Seeking out a punishing physical or mental experience takes some kind of masochistic attitude that I have been cultivating for years.
I call these sufferfests.
There is no 'right way' to build a van. There is no 'right way' to live in a van either.
I wanted to compile a list of items that I use in my van to make life easier for me and Michael. This includes fridge, utensils, nifty gadgets and more! Let me know if there is anything you use that really takes your vanlife to the next level. Enjoy!
When Michael and I first started thinking about living the #vanlife, I was super stoked about reducing the items I owned and getting back to a more simplistic lifestyle. I read Marie Kondo's book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, in preparation and ended up getting rid of 2/3rds of the things I owned. I started folding my clothes in a new style and got rid of everything that didn't Spark Joyinto my heart.
Michael and I had spent the last 4 weeks waking up at 7 and working on our Sprinter Van turned mobile home (her name is Lyra) until it got dark. We were sick of each other, sick of the van, and so so ready to get on the road for our two month road trip and test run of the #vanlife.
How much does it cost to build out a Sprinter Van into a home? This page should serve as a one stop shop resource. On this page I include a spreadsheet you can view that will show you (almost) exactly what we spent on the process.
We've arrived in Santiago!800 kilometers, lots of fancy toe blisters, over 300 euro in coffee , and many new friends has made this a fantastic journey.
The cathedral itself is under construction right now so arriving was a little underwhelming. We couldn't go in the front door, we couldn't put our hands in the stone pillar and during the pilgrims mass they didn't do the smokey swinging thing. (I'm sure there's an actual name for that, but I don't know what it is)
Welp! The title of the post says it all, we're closing in on Santiago! Today I think marks the 70 mile marker, I can't believe we're so close! Our last few weeks have been full of cafe con leche...
The camino in all of its golden glory.
Well Renee and I are SICK. Like really sick. We are currently staying in an Albergue run by nuns, both of us wrapped up in our sleeping bags and huddled by the heater. We’ve been fighting off this cold for a few days now, but today and yesterday it really hit us.
We might be taking a day off tomorrow so I thought I would use this down time to get some blogging done.
We've been walking officially for one week!And now it's time to take a rest day. Michael thinks he pulled a hamstring And we're taking a relaxing day off in the city of Logroño. We're staying at the Municipal Albergue on the second story and it's probably one of the nicest places we've stayed so far.
