Chris Moody welcome back to radical personal finance it's so great to be here and live and in person indeed live and in person this time

The last time you were on the show you and your wife had been traveling it was July so you've been traveling at that time for a month

barely a month we had just gotten on the road and now here we sit we have traveled

21,000 miles nine or ten months in 72 square feet living in a cargo van with my wife and we still love

each other so much.

So you're taking the answer to my question up front.

Would you do it again?

Absolutely. We have learned so much in living this time together in a small space traveling

all over the United States and Canada. I'll tell you we would do it so much that we're going

to do it again in 2019. We've got a whole other leg of the trip around the country and

I would tell you where we're going but I don't know yet that's the beauty of it. So give new listeners

who didn't hear your first appearance on the show the 32nd version of what

happened and how you and your wife came to travel like this. My wife and I lived in

New York City and because of a job layoff we had a new opportunity

to do kind of whatever we wanted to and so we decided to sell and give away all of our possessions, got rid of our apartment, bought a

used cargo van, and together built a 72 square foot off-grid home inside the cargo van and decided that that would be that and gas would be

our only expense and we traveled all over the country in part embedding with

communities that have chosen to as we would say opt out of a lot of mainstream ways of living

to try to find a new American dream. And we met a lot of people along the way,

and it is not for everyone, but we learn to live for free all across America.

So many places you can sleep and stay overnight without paying a dime and our only expenses

were food and gas and maybe some fun.

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