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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2014, Year in Review

Looking back so we can look ahead… Last year we stumbled over the “year in review” and learned a great deal in the process while looking back at 2013.  We thought we’d give it another shot this year before we look forward to goals and aspirations for next year.  After …

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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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Serving up Style

What a whirlwind.  We have been exceptionally busy.  All for good, but busy nonetheless.  The stress has remained in check and while im working hard im enjoying it again.  We’ve been moving in and out of our place as AirBnB guests arrive and we’ve been spending long days at the …

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Summertime flying by

I don’t think i’ve ever gone this long without a blog post since its inception.  Really not even a solid excuse for it either…just somehow busy.  It seems so odd that we removed 40-60 hour work weeks from our lives and yet can still find a way to be completely …

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Feeding the soul.

We’ve been hosting a lot of dinners lately.  Seems like almost every other night we are have dinner plan.  We are really enjoying the catch up with old friends as well as meeting new ones.  Since the Times article we’ve had even more people willing to stop and ask about …

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The Antithesis of Productivity

I’ve been spinning out a bit lately.   I think part of my deep reflective (but less-than productive) state this week was triggered by the Times article.  It was fun to read, and we were excited to get emails and phone calls from lots of random friends (many we haven’t …

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2013, the year in Review

We were invited by a friend to attend a party for the AONC crowd last week.  For those of you who don’t know the AONC (we didnt), the Art of Nonconformity is a book (and website and now large following)  focused on how to change the world by achieving personal …

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Thawing out

Portland temps have been hovering in the 20′s for the last 2 weeks.  Excellent timing for a couple of people who don’t really own cold weather clothing to be working in an uninsulated garage space.  We’ve been literally freezing from morning to night, which is...
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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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The final push

Why are we building a travel trailer again?  The last week has looked something like wake up at 7, make a quick breakfast and run out the door.  Eat on the way to ADX and spend the entire day on the factory floor hurriedly gluing, clamping, cutting, gluing and epoxying …

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a wrinkle in time

ever wake up in the morning and feel like you just missed an entire day, week (or year)? Its been a whirlwind around here, and sadly the blog seems to be the thing that falls off the plate.  I would keep apologizing for that, but until i solve the problem …

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Makers gotta make…

Ive been pondering this a lot lately. Pondering, but apparently not writing so much.  It was recently pointed out that the blog hasn’t exactly been updated with the frequency of old.  That likely has several reasons including the “normal” nature of our days and lack...
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Moving again

that makes 10 times in 5years (if we count all the moving in the bus as only one).  10 times since we’ve begun this crazy process of trying to reinvent ourselves.  I’d like to say we’re experts at it by now, but that’s likely just because in each attempt...
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The creative spirit…

Its beginning to find its way to the surface. We clearly haven’t been as good at updates here at home as we were on the road…need to work on that.  Likely it’s because somewhere along the way, while we were off trying to find ourselves, writing became my therapy.  It...
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