Kaylee and Ian met while living in Washington, DC in 2017. Kaylee worked at a small think tank as a research assistant, and Ian worked in the tech industry. Very typical DC jobs.

On our first date, we ate deep-fried mac and cheese. On our second date, we wandered around Georgetown until we found something to do. On our third date, we went backpacking. (Fortunately neither of us were ax-murderers...) And that continues to be a pretty accurate description of the things we do.

After spending a year and half of leaving the city almost every weekend to go camping, we quit our jobs, bought a van, and decided to live outdoors.

Of course it wasn't quite that simple. We spent months searching for our dream van and planning the build. We saved all our extra income for the cost of the conversion and our planned year of travel. (Ian saved for years in order to purchase the van itself.) It took us three months to convert our van into a camper. But when we were done, we had a tiny home on wheels that could take us almost anywhere we might want to go. This website is, in part, about how we made the van happen.

The other half of this websites is a blog about our travels. We love sharing our favorite spots that we have traveled. We always try to include our favorite free campsites and boondocking spots. If you like our photos, check out our Instagram.

We chose not to work while traveling in our van, so after nearly two years of traveling, it was time to go back to the “real world” and to find a more permanent location. Since then we’ve made our home in Big Sky Country—Montana and in the woods and waters of the Upper Midwest.

We are continuing to add new content now and then—you’ll see places we visited in our van that we never wrote about, many unshared photos, and the tips and tricks for vanlife and frugal travel that we learned while living on the road. In addition to our past “advantures,” keep your eye out for content from our new travels in the States and internationally.

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