We left the City during the Pandemic| COVID-19 Changed our Minds | First week's progress in our Off- Grid Homestead

Let me catch you up: 

We sold our home of 14 years in the Salt Lake City Suburbs on June 2nd, 2019. We spent the summer traveling, going to State Parks, National Parks, and learning about the nomad life. 

By October we were done, we didn't want to boondock, worry where to park when we had no reservations or where to take the dogs out to pee, for us it was stressful and we decided to get a spot in an RV resort to spend the rest of the time in town while finishing up work contracts. 

The RV Resort was beautiful, clean, huge dog park, water, electric, sewer, giant chessboard, basketball, soccer fields and we had our own private entrance to a trail that is paved to ride your bike or take the dogs for a very long 25-mile walk if you wanted to. 

In theory, sounds great! All we had to do is pay 700 a month and they would take care of the rest, green grass, perfect landscaping, the garbage you name it they have it! 

But here is the BIG BUT, we were packed in like sardines, you could hear your neighbor play video games, you knew the kind of movies he watched on Sunday nights and EVERYONE HAD DOGS, and my 170-pound dog has this "social anxiety" and thinks everyone is out to get him, literally. 

So taking him to go out and pee was an adventure, covering all the corners to make sure no dog was in sight, visiting the dog park at 11PM or 5AM or both really to let him roam free, the rest of the day going out the door for a quick pee, but lots of time inside our RV and not enough to exercise, or play. It was hard on the dogs and on us. 

We knew we were moving to our Homestead property at the end of the School Year, but because of the Corona Virus classes started online and after a 5.4 earthquake that shook me to the ground and hundreds of aftershocks we decided now is the time so we planned and decided April 30th was the best time to do it and we did. 

Our family came along, helped with whatever we had left to move, my husband towing the trailer, I was driving the Class C RV, my sister in law with her kids and husband bringing the rest of our tools and furniture in their truck and my mother in law bringing our "personal zoo". 

But then everyone left, the reality was setting in, and here is my first snippets of the first week in our Homesteading Off-Grid life. 

Join me tomorrow for a tour of my "failed spring garden" and what I'm doing to try to "fix" it. 

Are you considering moving due to the Pandemic? Did it change your plans? 

Let me know in the comments below. 

I bless you all people! 

Lety