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First Time Processing A Chicken

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Meeting the Neighbors In All the Wrong Ways

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First Time Having Goats (Plural)

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First Time Having Chickens

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Cats and Bats

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What's Better in a House Than an RV

I have spent the past ten years writing honestly about the pros and cons of living in an RV so I think it’s fair to spend a minute talking about what is better (for us at least) living in a house. This is by no means an either-or blog post but I want to capture the things I am really enjoying while it’s still fresh in my mind. These aren’t in any particular order but rather what comes to…

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Making a House a Home

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Lots of Inspections

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Moving in!

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We Bought A House

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The Columbus Zoo

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Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork

One of the things I am most excited about in getting off the road is I will no longer have to “explain” my unique lifestyle to traditional institutions. So I was pretty bummed out when I realized during the mortgage loan process I wasn’t quite done with that. Since all of our banking is through Bank of America and my brother-in-law works there that’s where I started and was soon pretty…

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We made an offer on a house!!

Well, it’s been a whirlwind these last two weeks but (spoiler alert) we made an offer on a house. It is a small ranch on 3 acres of land with several outbuildings and just perfect to have a hobby farm. I’ll talk more about the house later, but I should probably back up a bit and tell you how we got here. It’s worth noting that I have only owned two houses in my life and it’s been 23 years since…

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Housing Search Update

Hi everyone. I know it’s been awhile, but I wanted to wait until some things happened before giving you an update. We are staying in Columbus in a really nice city park but unfortunately, we are only booked in a site until June 7th. At that point we can go to one of the much less nice first come first serve sites or move to another campground. We have checked out two others though and I wasn’t…

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Can You Go Home Again?

Ten years ago, when we started this fulltime journey, I really thought we would eventually land in a new place and it would become our new home. The closest we have ever gotten as a couple was Los Angeles, but as you know if you have been following along that didn’t work out for a variety of reasons. When we left LA it was with the purpose (at least for me) of seriously looking for a home base…

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First Time at Big Bend National Park

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First Time Using Starlink Internet

Disclaimer: I am not a paid representative for Starlink and in no way am I representing their interests. We decided to try Starlink in the hopes it would allow us to travel to places that does not have cell coverage and this review is our experience based on the last few months. For the last 10 years we have consistently used ATT for our internet coverage and despite some challenges largely we…