Upon deciding we were going to build our own off-grid home, the question that immediately followed was "Where will we live while we're building our home?" We thought about our different options including living in an apartment, living in a travel trailer, and weighed the pros and … [Read more...]
Selling My Brand New Car to Start a Homestead
Today marked a big day for me... I sold my brand new car to fulfill my dreams of starting a homestead. I bought my 2013 Subaru Legacy a couple of years ago as I felt it was time to graduate from my 2001 Saturn L200. I had a job with a decent income, I was relocating to Colorado … [Read more...]
Healthy Camping Food Ideas: How We Eat When Camping
This week marks week two of our road trip throughout Idaho. We are spending some time up here checking out various properties and hoping to close on a piece of land. In the past we have both had negative feelings towards camping because in the past camping meant eating food that … [Read more...]
9 Things Learned in Our Year-Long House Rehabbing Project
A year ago when Jesse and I decided that we wanted to buy land and build a home in Idaho we realized that to accomplish those goals we needed a number of things to happen. Some things we needed to work on to give us that option included: Building a business that made us money … [Read more...]
How We Picked a Place to “Settle Down”
Everyone always talks about "settling down". This phrase never excited me because everyone made it sound bad and boring... kinda like getting married! Game over! "Settling down" was something that boring, older people did when it was time to stop having fun, and I never saw a … [Read more...]