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10.16.2025

How to bake a Tombstone Pizza on a campstove with a skillet

How to bake Tombstone Pizza on a skillet with a campstove. @FullTimeLiving.life

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Lazy day 4. Made bacon eggs potatoes for brunch. Dragged some scrappy wood from the forest. A broken up pallet and an uprooted tree. Fun stuff to burn while making the sight look nicer. Imagined a way to mount the generator onto the bike rack receiver. 2x4s. Some tape. A couple of ratchet ties should do it. Maybe gonna try to pan bake a tombstone later for dinner. Not getting any solid sunshine here to charge the batteries. Oh well. Generator at some point. Maybe Sunday. Rainy Sunday I will make a trip into town for gas and water and trash dump?

10.15.2025

Fattire ebiking in Hoosier National Forest

Pete and me took Fatass out for a ride on day 3 at Sundance in Hoosier National Forest. Gravel roads and trails made for a great ride.

Day 3 and all is very well. Made spaghetti for dinner and bacon eggs potatoes for brunch. I am guestimating that I will have to make a resupply/trash drop-off maybe by Monday. Rainstorms Saturday rain Sunday. Crummy forecast. Not sure how the roads will look. But the rainy days may be a smart time to go to store. Not too many people will be looking to camp. Concerned about loosing this site. Weighing if leaving the tent a screenhouse and even Fatass locked to a tree to secure the camp. Hmmm

10.14.2025

Dispersed Camping Hoosier National Forest

Full Time Living - day 2 Hoosier National Forest Indiana dispersed camping Sundance Lake

The camp is built! Probably I will stay here the full 14 day limit. Rain storms coming this weekend. Then sunny and 60s for the week after. It's a great site. A bit too shady. But maybe if I am conservative with power the batteries will maintain enough juice to keep the freezer solid. I can propane just about everything else. Good day. Looking forward to riding with Pete tomorrow on Fatass.

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Full Time Living

In 1993, I bought a 1978 Itasca Class A twenty-five foot motorhome. I thought it was going to be so cool to take my wife and children out on the open road up to the tops of mountains and down to the deepest valleys; outward to wilderness destinations and in to towns and cities near and far, big and small, exploring America, the beautiful. And, it was.

Little did I realize at the time was that I had actually purchased my dream home, and, that fifteen years later here would I be, surrounded by thousands of miles and moments of great memories of time shared with my loved ones, living the life of a full timer. Some would say tough luck brought me to this near nomadic, pseudo-hermit type of lifestyle. Some say I have become a 'fool-timer'. I say, not. Choice led by circumstance led to contentment. Life is good.

I've only been full timing since 2003 - five years. Snowbirding has not yet become part of my routine, although, the thought has crossed my mind many a cold wintry day here in Ohio. Maybe, some day. But, for now I am settled in a good spot on a friend's piece of land with plenty of firewood to burn away those dreams of warmer winter climates.

Sometimes, when I slip into a not so gracious moment and begin grumbling about everything under the sun, I wonder what has become of me. I am living in an aluminum can on wheels with a cat. Psychology might have been a pragmatic course of study back when I was in college. Not so much for illuminating what exactly is going on in my own mind, but, in the mind of those whose facial twitches betray an undercurrent of disapproving puzzlement when they learn of my unusual living arrangements - if only I could read a face - just for my own entertainment value. I love a good laugh. Who better to laugh at than myself. That, I am fairly sure, is not a sin, whereas, it is almost impossible to laugh at someone else without stepping into some bit of sinfulness. And, I do love to laugh.

I really don't have to live like this. It is not always an easy 'road to travel'. Nor, is it an easy task to convince the scoffer that full timing makes sense. To which end I can only reply,'My mind's made up... don't confuse me with the facts'.

This blog is my story.

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