Tag: Van Expenses

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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March 2026 Update and Van Build Expenses

At the end of March, we completed the last month of our 3-month house-sit for the lovely dog Penny in Crozet, Virginia. Our last days were spent cleaning, putting everything back where it belonged, packing, and getting the van, Periplo,…

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May 2019 Cost of Being a Nomad

At the end of May, we made our yearly migration back East. This very blog topic (The Cost of Being a Nomad) is one of the reasons we do this every Spring – we need more money. For eight years…

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March & April 2019 Cost of Being a Nomad

It’s time to add up our expenses again and see how much being a nomad actually costs. In March we left Mexico behind and crossed the border back into the United States. Since our return what we’ve spent money on…

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First Year Cost of Being a Nomad

February 1, 2018 – January 31, 2019. The end of this past January was the one year anniversary of our first year of tracking expenses. When we decided to go nomad about 7 1/2 years ago we had no debt….

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January 2019 Cost of Being a Nomad

Wow! January was our cheapest month of tracking expenses since I started doing so in February of last year! I don’t know if it is just all the stars lining up, that we are getting better about spending money, or…

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Nov & Dec 2018 Costs of Being a Nomad

It’s time for the bimonthly cost of being a nomad report for November and December. I know it is a little late – it almost being February, but we have been traveling pretty hard and now that we are in…

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Sept & Oct 2018 Costs of Being a Nomad

Another 2 months of tracking expenses is finally done. This little project can be a bit daunting sometimes because, really, we spend way too much money. But it is great to see where the money goes and be able to…

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July & August 2018 Costs of Being a Nomad

We have completed our 7th month of tracking every single one of our expenses. It can be quite a chore while we are here in Atlanta this summer house sitting and living it up in the big city, but I’ve…

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