Two damaged lives, a yellow truck, an open road, and a life we never could have imagined.
Last month, I said I was ending our series about our life on the road, but I was asked if we would share what life has been like since we stopped traveling.
We had left the “work-a-day” world in 1992 and returned in 1999. We shared many of the experiences we had during those years in the past 45 articles. It was God that led us down a path that got us to leave the security that we had in our jobs and lifestyle and it was again God that put an end to it all and brought us back to the world we left. I use the word “world” because there is a vast difference between our lifestyle on the road and the lifestyle that we returned to.
Before 1992, I worked in almost every level of the Machine Tool Industry. I started in a machine shop in the late ‘60s and worked my way through production machining, tool room, lower management, training machinists, teaching CNC programming, and setting up a new shop to create specialized repair parts.
When we returned, we had no idea how we would provide for ourselves. This is where, once again, God stepped in and opened a door that I did not even know existed. I had spent enough time in management that I understood (even though it ...
