We moved our 350-square-foot tiny home from the mountains of California to a city in the Pacific Northwest

Being able to move our tiny home on wheels to different states is a huge benefit.

Erica Allen

My partner and I had always dreamed of having our own small space on wheels so we could live simply and have a flexible lifestyle.So, in 2019, we began building our very own tiny home on a 32-foot trailer. After many months (and YouTube tutorials), it was complete.For a while, we lived in it while parked on his parents' property in New Jersey. By 2021, we'd decided to move our 350-square-foot build across the country to California, where we'd found a great tiny-home community in a national forest about an hour outside San Diego.Although I'd been nervous about moving our home for the first time, it worked out — and our new community was wonderful. We loved taking advantage of our easy access to beautiful trails and mountain views and befriended our neighbors, too.However, after years of secluded mountain living, we wanted a change of scenery and to be closer to a grocery store — the nearest one was more than 20 miles away, about a 35-minute drive.We also wanted to be near more activities and be able to casually take pottery classes nearby or join a local soccer league.So, we set our sights on Bend, Oregon. We had friends in the area and loved the idea of living in the Pacific Northwest, in a city with better access to what we wanted.