

| Subject: | Re: Phrydae Topic: Who Is Living in Their Vanagon Full Time? |
| From: | Ry |
| Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:19:50 -0600 |
Just realized that's marked for viewing only by "friends and family" by my mother.....not sure why... reposted it here <http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cW1DRHjmlIHVufBcTnCQBw?feat=directlink>it is if anyone really wants to see it. <http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cW1DRHjmlIHVufBcTnCQBw?feat=directlink> -Ry http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Ry <rylincoln@gmail.com> wrote: > Joy, > Your website/blog is awesome, thanks for sharing with the world. > This <http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-nellie/3998793123/> is my folks > tinyhouse that my dad built on an old flatbed they've had forever. > > regards, > -Ry > http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln > > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> Actually, the fulltiming list is really no more about fulltiming than this >> list, and very few of the folks on it are actually fulltiming. But it can >> be interesting. >> >> At the end of 2003 I liquidated much of my stuff and went full time in my >> van - lived in it for around three years without housing elsewhere. More >> than you ever want to know about my life in a van can be found on my >> website, www.joyhecht.net - click on the link for "travels with Matilda." >> By the end of that period, which I spent traveling (as opposed to living >> in >> one place in my van), I was tired of traveling - moved back to my house >> (which had been rented) and reassembled the makings of a household. Since >> then I've been moving around a lot, though - moved back into the van, a >> lot >> of travel for work, etc. I supposedly have a home elsewhere now, but I >> don't seem to spend more than a few months a year there. >> >> Barb Cotton has been fulltiming for a few years. She has an intermittent >> blog, but I don't think she updates it a lot. She travels some and does a >> bunch of picking up jobs in or near national parks - waitressing and >> stuff. >> She's spent a lot of time in Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, that neck of the >> woods. Aha, I found her blog: http://inmy83westy.wordpress.com/ >> >> There are a number of people who take maybe six months or a year of >> traveling, and maintain blogs about where they go - then return home and >> go >> back to somewhat more conventional life. Not so many who really liquidate >> their homes and don't have one at all. >> >> This site isn't specifically about vanagons, but it's kind of cool: >> http://tinyhouseblog.com/ >> >> >> >> Joy >> and Matilda, who's resting in NJ now while I'm working in Nairobi >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > RE: Full timing >> > You need to join the Yahoo Group vwvanfulltimers.. Several full timers, >> > several some times full timers, and several who have full timed in the >> past >> > in the Westfalias. >> > >> > >
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