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06 / How · The practical archive

Here is how I’m actually making this possible.

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Not “quit your job and copy my life.” A transparent record of the systems, costs, work, exchanges, and failures beneath the images.

YOU ARE HERERaleigh, North CarolinaChapter 01 · Aug 23—Sep 19
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RECORDING NOT YET AVAILABLEFROM THE DRIVER’S SEAT — HOW THE PLAN CHANGEDVOICE NOTE NOT YET PUBLISHED

The working ledger

Useful, secondary, honest.

The resource layer should help without overwhelming the documentary. Numbers appear when they are real—not because a template asks for them.

01

Housing

Housesits, applications, trust, expectations, gaps, and what happens when plans change.

02

Money

Food, gas, insurance, experiences, car maintenance, emergencies, and real monthly spending.

03

Work

Photography, filmmaking, commissions, client scheduling, and earning while the route moves.

04

Exchange

What I propose, what gets declined, what each side receives, and estimated value when useful.

05

Travel

Routing, driving, car setup, what I use, and what I thought I needed but did not.

06

Mistakes

What I underestimated, what wasted money, what broke, and what I would do differently.

Housing · Chapter one

Housesitting changed the economics, not the identity.

I did not begin with a giant travel fund and a perfectly designed nomadic life.

Circumstances forced me to reconsider what housing could look like. Caring for homes and pets made one enormous expense dramatically smaller. Over time the housing story may also include camping, collaborators, guest rooms, residencies, paid lodging, and arrangements I cannot predict yet.

The useful truth is not that losing stability was secretly wonderful. It is that some systems I once assumed were fixed turned out to have alternatives.

The numbers · pending

A ledger that waits for receipts.

Days: —
Housing paid: —
Miles: —
Gas: —
Groceries: —
Trades: —
Paid work: —
Chapter cost: —

This is intentionally unfinished. The first complete state ledger will be published after the first chapter closes.