Art of Tiny Living: Road Adventure part 5, Heading Home
The final two stops as we make our trip to Florida and back to New Mexico.
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Getting things ready for an upcoming trip. In June we’ll be heading out to present our “Modern Pioneerism” at a couple festivals throughout the Midwest. We are hoping to share our experiences to help others achieve their own Modern Pioneerism without as much learning curve as we’ve had!
Our workshops we’ll be offering..
Setting the vision.
We found ourselves in late 2019 looking to discover a place in the world that was ours. We felt that the fates had led us (intentional or not) onto a path of discovery for ourselves. There was a way of living that was difficult to define to others, much less clearly understood by us. We knew just a taste of what was possible within what we were already doing in a tiny environment. The leap was certainly an opportunity to see something for all of us and answer the question, did we hold within the spirit of those ancestral footsteps, to break the ground where few feet have tread?
**Back ground…….
**the sizing down….
**Why the Hell New Mexico?
**What would the elders have said?
**Oh Shit!!!! It’s Covid!
Plateau Hame de Colquhoun.
What is it that drew us here? These harsh wastelands of the Mesa, the desert, the badlands of the American SW. There is this sense of being “out there” that is easily envisioned and yet meant to be only experienced. Surrounded by vast lands and hugged by the mountains, it does leave one with a feeling of abandon and isolation, and yet comfort. What a better place to find yourself and learn of your merits and your might. Like those of a different age, we have to discover what works for all of us, and what is the most sustainable method of our existence within a small footprint, in a place that only allows for shallow roots.
**Getting there is the easy part?
**The learning curve
**Living in the Wild, Wild West ( this isn’t the 1880’s)
**What’s to make of Necessity? ( where want and Need collide)
**Footprints in the sand
Where do we go from here?
When we think about the possibilities, we make choices. What fits the now vs. what can wait..and what is most important to us. We have a desire to be nomadic. We have a want to expand out into places of meaning and yet develop and grow with what we have at home. The conundrum of the contradiction? Maybe?
**There is always an option
** Living Tiny in a Great Big World
**The Spoke and the Hub
**Oh Gimme a Home
This week has been so busy that we didn’t take time to edit this weeks video.. Fighting with Eco-Worthy in hopes to get the old solar system up and going before we head out.(Don’t think we should purchase replacements when it’s all under warranty). But that’s not going to happen , we are still being ignored, no calls or emails back.. Plus side the new solar (Not from ECO-WORTHY!) has all been delivered, we will begin setting it up once back from our trip!
We will have the video up this week!
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Cleaning day.. We don’t fill up the tank in the RV so means boiling up hot water. For drinkable water we fill up 4 5 gallon jugs at walmart to use. This will change once the new solar is up and going… Once the solar is up we have 3 / 330gallon tanks full of water that will be hooked up to a well pump. Progress part2.
So, until then we run the generator to vacuum, and remain in travel mode for showers. When will the solar be up, you may ask? We had planned to have it built and up by now.. But with shipment delays and price of lumber we have decided to wait until after our upcoming trip.
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Sorry this weeks video will be late.
This week has been busy with trying to get promised shipments delivered. Many of you know we have a much bigger solar set up coming.. Well most is here, we are now waiting on the 2000 lbs of batteries to arrive!
Our old solar set up the controller died which caused the batteries to overcharged and killed them. (Luckily they didn’t explode!)
It’s all under factory warranty but the company has ignored every attempt We’ve tried contacting them. 6 phone calls as many or more emails, posted on their Facebook and still nothing back from them..
If your thinking of purchasing a solar setup stay away from Eco-Worthy Them!
On the plus side we do have our upcoming trip all planned (hopefully), booked and ready!
And it just…might…..rain?
勞…no way.
Here is Mel planning the itinerary for the next big trip. Anyone else do this or do you find it’s better to wing it? We tend to have most of our trips layer out, but it’s all subject to change.. No matter how much research you do things don’t work out the way you plan..
What have you found works for you?
Sitting here this morning listening to the wind hit the RV, wishing we had electricity to charge up our devices, watch TV. Yes we can run the generator and do all that. But that also means a noisy generator and using gasoline. But it’d also mean missing the sound of the wind blowing, or even sound of Dreugan at my feet snoring.
Soon we will have the new solar built, set up and it’s big enough to run the RV and Brent’s studio. Which means we can finally get Brent’s stuff out of storage and get the container set up. Then hopefully for the first time since we started this adventure on the West mesa ( or as we call it “Plateau Hame De Colquhoun”) we can feel at home.
Don’t get me wrong we are home, we love it here. But a huge part has been missing and it’s been in storage.
Can you guess what we’ll be doing? This is only half, rest has to be brought in by truck.. 2000 lbs worth. Anyone interested in coming and helping us set up? We would welcome the help Free Beer and campsite for anyone willing..
Tiny Living Road Adventure Part Four – Myrtles Plantation Louisiana
Follow along while we experience Modern Pioneerism and its challenges
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Update on the solar
Haven’t heard back from the solar company, we are thinking the controller malfunctioned which allowed the batteries to over charge 😦 we were lucky that the batteries didn’t explode..
It’s usually not this messy and as much sand, had wind storm when we got home, we where so fet up we just left the mess and closed it up..
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Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center 