Trailer Girl

If you've been reading recently, you'll know that i have to move out of my apartment with my boyfriend very soon. Finding a room mate has been luckless, finding a place i can afford on my own, even less luck. The more i think about renting a place, the more bitter i am about giving some one money for simply RENTING. Meaning at the end of the lease, i either get a higher rate to stay there, or nothing. So i'm tripping all over the place wondering how i'm going to handle this whole moving out thing.

Luck for me i have a brilliant father.
While out bonding over a punk rock show (NOFX) in our home town, we get on the topic of my future. First he suggests living on a boat, very like him, he made good points, and for a moment i considered it. His next suggestion was much better.

Buy a trailer and live in RV parks.

Why didn't i think of this?!
It's going to be just me.
I'm not certain where i want to live.
I don't have a roommate.
I don't like the idea of not owning anything i'm paying so much for.
I'll have my very own space.

Now of course there's downsides to being a trailer gypsy.
No real plumbing, uncertain internet connection, finding a laundry facility, tiny kitchen.
You know, loosing all the super kush features of living in a brick and moarter home.
I'd have to move often, but i can just tow my whole home away.
I'd still have to pay space fees.
There's downsides for sure.
The selling point for me is the freedom, and sense of pride knowing that i own where i live.

Hang up right now if finding a long term park.
I have a full time job i need to be close to, that's most of the point about me moving out.
I could stay at my parents forever, but it took me two and a half hours to get to work this morning from there.

The internet isn't wielding so many promising results, but after searching for just five minutes online, i see hope.
Travelers are kind of a secret society still. Looking at blogs from other travelers, i found that they too were highly discouraged by their internet findings. When it comes down to it, they had to break out the telephone book and drive around, asking questions and making deals.
Since this was my Dad's idea, i've got his support and help of this venture 100%. He's great at living off the internet, and i have a good feeling we'll end up finding a decent place to start/park.

I have my reservations about this adventure, but i feel more excited than anything.
I'll have to do a lot of work to make a trailer feel like home, but i'm enthralled by being able to do what ever i want to the space. Having never lived alone, i'll definitely be lonely, but i'm taking it as an opportunity to work on myself and my projects.

The more i think about this option, the more crazy it sounds. Then i realize, the only reason i wanted to rent in the first place, was because every one else was doing it...
What a better way to live entirely my own life, than by being independent of all my peers. I've never been one to exactly fit in.

This is going to be an interesting adventure.