We get caught up with the numbers too much. Especially because we keep track of the places we stay, total amount we pay for campgrounds/RV parks, when and if we plug in, how often we shower, etc. We have certain numbers that we are really proud of...
Read MoreI remember my first time: I was nervous, self conscious, awkward, and thought everyone was looking and judging me. They were. But what did I expect? I was living in a parking lot inside my homemade RV. Of course people were looking, judging, and wondering.
Read MoreWe don’t write a lot about the personal aspects of living in an RV and on the road: How do we actually feel about it? How is it living in a small space with each other, Tybee and Tyki? But it’s time. It’s time to move beyond the glacial peaks, turquoise lakes, wildflower filled single track, and moon-like red rocks. There’s more to our lives and living on the road than that.
Read MoreI have to admit that I was slightly worried – this was the first time towing an RV across the border and I figured because the Toaster looks the way it does we’d probably get pulled over and searched.
Read MoreBack in early January, we got an unexpected email from Lori Knight, a producer with Efran Films. She was researching topics for a client, Autoblog, and somehow came across us. Our solar RV conversion and on-the-road living interested her and she wanted to do a story about us for Autoblog.
Read MoreStaying in shape while living on the road isn’t hard. Here are 4 great workouts you can do instead of your usual outdoor activities.
Read MoreWhen you live on the road, you don’t have a meaningful physical address. Our increasingly paperless society makes it pretty easy to manage correspondence, bills, even legal matters and taxes electronically – but what do you do when you actually need to get a real thing delivered into your hands?
Read MoreFor the last year, it has seemed to us like all the full-timers we meet have a mobile hotspot (aka “jetpack”) for cellular data in their RV. It seemed like it was an obvious choice for them, but it wasn’t so clear-cut to us. We’ve been looking into it for months without finding satisfying answers to our questions, so when we recently had the chance to pick up a jetpack for nearly-free, we took the opportunity to find out for ourselves.
Read MoreMadeleine Boga emailed me a few weeks back saying that she was working on a feature piece for She Explores exploring the concepts of home. She asked if I would be interested in participating in this collaborative piece. I said YES!
Read MoreSomething we recently discovered was showering outside the RV. Like most RVs, ours came with an outside shower. But we never used it to wash the dogs or rinse something off outside. We kept waiting for the right combination of circumstances to be able to shower outside: weather and privacy.
Read MoreMountain biking is why we came here and mountain biking is what we did! The Hurricane/Virgin area is small, but to make up for it (really there’s no need to make up for small because small is great!) there are six different mountain biking trail systems, tons of hiking, and Zion National Park is nearby.
Read MoreStaying connected while on the road is one of the hottest topics amongst full-timers, and the unlimited cell data plan is the holy grail of working nomads. But if you don’t already have one, they are getting harder and harder to acquire, so travelers are increasingly having to make ‘limited’ data plans work. We’re not experts on this, but we have traveled for a year without an unlimited plan, and when we tell fellow nomads how small our data plan is, they generally seem amazed. So I think that means we’re getting by with a pretty small allotment. It does take effort, but cell data costs can be kept in check (really helping the monthly budget), without totally unplugging from civilization.
Read MoreThe Aquatank2 30 gallon water storage bag was something we had been eyeing for awhile, but for $100 we kept putting it off until we really had a good reason for getting it. As soon as we realized that one of our main boondocking limiting factors was fresh water we got on Amazon and purchased the bag.
Read MoreWe survived our first year on the road! And we didn’t kill each other or the dogs. I call that success! Check out our infographic below.
Read MoreBlue Ridge Outdoors, our hometown outdoor magazine, did a Q & A with us and we're psyched. This is the magazine that we used to pick up monthly to read, so it's super cool to be featured online! The timing also worked out nicely since it was just a few days before our one year anniversary.
Read MoreA commonly asked question by soon-to-be-travelers and non-travelers is: Do you get lonely on the road? The answer we always saw on other full-timers websites was no because they had this great community of friends who also lived on the road.
Read MoreI had the opportunity to be a guest writer for LifeEdited, a great site focused on showing "how to design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy. It's life. Edited."
Read MoreBack home I showered daily. Ok, sometimes I'd skip a day if I was lazy or just hadn't sweated enough. But there wasn't ever a need to keep track because I showered whenever I wanted to. I didn't have to think about whether there was enough water or enough electricity to shower. Since in living the Toaster, I don't always get to shower when I want to.
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