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 …

Read More

False deadlines and launch parties

The craziness continues…  The weekend saw us at exactly 29 days since we first stepped foot back into this creepy house and started knocking out walls in an attempt to make it somehow better.  Not long after, we had set the date as a false deadline for ourselves to be …

Read More

Hours in the day

There just aren’t enough of them…   Seriously, sometimes I just can’t figure out where the day goes. Let’s take a quick look at my life shall we? I’m unemployed,  we purposefully have no major commitments, we don’t really watch tv to speak of, and to top it all off I …

Read More

unBelizeAble

we made our way straight for belize….The rain started in just as we were pulling out of our camping spot, but we were trying to get some distance between us and the tempting sailboats of rio dulce as quickly as we could.  We made our way as far north as …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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...
Read More

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 …

Read More

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...
Read More

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...
Read More

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 …

Read More

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...
Read More

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 …

Read More

When it rains it pours

wow.  talk about taking some time away.   I’d love to say that we took Jen’s allergic reaction as a head’s up for us to slow down, but that wouldn’t be exactly honest.  Jen was out of action and in bed for a good two weeks between the allergy and the...
Read More

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 …

Read More

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...
Read More

A break from the action

We continue to put in long hours and days working on the camper. It’s actually become a full time job and we’re exhausted at the end of each day when we finally get home and crash.  Luckily we live next door to friends so we can make a ritual of …

Read More