Welcome to the Normal to Nomad podcast, where we share stories, thoughts, ideas, and conversations on our journey to find balance with nature in a technologically advanced world.

My name is Barron.

And I'm Elsa.

We live together in a 13-foot scamp trailer with our dog camp in the American wilderness.

Hi, welcome back to another podcast episode.

Today we're going to be talking about the reality of what this off-grid, minimal living,

scamp trailer life is.

Yeah, we normally talk about and try to keep it to the positives because we really appreciate this lifestyle and we think it's awesome and we don't want to sound whiny, but we've been a lot of our friends and family and just

like people have been jumping into

doing this or something similar

so we want to frame it out so that

we have the... Oh, you mean like jumping into this lifestyle?

Yeah, and lots of people online even are messaging us like, hey, we got a new rig, we got a...

So we want to paint it, paint the real picture of it too, so that you are prepared for the different challenges and stuff that come with it.

I've been feeling kind of responsible for the amount of people that I'm seeing doing this type of a lifestyle.

Not that it's because of us.

But like you said, we do get a lot of people who are saying,

I'm about to start this lifestyle.

I just bought my first camper.

I'm about to hit the road soon. I can't wait.

And it's really easy and fun to make the videos about the positive sides of this lifestyle,

because it's mostly amazing.

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