On The Road Again

What to Think about Before Moving in a Van

I recently wrote a blog post for the Conserve School Alumni Blog. Conserve School is an environmental stewardship semester school in Land O’ Lakes, WI. I spent a semester there in high school. Read the blog post below:

"In January 2017, my partner, Ian, and I bought a Sprinter cargo van. We spent three months converting the empty van into a cozy tiny home with solar power, a bed, a kitchen, and bikes and backpacking gear in the back.

What it's Actually Like to Live Vanlife

Our little home on wheels has allowed us to explore the incredibly diverse landscape of North America.  We’ve spent nights in thunderstorms on the Kansas prairie and woken up to the surprising beauty of the forests of southern Illinois. I climbed my first fourteener in Colorado, and we’ve backpacked through the Ä’äy Chù River Valley of the Yukon. We’ve driven on remote highways surrounded by miles and miles of lonely muskeg in British Columbia and Alaska and through silent forests of Joshua Trees in California and Nevada….”

Continue reading on the Conserve School website.

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