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.
TRAVEL SLOW – STOP OFTEN
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