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Our motorhome blog contains over a decade of blog posts. Starting when we quit work for our once in a lifetime tour of Europe.

We returned after two years and transformed our lives, achieving financial freedom, which enables us to travel whenever we want.

Six months in and we’re still living the dream!

April 11, 2012
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Six months into our first big motorhome tour we're in Spain. We stop to take a look back at costs, stats, and some observations from our time on the road.
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Clutch care in Carcassonne

April 11, 2012
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We're here: N43.20021 E2.35373 Weather - cloudy and some rain…
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Don’t you want us Aude?

April 10, 2012
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We're here: N43.20376 E2.52902 It's a lay bye off the D610…
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Free aires no more in Les Cabanes de Fleury

April 9, 2012
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We're here: N43.21527 E3.23422 The weather is: clear blue skies…
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We’ve discovered Dave’s oven in Fluery

April 8, 2012
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We're here: N43.17146 E3.18088 The weather: rained overnight,…
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Happy Easter Everyone!

April 8, 2012
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Food heaven in Narbonne

April 7, 2012
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We're still here (for now!): N43.18025, E3.02371 [Edit] We're…
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Nous cherchons un garage – Clutch Trouble in France

April 6, 2012
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Dave, our 1993 Hymer B544 motorhome, developed a clutch problem in Southern France. The first garage couldn't repair it, so we head to Fiat in Narbonne.
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Two castles in one day in Aude Pays Cathare

April 5, 2012
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We're here: N42.86150 E2.56490 The weather is: sunny, then clouding…
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