My life

In the months before I left home, I did my very best to rid as much of my "stuff" from my home as I could.   As I looked around as I was leaving my home, I know I can do much better and I really don't need as much as I have kept.   I think I will call that effort, goodbye stuff 1 and my next effort goodbye 2, and probably my final effort... hello minimalist 1.
Here I live in a 13x15 foot or about 200 sq ft.  not including a 6x4 foot bathroom and a 3x5 porch.  They are selling 300sq foot tiny homes for seniors here in Thailand for about $24,000 or $60K fully furnished and upgraded.   I don't consider this tiny.   My squatters place in BKK with the padlock was tiny.  Could not stand next to the bed to pack.
Even here I have more than I need but not more than I think I want.   This is what my "settled in" look is like after two weeks.

First...I start my day with coffee...Last year I saw them brew coffee in this little gadget and purchased one at home and brought it with me.  I bought some good coffee and put it in one of my plastic containers.   I also brought the measuring spoons from home.  I could have guessed at the coffee amount but once I had it correct, I wanted it consistent.  You put the filter and coffee in the bottom plastic part with the coffee in the very bottom and then pour water to between 3 - 4 on the measure side and then put the plunger in the top and let it settle.  some of the coffee slips through as you are doing that ...but ok.    In about a minute or two... you push the plunger down and bingo - start your day and computer with a nice hot cup of freshly brewed coffee.  note dead mouse in the background and new mouse in front.  My lamp from last year.  It is LED Neo and emits no heat.

 I also have the making for tea, either in the pot seen behind the plastic coffee holder or in my little single cup tool.   -  see too much stuff.










My desk is busy....  nuts for snacks, lots of pencils for sketching, my watercolors and stuff - scotch tape, paper, calendar book etc.

Messy... in the top area are maps and papers I will need, some reading.. snacks, pencils, supplies and pencil cup with highlights and pens etc.  In the back is my little Buddha guarding it all.
The rest of the room is pretty simple.. a place for shoes - leather, sandals, and rain boots - with the backpack I will need for retreat.  and clothes - hanging shirts and pants, a shelf of underwear and t-shirts left bottom  - my white clothes for retreat and on the right bottom... laundry bag and empty water jugs for toting water from the reverse osmosis machine. I keep my camera stuff on top shelf.

One of last years best addition to my stay here stuff was the water container.  I will take three big jugs of water but best, I get a cup or water cooking at a time via the faucet.   super handy.




Because I take many vitamins and supplements, I brought 150 days worth of stuff...The top is a single jar of my daily stuff - it looks like alot but pretty routine - low dose asprin 81 to keep my platelets unstuck in my constricted heart valve. Hypo D for everything (I started taking this my first trip...after every meal and never got sick) complex k, D3, Buffered C (with calcium and magnesium), tumeric, Methylation Assist - related to my DNA composition, and Ashwagandha - for my brain.

The beds over here are a little hard for me. I like firm, but a slab is too firm. I use a mat and an air mattress and I only sleep on half the bed...so might as well use the other for laying out my clothes and packing the purse.  I have a night stand next to the bed for my pj's and stuff for my knee and my step cell heart stuff and meletona for night.

 Organizing my travel on the bike bag is the most important part of the operation.  My bag has a front compartment - cell phone, and a back zipper compartment - small purse for coins and inside zipper compartment - wallet and a main open bag- day glasses, night glasses, readers, book, pen and nose wiper/glasses cleaner.  The keys are hooked on a clip in the inside or on the door chain.   goal - never look for glasses, wallet, nor keys.














I have a shower/sink/toilet outside off of the porch.  That is it.   My bike is underneath me on the ground floor.  Pretty compacted.  My schedule is pretty limited - acupuncture and massage are my only real appointments.   This week - Chi Kong