{"id":23502,"date":"2011-01-09T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2016-09-16T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:59:09","slug":"how-small-can-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/how-small-can-you-go\/","title":{"rendered":"How Small Can You Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my current lifestyle, Miranda is perfect; she’s a real apartment on wheels with a functional kitchen and bathroom, much more ‘home’ than ‘RV.’ But I do think about downsizing even more at some point when I might be ready to focus more on the travel part of RVing. I found one guy in the US, Tynan<\/a>, who really demonstrates the advantage of having a smaller, more van-like, RV–you can stealth boondock in cities.<\/p>\n

Tynan has a Winnebago Rialta. I’d consider it a B+ or an A-, classwise, that is. One of the coolest things about it is the bathroom. Check out his RV in its early days, with a demonstration of the bathroom:<\/p>\n

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I’m not a huge fan of convertible furniture, but I have to say that this bathroom would almost be an acceptable step down from my current digs and make it possible to squeeze myself into a smaller rig.<\/p>\n

Like me, he realised that having a small RV means cheaper renovation costs, so he made some upgrades to the flooring<\/a>, then to his kitchen, including putting in granite countertops<\/a>!<\/p>\n

His rig is quite luxurious and small enough that he can sneak into some parking garages. He’s been dry camping in San Francisco for a while, and that’s a city where overnighting in an RV is very difficult to do unless you have a tiny rig like his.<\/p>\n

I’m not yet ready to subscribe to the extreme minimalist lifestyle the way Tynan<\/a> is, but I can tell that that’s where I’m heading. I took some huge steps in that direction by getting into the RV, and I think that further downsizing will happen on its own thanks to the new habits I’ve picked up. But I don’t intend to give up Miranda any time soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my current lifestyle, Miranda is perfect; she’s a real apartment on wheels with a functional kitchen and bathroom, much more ‘home’ than ‘RV.’ But I do think about downsizing even more at some point when I might be ready to focus more on the travel part of RVing. I found one guy in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-personal","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}