Category: Van life
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Working in the van
If you follow #vanlifers on Instagram, you’ll see lots of photos of attractive people tapping way at laptops sprawled on beds in their vans. Much like the promotional photos of people checking their bank statements sitting barefoot on sofas, or silver-haired, fully-toothed oldies browsing through holiday websites on their iPads in Sunday magazines, these are…
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A winter trip to the Lake District
Early December is one of the best times of year to go to the Lake District (one of the best mountainous regions in the UK). So we finished up a few jobs we needed to complete, and installed a couple more prototype bits of furniture and headed north to make the most of it. The weather…
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Connected with everything
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. – Alan Watts Via swissmiss. This kind of sums up what it’s all about.
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One week in the Brecon Beacons
We’re almost 6 months into our conversion, and the van is still looking very van-like. However, we have some basic utilities in, and it seems like a good time to test them out. So we’ve headed to Wales, to the Brecon Beacons, looror a week-long holiday and alpha-test. A quick recap – what’s in: Plywood…
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Our maiden voyage
We bought the van almost exactly one month ago, and since then we’ve spent almost every spare moment working on it. It’s been enjoyable, but we didn’t spend all that money just so we’d have one more DIY project to work on. So with some minimum viable furniture fitted, today we set out on a…
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xkcd: Survivorship Bias
Coincidentally, also via Hacker News, this apt comic from xkcd: Survivorship Bias. I assume the poster’s intent (on Hacker News) was to make a comment about inspirational startup speeches. But the same could apply to the ‘drop everything and follow your dreams’ vanlife brigade.
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A one-week trial of vanlife. The good, the bad and the ugly.
This Easter, Amy and I hired a camper van to get a taste of vanlife. We recorded our throughts about what worked and what didn’t, and I’m sharing them here. I should stress that this focuses on the bad and the ugly (we were trying to learn lessons), but the trip was good.
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Making money as you travel
There are a lot of icky people out there selling live-the-dream, self-help courses about vanlife. It’s something of a pyramid scheme; making money while travelling by convincing other people to make the jump too. This is one of the more straight-forward pieces I’ve seen about how to pay your way. He also posts some useful links under the…
Andrew Sleigh 