Far From Idle

Playbook

The gear, apps, and accounts I actually use out here - and how I use them. Almost all of it is a plain recommendation with nothing in it for me; the one exception is flagged where it appears.

Standing beside Daisy the Bronco with its door open on a desert pullout, mountains behind
What I use

The setup behind the life

People ask how we actually pull this off - where we sleep, what we drive, what's in the truck. This is the honest answer: the things I'd tell a friend about, not a sponsor reel. Every link here is a plain recommendation except one, and I've said so right where it is. It's in five parts, each one its own page.

Where we stay
House-sits, points, and one honest rule about Airbnb. TrustedHousesitters as the default, the real tier pricing, and the five stages that get you invited back.
How we get there
A stock Bronco Sport, onX, and what's always in the truck. Two years and 38,000-plus miles, nothing modified - and what we deliberately don't carry.
Working from anywhere
The hard part isn't the wifi - it's managing yourself. The desk that goes everywhere, the Starlink fallback, power, and what makes a sit workable.
Filming on the road
The tripod I never set up, and the kit that works around it. A 360 running non-stop, drone angles off an extender pole, and why short form and long form get opposite audio.
Three zones at once
Working one time zone and living in another. Why splitting your devices only half-works, why the people nearest you are hardest to schedule, and what replaces doing it in your head.
When this changes

This page is what's working right now, which means it's already slightly out of date. The rig gets rearranged, a sit teaches me something I had wrong, a bit of kit turns out to be a mistake I paid for. Those go out on Substack when they happen. Nothing else does.

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The one referral link: TrustedHousesitters is how we find 99% of our sits, and how we live rent-free while we do it. My link gets you 25% off an annual membership - and if you sign up, I get two months free. That's the only thing on this site I earn anything from, and it's flagged wherever it appears.

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The honest breakdown of which tier is worth it - and what actually gets you invited back - is in where we stay.