Our Unconventional Life

Starting the ambulance conversion seems like a daunting task. But just like any big job, if you have a good understanding of where you want to go and then break it down into smaller tasks, eventually you'll get to where you want to be. First and foremost, we want to get our new vehicle insured and on the road. Before we can do that though, we have to decommission it as an ambulance. The State of New Hampshire tells us the following: 266:78-r Vehicle Formerly Used as Ambulance to Having Identifying Features Removed. -  Prior to driving on the ways of the state, a vehicle which was formerly used as an ambulance or rescue vehicle but is on longer licensed as an ambulance under RSA-153-A, a person shall remove any siren, red forward and side emergency lights, gold lettering, red cross, caduceus, or other medical insignia, "Keep back 500 feet", "Emergency", "Ambulance", "Rescue", or other lettering or insignia that might cause the vehicle to be mi

We recently took a road trip from our home in New Hampshire to visit my daughter in New Mexico. I had vacation time to use up (who didn't in 2021), and we hadn't seen my daughter and her husband in a while. Our idea for a visit started to have lots of appeal.  We contemplated flying there, but the prospect of air travel under pandemic protocols, unexpected cancellations, unreliable schedules, and the uptick in air rage on top of everything else that was already stressful and uncomfortable about flying was not appealing. It didn't take much convincing that driving there was the best plan. Our Google Timeline Shows Where We Stopped Along The Way Angelika is the master trip planner, so she planned out the route. We decided to not make specific plans, but just drive as far as we wanted per day and then find a place to stay when we got tired. Having the smartphone and internet access on the road makes this really easy. To help break up the trip, Angelika mapped out "points