The birth of "Utopia", our Tiny House on Wheels
Some people call their family when they go into labor and are having their first born. We called to help raise our first house. It wasn't that it was a large home or particularly difficult undertaking as it was a time constraint - we were closing on the land on January 22nd and wanted to be into the house by April 1st. On top of that, we needed to do so while Ross continued to work a full time job as an employee at Creative Visions in Monterey and getting time off for the project was difficult. In stepped his mom and dad, Nick and Cathy. When they came, his sister Anji followed shortly thereafter. Suddenly we had half a dozen people standing at the wheels of our base floor lain trailer, ready to raise the roof, as it were. The framing for the walls was like magic. Words were passed quickly back and forth between father and daughter, sister and brother, mother and son. Jeff and I wedged in where we could, took commands when they came and did what we could w...