Our Crazy Lives

It’s been one of those weeks…  One of those weeks where we spend at least a few minutes each day kind of checking in with ourselves and realizing how exactly un-normal we are.  It’s not all by choice.  We can still remember the days when we had “normal” jobs and …

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Pergamon; Gallery Post.

The ancient city of Pergamon, Turkey. Once home to quarter of a million people. Listed in the book of Revelation. Today, magnificent ruins, complete with a 10,000 person Amphitheatre, temple and marble plaza. It also boasts stunning views of the valleys and mountains beyond. We were blown away by the beauty and history of this […]

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Turkey; First days.

Today, the trip begins. We have been on the road for 3 weeks. But today, the trip begins. Today, we sit ten feet from the sea, in a remote bay, under the shade of the olive trees. I have a fishing rod in the water, the fridge is well stocked with beer, the Zac Brown […]

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Getting there…

We’re continuing to make/finish our home base.   Funny how it’s the little things that make your house (okay, our garage) a home.  When we were in the thick of this project we were making absolutely everything by hand.  I had grandeur dreams of that being true down to the …

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Final stretch Home

A lot sooner than we expected. We spent the next day driving around chico breaking our “new” engine in.  Stop and go driving, highway driving, fast, slow, stopping, starting, idling…you name it- we did it.  We actually know our way around chico better than most towns we’ve visited, and we …

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E…2.0

and better than ever?…  A few calls while waiting on the tow proved there were very few options around in terms of vw experts.  Luckily, the one that is nearby seems to be well known and highly recommended from everyone I call.  We have the truck drive us to Latenight …

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E’s dead baby…E’s dead.

As our friends depart for the airport, we drive north on I-5.  Originally, we thought about going the other direction from napa and taking the coastal route through oregon home, but we’re really excited to get to portland and spending a few days with friends just made that decision easier.  …

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on money and freedom

and finding the balance… These days of long driving hours take us to places of deep conversation and deep thoughts.  Time to reflect and look at the past and the future.  Time to make concerted decisions and alter paths.  What else would we do when driving impossibly slow for hours …

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Between two worlds

Now that we know when we’re leaving it’s all about checking things off the list.  We’ve done this before.  Been through the experience of literally wrapping up life at home in order to take off for an extended trip.  We should remember the feeling.  But it feels as if it’s …

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the Times

The NY Times.  So big, so global, and yet somehow they find our little casa.   After the excitement of our holiday weekend, we did a bit of beautifying back at the garage in preparation for a photo shoot. Somehow the NY Times stumbled over our writeup a while back on …

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Spring fun in Portland

Been a crazy couple of weeks.  We left costa rica feeling as though E was secure (and once again ours) but also concerned that we might return in a few months to have exactly the same set of complications and hassles.  Part of us felt like once E started up …

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Where’s Brady??

At this point in our travels, you are all probably wondering where our rambunctious, playful and loving pup, Brady, is. Here is the DL. When…

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Home and the things we love and miss

Each time I return home from an extended time abroad, I am engulfed with a mixture of emotions and impressions. And each time it is different. Last time, it was the shock at the pace of life so many live in the UK. The Rat Race. I hated it. I had gone straight back into [...]

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Thanksgiving

and oh so many things to be thankful for. It’s hard to even remember where we were last year at this time.  A quick glance through old photos reminds me that we had just heard of and decided to join some crazy race called the Maya Rally, we were touring …

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Solid Foundation

Work continues at the garage. We continue to meet/hire contractors and make difficult decisions.  The largest of which so far have been surrounding the floor.  As you know, garages typically have concrete floors.  They tend to be cold and damp- not exactly the living surface we...
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Sticker shock

Reality is slowly setting in.  We’ve been talking about this project for a while now.  Talking and mocking up plans and saving bits of scrap wood from the shop just in case we can use it.  Finally, we’re able to actually get to work.  Our tenants’ lease on...
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Rules, rules and more rules

All part of working with government i guess.  We were featured a few months back on the Tiny House blog, which showed off the bus as our tiny home on wheels.  Very cool, and also opened our eyes to the fact that there is a movement underway across the country …

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Schmugglin’ Schmucks

We had twenty four hours to pack our bags, weigh them to make sure they didn’t exceed the airline weight limit, drop Brady off at…

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Lessons from craft

There’s just something about working with your hands.    Jen and i are spending long days at ADX working on the teardrop and filling in our shifts in between.  They’ve had a lot of turnover recently and in addition to our working member roles Jen has agreed to help out...
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Back to Back to Van

its about time…We have been stateside for over 3 months and have been itching to get to Vancouver to see our friends north of the border.  Most of that time was spent without a vehicle however and while the train is an attractive option, going without karma just didn’t seem...
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