Don't know where we're going, but we're making great time.
One pound. How do I know? Well, on the last leg of our journey, I struggled at the luggage scale with a bag that was 51.5 pounds — 1.5 pounds over the limit. It wasn’t the first time I’d gone over, sadly. I didn’t want to pay overages for such a trivial weight difference so…
Ah, the mystery of how to handle mail when you don’t have a physical address! Tammy and I have talked about becoming on-the-road sleuths, but this mail mystery has been more “trial and error” to find the key that unlocks the door. In an earlier post, we’ve talked about the challenges of not having a…
I feel I have to start by apologizing for a certain lack of Portland, Oregon posts — I smacked my laptop screen during our adventures and was reduced to 1/3 of usable screen. There was some time spent traveling to and from the mountains/coast, then trying to find a suitable laptop replacement in stock within…
We’re not just traveling to travel. Oh, no. We’re trying to find a place that makes us both happy that could be a forever home. And while it’s been a bit of a struggle to define that that means, I think we’ve made some progress over the past seven months. Let’s take a look at…
People, we’ve been living under some sort of gypsy curse. In the past two months, we’ve had one stolen wallet, one glitch-y smartphone, and a wonky motherboard. Billing issues have arisen as a result of our travel, too. Since we’re traveling together, what happens to one person happens to the other so these are definitely…
While we’ve done fairly well with rental kitchens, there have been some gaps between what we would consider “well appointed” and “basic.” I get that not everyone cooks, but we do. Or I should say, Jan cooks a lot and I enjoy the results. Regardless, I think I have a better handle of what to…
So, as you may have guessed by the title, not everything has gone perfectly with our travel arrangements. Why? Because people are greedy dicks. Some of them, anyway. Let me dig into the nitty gritty. Just by the way things worked out, Jan and I switch off responsibility for finding and booking places to stay…
Jan is of Norwegian decent, but I’m sure I don’t have an ounce of Scandinavian blood in me. My hatred of cold weather is better than any DNA test to prove that point. It’s 20 Celsius in Victoria, B.C. right now, and that’s enough to make my ears cold and achy on bike rides —…
One of the challenges of selling almost all your worldly possessions and living life on the road is the surprising number of places that insist you need a “legal” address. This cannot be a post office box, despite the amount and type of identification it took to get one. Most of the reasons seem to…
How do you pack for an open-ended stay on the road? We are figuring it out as we go along. Here’s a catalog of what we took to make the first two months work, and a few additions we needed to round things out. Clothes Part of the challenge of down-sizing the condo was also…