We sold our house in Sudbury, Massachusetts
and have been living without a house for over a year.
Some could call us homeless,
but we prefer to call ourselves “house-less.” Besides, we have a home; it just
isn’t a house.
We spent the year in our
little 108-square foot home which went with us pretty much wherever we went. We
looked at real estate, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, became
Florida snowbirds, visited friends & family, and traveled throughout the
Eastern US making the most of our “full time RVer” status. (See East Coast Trip 2017 and Appalachian Trip 2017.)
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| Our trailer heading toward the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia |
We hadn’t intended to be
full-time RVers, but it worked out that way for this season. Trailer living
worked out well, but we missed not having a home base. So when we returned to New England at the end of spring, we resumed our house
search with the same challenges we had the previous year: a sellers’ market,
low inventory, and seemingly hard-to-find criteria – a nice small single-floor
house that accommodates our trailer. Finally we found a place and we will be
closing on it soon. It’s a new ranch northeast of Springfield, Massachusetts
with construction almost complete. Here’s the general location.
Here’s some pictures of the
house still under construction.
We still plan to do the same
things we were doing when we lived in the trailer (volunteer, travel, and visit
family & friends), but now we will have a home base. In fact we’ll be
volunteering at a National Park in South
Carolina soon (stay tuned), but this year we hope to
be in a house for the holidays.
