country, but this was a start.