Essays
Why It Took Us Eight Years to Hit PublishEight years of van life and we kept saying we would write it down. This is why we waited, and why we finally opened the door.
Essays
Why Copying Trends Slows Long-Term GrowthChasing trends is not a strategy. It's a treadmill. And the longer you stay on it, the harder it becomes to get off.
Essays
More Good. (Meet Mary.)The best thing this life keeps handing us is people. Not the ones you plan for, but the ones who just appear.
Guides
How to Plan a Trip Without Overplanning ItThe best things that have ever happened to us on the road were not on the list. Here's the difference between a framework and an itinerary, and why it matters.
Essays
Who Told You It Was Too Late to Travel?The question nobody's asking: is it irresponsible not to? On the camper that never happened, the cost of staying, and the irresponsibility of the unlived life.
Essays
Travel in Your 30s, 40s & BeyondTravel in your thirties and forties isn't a consolation prize. It's its own thing entirely, and in many ways better.
Essays
Designing a Life That MovesMovement that lasts is designed, not accidental. The financial and structural reality of building a life that can keep moving.
Essays
Freedom Has SeasonsEight years of van life didn't give us one version of freedom. It gave us several, and each one was right for its season.
Essays
How Travel Shapes Who You AreTravel doesn't announce that it's changing you. It just begins. After all these miles, it hasn't made us different people, just more fully ourselves.
Essays
The Miles Will Shape You (If You Let Them)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.
Trips
The First Trip, Before the Build Was DoneThe van had a floor and a ceiling. We threw a futon on it and drove to Yellowstone for twelve days.