There comes a point in every journey where you’re no longer fighting to move forward — you’re just fighting to stay afloat. That was this week. Not drowning. Not thriving.Just… treading water. — The furnace? Still silent.The cold? Still lingering.But now — boredom, claustrophobia, and cost started creeping in. We were stuck.Too cold to work […]
By Day 16 of this off-grid camper saga, we thought we’d seen the worst.No furnace? Been there.Frozen boots? Survived that.Mental unraveling? Flirted with it. But rain? In January?In Northern Ontario? Come on. — It started as a light drizzle tapping the roof. We welcomed it, briefly — anything but snow felt like a reprieve. But
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It’s been 14 days without heat in our camper. Not off-grid heat. Not flickering. Not unreliable.None. Outside: sub-zero Northern Ontario cold.Inside: survival. Every single day. At this point, it isn’t just about enduring. It’s about adapting. We’ve gotten better at it — not by choice, but through sheer necessity. We’ve layered up, boiled water on
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Today, I woke up and didn’t see my breath.No candles needed. No icy shock stepping out of the sleeping bag.The inside of the camper was 18°C. I’m wearing a short-sleeved shirt. In January. In Northern Ontario. The weather broke — just a little — and suddenly, everything feels more possible. The milk barn heater, our
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We’re ten days in now. Ten days with a furnace that won’t stay lit.Ten days of scrambling for parts, patching things with makeshift heat, and trying to think straight with frozen fingers. But today… we tried something different.We decided to fix it ourselves. We knew the issue wasn’t propane, or wiring, or the switch that
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It’s been eight days.Eight days of waking up to 10°C inside the camper — or colder.Eight days of resetting a broken furnace by hand. Of tracking down motors, models, and maybe-fixes. Of booting up candle heat before coffee. But we’re okay. We’ve found ways to make it work: Sleeping bags that feel like small miracles.
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If you’ve ever moved in winter, you know.If you’ve ever moved across Canada, you really know.If you’ve ever done both, towing a 26-foot fifth wheel packed with your entire life…Welcome to the club. We left Calgary on January 3rd — later than planned, stressed to the max, but holding onto the dream with white knuckles
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It’s day four without a working furnace.But it’s not all gloom — we’ve got layers, barn heaters, and just enough stubbornness to keep going. We started this morning bundled up like marshmallows, half-laughing and half-freezing as we tried to figure out whether the floor was 16°C or our toes just gave up trying to feel.Turns
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It’s Saturday — at least, I think it is.Time starts to blur when you’re pacing between a flickering furnace and a snowstorm that won’t quit. Last night, the temperature outside dropped to -22°C. Inside our camper? Not much better. The furnace — that finicky, fragile lifeline — gave us about five minutes of heat before
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It was 4am, and the cold woke us before the light did.The kind of cold that doesn’t knock — it barges in and takes the air with it. The furnace was silent. No warning, no final groan — just… off. And with that silence, the temperature inside the camper plummeted. We didn’t know what was
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