The Found Year

Music creeps into your soul, alters your mood, and just generally makes life more meaningful. We use music to keep us motivated while working out (it’s the only thing that got me through a half-marathon a few years ago), express words that we don’t have, soothe our souls during rough times, and to sing along to on road trips, of course.

And Trent and I have some mega road trips on the horizon. The first six months of our year-long sabbatical (see full itinerary here) will be spent largely on the road with our pop up camper.  We plan to visit at least sixteen state and national parks, making our way from one to the next in our Nissan Murano, tugging our little Coleman Sedona pop up camper (AKA the Freedom Machine) along behind us.

And then we’ll spend six months exploring Thailand and Southeast Asia. We’ll definitely be in need of some music for hours on the road, in the air, and on the beach for that part of our sabbatical as well.

So, I figure we need a solid playlist for all those hours of adventure. We adopted a theme song for sabbatical (thank you, Trent), Keith Urban’s Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me, and that is song #1 on our playlist (of songs we mostly already own, by the way, because we are on a budget!).

Sabbatical Playlist

1. Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me by Keith Urban
2. Is There Life Out There by Reba McEntire
3. Good to Be Alive by Andy Grammer
4. Love Shack by the B-52s
5. Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants
6. I Would Walk 500 Miles by The Proclaimers
7. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
8. Take it Easy by the Eagles
9. Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root
10. Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car by Billy Ocean
11. Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts
12. Lose Yourself by Eminem
13. California by The Paperboys
14. Rocky Mountain High by John Denver
15. I Lived by One Republic
16. On the Road Again by Willie Nelson
17. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper
18. The Distance by Cake
19. Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles
20. King of the Road by Roger Miller
21. The Way by Fastball
22. Run Like the River by Vintage Trouble
23. Move Along by The All-American Rejects
24. Best Day of My Life by American Authors
25. Honey I’m Good by Andy Grammer
26. Brand New by Ben Rector
27. Single Ladies by Beyonce
28. I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas
29. God Gave Me You by Blake Shelton
30. Into the Ocean by Blue October
31. Vehicle by Bo Bice
32. Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
33. Treasure by Bruno Mars
34. The River by Garth Brooks
35. Put Your Records On by Corinne Bailey Rae
36. Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows
37. Everyday by Dave Matthews Band
38. Walk of Life by Dire Straits
39. Some Days You Gotta Dance by Dixie Chicks
40. Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks
41. Rockin’ Down the Highway by Doobie Brothers
42. Take it Easy by the Eagles
43. Let’s Go to Vegas by Faith Hill
44. Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac
45. We Shall be Free by Garth Brooks
46. We Are Young by Fun
47. Hold My Hand by Hootie and The Blowfish
48. Cruisin‘ by Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis
49. The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News
50. Nutbush City Limits Tina Turner
51. On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons
52. Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp
53. Life’s a Dance by John Michael Montgomery
54. Can’t Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake
55. Stronger by Kanye West
56. Walking Away a Winner by Kathy Mattea
57. Days Go By by Keith Urban
58. Suddenly I See by KT Turnstall
59. Just Dance by Lady Gaga
60. On the Road by Lee Roy Parnell
61. American Woman by Lenny Kravitz
62. In the End by Linkin Park
63. Peaceful Easy Feeling by Little Texas
64. Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak by Macy Gray
65. Holiday by Madonna
66. I Take My Chances by Mary Chapin Carpenter
67. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ by Michael Jackson
68. Float On by Modest Mouse
69. Number One by Nelly
70. Come Away With Me by Norah Jones
71. Anywhere by Passenger
72. Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benetar
73. Happy by Pharrell Williams
74. Get the Party Started by Pink
75. We Found Love by Rihanna
76. Streetcorner Symphony by Rob Thomas
77. A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
78. It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy (I just think it’s fun to sing this)
79. Up by Shania Twain
80. I’m a Believer by Smashmouth
81. Walking on the Sun by Smashmouth
82. What I Got by Sublime
83. Spirits by The Strumbellas
84. Fly by Sugar Ray
85. Dynamite by Taio Cruz
86. I Wanna Go Too Far by Trisha Yearwood
87. Beautiful Day by U2
88. Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts
89. Footloose by Kenny Loggins
90. I’m on Top of the World by The World’s Cause
91. Knee Deep by Zac Brown Band
92. You’re the Best from the Karate Kid
93. Break on Through by The Doors
94. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
95. Karma Chameleon by Culture Club
96. Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung
97. Walking on Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves
98. Wave on Wave by Pat Green
99. Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey
100. I Feel Lucky by Mary Chapin Carpenter