Back 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.
Read MoreWriting the post When Was The Last Time You Showered got me wondering - how often do other people who live on the road shower when boondocking (aka dry camping)? Fill out the survey and let us know!
Read MoreWhenever I think of the desert, the word empty finds its way to my tongue. I find it to be an empty and desolate landscape. Then I worry about how long I can last in it - the lack of trees, of greenery, of water. The things I’m used to having around me.
Read MoreOur trip through California was a quick one for many reasons. But we still got to see a lot.
Read MoreOur Toaster, with its ability to be off-grid and use minimal fossil fuel, may sound like a perfect rig to some...and a nightmare to others. For us it's literally a dream come true. But as with all dreams that become a reality, it's not perfect. (We still adore you, Toaster!) In a four part series, I'm going to go over the downsides to our RV that prevent it from being perfect, along with potential solutions. This post will talk about water, with the batteries, size and heating posts to follow.
Read MoreWe wanted to put in two really good vent fans when we rebuilt our trailer. We were eliminating the rooftop A/C, so would rely on these fans for all our cooling. The Fantastic Fan products have a lot of reviews attesting to their power and cooling capacity, with several people claiming that they are good enough to seriously cut down on A/C usage. So that’s what we chose to install...
Read MoreWe noticed a few days ago that we didn't seem to be getting as much power from our solar panel array as we used to, in spite of some really clear skies. So we took a closer look at our panels and decided they must be dirty.
Read MoreWe left Washington and headed straight into Portland. Here is where our travel "plans" ended (by plans I mean very vague plans that sounded like this, “Yes, we’re going to keep heading south.”). While I had a lot of places I wanted to go in Oregon it would have meant crisscrossing the state a dozen times.
Read MoreThe Toaster wasn’t quite finished when we hit the road. But one thing that (thankfully) worked from the beginning was our solar equipment. Recently we had to troubleshoot an issue with the batteries though, and I’d like to share how that went, because We made a bunch of mistakes and thought perhaps others could learn from them.
Read MoreOur summer plans for Washington got turned upside down when our original truck brakes failed. By the time we actually left the Seattle area it was October 18 and summer was long gone. A lot of the places we wanted to go visit were off the table because of the weather. But we decided that Olympic peninsula was our must-do before we headed out of Washington.
Read MoreWe made a dog bed platform in the back of our truck so the dogs could comfortably lay there and we wouldn’t lose storage space the back seats could provide.
Read MoreHappy birthday to my sweetest girl! Celebrating 13 years of playing splash, jumping off docks, mountain biking through rhodo tunnels...
Read MoreWhat is %FFF? Does it have to do with how awesome Surly bikes are? It’s “percent fossil-fuel-free” and it’s the way we measure how sustainable our lives and travels are. Our goal is to achieve 100% fossil fuel free living.
Read MoreRVs are these cool mobile enclosures that allow people to travel while not giving up the amenities they have at home. It's not a surprise that they've gotten as popular as they have. It’s cheaper to travel and stay in an RV than hotels – that is, after the initial investment in the RV.
Read MoreWe can't believe it's already been 6 months since we left Asheville! It's definitely been an interesting past few months - we've learned a lot and been tested numerous times.
Read MoreGreat news!!! We found a replacement truck and my touring bike was found (well parts of it – read on).
Read MoreGoing through my photos to pull some together for a post I was going to work on, I came across pictures from the first trip we took the Alpacka Raft on. I realized that I never wrote a post about it. From the title of this post you can guess how it went, but I encourage you to keep reading because you may learn a thing or two from our mistakes. If not, no worries, we’ll read this and be reminded to not make the same mistakes again!
Read MoreThose of you who check in regularly with us on the website may have noticed that the dot on the map hasn’t moved at all recently. And those who follow us on social media may have noticed that there hasn’t been a lot of activity. This is because our summer hasn’t gone as we had planned. Surprise, surprise! If there’s anything we’ve learned since living on the road, it is that things don’t go as planned.
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