In 2012, my husband and I decided to take action on our dreams to move to the great Northwest and live a more sustainable life. The idea of living like my Great Grandmother, Mama, fascinated me.
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| My Great Grandparents |
I
longed to be a "Pioneer Woman," but not in the heat of Oklahoma.
Where would we live, if not our native state? We watched all those Alaska
shows on TV and couldn’t get enough of them. We fell in love with the idea of
living in Alaska. Who wouldn’t after months of watching every Alaska show we
could find? That was enough for us to plan a trip to Alaska.
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| Homer, Alaska |
I’m
not going to get into too much detail about our trip on this post. However, I
will say that Alaska is beautiful and we met an amazing realtor and her husband
from Texas. After days of looking for affordable properties, we did find land
by a Russian community with a good view and a creek below. We liked it so much
we decided to make an offer. First we needed to research the cost of utilities,
so our first call ended up being our last. The cost of running electricity
(before I was convinced to live off grid) was going to cost $30k (over our
budget) to run it a short distance to our property. The creek below was also on
a reservation and we couldn’t use it. That was enough for us to start thinking
about another location in the lower 48…
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| The Spit @ Homer, Alaska |
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| Halibut Fishing |
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| Salmon Fishing |
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| Property we looked into buying |
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| The road in front of the property |
A
friend of my husband’s invited us to his home for a visit in Medford, Oregon.
That is when we started researching that area and decided to go on a two
week road trip with the family. We fell in love with Oregon. We had a great
trip and couldn’t wait to get back to this area. Finally, we found an area we
thought we wanted to spend the rest of our life. Oh how beautiful this country
is, but sometimes beauty can fool ya.
Now
to get busy preparing for the move….
The
first thing we did when we decided to move, because we knew it could take years
to accomplish, was put our homes and land up for sale. Then the fun part began,
downsizing and getting rid of all the junk we had been collecting for years;
cleaning and preparing our homes for the real estate market. One of the hardest
part for me was showing the house we lived in. Getting the entire house
all clean at the same time with twins and a teenager running around and working
ten hours a day, what a joke? :) So when you go look at a home for sale,
remember how much work goes into getting it ready. I could have choked several
folks for not showing up when they said they would. It's hard work y'all.
First,
the land sold in about a month. Another year and a half passed by before the
home we lived in sold. Next, we moved into our other little home in town
until it sold. It took us two years from the time we made up our minds to move
until the day we actually moved. That puts us in June of 2014. It seemed like
time stood still and we were in slow motion waiting for our big day to finally
move. We waited until the kids were out of school. We didn’t want to move them
in the middle of a school year and it actually worked better for us.
Where
are we moving to? We don’t have land bought or a place rented. We
had searched online as much as we possibly could for the place of our dreams,
but it’s hard when you aren’t physically in the area. When you want your
dreams to come true bad enough, you will not let anything get in your way and
we were determined. After our homes sold, we sold, gave away, and tossed
everything we would possibly not need. Two trailers packed to the rim of
our belongings and two 4x4 vehicles packed and ready to go. Go where though?
Where are we going and how are we going to get there?
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Part Four
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