Preface: It just occurred to us that two of these three stories are about negative and/or dangerous experiences. We just want to clarify that the people we have met here in Mexico have been overwhelmingly nice and helpful. Unfortunately stories of friendly people and smooth sailing usually aren’t as interesting. Enjoy. Scammed (James) Day […]
Designing An Effective Camper Van Kitchen
We love to cook. Cooking is one of our favorite hobbies, so having a workable kitchen is important to us to make any space feel like home. Fortunately, Beatrix has plenty of room for our culinary endeavors! So here’s a brief glimpse into the thought process and design behind our van kitchen! Counter, Cabinets and […]
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Traveling Los Estados Unidos
Washington → Oregon → Idaho → Utah → Colorado → New Mexico → Texas Moving out sucked, but seeing new places… is pretty great and so far is making it worth the trouble. We traveled across the states in the beginning of our adventure with a deadline to pick up our friend Reed in Mexico on February 15th. This left […]
Moving Out and Moving On
Leaving possessions behind to go travel the great wide world, in a van, with no strings attached. Sounds romantic, doesn’t it? Well, yes it is, but what you don’t so often hear about or see is how difficult getting there really is– mentally and physically. In my day to day life I deal with anxiety, […]
How We Are Budgeting and Saving For Our Dream Trip
Once we started spilling the beans about our adventure plans to our friends and family the most common questions we got revolved around money. “How much does a trip like that cost? How are you gonna pay for it? What about your jobs?” Now, if we were saving for a down payment on a house […]
How We Built Our Van’s Bed and Table
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. We are simple creatures. Our basic requirements for happiness are straight-forward: we need to eat well and we need to sleep well. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake. So the bed is one piece of the […]
The Process So Far
The Journey Begins! Once we bought the van we could hardly contain ourselves and wanted to start building it out right away. So, we grabbed a pry bar and screw driver and went to town stripping out the interior. Out came the steel cabinets, carpeting, trim, and miscellaneous odds and ends that remained from Beatrix’s […]
Lost In the Right Direction
Waking up to squirrels tossing pine cones on your tent is a comical and slightly annoying experience. James and I had set up our tent on the only flat(ish) area we could find at our beautiful, free campsite up a long dirt road near Ten Sleep, Wyoming. Unfortunately for us, that semi-flat spot was located […]