Staying in shape while living on the road isn’t hard. Here are 4 great workouts you can do instead of your usual outdoor activities.
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When you live on the road, you don’t have a meaningful physical address. Our increasingly paperless society makes it pretty easy to manage correspondence, bills, even legal matters and taxes electronically – but what do you do when you actually need to get a real thing delivered into your hands?
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For the last year, it has seemed to us like all the full-timers we meet have a mobile hotspot (aka “jetpack”) for cellular data in their RV. It seemed like it was an obvious choice for them, but it wasn’t so clear-cut to us. We’ve been looking into it for months without finding satisfying answers to our questions, so when we recently had the chance to pick up a jetpack for nearly-free, we took the opportunity to find out for ourselves.
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Madeleine Boga emailed me a few weeks back saying that she was working on a feature piece for She Explores exploring the concepts of home. She asked if I would be interested in participating in this collaborative piece. I said YES!
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Something we recently discovered was showering outside the RV. Like most RVs, ours came with an outside shower. But we never used it to wash the dogs or rinse something off outside. We kept waiting for the right combination of circumstances to be able to shower outside: weather and privacy.
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Mountain biking is why we came here and mountain biking is what we did! The Hurricane/Virgin area is small, but to make up for it (really there’s no need to make up for small because small is great!) there are six different mountain biking trail systems, tons of hiking, and Zion National Park is nearby.
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Staying connected while on the road is one of the hottest topics amongst full-timers, and the unlimited cell data plan is the holy grail of working nomads. But if you don’t already have one, they are getting harder and harder to acquire, so travelers are increasingly having to make ‘limited’ data plans work. We’re not experts on this, but we have traveled for a year without an unlimited plan, and when we tell fellow nomads how small our data plan is, they generally seem amazed. So I think that means we’re getting by with a pretty small allotment. It does take effort, but cell data costs can be kept in check (really helping the monthly budget), without totally unplugging from civilization.
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The Aquatank2 30 gallon water storage bag was something we had been eyeing for awhile, but for $100 we kept putting it off until we really had a good reason for getting it. As soon as we realized that one of our main boondocking limiting factors was fresh water we got on Amazon and purchased the bag.
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We survived our first year on the road! And we didn’t kill each other or the dogs. I call that success! Check out our infographic below.
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Blue Ridge Outdoors, our hometown outdoor magazine, did a Q & A with us and we're psyched. This is the magazine that we used to pick up monthly to read, so it's super cool to be featured online! The timing also worked out nicely since it was just a few days before our one year anniversary.
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A commonly asked question by soon-to-be-travelers and non-travelers is: Do you get lonely on the road? The answer we always saw on other full-timers websites was no because they had this great community of friends who also lived on the road.
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I had the opportunity to be a guest writer for LifeEdited, a great site focused on showing "how to design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy. It's life. Edited."
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Back home I showered daily. Ok, sometimes I'd skip a day if I was lazy or just hadn't sweated enough. But there wasn't ever a need to keep track because I showered whenever I wanted to. I didn't have to think about whether there was enough water or enough electricity to shower. Since in living the Toaster, I don't always get to shower when I want to.
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Writing the post When Was The Last Time You Showered got me wondering - how often do other people who live on the road shower when boondocking (aka dry camping)? Fill out the survey and let us know!
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We made a dog bed platform in the back of our truck so the dogs could comfortably lay there and we wouldn’t lose storage space the back seats could provide.
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We can't believe it's already been 6 months since we left Asheville! It's definitely been an interesting past few months - we've learned a lot and been tested numerous times.
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Great news!!! We found a replacement truck and my touring bike was found (well parts of it – read on).
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Those of you who check in regularly with us on the website may have noticed that the dot on the map hasn’t moved at all recently. And those who follow us on social media may have noticed that there hasn’t been a lot of activity. This is because our summer hasn’t gone as we had planned. Surprise, surprise! If there’s anything we’ve learned since living on the road, it is that things don’t go as planned.
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