Summer is officially here, with three days in a row of 85 degree temperatures. While I realize that isn't crazy hot for those of you who live in actually hot places, the Pacific Northwest doesn't regularly see temperatures this hot for very long, and so many places (especially homes) don't have built in air conditioning.…
This week, I'm on a couple of podcasts for the very first time, so instead of a separate post today, I'd love for you to head on over to give them a listen. FIRE Drill Podcast FIRE Drill is one of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and it is one of my absolute…
February marked three months of very closely tracking our day to day spending. I fell off the wagon a bit the second half of December but hopped back on with daily logging in January. So far, we haven't quite hit the same low monthly spending as November, but it's been close. We ate through our…
I have to admit, I'm enamored with van life as much as the next person. The idea of being able to pick up and go in a tiny house on wheels, no worries about clutter or cleaning, sounds absolutely fabulous. But our family is stationary during the week these days, and our goal is to…
Since most of our camping is done in the Pacific Northwest, off season is rainy and somewhat cold, so a tent isn't the most fun way to travel outside of the summer months. We love to travel outside of peak season though, in order to avoid 7 hour ferry lines, and it starts to get expensive…