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Always thought it would be cool to live a life on the road, got to be tough with kids though

Tim Meek and his family decided they had had enough of their "ordinary" life, so they sold their house and went to live in a caravan.

My family and I wake up in a touring caravan. After packing away the temporary bed - and converting the bedroom space into the dining room - we eat breakfast together and share faded memories of last night's dreams and excitedly discuss the activities of the day ahead.

It's the excitement that comes with being away from home, and living a bit differently.

But unlike most "normal" people, we do this every morning. It's our norm. Today was just like any other day, really, because our caravan is currently our home. It has been this way ever since we set out from Nottingham last summer.

We're not on holiday, as such, but we are currently having the time of our lives.

On paper, and when measured in terms of how much disposable income we have though, it appears that we aren't very well off. Or successful.

My wife Kerry and I and our daughters Amy, 11, and Ella, nine, are not living in poverty or anything - caravans are very comfortable these days - but compared with a lot of other people we know and people we meet, we are not very prosperous.

Kerry and I don't have well-paid jobs. In fact, at this moment in time, we don't have jobs, as such. We are self-employed - or as we like to call it, self-empowered.

We don't have a big house. We don't actually even have a house - we currently live in a modest four-berth Elddis Xplore caravan affectionately named Ellie by the girls. So, applying the normal measures of success in the Western world to our current circumstances, it turns out that we certainly are not keeping up with the Joneses.

But we are not bitter, nor disappointed. And we are certainly not seeking sympathy. You see, our predicament is completely self-inflicted. We have brought it upon ourselves deliberately.

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