Pete and I are not professional photographers by any means, but you'd be hard-pressed to catch us without a camera at our sides. We take an unbelievable amount of photos - some are pretty good, others are not - and we've realized that besides looking at them and reminiscing about people and places we've encountered, we don't do much else with the pictures we take.
Looking back at the first few months on van life, we've been to some truly beautiful places and have spent time with a lot of inspiring, adventurous people. So we want to share some images from the road that didn't make the "Instagram cut."
Arizona
Basking in the sun with the one and only @thommybahama.
California
Colorado
We'll continue to share our photos with you all now that we have recommenced our life on the road. So send us some suggestions of places to visit in this beautiful country!
We’ve always been good at listening to our gut. This time it’s telling us, “Let’s slow down for a sec. Let’s take a side-step from the hustle and grind of this self-sustained life we’ve created. Let’s focus on projects we’ve been putting off and grow skill sets we haven’t had the time to nurture. Let’s indulge in a little consistency — we’ve earned it.”
If you’re planning on giving up the static 9-5 office job to travel around the country in a van, you need to have a rough idea of how you’re going to fund your new lifestyle. Check out this blog post to learn how passive income can help sustain your traveling lifestyle.
From September to November 2018, we traveled from the east coast to the west coast, and then back to the east coast again. That’s right. We traveled the width of the country twice in only three months and it was insane… insanely awesome. Read all about it here!
We caught up with a couple of our vanlife friends, Matt and Ali, who share insights on their expenses while living on the road. In this post, they share an extremely detailed list of their expenses over a two month period (traveling from coast to coast) with the intention of helping others financially prepare to live their dreams!
We’ve partnered with our good friends at Duluth Trading Company for an epic cross-country road trip - Portland to Portland. Throughout the next four weeks we’ll be making our way from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. Read more about this legendary trip here!
The beautiful countryside and vibrant cultures of Ireland may be next on your vanlife bucketlist! Check out this blog post to see why Ireland is ideal for traveling across in a van.
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine. We're sharing 8 lessons we've learned while traveling both internationally and on the road here in the U.S. that have changed the way we live our lives and look at the world around us.
We get asked about how we make vanlife work with a large dog like Snoop. Here's how we make sure Snoop loves living the vanlife as much as we do and some tips and tricks on how to make living on the road with a dog possible.
"Vanlife" has become somewhat of a buzzword lately, and everyone has their own meaning attached to it. This is what vanlife means to us.
We all have things that seem to hold us back in life. Diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, Pete writes about why he isn't letting his condition control the way he lives his life.