Ever feel the need to escape your daily life?

[padding] [If you are unable to view this message correctly, click here]( [padding] [stuff header] [spacer] [padding] Hi {NAME}, Ever feel the need to escape your daily life? Many flood and cyclone-affected people will be feeling this keenly, but even those of us lucky to avoid the worst of recent weather disasters can sometimes pine for a different life. We first wrote about [Francois Thorne and his adorable French bulldog Victoria]( giving up suburban life - “a three-bedroom house with a white picket fence and a Porsche in the driveway” - two years ago, when he left his North Shore home to begin touring the country in a campervan. Last year, he had a brief stab at returning to normality, living in an apartment in Christchurch, but after a while [he felt the walls start closing in](. This time he upgraded to a caravan, a 1997 Stirling Europa that he can tow behind his Pajero SUV. Thorne, a social media marketer, can work fulltime from the road, and finds it satisfying and a good way to meet people. ”It was hard, it was so hard to live in a house again,” he told writer Kylie Klein Nixon. Good on him for living his best life.   [padding] [user profile pic] [padding] Joanna Davis [padding] Homed Editor [padding] [spacer] [padding] Enjoying this email? [Check out Stuff's other daily and weekly newsletters.]( [spacer] # [padding] [spacer] [padding] [spacer][separator] [padding] [spacer] [padding] [spacer][Homed]( [spacer] 'The walls were closing in' [spacer] Francois Thorne gave up life on the road for a chance at love, but it didn't work out. Luckily, the road was still waiting for him. [spacer] [read more]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [spacer][Homed]( [spacer] Couple make $30k from 'Larry' [spacer] A Kaikōura couple fitted out their 1991 Toyota Hiace as a campervan - the fourth they've done - and now they’re watching the money roll in from hires. [spacer] [read more]( [padding] [spacer] [Privacy Info]( [spacer] [padding] [spacer][Homed]( [spacer] What is 'blackest black'? [spacer] Here's how to use the darkest paint ever to give your home a touch of elegance... and some arty drama. [spacer] [read more]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [spacer][hot take]( [spacer] Lockwood bach full of nostalgia [spacer] Vintage furniture and shelves piled up with Mills & Boon paperbacks - this Tākaka, Golden Bay, beach bach has delighted the same family for 50 summers. [spacer] [read more]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [Privacy Info]( [spacer] [Privacy Info]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [spacer][hot take]( [spacer] King Charles opens up his homes [spacer] Warm spaces, where folks can get out of the cold and save on their home heating bills, have become crucial to British winter. [spacer] [read more]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [spacer][Homed]( [spacer] High performance at a lower price [spacer] What if you could afford something resembling a passive house with a lower price tag? That’s what builder Johnnie Saunders set out to achieve. [spacer] [read more]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [Privacy Info]( [padding] [spacer] [padding] [padding] [spacer][Support Stuff]( [Discover more at Homed]( [padding] [spacer] You are receiving this email because you are a opted in to receive the Stuff Homed newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( [Manage your profile]( [Privacy Policy]( Did a friend forward you this email? [Sign up to get the Stuff Homed newsletter in your inbox]( Stuff, 4 Williamson Ave, Ponsonby, Auckland, 1021, New Zealand [spacer] [padding]