Life Changes

I have not posted in a long time and so much has changed in my life.  As of June 6 2012, I am no longer married to Kasey.  I do not plan to discuss my divorce on this forum or really at all, but it is still a major event in my life.
I spent some time reading through the posts that I have put on here over the years and in so many of them I mention Kasey and in fact have some posts that are pretty romantic towards her.  I had been considering removing them or just removing this blog entirely, but after thinking about it, despite the love lost and anything else, I was still married to her for 11 years and during that time she was a major part of my life.  While that part of my life is over, I don't think that it is right to just totally ignore it and pretend that it did not happen.  That relationship and the things that happened during it have had a major role in making me the man that I am today and to deny it and try to hide it would be foolish.
Don't get me wrong, I am not pining for that lost love or anything like that.  It is over and I mean o. v. e. r. but it has still been a major part of my life, so why pretend that it didn't exist?

Besides that I have had some other life changes.  I bought a new house.  It's really way too big and too expensive.  It totally does not go with my escape plan at all.  I have thought a lot about it, but I think that I can make it work for me in the long run.
In addition to the house, my beloved dog 4 of 7 died on February 10, 2012.  He died of thyroid cancer that had spread throughout his body.  He had a quick and painless death, but he is sorely missed in my home.  I am very thankful to still have Zeauxy and Big-A-Toe though.
I also bought a new car.  The Xterra was killing me with the price of gas and the poor gas mileage, so I decided that I needed a car with better gas mileage.  I wanted to find something that could get about 20 mpg, but that didn't mean that it could not be awesome, so I bought a 2006 Nissan 350Z.  It's a great car, but not very practical for anything other than going to and from work.  Since this is like 99.9% of all the driving I do, it's great.  Also, it's a convertible which is AWESOME!  I have always wanted, but never had a convertible until now and I have to say that it is pretty fun.  I have had it for over a year now and I rarely have the top up. 

Now that I am where I am in my life, I am at a perfect point to seek MY dreams.  I have thought about this a lot and I have named the project Scott's Great Adventure.

What this entails is basically getting a truck and a camper, selling off everything that I own (except the house, I will rent it out) and hitting the road.  In order to make this happen though, I need to work on my side businesses more and develop them to a point that I can live off of them only.  I figure that with a paid off truck and camper, I should be able to live comfortably off of about $3000 a month in online income.

So, to reach this goal, the first step is going to be to develop that income and make sure that it is steady.  I plan to do this while still working my regular job though and I can use the money in the mean time to buy the truck and the camper.
I will likely buy the camper first and keep it at an outside storage place near my house.  I will make modifications to it to get it all ready in the mean time too.  I plan to add solar and wind power charging abilities, replace the cruddy Styrofoam insulation with spray foam (used in houses) to better insulate the place.  I'll probably replace the bed with a memory foam mattress. Ensure that the plumbing and electricity is good to go and all that kind of stuff then it will be time to look for a truck, sell of all of my junk on craigslist and then hit the road.

Now to see if I actually do it...