Welcome to our Van Life blog. The stories highlighted on this website are journals of our favorite places and our best days while traveling. In reality, we have a lot more stories we haven’t posted yet. Our blog is always adding and updating our content. Thank you for visiting our site. We hope you will enjoy our travel journal and will return routinely for travel ideas and information.
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Copper Peak is High Flying
Steve and I spent some time last summer at the Apostle Islands in Northern Wisconsin and at Porcupine Mountain in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was a beautiful trip and we highly recommend visiting the area. Copper Peak was one of the highlights of the entire trip. Bessemer, Michigan Being on the road for several days,… Read more
The Wine Confession
I’m not really a wine guy. I like wine, but I don’t understand all the blends or subtle variances from bottle to bottle. For example, I can’t taste the difference between a Merlot, Shiraz or Pinot Nino. The Challenge Occasionally when out for dinner, my wife and I will decide to buy a bottle of… Read more
The 5 Things We Learned Buying a Van
Buying a van was a mixed bag of emotions ranging from euphoria to mystified. To be clear, we did not have any idea what we were doing when we bought the van or what we were getting ourselves into. After 8-months of ownership we still have things to learn about the best practices of RV… Read more
Van Life By Design Introduction Video
We call our written travel journal Alice’s Memoirs which stays with us in the van while we travel. We also journal when we had our boat and it’s a wonderful way of recalling where you have been, who you were with and funny side stories about important moments. People have been journaling for as long… Read more
Our 1,500 Mile Weekend
We left home Friday morning at 4:00 AM and 12 hours later we were in Boise, Idaho in Alice (our RV Sprinter Van) headed back to Kansas City. We had just bought Alice, had our one hour introduction to our first RV and were ready to get on the road. We had 1,500 miles to… Read more
From Boat Life to Van Life: Why We Sold Our Boat and Started Traveling
For nearly three decades, summer weekends followed a familiar rhythm. Early mornings at the lake.The smell of fuel and sunscreen.Glass-calm water, perfect for skis and wakeboards.Kids laughing off the back platform. We raised our kids and grandkids on that water. We upgraded boats as seasons changed. We became the couple everyone associated with the lake.… Read more