A Tiny Home with a Tiny Human

Our strive to do the same things, but a little bit shitter

Bags packed? Check.

More bags packed? Check.

Bags containing gear for almost any unforeseen circumstance?

Oh but Of course.

And so we set off on our 90-minute drive, from our small apartment in the Eastern Suburbs, to our smaller, tiny home away from home on the edge of the Blue Mountains.

If you’re not aware of Unyoked, they have a handful of identical cabins sprawled through various ‘remote enough to make you feel remote’ spots around the Greater Sydney area. They’re simple, designed to get you to switch off and slow down. Nostalgia rings through the crackling cassette player as you hand grind your fifth coffee of the day. Delightful stuff. They’re also, as previously alluded to - tiny. We’d already done a few trips to Unyoked cabins by this point with just the two of us, two fully grown mostly adults. We got engaged at one. Consoled each other through a miscarriage at another.

This time, we’d be taking our 14 month old boy along as well. A chance for him to waddle around the great outdoors, and for me to feel like I was exposing him to something beyond cafes, beaches and activewear.

Solid idea right?

The rain was heavy and enduring. The ‘great expanse of land’ for Bodhi to run wild and free turned out to be perched atop a rocky, ‘please don’t walk there and die’ terrain. The tiny house was indeed tiny.

It was, without a doubt, a mostly fun couple of days. We hiked, got lost, got wet, coloured in, cried, sometimes slept, made coffee.

When we had Bodhi, we set out to do the same things we’d normally do, with the knowledge that but they’d just “be a bit shitter”. And this was a prime example of that philosophy. Getting lost on a short hike through the woods with him attached to my back was a truly memorable experience. Him screaming the tiny house down at 2am due to teething and other ‘one of a number of Reddit-listed ailments’? Not so memorable.

On the walk back to the car at the end of our adventure, we discussed whether it was worth it. Short answer: yes. Longer answer: we’ll limit the tiny homes to two humans…for now.