Finished! We finished the van build. It’s been four months of work and we are so excited to be done. We started this project knowing that it was a big project and we weren’t always sure that our skills could meet the task. We watched a lot of van build videos. For every step, we…
Month: July 2021
Vanlife Time (and I Add Up the Costs of the Build)
This is one of those posts like on a recipe blog, where someone tells you a long story before finally getting to the Lemon blueberry scone recipe. Except in our case, the recipe here is how much our van build cost us. When I was a kid, I spent as much time outside as I…
Van Go: Taking the Van for a Test Run
*Where we talk about camping which includes toilets Let’s go camping Last Friday, I woke up knowing we were going to take the van for a test run. We had contacted a nearby winery through Harvest Hosts (we have a membership) to see if any spots were available for camping. I told Will don’t worry…
Why Vanlife?
Vanlife has been blowing up on Instagram and youtube for a while. So are we just following the trend? Kind of. Will has wanted a campervan since the early 2000s. When our kids were small and we were still raising them in Southern California, our travel budget was camping. We didn’t have the money to…