Over the Hill

 At this point, we're beyond half of the expected time in the camper. It's been roughly a year, and the house should be finished by June at the latest. Therefore, we should be significantly past the halfway point.

I meant to be a lot more diligent about posting here. Lifehacks to make camper living easier, problems that we've encountered, solutions to those problems, and whatever else might be relevant. Instead, I posted a couple of times and then just stopped. Life got in the way.

Once we're out, hopefully I'll go back and fill in some of the gaps here. There are certainly plenty of things I could talk about. Freezing pipes, busted pipes, emptying the septic tank, replacing the thermostat, using the fresh tank, and storage: lots and lots of storage. Maybe I'll make a list and hit each one with a dedicated post when I get around to it. Maybe I'll brain dump all of them together. Either way, I'm still too far into the thick of it to be objective about those things right now.

This process has not been glamorous or romantic. This has been one of the hardest years of my life, and I would never again intentionally live in a camper for more than the duration of a short vacation. I don't regret it, it's probably the only way that we could have realistically made the house construction happen. But I certainly don't ever want to do it again.

Camper life sucks. I've certainly learned some ways to make it not suck quite as bad, but sucking less doesn't mean it's great. At least there's a light at the end of the tunnel now.