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Roadtrip to Georgia / We Wrecked our Camper

We were all packed up! We had just finished spending three grueling weeks working on the interior of our camper, where we live. We built the bathroom walls, build the bed, the closets, and everything was loaded back up!

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Silver Streak Travel Trailer Renovation Remodel Rebuild Video

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Our 1982 Silver Streak Rebuild Videos

As you may know, my husband and I are literally in over our heads with this camper rebuild! We bought Dabby, our 1982 Silver Streak, about a year ago, and have been working on making her a fulltime livable place for ourselves. We knew Dabby would be a lot of work, but we didn’t realize…

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A New Home On Wheels

Pardon this brief intermission. Life has become crazy! As you may remember from this post, we had purchased a 2004 Keystone Outback and had just signed the papers to sell our house. We were moving fulltime into Babette (that’s her name) and were going to be hitting the road. Well, that didn’t last long. About…

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This resort near Spokane Washington will make you feel like you are in Dirty Dancing!

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How We Can Afford to Live in our Camper Full-Time

Let’s face it, living comfortably can be expensive. Do you ever find yourself watching videos uploaded by minimalists on YouTube and thinking “How on Earth do they live with so little? Surely it’s all for show and they have a 3000 sq ft house just down the road.” While yeah, maybe some of them do,…

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Home Behind Us

Home Behind Us Packing and leaving. Isn’t that the dream? I talk about how to pack for travel all the time, don’t I? This is different though. This is a big pack-up. This is our entire house going into boxes and storage containers, filling up a 10X10 space in the cold of northern Illinois. This…

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