Listening to The Signal on WYPR right now, and they are interviewing a couple who lost their apartment about a year ago after the bank foreclosed on their landlord. They bought a 22 foot Winnebago and hit the road. Sadly, after a year of traveling, the couple had to sell the RV because the husband [...]
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Woke up, got out of bed, stepped out of the bedroom into the bathroom and promptly skinned the back of my heel. Ripped the skin clean off. Three days later, it’s still killing me! The steps in this place will be the death of me. I’ve bruised the hell out of the back of my [...]
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This morning MJ made breakfast for us in our trailer for the first time – waffles and bacon. Then it was my turn to wash dishes for the first time. Our agreement is that she’ll deal with the laundromat if I handle all the dishes. Doesn’t quite seem fair since dishes need to be done [...]
Or it was supposed to be. Lex declared a day of rest after a pretty intense week. I was feeling restless, though, so I ran some errands, came home, and did some little around-the-house projects. I fixed the screen in the window over the bed, replaced the weatherstripping around the screen door, installed the flamingo [...]
Happy 4th of July!! This holiday morning we went over to the apartment to pack up the kitchen and also deliver our bed, sofa and industrial kitchen rack to Carrie and Kathy. They came over around 10:30 and we set about breaking down the king and loading up the truck. It took two trips, but [...]
My day off for the holiday weekend and I’m … emptying sewage for the first time, more on that later. In the morning, I went to the apt to pick up all the kitchen stuff MJ had packed up so far, and to swap out the laundry and dishwasher. MJ, Otis, and Mo stayed back [...]
We’ll just call it day 2, because it was our second day of ownership and be done with trying to figure that out. It was a rough first night in the RV. MJ couldn’t get comfortable and I was uncomfortable with all my mosquito bites, but we made it through. We had to commute back [...]
Or is it Day 1? We both had a little trouble getting to sleep last night because Chesaco was delivering our little Cedar Creek this morning at 9am. MJ got up early to go fill her car with gas and grab us some breakfast, and once I finally got up, we loaded up my truck [...]
