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Happy to have found this space as I get ready to pull the full-time nomad trigger in 2022. Looking to make some friends and contribute to the amazing community I've come to learn about while watching YT videos and reading what people so generously share about their lives on the road.
Several summers in high school in the mountains of Montana and Wyoming was what first hooked me on the freedom of having everything I needed in my backpack. 40-some years later, I'm preparing for a life well-lived from a hard-sided tent. Mine will be a Prius, given that what jazzes me is reliability, superior gas mileage and that fabulous built-in generator.
Living and traveling in Europe for three years when I first got out of college proved to me how well public transportation could be done, and I promised myself that one day, I would end up somewhere with a transit system that would allow me to live that way in this country.
That opportunity presented itself in 2012 and since then I have been car-free, experimenting with intentional living situations involving renting rooms from friends. This has allowed me to sock away cash for retirement that would have been spent on car ownership and upkeep. While I am privileged to want to be on the road and I am blessed with great health, my finances in this precarious economy plus my preferences for freedom all point to choosing this solution for myself. Once I hit the road, obviously I will flip to sticks-and-bricks-free instead.
I fully committed to my exit-from-conventional-culture plan in August of 2019. In addition to intentional community living, being a hammock sleeper, an unschooling proponent (I'm a former public school teacher), a Community Rights follower and a slow/real food eater, all make embracing the alternative, full-time nomad existence pretty much a natural next-step for me.
Since this fall I've practiced camping a few times in a Prius; gotten rid of the little furniture I still owned; downsized and focused the possessions I have toward my goal instead of just buying more "stuff"; experimented with different types of non-electric cooking methods and freeze-dried foods; ordered maps from my local DNR for dispersed camping locations near me to try out next summer; familiarized myself with the year-round snowbird concept of climbing altitude in summer and hanging out in the desert in the winter; and limited my collection of road gear to a 6' X 6' shelving unit. If it doesn't fit in there, it's not coming with me.
I'd love to attend the RTR/WRTR this year, but I'm just not ready yet; 2021 for sure! I will be in Tucson for a week in March of 2020 and plan to explore nomad spaces as much as possible then.
I'm envisioning doing mostly boondocking in urban and natural settings while I see what I haven't yet seen of this great country and visit with friends and family for the first year or so. I teach classes that I want to offer in person in the various locations that I love and want to return to on a regular basis, so I am starting to establish relationships with venues that will be interested in hosting me. After that, wherever the road takes me is just fine with me.
I'm a single cis female, would entertain a relationship with a fellow nomad at some point, but what I'm really looking forward to is friendships with my travelin' brothers and sisters while we all benefit from and respect Mother Nature's bounty.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to getting to know you while we support each other in the lifestyle we're building. [/font]
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Happy to have found this space as I get ready to pull the full-time nomad trigger in 2022. Looking to make some friends and contribute to the amazing community I've come to learn about while watching YT videos and reading what people so generously share about their lives on the road.
Several summers in high school in the mountains of Montana and Wyoming was what first hooked me on the freedom of having everything I needed in my backpack. 40-some years later, I'm preparing for a life well-lived from a hard-sided tent. Mine will be a Prius, given that what jazzes me is reliability, superior gas mileage and that fabulous built-in generator.
Living and traveling in Europe for three years when I first got out of college proved to me how well public transportation could be done, and I promised myself that one day, I would end up somewhere with a transit system that would allow me to live that way in this country.
That opportunity presented itself in 2012 and since then I have been car-free, experimenting with intentional living situations involving renting rooms from friends. This has allowed me to sock away cash for retirement that would have been spent on car ownership and upkeep. While I am privileged to want to be on the road and I am blessed with great health, my finances in this precarious economy plus my preferences for freedom all point to choosing this solution for myself. Once I hit the road, obviously I will flip to sticks-and-bricks-free instead.
I fully committed to my exit-from-conventional-culture plan in August of 2019. In addition to intentional community living, being a hammock sleeper, an unschooling proponent (I'm a former public school teacher), a Community Rights follower and a slow/real food eater, all make embracing the alternative, full-time nomad existence pretty much a natural next-step for me.
Since this fall I've practiced camping a few times in a Prius; gotten rid of the little furniture I still owned; downsized and focused the possessions I have toward my goal instead of just buying more "stuff"; experimented with different types of non-electric cooking methods and freeze-dried foods; ordered maps from my local DNR for dispersed camping locations near me to try out next summer; familiarized myself with the year-round snowbird concept of climbing altitude in summer and hanging out in the desert in the winter; and limited my collection of road gear to a 6' X 6' shelving unit. If it doesn't fit in there, it's not coming with me.
I'd love to attend the RTR/WRTR this year, but I'm just not ready yet; 2021 for sure! I will be in Tucson for a week in March of 2020 and plan to explore nomad spaces as much as possible then.
I'm envisioning doing mostly boondocking in urban and natural settings while I see what I haven't yet seen of this great country and visit with friends and family for the first year or so. I teach classes that I want to offer in person in the various locations that I love and want to return to on a regular basis, so I am starting to establish relationships with venues that will be interested in hosting me. After that, wherever the road takes me is just fine with me.
I'm a single cis female, would entertain a relationship with a fellow nomad at some point, but what I'm really looking forward to is friendships with my travelin' brothers and sisters while we all benefit from and respect Mother Nature's bounty.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to getting to know you while we support each other in the lifestyle we're building. [/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Cheers![/font]