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Luckily, the two malamutes are old (13 and 12 now) and lazy. One walk a day and they are sleeping the rest of the day. My male malamute has had both knees rebuilt over the past two years, so he's mobile but he doesn't have a lot of stamina. The female malamute is just an old lazy broad, preferring to watch animal planet rather than going outside. I have to push her behind to make her come outside with me. The samoyed is 5 and has a little more energy. He spends his days following me around. That's why I'm making sure the RV campground either has a dog park or there is one nearby so I can take them for some extra running around if they need it. Plus, I'm planning on getting them out for two good walks every day to make up for living in a small space. And luckily, I will probably be around most of the time. I'm thinking that I can drive my husband to work every day and spend the rest of the day house hunting. That will give me time to be in and out of the trailer interacting with the dogs. I might even be able to take one of them out with me when I'm driving around. It won't make any sense for me to look for a job until I know where we are going to live, so at least I have that luxury of extra time.
We really only expect to be in the trailer for two months, tops. The year before DH and I got married, we had a house fire. I had just moved to Maryland 3 weeks before that and I had started my first day of a new job the morning of the fire. We were renting a house on the water and Hurricane Floyd knocked down some trees that ended up falling on the electrical lines going into our house. Luckily I had just bought renters insurance before moving to Maryland. We lost most of what we owned. The insurance company paid for us to live at first in a Residence Inn type place then in a corporate housing rental unit until we found a house. It was about 3 months that we lived in cramped transient type living quarters with very little personal possessions. After that experience, we both realize how little we both need in terms of material possessions to be happy. I think that's why I think we really can do this.
Plus, if we end up buying land and having a house built - we could always move the trailer onto the property for temporary housing as long as there is electricity, water, and sewage facilities on site. Or if we find land that we like but the house is tiny, we could park the trailer near the house and use it for extra storage space until the build out. Yes, we could probably find a place to rent if we really look, and if we pay a pet deposit, but when we are done with the trailer we can sell it and recoup some of our costs. Paying rent means we recoup none of our costs AND I have to be constantly worried about not breaking someone else's stuff. Breaking my own stuff is not as traumatic to me as being responsible for damaging something that belongs to someone else.
I'm glad to hear that there are other people who either have done something similar. I didn't know if this was just some crazy idea that I came up with and maybe I didn't think everything through.
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