Traveling can be expensive, especially when you
travel full time like we do.

Staying at a campsite all year is not cheap, in some cases, it can cost the same as renting a small apartment. I don't know about you? but to me, it doesn't make any sense, you might as well just rent a place with a nice garden, park your camper there, and then rent the house out to someone else.

As I was writing the above I suddenly realized what a great idea it was, but then it wouldn't really work for us because we like to be on the move all the time.

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So how do you live rent-free on the move?

Because we have been doing this a long time, we have made lots of friends in many different countries, you meet people who are always offering a place to park up and you always get great tips on safe, free park ups usually with a spectacular view.

Getting to this point can take some time and until you are at this stage the wide open road can feel like a maze of uncertainty.

We travel mainly in Europe, and although it's safe in general, there are some places where you should be careful about staying overnight, especially if you have a family to protect, sometimes it's worth paying 35 steem for a safe night in a campsite.

• Always plan ahead.

• Always have a backup plan.

• Stop before you get tired so you can think straight.

• Having internet access makes life much easier.
  
  

The best advice I can give is to just go with your gut feeling, this has worked for us and after 5 years on the road, we've never had any problems. If you have to stop at the side of the motorway then make sure it's at a well lit 24hr service station, preferably near a surveillance camera.

• Keep your valuables hidden.

• Don't drink lots of alcohol after a long drive.

• Buy a BIG dog bowl, put a giant bone in, and leave it outside your door.

• Install an intruder & narco-gas alarm.
  

There are lots of things you can buy to make you feel safe, but really they're just there to help you sleep at night and nothing else, the best way to keep safe is to use common sense.

Before we sold everything and hit the road we had a tonne of worries

• Where would we live in these strange new countries?

• What if the money runs out?

• What if something terrible happens?

• What if bigfoot stole our tinyhouse?
  

If there's anything we have learnt after all this time on the road with a family, it's that worrying is a massive waste of imagination and that 99% of the things you worry about never actually happen. just have your wits about you and always follow your instincs

We have also learnt that when you just let go and follow the flow, everything has a magical way of working out and then you realise how much time you wasted thinking the unthinkable.

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What about longer stays? How do we stay on someone's land
for a long time without paying any rent?

Well it's not like we go around trying to avoid paying rent, but the truth is we usually don't have to, we are usually on land that belongs to friends who refuse any payment, or like now, we are staying on someone's piece of land in return for a helping hand.

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So, we get to learn a trade by helping to renovate an old ruinTodays job, remove an old fireplace.

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We also get to park our house in the middle of the beautiful
Portuguese countryside.

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And as if that wasn't enough, we then get to look at land in an area that interests us, that's full of people who are all doing what we have been dreaming about for years.

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And this all came about because of a friend of a friend,
which is how it often plays out when you
follow the flow.

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After some hard work its time for some play.

Follow us as we go for a ride in the hills to explore our surroundings.

Take a quick 0.37min ride with us in the hills.

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Follow us on our quest to build an eco-community.

Peace and love to the World.