Dashboard view through a windshield looking out at an open road at sunrise, coffee cup on the dash
How it started

Not a vacation.
A permanent change of address.

The origin story of Permanent Hiatus — the decision, the rig, and the first morning we woke up somewhere we'd never been before.

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It started with a spreadsheet and ended with a class-A diesel.

We built the spreadsheet to talk ourselves out of it. Cost of the RV, cost of campgrounds, cost of fuel against the mortgage, the car payments, the gym membership we used twice a month. The spreadsheet did not talk us out of it.

Within four months we had a rig, a forwarding address, and exactly one drawer for each of us. The learning curve was steep — water pump failures at 11pm, leveling on a 6-degree slope, figuring out that 30-amp service and a space heater are a bad combination. But every one of those nights, we went to sleep somewhere worth waking up.

This site is the document. Every entry is from the road, written close to when it happened, before the details flatten out into a generic travel story. The good parts and the hard parts both.

How the journal works

A log, not a highlight reel.

01 Drive somewhere The route is usually planned two to three days out, sometimes less. We follow weather, campground availability, and the occasional recommendation from a stranger at a fuel stop.
02 Take notes and photos on site Boyd keeps a voice memo habit on long driving days and a small notebook at camp. Photos happen whenever the light is right, which at golden hour in the desert is basically every evening.
03 Write the entry while it's still fresh Journal entries go up within a few days of leaving a location — close enough that the coffee was still hot in memory, far enough that the bad moods have faded.
04 Pack up and do it again Typically we move every two to four days, sometimes less in cities, sometimes more in places that earn a longer stay. The next entry is already being lived while the last one is being written.
Rustic campground with pine trees and morning fog, a single RV parked in the clearing

What this place is actually about.

Real over polishedSlow over packedPersonal over universalMoving over settling
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New entries land whenever we do.

Send us a message if you have questions about the rig, a destination, or the logistics of making this kind of move.

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