#16
Orlando or: Get it together
“Think of living as an experiment instead of living as like you're making those choices that are dead-end choices.” – Tiny: A story about living small It’s been 9 months since we started this journey. And the chaos started way earlier. And to be honest: It never once stopped. Sure, it’s been easier at times, it’s become...
#15
Grocery Shopping
I may have said it once or twice: Food over here is expensive and we underestimated the costs. For several months. You just can’t spend so much money on food, can you?! So we tried and tried to keep the Budget down. May have added $100. Still struggling. And Ben & Jerry’s is only $3, how can that be? About buying food in German...
#14
Betty Mods – Kitchen
So we’ve been forced to remodel the bathroom. And we had the once in a lifetime opportunity to use a house for a week. So what better time is there to redo the kitchen? Well honestly, it was the only time. Kids could sleep in the house, no nosy hands leaving fingerprints all over the place. Ah well, and the fumes. So the man in charge w...
#13
What do you think about campgrounds? (Stationary vs. on-the-road)
Here we are after 9 months, with one or two principles less and a few naïve plans thrown overboard. Food budget of $400. Nevermind if I laugh. Never stay in one city for too long? Hello Stuart! Modifying Betty to make a beautiful and stylish home? Don’t even get me started on the struggles with that. And then the parents where visit...
#12
Betty Mods – Roof
Or: relationship status: it’s complicated. Like the husband said: You don’t want to post something like that, it’s like putting your relationship status on it’s complicated on facebook and who does that? But let’s start at the beginning: We were lucky enough to be parked at the midwife for the pre-birth, post-birth time. And we...
#11
West Coast
We’re back in Stuart for a week before heading back to Miami Airport. Feels kinda weird to be back home not really home but kinda and weird. Good old Lowes parking lot, feels like home. Conclusion from the West Coast: Not worth it. At least when you have a 34ft motorhome and don’t plan on staying at and exploring from ...
#10
South Florida
We barely left Stuart and the pathogens are on us. First the smallest family member got sick and we were able to compare hospitals, then the head of the family caught it and now the men of the house is down. All while the sister is teething and the AC did not miraculously started working again. Would this be a vacation, I would be on my ...
#9
Betty Mods – Tires
Betty mods – the tires Problem number one wasn’t really a problem. When we bought Betty we already knew that the tires were pretty old and had to be replaced soon. Thanks to our tax refund we now finally got the possibility to at least exchange the front tires. Motorhome tires are truck tires and not cheap. We paid $350 per tire an...
#8
Roadworthy
Our last days as quasi-residents of Stuart/Jensen Beach. Tomorrow we’ll really slowly start our journey to Miami and in a week we’ll pick up the parents. Then we’ll head up the Westcoast and head down the Eastcoast and then we’ll head up the Eastcoast again North Carolina bound, where we’ll pick up the next guest in September. ...
#7
6 months later
Time’s flying and at the same time it feels like a lifetime since we had this other, this normal life. It’s been six months ( and a few days because I always wanted to write this post and then there was life) since a barely pregnant lady, a kinda tense daddy and a one-and-a-half-year-old with 3 suitcases, 2 backpacks and a way...