We’re coming to the end of our first week as new residents of Washington State. We rolled in via I-90 on Monday, tired, a bit frazzeled, and barely ready to unload our lifetime of goods and chattel from the big yellow Penske and into a temporary storage unit. For the next couple weeks we will live in even less space than the 26 foot box truck we pulled through several mountain passes (not counting the extra 12 feet of trailer that held our Toyota RAV4 with its resident cats). Truth be told, this is a fun part of the Great Adventure as well.
Several months ago I produced a news feature on Tiny Houses which I referenced in several posts here. Among the reasons for caring so much about the story was that my wife and I were seriously considering buying or building a tiny house for ourselves once we got to Washington. There are several great reasons to consider living in one, but ultimately your decision about tiny houses may be dictated by severe limits on where you can put one and how long you can live in it. Given the state of the housing market here and the chance to buy an old fixer we could afford, we decided to buy a small home instead. We should close on it and move in with the next two to three weeks.
In the mean time, we are living in a 25 foot RV owned by my in-laws and sitting on a friend’s idealic farm in Snohomish County, north of Seattle. It’s wonderful! I could definitely learn to live this way long term if the situation called for and allowed it. Read More→
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