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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In hindsight, we probably should have left earlier in the day.By the time we had the camper hooked up (and had CAA come add air to the tires), it was nearly 5pm on January 3, 2024. But we were just done.The last few days had been uncomfortable, stressful, and emotionally draining. It was past time
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Before we set off for the wilderness —
Before we sold everything and walked away from jobs and city life —
Before we made the bold leap out of our day-to-day —
We had a desire.
