WHO KNEW?!?!? :)

(Just a reminder that this blog will be moving to its new home at the end of this year.)

Who knew that someone could to this sort of thing?? Not that I would want to, but just knowing that it is possible...although I suppose of one is able to build a house-on-wheels from the ground up - like a tiny house (such as the one pictured here, an idea that I have loved for years, and would do in a heartbeat if I didn't have to climb a ladder to go to bed - lol!) - then one can do major modifications to a metal version!

With living in a motorhome will come some repair and replace challenges along the way, that is certain. I am thankful to be married to a man who can fix anything, one way or another. He is brilliant at that sort of thing, and I'm sure this gift from God will save us some big bucks along the way. I also realize that there are some components and systems that he won't want to - or shouldn't - mess with, and will need to be handled by a professional, of course...but if they can do something this major, there's no reason we couldn't, if the need arose!

Disclaimer: I have NO plans to start tearing apart our future motorhome! And theirs is much different than ours would be. Just thought it was interesting, is all :).

Life...Simplified...

Giving up our home and living in a motorhome is going to simplify our lives. Ridding ourselves of 95% of our belongings is simplifying our lives. Streamlining everything from finances to subscriptions to online activity will simplify our lives. And so will the major undertaking and move that I'm already working on. And it should be complete by the end of the year.

Rather than have my activity spread out all over the internet, I have gotten a single account at Weebly. As our physical life is changing, so will my virtual life. And since the next chapter of our lives is all about VitaInVia, that is the umbrella under which everything else will reside.

I have started vlogging, and my vlogs will be posted there; my blogs will live and grow there; the information that I gather in order to share will be kept there; my photos and slideshows will be viewable there.

Yes, I already have a domain and a domain host, with tools that are easy to use. But again, I'm simplifying. I want someone else to do the legwork, so that I can drag and drop and point and click and publish. I don't want to have to read a manual to learn any complicated sites. I want easy - I want simple.

Weebly doesn't have an import tool for blogger posts, but this blog is young enough that I can copy/paste from here to there, and plan to have it done by the end of the year.

Ahhh, simplicity...

FINALLY! Momentum Returns!

Well, several things have given me renewed hope. I mean, face it, when nothing seems to be happening for months at a time, it is discouraging. On and off I've felt disheartened, but have also had periods of hope and excitement.

I've known for a while that I need to put up a web page about our plans and some information about our house as well. And finally, today I put everything else aside and did it!

What do I plan to do with the page (such as it is - nothing fancy, just information and a couple of links, including links to photos, for the moment) now? Well, I guess once it's completely done I will post it here, and to other places I post online - RV-related forums, for example. I can print up some cards with the URL to hand out or even mail, and can include the URL when replying to ads. I WILL fancy it up a bit, add a background, fonts, some design elements...now that the information is up there the rest will be more fun!

If you want to see what I've got so far, the URL is http://vitainvia.owly.net/.

Something else that has me excited is that someone wrote to me about posting on a barter site. I didn't even realize that there were barter sites out there! So now that I have a place for people to get information, I will start doing that. And also RV classified ad sites, and places like Oodle - not sure I want to do Craigslist, I've not had good experiences with posting there, the jerks seem to come out of the woodwork.

I've spoken with a realtor and also a title company, and it shouldn't be a very difficult thing to sign this house over to another owner...and of course transferring the title on an RV isn't difficult or expensive either. I'm sure things will come up that we'll have to deal with along the way - but at least I feel like we're moving forward toward our goal again, and the discouragement has once again ebbed.