Starting on the path to life on your own terms from a tent in your parents’ backyard seems a very lofty design, particularly in economically unstable times. With no stable income, in someone else’s space, with no-one around us to point us in any direction, the barriers seem very great indeed. But we are doing it anyway! Having never embarked on something this ambitious before, we are learning the path as we walk it. What do we need? What mindset do we need to have? How are we feeling? What is a win? What is a setback? All very important questions, and all questions we continuously discover new answers to as we share the intricacies of the process in this daily log.