Welcome to a day in the life. And yes, this is what my hair looks like in the morning. Normally
somebody would be bouncing all over the walls, but somebody has baby on board and normal
5:30 wake up times have become 8:30 wake up times. Ready to tackle the day. Go, go, go.
Not so much. Currently in
Goodlettsville, it's 36 degrees and sunny. Oh, at least it is sunny. That makes me happy.
But it's cold. Okay. Now while Lauren slowly crawls
out of bed, there's something I do routinely every single morning without fail and that is coffee.
A dash of cinnamon. Just picking up the Airstream because living
in a small space gets messy. Yeah. Did you make the bed?
Yeah. Is that like something you do every day?
Pretty much. How long have you been making your bed?
Since fifth grade. Fifth grade?
Yeah. Ooh. I learned something new today.
Did your parents make you do it? Yeah, but I move a lot slower in the
morning's lately. Yeah. Why is that?
Baby on board. Yeah. And how far along is baby?
18 weeks. 18 weeks. Yeah. It's
so exciting. I need tea.
Let's get you some tea. Okay.
Matcha. Daniel says that this tea tastes like grass, but I love it.
Did you make a butterfly on top? No, I can't make her.
Oh, you got something. Oh, there's something going on there.
Yeah. Yeah. Coffee art.
No, it's bad. It's just a coffee blob. Looks like a big heart. Is that what you were
going for? Definitely. Right. Yeah.
Hands down the best coffee I've had all morning.
Time to get out our computers. So some days we go for a run. This morning,
I just did good getting out of bed. Also prefer to read for about 30 minutes, but again, since I got
up so late, I don't have time for that. Typically, after I've had my coffee,
first thing in the morning, I go straight to the inter webs. I typically try to read
a few industry articles. Because we're in the marketing advertising space, it changes so fast.
So it's sort of required reading every single morning just to see what's changed. And after that
I'll go through and I'll check my schedule, make sure I have everything prepped for the upcoming
meetings for the day. After I've checked my email and I make sure there's nothing crazy going on,
I start to get ready for the day, which includes getting dressed,
except if I'm working from the trailer. Let's be honest, if I'm doing that and I have video calls,
I'm getting dressed from the waist up, maybe from the waist down, still keeping on my comfy pants.
Don't necessarily need to put on dress pants when you're working from the Airstream trailer.
One of the biggest headaches we had when we first started working from the road in the Airstream was
internet. And we get questions about this all the time. So we're actually pretty lucky. The
campground we're at right now, which is Grand Ole RV Resort in Nashville. I'll put a link to
our video, favorite campgrounds. It's one of the best, but it actually has decent internet.
That being said, that's like one in every 25 to 30 campgrounds. So we have our own wireless hotspot
and we use a company that is local, of course, and they're called Biggs Wireless. We have an
unlimited package with them, which allows us not only to work from the RV from basically anywhere,
but it also allows us to upload videos like these, which are humongous files. So we're really heavy
internet users and it works great. I'll throw another link here so that you can see the video
to learn more about Biggs in case you run into the same problem with internet on the road.
So I am going to get ready for the day, unlike Daniel, but first I have a team meeting and in
order to make that work in the Airstream is really important from working on the road that you have a
seriously good set of noise, canceling headphones. This is one of the ways that Daniel and I are able
to actually do meetings at the same time. And it works like a charm. All right. Ready for the
day. But since we got up so late, we didn't end up eating breakfast, which is kind of bad, but
we're just going to make it an early lunch. But look, the baby bump is starting to come in.
Lunch is served. Yummy.
With lunch complete,
it's basically time to break the laptops back out and handle afternoon meetings.
So it's already 4:11. And if you had seen what we did all day,
this is pretty much it. We hung out on our computers and did a whole lot of meetings and
a whole lot of typing, which is pretty dull. So you may also have noticed that we haven't
actually gotten out of the Airstream yet today. About this time, Daniel will poke me and say,
Hey, let's go for a walk and take out the trash. And so that's what we do. Take a walk.
If you've seen our Airstream Pottery Barn walk through, then you'll remember that it
has a much bigger garbage can than what comes in our Airstream classic. And because unfortunately
this is like half of the size, we have to take out the trash a little more frequently
than we'd like to. Outside.
Almost walked out of the door without securing my little safety lock from No Locks,
huge fan. If you haven't seen that video, our friend installed it at the Airstream
International Rally and he is a lifesaver because of this small device. We have locked ourselves out
zero times since installing it.
So when you see and hang out with us like today for a day in our working life,
there's some things that happen in advance and behind the scenes before we actually
get a day started. So for example, like every Sunday Daniel and I will sit down,
we take a look at our calendars and we compare our meeting schedules and it's
really critical. Because we have such a small space, we have to make sure that
we don't have any major meeting overlaps. Thing I like to do on Sundays is I like to
map out three separate lists. I've got one for Wander Local, which is everything Wander Local.
Two, for the company. The company's name is Symphony in case you haven't been tuning in.
And three, for the other business, which is Fernandez business. And that
lately has taken a priority, especially with new baby on the way. So with those three
list in mind, that's how I tackle the week. I don't know if you can see it on camera or not,
but you can see our breath. So our working remote from the Airstream is really different during the
winter, even than it is in the summer. Because well, when it's cold outside, it's just not as
fun to get out. At least not from a working perspective. In the summer, we'll sit at the
picnic table, take work calls, enjoy the sun. And we definitely go for more walks.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that part of our day to day is really impacted by the fact that it's cold.
Priorities definitely shift when it gets cold. And one of the main priorities lately
has been making sure that we have all the propane we need
for the radiant heating system, because you don't want to run out of propane.
Truth. So with that being said, I think we walked maybe 10 minutes, which is kind of embarrassing
and sad because in the summer we would walk maybe 30 to 45 minutes, but it's freaking cold.
It's so cold. So I'm going back into the Airstream.
And by cold, just to add some contacts, it's been hitting the 20s. That's pretty cold.
For us at least. For us at least.
On an average workday, after we get out and go for a walk,
we go right back at it for a couple more hours in front of the computer before we'll start thinking
about what we're going to do for dinner. It's roughly eight ish o'clock
and Lauren's still grinding away. It's not eight o'clock.
What time is it? It's 5:49.
Oh my gosh. Okay. So it gets super dark here super early. It feels like eight
o'clock maybe even midnight, but I guess it's not really that late,
but this guy right here is hungry. So I'm going to go pick us up some food from a local restaurant
around here. Just made it to a place called Tasty Greek Cafe. It's a small and locally owned shop
and they have some really good Greek food. Picking some up to go. Time to head back to the camper.
We love this little Greek place Tasty by have the best baklava.
We do try to avoid eating out every evening. But right now it's the end of
the year and that means it's really busy at work. So this is pretty typical.
Also, another fun fact, this campground served
pizza. Like they make the pizzas on site. They offer breakfast, dinner. Do they have lunch?
I think it's breakfast and dinner. Okay. So it's breakfast, dinner. Awesome.
They ran out of humus. So I learned how to make it
fresh. Nice.
Lucky for you, I'm about to teach you the proper baklava eating technique as taught to me by
my Greek friends. First, you start with a fork
and then you pick it up with your hands and you eat it.
So as you can tell from Daniel's silly behavior, we've had a long work day.
Like I mentioned, since it's the end of the year, it's not really going to end anytime soon.
Typically, after we eat, we would probably watch some sort of nerdy sci-fi TV show and then
read a book, go to bed, but tonight's going to be a long one from a work perspective. And it's not
exactly all that entertaining. So it's pretty much time to call it a day. Until the next time guys,
make sure you wander local this week. Because as you know, it's good for the soul.