We just completed a 10 month 11,000 mile loop of the USA and are back in Washington state with our homebuilt RV (did great on the 11,000 miles, no problems!). ACA insurance reasons are why we came back so soon, coverage was non existent outside WA.
I love traveling but have a few projects I want to do that require spreading out plus we want to spend some winters in Washington in the snow (of all of the USA, Washington was still the prettiest). I also would like to leave the sailboat behind on some trips, like to Yellowstone.
I would love to have 20 to 40 acres in Eastern Washington but am unsure how to approach this in a Mustachian way. Raw land in the northern counties can be had for $1,000 an acre but then you have permit upon permit to be able to legally do anything with it....or so it might seem? I really just want a 1 bedroom cabin and workshop plus a place to park the RV and sailboat, or sometimes leave a part of the RV behind (it is modular). Actually the cabin doesn't need to exist since the RV unit is very comfortable and has a full kitchen but I would like a wood stove for sitting beside with a book during the cold winter when we are not out skiing.
Other option is to buy a property that already has a permitted run down house with well and septic and just not use the house.
Or ignore the permits and do what we want, which seems to be the general concept in eastern Washington...but we have assets they could come after. It seems they take years to respond to someone with 9 RV's and 67 junk cars on their property but with our luck they would make us tear down our workshop 3 months after we finished it.
It is also quite difficult to find out the actual rules on where you can legally live in an RV on your property in Eastern Washington.