I know the last update was quite a while back. There are reasons.

1. We’re doing them time-delayed as a security measure from that random internet person. (Not from you though, you’re good.)
2. We’re trying to let the kids use creating the content as their language arts work for school.
3. We’re human.
4. We’re still trying to figure out how to schedule things in this new life.
5. We’re trying to spend time on outings in places and connecting as a family.
6. We’re still working and doing school full-time – this is not an income producing blog.

While we were packing up the house to move into the camper I took a few minutes to quickly record the camper before we did too much moving in. There were two reasons. The first is that when researching the floorplan there were virtually no videos of this one out there. The second is to track how we think we’ll live in it versus how we do over time.

I have finally gotten a voice-over done for the footage. It’s not my best video and the audio is very “essey,” a little boomy, and overall run with too much gain much to my dismay. I blame a combination of the location and microphone as it is the first thing I’ve recorded here and I think the first time I used that microphone.

I’ll let you go watch the video, then I’ll put a few things on how we planned to use the space here.

Welcome back!

In the bunkroom, Gideon is in the fold-up bunk, which we never plan to fold up. Cecilia is in the top bunk on the other side, and Ephraim gets the last one. The two desks fit, with some cushioned folding chairs we picked up, in the bunkroom. We are getting some drawers, bins, and totes to turn the area on top of the cushions into dressers and storage for the kids.

The main area we plan to use as is really. Heather will generally work from there. We did immediately remove the cheap TV and put our 43″ 4K HDR tv in there. That took a new mount, but it is working.

The master is where I plan to have a desk set up on my side of the bed. This is a challenging thing to figure out. I need to find something small enough to get around at night and large enough to use as a desk while fitting in the space and being sturdy. I also intend to have a tv at the foot of the bed for nighttime. When I mention the space at the end of the bed being important, it was really about my plan for making the space work for me.

All that said, we’ve been living in it a couple of months now and have identified some things we needed to change, and some we still need to. This would be easier with a few more feet, or possibly with some different layouts, but we were pretty limited by weight in our choices of camper.

I’m pretty sure we are going to have a post from the kids soon, so please just hold on a little longer!