I am writing this post early this month. I can do so because I am already back in Colorado and I have spent all that I am going too this month. Nothing really out of the ordinary in my finances this month. As is the norm, Gasoline and Groceries top...
After taking January off from my van-adventures, I returned to the road on the 28th of January. One of my goals financially is to live on even less than the $1,000 per month of last year. With it still being mighty cold in Colorado, the main goal – other than...
I have tracked my van-dwelling expenses for one full year now, mostly as an experiment to see where the money really goes in my style of van-dwelling. While other van-dwellers tend to stay put for long periods of time. I usually put down a lot of miles of traveling and...
At the beginning of October I was just crossing over the North Cascades National Park way up at the top of Washington State. I now sit parked (have been sitting for a few days) way down at the bottom of Oregon State. While less than 600 miles separate my starting...
The further I have gone west, the lower I have been getting… elevation-wise. With the fact that I have been getting closer to sea level is the fact that my MPG numbers have taken a hit. Even with higher octane fuel, and going generally downhill since Montana, my MPGs have...
September was my first full month back to van-dwelling on the road. Admittedly, 3 weeks of the month was spent camped at the Moose Lodge in Whitefish Montana, but that didn’t stop me from getting out and doing things as if I were on the road. The added back-n-forth into...
The first half of August was still spent parked in Colorado. I left there on the 18th, meaning I had half a month of camping expenses and half with traveling expenses. They do not differ all that much other than my gasoline money ends up going into more dining out...
I had fully expected to spend a lot more than usual this month as I knew I would have some larger single-item expenses this month: Primarily I am talking about all the vehicle maintenance that was done on the van ($139 in parts and did the labor myself) before restarting...
This quarter has been spent entirely sitting in one location, making it quite different to last quarter where I was on the road traveling. This quarter I’ve also been on a self-quest of living on less than $30 per day, and while I did achieve it last month ($29.71 per...
OK, it is becoming clear to me that when I sit still in a city, I spend more on things I should not; dining out for instance. Where I should be saving money by buying groceries and preparing my own meals, I have been pretty frivolous with my dining spending....
