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Continue reading →: Finding My Way HomeGreetings, my neglected readers. I am coming to you from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I have spent the last week filling up on black beans and roasted pork and walking for miles along the shore. Already hidden under the cloak of middle-aged-female, the ethnic melting pot and laid back…
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Continue reading →: Grand Manan: The Island Forgotten by Time“Where do you live?” the customs official asked, as I crossed the border into Canada. I froze for a moment. That question has become my bugbear in the two months I’ve been living full-time in the van. The brief but obscure answer is, “right here.” Somehow I don’t think the…
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Continue reading →: The Logistics of FreedomThe one thing I didn’t anticipate about living in a van is how much time the logistics of daily life would take up. Add in the hours spent driving, and it really eats into the day. I designed my electrical and water systems for abundance, and so far they’ve been…
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Continue reading →: The Road Is OpenI’m finally doing the thing. After a month spent mostly in my parents’ driveway, I cut the umbilical cord and went on the move. That means I have to figure out where to park every night, and where to fill my water tank, and where to throw out my trash.…
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Continue reading →: I Love My Tiny HouseI’ve been living in the van for nearly a month now, and while there have certainly been challenges, it’s working out great so far. My primary design goal was “abundance.” I don’t want to be worrying every day about running out of water or electricity. My home is tiny, but…
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Continue reading →: Taking the Week OffI made it to Massachusetts and have been enjoying a few drive-free days. For the first time in two years I’m going to take a week off from writing a blog post, but I figure I’ve earned it after 100+ posts. Hope you all had a great week, and I’ll…
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Continue reading →: The First Real Road TripWhat a week. On Saturday morning I loaded up the van and hit the road. I had about 1,100 miles to cover and decided to break it up into six evenly-spaced segments. In retrospect, I don’t think that’s the way to do it, since it meant that every day was…
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Continue reading →: NorthboundToday will be my last day in Florida. I did not expect to spend three whole months here. On the one hand, Florida has been a great host. It provided warmth and sunshine and a stable place to build my van from scratch, while the northeast experienced one of the…
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