Category: House Sitting

May 2026 Update and Van Build Expenses

The plan (hope) was that the van would have been finished by the end of our 3-month house/pet sit in Crozet, Virginia, on March 31. As the end of March approached, we realized this wouldn’t be the case. I started…

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April 2026 Update and Van Build Expenses

After 3 months, on April 1, we finally left our house sit in Virginia with the dog Penny. We had had the van for 9 months and had hoped to be done with the conversion. But we were not. We…

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February 2026 Update and Van Build Expenses

The snow is finally gone. You still see it off the highway and piled high in the parking lot at Home Depot. But it is no longer a concern for us. Penny, our house-sitting charge, can run in the fields…

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January 2026 Update and Van Build Expenses

On January 1st, we moved to a new house sit in Crozet, Virginia, a little over a couple of hours away from where we were in Dumfries, Virginia. It was nice to have a short trip after our long drive…

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December 2025 Update and Van Build Expenses

December found us in Beaufort, SC, taking care of an 83 lb. hound named Sammy. We try to divide up our house-sitting chores. In Chapel Hill, I was mostly in charge of the dog, Tori, taking her on long walks…

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November 2025 Update and Van Build Expenses

We have been house-sitting for just over 3 months straight. It has been a mixture of good, useful, and sometimes not-so-ideal experiences. Not all the houses we have stayed in are as clean as I’d like. Occasionally, they are dark,…

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September 2025 Update and Van Build Expenses

In September, we began a series of back-to-back house sits that will last until April 1, 2026. As with most things we do, we fell into this string of sits before we even had a plan. The first sit came…

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June, July, August 2025 Update and Van Build Expenses

We arrived back in the US on May 30 after one year traveling around South America. It was good to be back in the country we are most familiar with and to start a new adventure. Greg’s mom, Dossie, had…

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February 2025 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Perú

We finished our 5 1/2 week house sit in Lima at the beginning of February. It was sad to leave our new dog friends, but we were ready to get on the road again and do some more exploring. Because…

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January 2025 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Perú

We spent the whole month of January in Miraflores, Lima house sitting for two adorable doggos! It was good to be off the road for a while. We were able to take care of things best done in a big…

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