Life Update from The Dockins

Hey all,

I thought I would dust off this little old blog and start documenting the newest chapter for the Dockins Family. 

After a lot of thought, we have decided for Nick to separate from the Navy. Although we absolutely loved the many adventures the military allowed us, we felt it was time to change gears and try something new. 

So, in true Dockins fashion, we decided to tackle the next adventure in an unusual manner. Nick felt that this would be a perfect time to complete his MBA! We researched schools and decided UC Davis was a great choice for the whole family.

UC Davis has a great MBA program, the town of Davis is as close to a little English village as we could find but is also very near Sacramento and the San Fransisco Bay area, allowing for many opportunities in the next chapter without a necessary relocation and we are near Napa…need I say more?!?

So we moved from England in the middle of May and don’t need to be in Davis until school starts for Nick and Emily at the end of August. This allows us to spend the summer with family! What an amazing treat after being overseas for so long.

Some of you may be wondering about the 41 foot trailer we have been toting around… 

This started as a “Nick idea” a few years ago, but originally involved a large sailboat and a year at sea….Then we had children and he realized we probably wouldn’t make it back with both of them. We have also been slowly upgrading some type of mobile home during this time… 

First was Manny…

Then this little beater caravan in England…

Then we upgraded to a nicer, newer caravan and took that throughout the United Kingdom and France…

I bet you can see where this is going…

Financially it makes sense, due to the nomadic nature of our first few months back in the States and then looking into properties in California it made financial sense to cut costs. 

So here we are, with a 41 foot, two bedroom travel trailer… Our new home for the foreseeable future. 

I’ll let you know how it goes! 

<3 Kaitlin

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” -Eleanor Roosevelt