VAN and Vball

our trip to BC continues.     The weekend over, we returned (slowly) to Vancouver with our reclaimed wood posts in tow.  Sounds like there are a few more waiting on me back in whistler with the management company in charge of the reno, but i’m not sure where I would …

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doing what terrifies us

The heatwave in portland continues. It’s amazing how quickly we all acclimate to the very temperate climate portland usually provides us…and then how completely defeated we can be by a few days in the high 90s.  It’s baffling how quickly it zaps the energy and leaves us absolutely drained. Jen …

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waiting…

its about all there is to do.  Since we realized we’re out of money, things seems to have slowed to a crawl.  We’ve mostly halted the studio remodel except for the contractors we’ve already paid to get underway- not much we can do about those already written checks, and at …

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bouncing off the bottom

sometimes it’s a very short distance from high to low. In a few weeks where things seemed to be working out better than we could have planned them, it took us a bit by surprise.  Things recently have seemed amazing.  Our remodel project seems a success and has bookings, we …

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urban nomads

The week since the ADU Tour has been a blur.    We have been hopping from house to house in between AirBnB guests.  One night sleeping in the bus, a few nights sleeping on the floor of the demoed but not yet rebuilt studio, a few nights back at the …

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Portland ADU Tour

the word is apparently out…  We had blocked out a week without guests in the garage so that we could wrap up some last minute items before the Portland ADU tour came through on sunday.  It was actually a good chance to test out that whole balance issue we talked …

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Hitting the Reset Button

sometimes you just have to know when to say when. This last week was one of those times.  We’ve been burning the candle at both ends and holding a torch under the middle for a bit too long.  It’s slowly been becoming more clear, but moving into last weekend it …

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False deadlines and launch parties

The craziness continues…  The weekend saw us at exactly 29 days since we first stepped foot back into this creepy house and started knocking out walls in an attempt to make it somehow better.  Not long after, we had set the date as a false deadline for ourselves to be …

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Cleaning Up

and it’s so rewarding…  Wow, the last few weeks have been such a whirlwind.  We’ve been pushed to our limits physically, mentally and emotionally.  We’ve each had our days where we’ve reached our wits end and broke down and we’ve each helped the other find solid ground again…and that may …

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Introducing MakerFlat

If we can ever get the doors put back in…It hit me like a ton of bricks earlier this week that i’m horrible at saying no.  It just doesn’t seem to be in my vocabulary.  Here we are, in the middle of what is turning into maybe the fastest remodel …

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Our Crazy Lives

It’s been one of those weeks…  One of those weeks where we spend at least a few minutes each day kind of checking in with ourselves and realizing how exactly un-normal we are.  It’s not all by choice.  We can still remember the days when we had “normal” jobs and …

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Hours in the day

There just aren’t enough of them…   Seriously, sometimes I just can’t figure out where the day goes. Let’s take a quick look at my life shall we? I’m unemployed,  we purposefully have no major commitments, we don’t really watch tv to speak of, and to top it all off I …

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North of SanFran

we’re getting close!   After the 17 mile drive, we head north toward san francisco looking for Half Moon Bay.  We had a welcome invitation a while back from Christian and Persephone, who we haven’t connected with since the Maya Rally on our way south.  Christian was actually the one who …

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onward to Baja!

its been too long.   We had heard from other travelers that you had to make a reservation 7-10 days before the ferry, way different than when we came across from baja on the same boat.  We emailed and asked for a reservation a week or so in advance just to be …

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San Pancho

and… we’re back on the Pacific!! We leave tequila and follow the long winding road over the last set of mountains before we reach the pacific. As the road straightens out and we drive the last few km south into san pancho it feels almost as if we are pulling …

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on money and freedom

and finding the balance… These days of long driving hours take us to places of deep conversation and deep thoughts.  Time to reflect and look at the past and the future.  Time to make concerted decisions and alter paths.  What else would we do when driving impossibly slow for hours …

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2014, Year in Review

Looking back so we can look ahead… Last year we stumbled over the “year in review” and learned a great deal in the process while looking back at 2013.  We thought we’d give it another shot this year before we look forward to goals and aspirations for next year.  After …

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Stress, the ugly beast

Im slowly coming to grips with something I’ve really always known.  I apparently am a stress case.  I guess everyone else already knew this but i’m just realizing it now (again).  Don’t get me wrong, i knew i used to be one.  I had started young.  I had ulcers in …

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Freedom to roam

I may be finally wrapping my mind around this whole freedom thing.  It’s only been in the last few weeks that our current freedom seems to be truly setting in.  I’m not sure what’s bringing it about exactly, but i seem to be more astutely aware of the change in …

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Summertime flying by

I don’t think i’ve ever gone this long without a blog post since its inception.  Really not even a solid excuse for it either…just somehow busy.  It seems so odd that we removed 40-60 hour work weeks from our lives and yet can still find a way to be completely …

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