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Hi all. 
I’ve been watching Bob’s channel for years but my spouse, Amy, and I are just beginning our walk into nomad life. She lost her job recently due to COVID-19, and in the last week and a half we’ve moved from Florida, where she’s from, to Alaska, where I’m from, for the time being. My mom passed away last year, and a few years before that she had purchased this vintage Shasta trailer to use for camping. We think we are going to buy my sisters out of their shares of it and use it as our home. It needs some work, but hopefully not so much that it’s a bad idea. Amy is pretty handy as long as she has directions and we’ve found some good resources on repairing vintage trailers, so that’s good.
We just got to Alaska a couple of days ago, so we’re still sort of recovering from the trip, but trying to think through our options for getting her set up with a new job. I’m not able to work a whole lot due to a disability, but I’m working on setting up a copywriting business. With some luck, we’ll get her set up with something that can be done remotely as well so that it can be kept up once we get on the road. (And also help with social distancing, as we’re both immunocompromised.)
We’ll be traveling with two big ol’ poodles, one being my retired service dog, and one is his replacement. They were not much impressed with the drive from Florida to Alaska, but hopefully they’ll have more room in whatever vehicle we purchase to pull the trailer than we had in the cab of the u-haul!
We have a lot of stuff to go through - we moved on less than a week’s notice, and there was no time to sort as we went - and a trailer to fix up, and a car to sell so that we can buy a different vehicle to pull the trailer. And a whole lot to learn. And we’re honestly pretty scared about all of this change, and especially figuring out the money of all of it. That’s a biggie. But I’m grateful to have known already that this community exists and where to find it. Hi everybody.
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I’ve been watching Bob’s channel for years but my spouse, Amy, and I are just beginning our walk into nomad life. She lost her job recently due to COVID-19, and in the last week and a half we’ve moved from Florida, where she’s from, to Alaska, where I’m from, for the time being. My mom passed away last year, and a few years before that she had purchased this vintage Shasta trailer to use for camping. We think we are going to buy my sisters out of their shares of it and use it as our home. It needs some work, but hopefully not so much that it’s a bad idea. Amy is pretty handy as long as she has directions and we’ve found some good resources on repairing vintage trailers, so that’s good. We just got to Alaska a couple of days ago, so we’re still sort of recovering from the trip, but trying to think through our options for getting her set up with a new job. I’m not able to work a whole lot due to a disability, but I’m working on setting up a copywriting business. With some luck, we’ll get her set up with something that can be done remotely as well so that it can be kept up once we get on the road. (And also help with social distancing, as we’re both immunocompromised.)
We’ll be traveling with two big ol’ poodles, one being my retired service dog, and one is his replacement. They were not much impressed with the drive from Florida to Alaska, but hopefully they’ll have more room in whatever vehicle we purchase to pull the trailer than we had in the cab of the u-haul!
We have a lot of stuff to go through - we moved on less than a week’s notice, and there was no time to sort as we went - and a trailer to fix up, and a car to sell so that we can buy a different vehicle to pull the trailer. And a whole lot to learn. And we’re honestly pretty scared about all of this change, and especially figuring out the money of all of it. That’s a biggie. But I’m grateful to have known already that this community exists and where to find it. Hi everybody.
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