MONTROSE, Colo. (KKCO) - Leaving his job, his home and most of his possessions, a New Hampshire man gave it all up to travel the highway in a horse-drawn wagon. He's gone more than 2,500 miles this trip and is making his way toward Grand Junction.

The jingle of chains, the clapping of shoes, it's the sound of the open road for Bob Skelding. "Well initially I was an instructor at a nuclear power plant," says, Skelding.

But this is Skelding's life now after keeping only the things he enjoys. Skelding says, "That became the wagon and the horses and I discarded all the stuff I didn't like."

Things like schedules, bills, and a mortgage were left behind. Now all his possessions fit into the back of a small wagon.

It's hard not to ask Skelding "why?" He'll tell you at first it was for the freedom to travel, see new places and meet new people. "Life is short and you should do what you want to do, but I also found that I brought a few smiles along the way," says Skelding. And that changed everything. Skelding says, "This is the most positive thing I could possibly do."

Now Skelding is blazing his way around America at a whopping three miles an hour with his horses. There's Doc, "He's the ladies' favorite. All the girls like him," says Skelding. And there's Bob And Bill, who is currently serving as a spare tire.

This is Skelding's third trip and he's already traveled 2,500 miles in six months, making memories along the way. Skelding recalls the story of a young developmentally disabled girl he met in New York who was afraid to have eye surgery. "I gave her a brush and let her brush the horse about an hour. She was so inspired by that she went out and had an operation and as a result of the operation she got her sight back,” says Skelding.

Skelding doesn't know when he'll stop traveling or where he'll be next month, but he says,"If you go ahead and you concentrate on the positive and move forward and stuff life has the chance to work itself out."

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