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    Building on Raw Land: Framing and Other Projects

    September 29, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We’re building on raw land in Eastern Washington… in 2020… fighting the bizarre results from the COVID pandemic, including shortages of both labor and supplies, price-gouging by some contractors, and delays in getting inspections… but the good news is that the building is moving forward, albeit a bit slower and

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    Bead Lake, Colville National Forest

    Building on Raw Land: Taking Breaks, Exploring Surrounding Area

    September 1, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    All work and no play just doesn’t work, even when living and building on 30 acres on a forested hilltop… so we purposely tried to take breaks about once a week to explore nearby adventures, which means mainly hiking and seeking out fresh fruit! Being out in nature was also

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    Building on Raw Land: Excavation and Equipment

    August 18, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    It’s been both an eventful two months since our last post, while also being a frustratingly slow two months… with excavation finally starting on the house and garage; turns out the excavation was the easy part, as getting the footer and basement walls formed and poured took the best of

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    Building on Raw Land: Power and Water

    June 3, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We are actively developing 30 acres of land in Northeast Washington… cleaning up decades of forest and logging debris, working to reclaim the health of existing woodlands, and building our dream house. The next steps in the process for us, which we had hoped would happen sooner (but were delayed

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    View from Hansen Hilltop Haven

    Building on Raw Land: The First Steps

    May 25, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    After tens of thousands of miles and more than 130 stops across 48 states over a 2.5-year period, we finally landed back on our property north of Spokane, Washington, to begin building our dream house on 30 acres of raw land (containing no infrastructure; no water, power, septic). With the

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    Stop 133: The Road Home

    April 30, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    The last stops on our 2.5-year road trip are a mix of overnight layovers and 2-night stopovers, as we strategically make our way during the Covid Crisis from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to Eastern Washington, just north of Spokane. It has been a bizarre and crazy drive — with campgrounds

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    Shenandoah National Park

    Stop 132: Oh Virginia! Blue Ridge Beautiful

    April 9, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    It was a bit risky given the current circumstances and panic over Covid-19, but we were determined to make a quick dash into Virginia and end this 2.5-year road trip as planned, albeit a few weeks early… visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah National Park before turning westward and

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    Long Branch Lake, Pipestem State Park

    Stop 131: Wet, Wild, and Wonderful West Virginia

    April 2, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We made it to West Virginia… the 48th and final state we are visiting on this journey. (Alaska and Hawaii will come in future trips.) We had planned to spend a bit more time traveling through the state and exploring more of its beauty, but Covid-19 and the fears and

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    Land Between the Lakes NRA

    Stop 130: Kentucky’s Cows, Caves… and Covid-19

    March 25, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    Per our usual travels, we crisscrossed through Kentucky — state #47, the second-to-last state in our quest to visit all 48 continental states on this part of the adventures — starting in Paducah, located in the southwestern part of the state, at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio

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    Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge

    Stop 129: Tennessee Travels

    March 16, 2020 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We started our exploration of state #46, Tennessee, in the Chattanooga area. (Technically, we actually were in Tennessee briefly when we visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park a few weeks ago.) Tennessee became the 16th state of the United States in 1796, and later left the Union to join

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