The Hocking Family
Live small…travel big
We were the typical American family chasing the American dream...until July of 2021. We had a large house. We had nice vehicles. We had too much stuff. Our life revolved around work and shuffling our children from one activity to the next. We started to question the life that we were choosing to live. For years we had talked about taking a trip across the country in an RV. When we became pregnant with our fourth child, we did the opposite and built our dream house in Iowa. A few years later we started to regret our decision. We couldn't stop thinking about what could have been...had we taken the trip. The conversations grew and we started searching for a skoolie that was already converted. We'll never forget the morning that the listing popped up and Cara nudged Jim to wake him up. One week later we flew out to Salt Lake City, Utah to pick up our bus. A few months later we took a family trip to Texas in the bus. A few months after that, we sold our house and everything we owned and hit the road in “The Hocking Adventure Bus".