Van Life

Seventy square feet, eight years. Tap around one photo of our galley and we'll tell you what you're actually looking at.

July 2026  ·  1 min read

After eight years living full-time in our van, there's one major build decision we'd make completely differently. Our layout is the one.

July 2025  ·  8 min read

No week-long product tests here. Everything on this list has lived in our van for months or years. This is what we actually grab every day.

July 2025  ·  5 min read

After eight years full-time, the things that actually shape you, challenge you, and sometimes nearly break you are rarely what anyone leads with.

June 2025  ·  6 min read

The highlight reel isn't dishonest. But a gap opened between what van life looks like online and what it is, and that gap convinces people they're doing it wrong.

May 2025  ·  4 min read

We've been living full-time in a van for eight years. We know what this life looks like from the inside. Not the reel, not the highlight. The actual inside.

May 2025  ·  4 min read

Some days we're parked somewhere so beautiful it doesn't feel real. Some days it's a Planet Fitness lot because we needed a shower.

May 2025  ·  5 min read

We didn't set out to live sustainably. We set out to live freely. It turns out those two things have a lot more overlap than we expected.

May 2025  ·  6 min read

Movement that lasts is designed, not accidental. The financial and structural reality of building a life that can keep moving.

February 2025  ·  4 min read

Eight years of van life didn't give us one version of freedom. It gave us several, and each one was right for its season.

January 2025  ·  5 min read

A bonfire in my aunt's backyard, my little cousin beside me, and no way to explain what we were about to do. So I didn't try.

January 2025  ·  6 min read