With Fall comes colder weather. And that means if we want to keep traveling, we need a few strategies. Our plan for October and November is traveling towards warmer places but also having some necessary cold weather upgrades. When we left, it was summer, everything was on fire, on we were dealing with managing 100…
Category: van build
Week 3 of Vanlife: Was this a bad idea?
We are on week 3 of living in a van and we are starting to get the hang of some parts of it. But vanlife is for sure an adjustment. This week, we headed into Oregon but changed our plans because of wildfires and smoke inland. We decided to stick to the coast. We also…
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…