Hi all, my name is David, my wife and I live in central Montana. For the previous 10 years we had a nice, relatively small 18’ travel trailer. The winter of 2016 we spent a month boondocking in Arizona. Prior to that we used the trailer for weekend and week long outings. With the trip to Arizona I did not want repeat that trip with a trailer, I missed the freedom we had with our 1987 VW Vanagon. Prior to the AZ trip I had started looking at van forums and blogs but after the trip the research really kicked in. We decided to sell the home I had built 20 years earlier and move back to the much smaller house we lived in previously and had been renting out. Our renters of six years were in the process of buying their own home so the timing seemed good.
We ended up selling our home without an agent to a young couple with two 11 year olds. This put us facing moving from 2700 square feet down to 1260 sf. Big time downsizing. More than 40 boxes of books went to the library for the annual book sale. Trip after trip to the Salvation Army, St. Vincent, Good will and the Rescue Mission thrift stores. Sold a lot of BIG shop tools and replaced them with more portable models. Gave away and left for the new owners tons of stuff.
We've downsized a lot but are still working on it, and we now also own a 2017 Granite metallic, 159”, gasser, window van. Haven’t named it yet but I'm sure that will come. This is it.
We ended up selling our home without an agent to a young couple with two 11 year olds. This put us facing moving from 2700 square feet down to 1260 sf. Big time downsizing. More than 40 boxes of books went to the library for the annual book sale. Trip after trip to the Salvation Army, St. Vincent, Good will and the Rescue Mission thrift stores. Sold a lot of BIG shop tools and replaced them with more portable models. Gave away and left for the new owners tons of stuff.
We've downsized a lot but are still working on it, and we now also own a 2017 Granite metallic, 159”, gasser, window van. Haven’t named it yet but I'm sure that will come. This is it.
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