Oh my goodness, where do I start? First things first, WE ARE ON THE ROAD! I’ll write a full post on that next (with plenty of pictures!), but I would be remiss if I did not cover the craziness that was the last 2 weeks. Our to-do list for the last three days was… Read More Packing Up and Moving Out
I am so glad that we good a little bit of mental recovery time last weekend and took a day to go skiing on Sunday (yes, it was May 1st, yes, it was a powder day, yes, right now it’s nearly 90 degrees). We are in the final push now and MAN are things crazy.… Read More Sprint to the Finish
We installed a fairly large (for an RV) completely custom solar power system all by ourselves for right around $3000. It has 660 watts of panels, 540 amp hours (~6.5 KWh) of AGM batteries, and a 3000 watt pure sine wave inverter. This should be more than enough for us to have 2 people living… Read More DIY RV Solar
Again, we’ve been doing boring stuff. None of it is really big enough for a full blog post so here are some mini things. The Back Room is Complete! I finished the plywood in the back with some leftover Waterlox from when we did the floors in our house. It looks pretty good but the texture… Read More April 19th 2016 – Status Update
So after much discussion, we’ve come up with the basics of our route through next winter. Here is a map with all of the waypoints labled: Feel free to check out the route and some free campsites along the way at freecampsites.net. Our first stop out of Denver is Salida, CO. Kathleen and Mike have… Read More 2016 Route Proposal
We’ve done a lot of work on the RV but none of it is impressive enough by itself (yet) for a full blog post, so we decided to just post a bunch of pictures of our progress so far. We finished installing the dinette in the back room. We also made the storage area behind… Read More Progress Report – March 19th 2016
A common question we get when we tell people we’re moving into an RV full time is “What are you going to do with the house?” For a number of reasons, we’ve decided to rent it out for a year and then re-evaluate. This saves us the challenge of trying to sell the house while we’re on the road. With current prices, the rent will easily cover our mortgage plus all taxes and management fees with a little left over to cover most maintenance issues. Most importantly though (especially for Allison) is that it psychologically feels better having an “out.” We maximize the number of options we’ll have after a year and we get to leave some tiny amount of roots here in Denver in our heads. It certainly takes some of the pressure off with regards to “we’re leaving everything solid in our life and will have no roots anywhere…”… Read More Renting the House
We did it. We pulled it off. We have a Verizon hotspot plan with no data cap and no throttling and no sketchy third party company that goes under (thanks for nothing OmniLynx). For starters lets talk about the different ways to get internet on the road. Public WiFi Hotspots (no I will not hack Private… Read More Mobile Internet and Unicorns
Being a responsible adult is hard work. Today, I am trying to find the best option for health insurance that will fit my needs while on the road. Requirements: (1) Must be a PPO where we can access services nationwide. (2) Must cover the medications I take for my migraines (I take six different medications,… Read More RV Health Insurance
We did it! After saving for a while and flip flopping so many times on what we wanted (“travel trailer behind a truck, no behind a van, no behind a truck, no a slide in truck camper, no a class C, no a class A, no a class C with a bedroom, without a bedroom,… Read More We bought our rig!
The Reckless Choice 