Thanks, Joy!  Forgot you were doing that when you came through Buses by the
Beach that year.

Maybe your model is the way to:  Down size to the point where the situation
is manageable enough to just take off for 3-6 months at a time.  That way,
one has a "home base" to come back to if road weariness sets in.

Thanks for the links - we always enjoy your great photos!

Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "JoesVan"
WWW.Busesbythebeach.com

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:28, 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.
> >
>