SasEz! Simple & Sustainable Living…

Well it’s new for me at least and I’m having fun with it It doesn’t post my ink in here like the ink blog plugin for live Writer does, but it Does let me Write this entry With ink! And I’m writing directly on my browser Window too.

Pretty Cool

I don’t care for the idea of RV parks. I’ve lived in mobile home parks before, and it’s not too fun having your house squeezed into a tiny space between two others. I’m not a fan of apartment living either, and mobile home parks are a bit too much like apartments for my taste. Unfortunately I get the same impression from RV parks too.

We’re not overly social people. William needs a bit more social buzz around him than I do but it’s more of a desire for the buzz of civilization than it is any real desire to flitter around making small talk with one or more people. And we have a dog. Our dog has apparently decided to be completely anti-social, and that makes things a little more challenging for us …

Before embarking on our new travel living journey, we tried our best to make plans which would allow us to live and travel as sustainably as possible. And since I’m a writer and photographer who makes money online, our priority was to make sure we had a way to generate electricity. I’d already chosen solar power as my preferred method, and had actually been experimenting with various passive solar techniques the last year or so we lived in the house.

Just before selling everything and hitting the road though, we invested in a cheap starter solar panel system. Now this isn’t a top of the line power generator but we had to go cheap. We also wanted to experiment a bit and see how well …

In June 2009, my husband and I became empty nesters. Other than our 60 lb dog “Onyx” – he’s a lot like having a perpetual 2 year old in tow – we no longer have children living with us.

We decided to do something quite different for us once the kids were grown and gone. We’ve heard plenty about people retiring, buying a fancy RV, and traveling all over the country of course, so we decided we’d like to try something similar ourselves. Never mind the fact that I’m only 40, he’s younger than that, and we can’t afford a fancy RV yet.

The initial idea was to take an extended camping trip while we save money to buy our own land. I work online so it doesn’t matter …

I recently discovered an entire small world of other nomadic travelers, and the stories inspired me to finally get some more of my own updates online here.

When so much content was lost here back in August, the thought of writing everything from scratch was discouraging to say the least… so I’ve avoided it. Income has slowed to a trickle this month particularly too, so that hasn’t helped my confidence or enthusiasm much.

After reading various travel stories from others though, I have to admit I feel better about some of the decisions we’ve made and I’m much more motivated to start writing again. So I’ll start filling in some of the basics which were recently lost, then go from there… hopefully a little more regularly