Over the last four months, The Traveling Faerie Tour has seen its fair share of iterations. We’ve
collected a series of lessons learned. And the biggest lesson learned is that
we truly CAN travel full time with a 3 year old.
When we started our traveling adventure, the Faerie King
still resided in Afghanistan. So our loyal steed, Pixie Dust (aka a Honda
Odyssey), originally held enough stuff for only the Faerie Queen and Princess...perfectly.
And then he came home. Hmm…
So, our organizational system molded and shaped to suit our
ever-evolving needs. Of course, when the first thing out of the King’s mouth
was, “Why can’t you just have one pair of shoes?” I realized more than our
organizational system needed adjustment. He understands now.
In all seriousness, when we first started thinking about
traveling full-time we got a slew of well-meaning commentary from friends and
family. This ranged from it-can’t-be-done to are-you-freaking-nuts?? And it
took everything we had to maintain our vision and pursue our dream.
And the dream continues to evolve. It started with our
desire to show the Faerie Princess something different – to educate her and
raise her in various environments with a multitude of influences. Then we
realized that fulfilling our desires isn’t enough. We want to serve.
As we traveled around the country and met so many people, we
recognized an opportunity to serve. Our dream now includes giving back to our
tribe – disabled veterans. We want to raise awareness about, provide training
for and give money to wounded warriors and other disabled veterans. As our
world continues to shift rapidly we recognize the need for swift and successful
reintegration processes for our returning service-members.
So, our second biggest lesson learned is that our dream is
much, much bigger than ourselves. We see very clearly the point in time when The Traveling Faerie Tour arrives in
various cities, engages with a group of veterans, distributes funding to
well-organized veteran organizations and serves the community that served the
rest of us selflessly.
What a life!
