Have you ever noticed how much time you imagine you will have in the future? When I have an upcoming vacation, I imagine I’ll have time for everything. I always think I will have time to sleep in, work out, read books and go sightseeing. And then when I am actually on vacation, I don’t…
Category: emptynest
How About a Van Tour?
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…
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…
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…
Is this #vanlife or #emptynestlife?
Hey there! Lisa here. Here is our inaugural post. Will and I are officially empty nesters…