We don't show our faces.
We show the road.
Three years ago we sold a house, bought a trailer, and started writing about it. Everything you'll read here is reported from a folding table, somewhere with no signal, two weeks behind real-time.
Why we stay faceless.
We're private people doing a very public thing. The compromise: we publish the work, not ourselves. No photos of our faces, no first names, no spouses on Instagram. The road and the rig get the credit.
Practically, this means we won't ever show up on a podcast or a YouTube channel. We won't take a sponsorship that requires us to identify ourselves. We write under "Mud & Marvels" because the brand isn't us — it's the catalog of places.
Three weeks at a time
We didn't plan to live in a trailer. We planned to take a year off, see if the road suited us, and go back to a real life when it didn't. Three years later we still haven't. Whatever "real life" was, it's now the trailer.
We move every three weeks. That's the pace that works — long enough to settle in, short enough to keep moving. The journal exists because we found that nobody was writing honestly about what this life is actually like. The mud is real. The marvels are real. They cohabit.
If you came here looking for the polished, sponsor-driven trailer-life content, you'll be disappointed. If you came here for what actually happens — what we ate, what broke, why we picked the spot, what we'd do differently — you're in the right place.
Three years, abbreviated
- 2023
Sold the house, bought the trailer
Bought the Lance in March, took possession in May, hit the road in June. Six months of trial-and-error before we figured out anything works.
- 2024
Found the rhythm
Three-week rotations, 40k miles, twelve states. First time we said out loud that we weren't going back.
- 2025
Year of less
Sold half our gear. Replaced the original hitch. Started the journal in October.
- 2026
Now
Still figuring out the generator question. Still publishing two weeks behind.
Frequently asked.
Privacy, mostly. Also: the road is more interesting than we are. The byline matters less than the campsite notes.
A 2018 F-250 6.7L diesel pulling a Lance 2075 (29-foot travel trailer, 7,200 lbs loaded). We tow under our weight rating with an Equal-i-zer hitch.
Remote work — both of us. We took our jobs with us. The trailer's the home; the laptops still work. No, we won't take sponsorships.
We winter in one place for six weeks. Otherwise no — three weeks per spot, year-round.
Read the journal entry titled "How we pick a site." Short version: cell signal, water within 10 miles, level ground, no high winds.
Every purchase is documented.
Six categories, every item, what we kept and what we sold. We don't link affiliates. We just tell you what we use.
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