Sorry for the delay in posting recently – there has been a crazy flurry of activity, and writing here doesn’t trump getting stuff done in the real world.  Anyway, we’ve been keeping notes on our process and will have a bit more of a chance to get into things.  Most updates are posted directly to the corresponding Twitter page, which is also republished in the sidebar to the right of this blog.

The two major bits of news are that we’ve signed for a home to be built!  The place is an extraordinary home to be built by the Schell Brothers company, and we’re incredibly excited to see it get underway soon.  We’re still working out timing, but that should all be nailed down very soon.  As you can imagine, any project like this has a thousand moving parts, and keeping them spinning in harmony can be a scheduling nightmare – especially when so many are well out of our control (housing markets, etc).

The supporting bit of news is that my wife Marie was unbelievably fortunate to find a remote work opportunity that will meet our reverse-budget requirements, making the move possible.  (See the next post for details on what a reverse budget is – I’ll add a link here and remove this note when that post is final.)  There are simply no words to say how lucky an opportunity this was, and we are tremendously grateful that the stars happened to align.

Anyway, things are happening, even if not updated here as much as I’d like them to be.  Follow us on Twitter to get the latest and greatest, but we’ll be catching up here as we are able.  There were a TON of great tips and tricks that we either found or devised, and the original idea of this project still stands: track the process of drastically changing our living situation through a formalized process of lifestyle design.

There are a lot of fun things coming soon, and I can’t wait to write about them.

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