When we decided we wanted to live on the road, we didn’t understand our options- but along the way have learned about some of the fast or cheap ways to hit the road. This overview may help you decide how you want to get going. #MidsizeSedanLife: Sleep out of your current car. With a fold-down […]
We have been on the road for about a month; though it feels much longer. In thinking up adjectives to describe the past month, I fail to find the ones that truly encompass the entirety of the experience. Exhilarating. Unsettling. Dreamy. Stunning. Expected. Unexpected. Cold. Annoying. Incredible. Fun. Exhilarating. Waterfall ice. There is so much […]
You live in a van? Do you have a bathroom and a shower? Where do you park? How do you fit everything you need into a van? Many questions come up the moment we share with friends or strangers that we are living out of a self-converted Sprinter van. No, we do not have a […]
The snow chills my back as I squint up into the guts of the van, once again looking for something wrong. This morning we’ve fixed the plumbing (again) and are now dealing with a diesel heater that’s leaving black soot on the ground outside and stinking up our cabin. This isn’t the #vanlife of countless […]
Over the last year and a half we’ve spent countless hours wandering through the aisles of hardware stores or poring over technical specs of online retailers. The following is a rough list of what actually made it into our van over the course of converting our 2005 158” wheelbase T1N Sprinter van. The van came […]
During my freshman and junior years of college, I spent many a nights in the back of my Toyota Matrix . Feeling restless? Feeling stressed? Feeling over the Ugg and mini-skirt crowd from SoCal? I got in the car and drove, windows down, Ani DiFranco blasting, helping to sooth my angst-full young soul. I’d pull […]
