Category: Van living
Van Essential: Folding BBQ grill
Ever since I flattened my BBQ (way back in 2014, nearly a year before I met Kerri), I have been on the prowl for a replacement. OK, I admit my prowling about has been pretty lazy these past two years, and it may have been helped with the fact that...
10 days between showers?
In my previous life I would have never considered going 10 days between showers. Especially considering I live with a beautiful woman beside me all day – literally within 20 feet at all times. Luckily, she is on the same schedule as I am. While I admit that 10 days...
Backpacking supplies – part 2
After purchasing the larger items necessary to go on our first backpacking trip, we still had a long shopping list of smaller items to pickup to do it right. While keeping weight as a priority we did not go for the uber high end titanium gear, but a fair share...
Backpacking supplies – part 1
We had nothing at all when it came to backpacking supplies. Starting from scratch as we did, we had to buy pretty much everything, and we did so within two weeks of our first trip into the wild – backpacks, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, a tent, and even all the...
Moving back into the Airstream
After arriving back into the USA, and adjusting our plans around those pesky spring breakers, we started the process of moving back into the Airstream from Big Blue. It sounds easy enough, and it should have been, but after 3 months in storage and a year’s worth of dirt a...
The cost of a month in Baja
It has been a while since I did a “cost of” post detailing the finances of living a minimalist and nomadic life. Since we crossed the border deep into the month of January, I held off until February as it is the first full month of Baja spending. Unfortunately, it...
Identity crisis
It has been more than 6 months since leaving the van back in Colorado and started this new chapter of duo-tramping with Kerri in her Airstream. Anyone would consider this a huge upgrade, and the reality is just that. However, the longer I am clear of Big Blue, the larger...
Assimilated into Airstream life
It has been three months since Big Blue went into storage and I officially moved into Kerri’s Airstream. Even though we both spoke of the transition as “just the reasonable thing to do since we are both going to Alaska” it has quickly become reality that this living situation may...
