This is a GREAT topic for me to write about today! Yup, I’m late getting this post out! I have been running The Location Independent Lifestyle Series blog posts every Monday, and here it is Monday at 5:22 PM and I don’t have my blog post for the day!!! Why? Because I’m feeling unmotivated –…
So the last month has been pretty boring as we have been stuck back in Illinois. The good news is that Brian’s Eagle Scout project is turned in to his troop. And now we just have to wait for the Council to contact us for the final meeting. This could take several weeks, so as…
When Jim said, “Let’s go to South Dakota!” when we were trying to figure out which direction to go first after our launch, I was all like, “Meh. South Dakota? Not much in South Dakota, except the Badlands, which are only mildly interesting.” Boy, was I wrong! We spent several days around Deadwood and the…
We finally broke free of Illinois for a couple of weeks!! Woot!!! So we started heading west and stopped for a couple of nights in Amana, Iowa so we could see the Amana Colonies. The Amana people began in the early 1700’s in Germany by two men, Eberhard L. Gruber and Johann F. Rock, who…
Day seven of our full time journey… It’s getting more real, slowly. We’ve been full time Rvers for a week now, but still cleaning up “former life details” in the Chicago area. Yesterday was a big day. We finally closed and sold the house (Yay!) And I sold my jeep. Not sure how I feel…
We’re counting down! 9 more days! So far we have: *Held 2 garage sales *Sold multiple items via Craigslist *Taken 2 carloads to Goodwill (stuff that didn’t sell in the garage sale) *Dumped multiple loads into the dumpster at Jim’s office. And all this is AFTER we just sold the big house in December and…
Somehow, we took a couple weeks and are escaping the frozen north. I’ve been posting to our facebook page, but unfortunately, our facebook connector (which we actually paid for) doesn’t work… Anyway, here is today’s facebook post: South of Birmingham Alabama tonight, after a 325 mile drive. Had some great beef with sweet peppers…
Well it’s done. Well, not done, of course, still lots to do. But last night, thanks to a LOT of help from Jake Mellema and his friend Johnny, as well as tons of work by Dann Mellema and Brian Mellema, last night we slept in our “new house” We moved from a 4000sf custom timberframe…
Yup, the DW says it’s my turn. Earlier today was thinking about that abbreviation earlier and came up with something really good, but it escapes me now. Dynamite maybe? Today was just another day. Working on stuff. Shipping orders. Painting in one of the offices I wish to rent out. Taking delivery of a new…
Its official! All attorney reviews, inspections and paperwork are final and the house is SOLD! We will close on Dec. 17th, so the push is on to minimalize, clean out, and move everything we own to our other property in Oswego. We will be staying there until my youngest son finishes up his Boy Scout…