No house. No property.
No storage, debt or plan.
Just living in Beauty
for as long as we can.
The Dream
We travel full-time in Beauty, our 2001 30′ Airstream Excella.
3453 days ago we began our ongoing mission to pursue an open-ended location-independent retirement un-plan.
The Prep
It took two years to divest all that did not serve this new life – such as selling our homes and over forty years of accumulated possessions – so we could be LIBerated to enjoy our senior years without the burden of property, maintenance, and debt.
The Life
Living in Beauty is our full-time Airstream travel blog, celebrating life on the road, unique campground experiences, travel tips, and the quiet joys of long-term RV living.
We share travel tips, safety tips, facts and information, campground reviews, suggested camping gear, camping resources, and how to prepare great food in a small galley.
We drive the back roads, shun fast-food, convenience stores and reservations.
We love wilderness camping, urban camping, suburban camping, luxury camping, and even appreciate a good overnighter at Cracker Barrel, Walmart, or Harvest Hosts.
We brake for craft breweries, gardens and farmer’s markets.
True, we’re shamelessly in love with travel and the simple life, but we’re honest to a fault.
Read more about us, or where we’ve traveled and our expenses.
The Documentary
Best Buy produced an award-winning 2-minute documentary about the LIB (Living in Beauty) 4-3-2 travel philosophy.
For the ‘behind-the-scenes’ story about the production click here.
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New here? Start with our top posts to get a feel for life on the road:
3,000 Days On The Road – Today marks 3,000 days on the road, living in Beauty. How have we changed?
A Day in Beauty – An intimate look inside our Airstream and a typical day in Beauty.
20 Whoppers About Full-Time RV Travel – July 18, 2025 was our 3,287th day on the road, and the first day of our 10th year of Forever Camping in our trusty rig, Beauty and The Beast, with us since Day One. Here are the top twenty whoppers we’ve heard first-hand about full-time travel.
Pico Has left The Building – One week before his 16th birthday, on May 15, 2024, Pico passed peacefully. This is a tribute to a travelin’ dog – a dog of The Road… 2,858 days in Beauty. If sadness is the weight of a certain joy we will never hold again, the density of memories, the heaviness of loss, then we are in the thick of it right now.
RVer’s Bag o’ Tricks – Today we are celebrating our 6th “On-the-Road” Anniversary. Journeying overland at our own pace & changing plans as we go along would be a disaster without our magic-kit of digital resources. Here we are sharing our trip-planning strategies.
Locked Out! – There’s never a good time to be locked out of your trailer, but some are better than others …
Groovin’ to the 4-3-2 – Jim’s universal code for full-time travel.
Roadside Debacle Busters – Are you ready for a roadside emergency? Don’t be scared, be prepared!
Harvest Hosts – Memory Lane – One of our favorite ways to camp. Harvest Hosts – a membership model that joins old-world hospitality to grass-roots commerce resulting in complimentary camping.
Water, Water … – RV water conservation techniques, tips and suggestions. How do YOU save water while dry camping or boon-docking?
Business is Business – Let’s get down-and-dirty with ideas, suggestions, tips, and procedures to keep our black water tank at a high level of Liquidity and on the happy side of our Balance Sheet
Travel Map and Facts – No B.S. – just The Facts.
Over the Rainbeaubeaux – A ‘behind-the scenes’ view of how our 2-minute mini-documentary about traveling full-time in our Airstream was made.
Campground Reviews – Here is a list and review of some of our favorite campgrounds
Airstreaming to Alaska – Final Chapter: Lessons Learned – Here is our open book of the details – things we learned which you may find interesting, or even serve you as you plan your own unique overland adventure to the 49th State.
Playing With Dolphins – We finally took the plunge and joined the e-bike revolution. We get out more now – go farther – see places we’ve been missing. Here is a review of our Qualisports Dolphin e-Bikes.
Café Beaubeaux – How to make the perfect cup of coffee on the road.
It’s Just Stuff – Carmen’s dad’s 3,500 square foot home burns down and we discover deep lessons about “hanging on.”
The Clearing – The whole crazy divestment experience in a (silver) nutshell and how we got rid of most of our possessions.
Our Kayaks – We love our lightweight, inflatables!
We Met the Enema and It Is Us – Blocked black water tank! You can’t knock it out, suck it out, blow it out, or beat it out. You just gotta bend over and flush ‘er out. Let it flow.
The Blowout of Destiny – 100 degrees in the Mojave. It pays to travel with cold beer and a full water tank.
Trapped! – Our Airstream loved us so much she wouldn’t let us out! But, if there’s a window there’s a way.
The Elephant In The Trailer – Life expectancy is an unavoidable subject when deciding whether or not to launch a pre-Medicare retirement, or when to sign up for social security benefits, or if one should adopt a pet.
The Rig – Our first post – January 18, 2016 – Our first post. Exactly 6 months before we hit the road.
