Part of the daily routine

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Any RV living, even in the largest rigs, is going to involve less space than all but the tiniest apartments. For Susan and me, since we’re in one of the smaller Class C models, this is somewhat more so.

It isn’t just a matter of there being less interior space; the plain fact of living small means that anything you do requires moving things from one spot to another. Example: to cook on the gas stove, I move something from the sink cover to the dinette table, switch things from the rangetop cover to the sink cover, and put the rangetop cover in an out-of-the-way spot (sometimes next to the door, sometimes propped up in the shower). Yes, I could just move the rangetop items to the table, but for reasons it works better in that particular two-step process. Similar shuffling is called for when we want to shower, or to change the couch and dinette into individual beds.

Susan compares it to Tetris, but I see it more in terms of those small handheld plastic letter puzzles, where getting the pieces into the desired conformation requires you to rearrange letters by shifting them around in particular patterns. Once you get used to it, it just becomes part of how things are done.

The life we’re living, and the way we live it.