You Ain't Right Club

[bonnieE350van]

So sorry for not responding back until now...have been without wifi for the last week do to a serious wind storm(something the weather people are calling a BOMBOGENISIS? something or other). been without power until 2 hours ago...
Anyway, for my story: April 1, 2013 began my full time living in a 9x12 Kodiak canvas tent and a Chevy Venture van...loading the van in the pouring rain til I could no longer fit everything I thought we would need to survive...Dropped off the majority of stuff at the campground, set
up camp, went back to the house, loaded rest of stuff in van to put in storage...spent two weeks at the campground in Texas then packed everything up and headed to Maine and my travel partners daughters house...Set up tent in her front yard and spent several weeks there...
Didn't stop to think that Maine in April would probably still be cold with a good chance of snow still being around...I mean it was nice and reasonably warm in Texas!!! anyway survived that (mis) adventure...
memory is cloudy as to whether it was that same year or another that we traveled back to Texas in July/August and set up the tent again
in same state park for another two weeks only this time in the triple digit temperature zone... Non-electric site so no fans to at least move the hot air around...
then we worked as camp hosts at another state park in Texas in October for a month...temps were again in upper 90's/low 100's...
one would think we would have things figured out by now as we have been living like this going on 5 years now...
but noooo, we're still doing some stupid stuff...
right now we are in Maine again...this time we arrived in May(black fly and tick season)...travel partner is throwing in the towel and planting roots...so once his shed/cabin is set up enough to survive the winter I'm back on the road and headed for warmer weather...he can keep the cold and snow...hopeing to get out of here by mid-November...
After a bad storm in April in Texas(2016) the tent was worse for wear so we started living in the van, using a screen house for some protection from the elements mainly for cooking...
Oh, and I remembered the winter of 2015 when the tent was set up in my ex-husband's back yard and it caved in on us (travel partner and I, not ex-husband) during the night from the sleet/ice that had fallen...no sleep the rest of that night as we were beating the ice off from the inside of the tent,,,
There are pictures some where but not digital for me to be able to post for all to see and shake their heads...
seems like the only stories I can tell about are related to our (mis)-adventures since we got on the road...