THE STORIES

Our traveling home

For those of you who want to geek out on the specs and details of our new home, here’s the scoop. Our RV is an Alliance Paradigm 340RL (scroll down, it’s the 3rd model listed). We looked at over 100 RVs of all shapes and sizes. We knew, as “full-timers”

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Plan C: (C is for Cozy Camper)

As our time in Montreal wound down, we realized that we needed a Plan C, since apparently our truck was just never going to arrive (spoiler alert: that original truck still has not). Conveniently, Andrew still had his cozy 1974 travel trailer stored at Smirkus HQ in Greensboro, VT—on the

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Six art-and food-filled weeks in Montreal

Do you know what happens when you invest in art and culture? You have a city filled with it! (And, by the way, you have lots of people coming to experience it and spend money in your city.) From large festivals to small street fairs, there’s always something inspiring and

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Everything but the truck

Many of you have heard this sad story—we purchased the RV in February, promptly ordered a new truck to pull said RV, and did another round of packing and purging. Then we realized that the truck was not going to be ready for our May 1 departure date.  Plan B:

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