We made it to our new home of Eugene, Oregon this week! The final days of our honeymoon adventure were filled with fun. We had a lovely visit to Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho, definitely worth a stop. The lava fields and lava tube caves were awesome, and it was neat to learn about the history of American pioneers near there on the Oregon Trail. The next morning we rose with the sun and visited a quiet little natural hot spring. We had a really nice hot dip there, a great way to start the day. Then we drove drove through Idaho and made it into Oregon, hooray! We enjoyed the sights of eastern Oregon’s desert lands, and had one last night on the road at a campground in Burns, Oregon. Finally had our last day on the road (sad, but exciting too) and made it into Eugene, Oregon by late afternoon. We were greeted by my very excited twin sistah, Amy, and her lady Katie. After a few exhausting hours of maneuvering the tiny house (and tearing down a fence), Jeremy backed it into our rental lot like a pro. Whew! The past few days we’ve been settling into our home and exploring Eugene. We’ve met lots of friendly folks and are having fun discovering interesting things in our new city.
We were a bit reluctant to end our honeymoon road trip and return to ‘the real world’ but it feels good to be in one spot and nest into our home. I am amazed that we drove 4,000 miles across the country with a roughly 12,000 pound house behind us, and that we had no major catastrophes! Aside from replacing our truck tires, having some preventative work done on the truck, and getting pulled over by the Quebec Provincial Police, we really didn’t run into any trouble. Jeremy got more and more skilled at trucking as we went along and could handle any situation we got into. And we didn’t even have any big blowup fights with each other (only some minor squabbles…)! It was great to have the freedom to journey to whatever places we wanted, discover interesting spots along the way, talk with lots of nice people, and have all of our homely needs in one self-contained vessel. While we didn’t exactly plan to haul our tiny home cross country when we started building it, it was road worthy enough to make the trip and we got to enjoy living in it along the way. Now we’re off the road for a bit, and settling into the small life in Eugene!
Go Tiny 