• Alex Standiford

    Welp, it’s happening. After 4 years of full-time travel, we’ve decided it is time to slide back into the rhythms of “normal” life, and signed a lease to move into a house in our hometown of Dover, OH for December 1st(!)

    I love the time we spent traveling, and will always have the life-changing experiences that we had on the road with me. But yeah, I’m done. It’s been 4 years and I’ve got no more go in my go yonders.

    I’m sure it will come back, and I envision that I’ll full time again in the future, but for now, we just want to slow down a bit.

    https://casualweirdness.life/articles/personal-updates/the-journey-on

  • Alex Standiford

    Kates baking bread and I’m making enough pizza dough to start a pizzeria. It’s nice to have an actual kitchen again!

  • Alex Standiford

    Making this cabin feel more at home with a few inexpensive tweaks and cannibalizing from our now broken camper. The cabin smells like bread, and there’s some nice slow jazz playing from the TV.

    We’re displaced, but refuse to accept that this means we can’t feel at home.

  • Alex Standiford

    If you’re full timing in a camper, or boat, or whatever, drop what you’re doing and review your insurance policy. Learn about options related to a loss of use rider – because if your camper is out of commission for several weeks, you’re gonna be paying extra to live in a cabin or something in the meantime.

    Learn from my mistake!

  • Alex Standiford

    So…I think this might be how we exit out of full-timing. We were already poising ourselves to move into a house this Summer, but I think with my primary home, at best, being in a repair shop for several months, that we’re probably going to consider this a forced opportunity to exit. I really didn’t think we would be leaving like this, eesh.

  • Alex Standiford

    It’s been kinda fun to watch my youngest experience living in a house. He’s 4, and was an infant when we moved into the camper, so he has no idea what it’s like to live in a house.

  • Alex Standiford

    I had to literally initiate a 3-way call between the logistics company’s claims department and the logistics company support rep because they still hadn’t filed the actual claim. They say they did, but apparently the insurance company “never received it”. Prior to this 3-way call, the company was telling me their insurance company said they’ll follow up “sometime later this week”.

    Unbelievable.

  • Alex Standiford

    Y’ALL.

    Residential ovens are ABSOLUTELY HUGE.

  • Alex Standiford

    Suddenly living in a house instead of a camper is…jarring. I wasn’t mentally prepared for the shift.

  • Alex Standiford

    I can’t even open the slide more than about 2 feet. Which means that everything I have to get out of this camper has to feed through this tiny gap.

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