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…
Category: vanlife
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…
Is this #vanlife or #emptynestlife?
Hey there! Lisa here. Here is our inaugural post. Will and I are officially empty nesters…