Kathleen and Greg from capsule Tiny Footprint decided to downsize their lives from a downtown apartment in Denver, Colorado to a 140 square foot camper trailer/mobile home. For the first year of their tiny house experiment, the 1969 camper trailer…
This Man’s Tiny House is Heated with a Solar Air Heater
Gabriel from Habitations MicroÉvolution welcomed us into his self-built tiny home this summer to show us around and tell us about his tiny house lifestyle so that we could share it with you in our latest video. He completed his…
Incredible Mini Earthship with Solar Power – Video Tour
This summer, Mat and I spent two days camping at the Terra Perma eco community in Harrington, Quebec, and checking out the miniature green building models they’ve built for visitors. In addition to starting an eco community, Terra Perma wants to spread…
5 Years Living Without Cell Phones: Why We Love It
Getting rid of our cell phones was one of the first alternative lifestyle choices Mat and I made together. Our goal was to save money and to have fewer bills & responsibilities; and we were also pretty confident we could live without…
This Couple Lives on their Sailboat, Year-Round, in Alaska!
Every week we receive emails from people who want to be featured on our YouTube channel and it’s always exciting for us to meet new lifestyle explorers, and learn how they’re creating their own unique life plan that’s in line with…
Setting Up a Traditional Mongolian Yurt with Groovy Yurts
This is the story of how we got to set up a real Mongolian yurt. We drove our van up to Lantier, Quebec back in July, on the eve of the 3-day Tiny House Festival there, and we arrived while everyone…
Van Life Travel Update + Tiny House Tour
We just wrapped up our second full season living and travelling in our camper van and I’m feeling a little sad that it’s over. We spent the last 5 months exploring beautiful wild places, cities, and towns in Ontario, Quebec…
A Guide to Van Life
We’ve been living like nomads and experimenting with different types of travel — backpacking, house sitting, living in a van — for almost 4 years now. In that time, van life has become our nomadic lifestyle of choice even though…
Should I Plan for Retirement?
I found The Wealthy Barber on my dad’s night table when I was about 14 years old and decided to read it, cover to cover, because I thought it would give me a head start on my retirement savings plans. I…
Why We Live a Nomadic Lifestyle
Mat and I are very cautious people – we’re afraid of all kinds of things like germs (Mat) and bears (me) and many things in between. Knowing that, it doesn’t really make sense that we would thrive on a life…