urban nomads

The week since the ADU Tour has been a blur.    We have been hopping from house to house in between AirBnB guests.  One night sleeping in the bus, a few nights sleeping on the floor of the demoed but not yet rebuilt studio, a few nights back at the …

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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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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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Injured Reserve

Luckily, I un-stressed myself right before injuring myself…which during our tight timeline surely would have sent me back into the abyss. We were having a great couple of days.  A fantasy football draft party, a few visits with friends and a few bbqs and engaging dinner parties.  All after long …

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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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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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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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the waiting game

we hit a bit of a pothole in the building process. Its funny that it would happen right as we are listing our bus for sale as it means we have ample time to sit and think and stew on the whole if it…but of course that’s whats been thrown …

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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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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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Finally, a plan…

Okay, not so much a plan, but at least a step.  We had a clear realization some time ago that there are two ways to tackle this financial problem that we’re all facing.  The most common approach is to adopt the philosophy we’ve all been force-fed since youth.  Get a...
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Seasons change

Oh how time flies… We tried to take some time to relax and enjoy ourselves after the big push to open the gallery at the beginning of the month, but in reality the month has just flown by in front of our eyes.  And with it, fall seems to have …

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Gallery Opening

We change our focus a bit.  The fact that our trailer had to sit and dry out before we tackle the water intrusion meant we had a free week to work on other projects before October’s first friday and the gallery opening we committed to several months ago.  It also …

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Gallery Opening

We change our focus a bit.  The fact that our trailer had to sit and dry out before we tackle the water intrusion meant we had a free week to work on other projects before October’s first friday and the gallery opening we committed to several months ago.  It also …

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Return of Football

We are pretty game for any sport or activity…  but Jen and i love football.  College football particularly holds a special place for us.  This particular off season seems to have taken far too long, likely because last season we had to settle for the occasional luck of...
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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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