Actually, the fulltiming list is really no more about fulltiming than this list, and very few of the folks on it are actually fulltiming. But it can be interesting. At the end of 2003 I liquidated much of my stuff and went full time in my van - lived in it for around three years without housing elsewhere. More than you ever want to know about my life in a van can be found on my website, www.joyhecht.net - click on the link for "travels with Matilda." By the end of that period, which I spent traveling (as opposed to living in one place in my van), I was tired of traveling - moved back to my house (which had been rented) and reassembled the makings of a household. Since then I've been moving around a lot, though - moved back into the van, a lot of travel for work, etc. I supposedly have a home elsewhere now, but I don't seem to spend more than a few months a year there. Barb Cotton has been fulltiming for a few years. She has an intermittent blog, but I don't think she updates it a lot. She travels some and does a bunch of picking up jobs in or near national parks - waitressing and stuff. She's spent a lot of time in Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, that neck of the woods. Aha, I found her blog: http://inmy83westy.wordpress.com/ There are a number of people who take maybe six months or a year of traveling, and maintain blogs about where they go - then return home and go back to somewhat more conventional life. Not so many who really liquidate their homes and don't have one at all. This site isn't specifically about vanagons, but it's kind of cool: http://tinyhouseblog.com/
Joy and Matilda, who's resting in NJ now while I'm working in Nairobi
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote: > RE: Full timing > You need to join the Yahoo Group vwvanfulltimers.. Several full timers, > several some times full timers, and several who have full timed in the past > in the Westfalias. > |
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