Freedom in a Can: Adventures with Hamlet

"That's genius!" Hutch exclaims, "why haven't we done this before?" Every single day on the road for the past 12 years, 5 months, and 26 days, we have learned something new -- about ourselves, each other, our communities, our beautiful country, and how to make the everyday things we do just a little bit easier. It's just like any life, really, except ours moves around a bit more. Monday at this time, we were leaving a cute Air BnB above Blake's Tavern in Lil' Rhody and getting an Uber to go to the Providence airport.  Today, we are back in our normal habitat, sitting outside of Hamlet along a beautiful lake in an off-grid campground in central North Carolina with thousands of birds chattering away in the distance. The city is a mere 7 miles up the road, but it feels like a world away.   When we give in-person seminars at RV shows in various cities across the country, we meet people who are trying to absorb as much as they can before they even ...

From Furniture City to Rocket City - Finding Your Dream RV! What's an RV Show?  This was our first thought after being asked to speak at one in 2015.  We'd already been living in an RV for 2 years, but we had no idea what these shows were all about.  After a decade, they are now an integral part of our annual schedule.  If you'd have told me that we'd be traveling around the country sharing personal insights into our simple camping life, let alone making a living through it, I would've called you crazy.  S hari is nudging me to mention all the other side gigs and things that keep us afloat financially, including the blog writing, the videos, the product testing, and more -- but I digress.  It all began in Furniture City, with the Grand Rapids Camper, Travel, & RV Show in January 2015.   Seriously though, what is an RV Show?  Many of you joined us on this newsletter from the audience of one of our show seminars, but some of you might have ...