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655 times 2

Leigh — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:16:59 +0000

We’ve done it twice now. As of today, we’ve lived in 2 different Airstreams for 655 days each. Pictured above is our old 1963 Flying Cloud the morning after our second night boondocking ever. I was really surprised when I realized that we’ve been in this trailer the same amount of time as the old [...]

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Keeler Cabin

Leigh — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:57:57 +0000

Drive 5 miles in either direction from our place and you’ll end up in the Okanogan National Forest. Both in and outside of the forest there are many old homesteads. It was cool to see a National Forest sign giving a date to them: “This land was opened to homesteading in 1900 and many log [...]

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Tonasket Coop

Leigh — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:18:06 +0000

When we were first considering buying land in Tonasket, one of my requirements was that it needed to have a decent grocery store. By then we had traveled to some wonderful places in our old Airstream where we couldn’t find any produce, so a bad market would have been a deal-breaker. Obviously it was ok [...]

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Surrounded by Cows

Leigh — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:35:26 +0000

This morning when we woke up, our trailer was surrounded by cows! Our land sits on open range, which makes our property tax next to nothing (about a dollar something an acre per year). It also means that cows can coming roaming through as they wish, which explains why we have an awesome cow trail. [...]

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Mailboxes Etc.

Leigh — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:53:10 +0000

Do you think that mail delivery to your house is a luxury? After going a year and a half managing where all the mail is going every week, from General Delivery at the Post Office and UPS Customer Centers to random friends and family who are willing to accept mail on your behalf, it’s amazing [...]

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Cow Trail

Leigh — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:08:25 +0000

We’ve had our property for 7 years now and never knew that we had such a well carved hiking trail. Usually once a visit we’ll climb to the top of our parcel, but it requires quite a bit of effort due to the terrain. The other day we discovered this trail that kept going and [...]

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More Solar

Leigh — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:58:00 +0000

We’re really excited about our new solar panels. We already had (4) 100 watt panels on our roof, but in January when we first started boondocking regularly we weren’t able to get our batteries up to 100%. Even though we never reached a full charge in January, we never ran out of juice. I would [...]

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June Flowers

Leigh — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:57:33 +0000

One thing we enjoy about our property is the variety of flowers that grow here. In May the land is covered with yellow flowers, and in June it’s primarily purple. We also have quite a few of these bushes with thorny branches and pink flowers. And these, which I think is Queen Anne’s Lace. And [...]

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Cell Phone Booster

Leigh — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:57:09 +0000

We have an omni-directional cell phone antenna on our Airstream. When we’re on our property you have to sit on my side of the booth with the booster on and even then calls will break up and sometimes drop. Without the omni antenna, we have 1 bar of extended, with it we have up to [...]

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Homecoming

Leigh — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:59:22 +0000

Our property in central northern Washington is the closest place we have to a home next to the Airstream itself. We found it in February 2006 while we were camping in Big Bend National Park. I was searching google for “Colorado rural property” and found this! The website we were looking at had a lot [...]

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