Category: Vanlife

1 Month and 4,000 Miles On the Road | VanLife Update

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After 6 months of exhausting work, burning the candle at both ends, we somehow met our absurd goal of finishing our van build and hitting the road on December 15th, 2023. Our plan was to drive east, across the country, to celebrate Christmas with our families in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Best part of this plan, is for the first time in 6 years, we were able to bring our dog Gregor home with us! After the holidays, we would start heading south, stopping in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Savannah, Georgia for New Years, and then eventually to …

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VAN Series: First Shakedown & Road Trip in the Van

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When tradition and a testing opportunity meet, you get a fantastic first van trip that took us to Las Vegas and the California Coast. After spending the previous 6 months hard at work to build out our Ford Transit, named Hoagie, to be able to chase sun over the upcoming winter, we wanted to test it out first on the road. And this timed up perfectly with our annual tradition of heading to the California beaches over the thanksgiving weekend. To add to some perfect timing, the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix F1 race was the weekend before Thanksgiving. So …

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VAN Series: How to Plan Your Van Conversion & Build (Vanlife)

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You can never plan too much when it comes to building the your own Campervan. Some people design and plan for years, while other wing it and plan it as they build. There are pros and cons to both methods, with the obvious ones being the planners will spend less money on mistakes and will not be held up by shipping times, while the spontaneous builders will be on the road way sooner, but will inevitably run into way more issues along the way. For our build, like most, we fall somewhere in the middle. In this post, I will …

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