Tag: House Sitting

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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October 2025 Update and Van Build Expenses

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…

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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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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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October 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Ecuador

We began October in the lovely Mindo, exploring the cloud forest, birding, and searching for waterfalls. But we were soon headed south. We had a house sit to get to by October 15 in Cuenca. We took a bus from…

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Nomad Life & Expenses January & February 2024

The start of a month of house sits We rang in the New Year in Mexico City, mostly recovered but still feeling the effects of whatever bug we had caught. Three days later on  January 3, we flew back to…

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Nomad Life Aug, Sept, & Oct 2023

On August 14 of last year, Greg’s father, Perry, had a stroke. We were in Cabbagetown (Atlanta) at the time house sitting for friends. After Greg got the call, we made a quick trip to the grocery store, and then…

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Nomad Life & Expenses July 2023

In July we finally landed at our first house sit of the summer in Cabbagetown. After a month of driving and visiting friends and family in June and visiting more friends and family during the first week of July, we…

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