SOLD EVERYTHING and traveling - Benade's By Nature

What makes someone want to sell everything? Is it being trapped in a job and working 40+ hours a week? Loss of a loved one? Was it taking a first big trip somewhere and being bit by the “Travel Bug” that you didn’t want to stop?”

For us, we were fresh out of high school with the opportunity to get out and travel by working on Carnival Cruise Lines. Everyday we woke up to a different island, soaked up lots of sun, saw the most amazing sunrises and sunsets and filled our days meeting and hearing stories from people all over the world.

Then, we decided to get married and settle. We got trapped into commuting for work, working weekends and eventually we were working so hard that weekends become recovery days for the upcoming week. Soon, our lifestyle took a toll and cancer came knocking on Jason’s door in the form of Stage II Melanoma.

A rush of extreme emotions, thoughts and questions about life became the topic of conversation for months to come. Jason ended up doing Cancer treatment in Spain with Dr. Hilu and after two weeks of treatment was Cancer Free!

Looking back, Cancer was the best thing that ever happened to us! We acted so fast realizing life was just too short. We were able to prioritize what our values were and goals and these lead us out Full Time Rving!

When we found out that Jason was going to survive cancer, we took action! The priority was to help as many people as we can. We now help do preventative treatments, nutrition coaching, detox people, Jason is a cancer coach referred by many doctors and he helps people really sick get to Spain. People are scared and we are here to hold their hands and walk them through their struggle to make their life better. See our website Soul-Savers.com

In the meantime we also had five garage sales, had just sold the house, started homeschooling our boys and prepared for the new lifestyle of living in an RV. We decided since we had never done the RV life, it was best to live in it for 6-months prior to leaving so we could practice with the daily RV to-do’s!

Finally, on April 23rd, 2017 we pulled out and started our journey! We have no more stress, we have helped hundreds of people with their health, our two boys are learning more than we ever thought and the travel bug…well, let’s just say it’s come back and has bit us again!

So… where do You start? Here’s what we did!

1. What are your values & goals? Where do you want to go?
2. Income-Can you do a job online?
3. Do you need to get homeschool going?
4. Sold the home and rented to prepare
5. Getting Rid of STUFF! Sold stuff on Garage Sales, GoodWill, FB Marketplace & Offer Up
   Organized our stuff in 4 Boxes while going through the house…#1RV, #2 Donate, #3 Storage #4 Trash
6. Sell any cars?
7. Do you have items to put in storage?
8. Find the RV FIRST & then Truck
9. Live in the RV for a while! Find an RV park or some land to rent on.
10. Read ALL the Manuals and setup maintenance reminders! (Weekly, Monthly, 3 Months, 6 Months, etc)
11. Take pictures of components all over rig so you know you rig and where they are!
12. Get your stuff organized with IKEA, Bed Bath & Beyond and Walmart
13. Practice Hitching and small camping trips to practice driving and getting use to your RV.
14. Watch YOUTUBE videos when in doubt!
15. Set the DATE to go!
16. Last-Know your rig and don’t be afraid to do a little work!