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Our 5th Wheel Renovation

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 Boondock or Bust

I’m not much of a blogger. I tend to stick with Instagram and Facebook as my main outlet for social media. This blog has been neglected and I apologize for that. But I thought I would share my latest renovation. This rig is also for sale but more on that later. Please see Facebook Marketplace posting here: For Sale

Those who know me by now, know I like to renovate and remodel! It’s a form of creative release to me and I enjoy it immensely even if it’s a lot of work!

My latest project is our 5th wheel that we purchased in April 2018. I definitely thought outside the box on this one. It took me longer than usual to get this renovation done. We lived in it the entire time along with our two cats so that really made it challenging!

A little background. This rig is a 2006 NuWa Hitchhiker II LS. It is 34′ long with three slides. Bathroom sits separately from the bedroom. I think it’s gross to have a shower and sink in the bedroom, personally. This rig seems more like a small apartment.

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Why We Live This Life

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 Boondock or Bust

Many times people question us as to why we choose to live “homeless”. We tell them we are not homeless but that we take our home everywhere with us! A lot of our family in particular think we are crazy, or just going through “a phase”. No amount of words can persuade them. No matter, we love this life and this is why. Photos can say what words cannot express. Enjoy.

1. Visiting amazing places! In just the past couple of years we have visited some beautiful locations and we haven’t even touched the tip of the ice berg yet! Here is a sample of some of the places we have seen:

2. Meeting great people and inspiring others along the way. So amazing!

Doug, Denise, Zoey and us at Treasure Falls, CO. We inspired them to live full time in an RV and they inspired us to buy our Avion! We’ve known them for over 13 years.

Laurie & Scott of Disrupting Ordinary in Quartzsite

Me with Kait & Leo of We’re The Russo’s in Woodland Hills, CA

Shannon & Dave of 2 Wander Away in American Girl Mine

Amazing food!!

Amazing nachos from Kips Cantina, Pagosa Springs, CO

Low Country Boil in the middle of nowhere!

Amazing views and great food, Klamath Falls

And last but not least, incredible sunsets:

Sam’s Family Spa, Desert Hot Springs, CA

As you can see, the above photos are just some of the reasons we live this life. And these are just brief moments of why we do this. Our main driving force? FREEDOM!

Is it all peaches and cream? Hell no! There are many sucky days just like living in a sticks and brick! But we wouldn’t trade this life for all the houses in the world!

New adventure awaits just down the road! Live your life while you can and stop buying into the fallacy that keeping up with the Joneses is the right thing to do. The Joneses are broke!

Travel is the ONLY thing you buy that makes you richer!

Cheers!

Shelly & Mark ~ Boondock or Bust

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And We Are On The Road Again!

September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 Boondock or Bust

This has been a crazy year to say the least. Mark experienced some really bad health issues this year which put a brake on our travels. His health issues were getting so bad we even sold our little off grid cabin. 😢

Fortunately we were able to figure out what was causing all his symptoms (Lupus) and now we have a game plan with his doctor and are able to get the most severe of his issues under control. Along with his major back surgery nearly 4 years ago, things have been really insane health wise. I’m glad that we now have a handle on it and know how to deal with it!

As Mark was feeling better we started to get the itch to travel again. Our friends Doug and Denise have a cute 1978 Avion and we fell in love with it when we visited them.

We made it our mission to find one and that we did. We even got to surprise them this summer with it! And of course we were fortunate to have their help for about a month with the rehab of our rig.

Now that Armani the Avion is restored to his former (and better, imo) glory we have decided to hit the road again.

All set up at our first location on our latest journey

We will be hanging in the northern New Mexico area while we finish up some doctors visits and shake the bugs out of the rig. Oh, and we got a couple new travel partners too!! Meet Ranger (blk/wht) and Scout (tabby). So far they have taken to RV life just fine and we anticipate many fun adventures with them!

See you down the road!