Our Journey

If you’re reading this post without benefit(?) of some of the older posts on this blog, you might not know that my husband Brian and I plan to move to New Hampshire. The reasons for this are threefold: a better economic climate, a saner political climate, and an actual four-seasons climate. One replete with fresh mountain…

This is part 2 of my previous post, “The Low End of the Market is an Ugly Place to Be.” If you haven’t already read that post you might want to head there first. “After 44 miles and $9.00 in tolls, I have reached the promised land.” I felt a little giddy reading Brian’s text.…

It’s been eight months since I spilled my guts all over the page in a post about our experience in the low end of New Hampshire’s housing market (a place that seemed to be the best we could hope for). B’s 1200-mile trip to inspect the firehouse was months before that. The lack of progress was…

Last week I wrote about my (now our – hooray!) idea to downsize to an RV to save on living expenses. If you missed it or need to refresh your memory, you can read it here. The OCDG Returns Before the day the RV idea came to me in the shower, all I knew about RVs was…

^ That is the big question, and to be honest we don’t have more than ideas. At least one may be a pretty good idea. This we do know: If we make the right choices, living in an RV is less expensive than living in a house (which is why we initially decided to do…

I kept waking up last night. I was cold. Or I had a foot or leg cramp. Or my brain simply decided 1:05, 2:30, 4:17, etc., were good times to try thinking through situations I hadn’t settled during normal waking hours. The night before was even worse; I had food poisoning. If I’d just pulled…

If you’ve followed our story so far, you may have realized that previous posts made frequent mention of the business Brian built and has run for the last several years, and the one we’ll spin off from that. So, where am I in all this? I mean, besides being the supportive spouse who has dinner…

We got our RV! And broke it on the first day 🙁 Not what we wanted, but there are three things we have learned from times like this: Things go wrong in RVs, as in life – sometimes minor, sometimes major. Accept that there will be problems & trust we’ll figure them out. Understand that challenges make us smarter &…

I wanted to make a quick and dirty video while we had the RV home a couple of weekends ago, so we could show you all the changes we made as we readied it for full-time life. Problem was, cameraphone video is pretty much all I’ve ever done. Using my phone would almost certainly have…

An e-mail here, a phone call there and BOOM – we sold the house and found a cool place to land. We’re not leading a charmed life (because #RV), but it feels damn close.

John Lee takes over the blog and tries to make sense of what his humans have done.

If there’s one thing I’ve actually, finally learned in my 5+ decades of life it’s that big changes of any kind very often take longer than we’d like. After we told everyone our plan to live in an RV and go wherever, people constantly asked when we were going to leave. It was a source…

Downsizing nearly drove me insane – until I met a woman who knows how to kick downsizing’s ass.

Getting out of our house and into our RV without losing our shirts (or our minds) seemed like too much to ask. In 2005, the house’s reasonable price, proximity to work, nice neighborhood, fenced backyard for the dogs, and low property taxes seemed like good reasons to buy. Sure, it was a big-ass house –…