Category: 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…
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…
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…
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,…
We began the month in Hillsborough in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. There, we were house-sitting with a dog named Rakwa. We spent a lot of time working on the van, but also managed to get out a…
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…
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…
