Clean drinking water is one of those things you don’t think about until you don’t have it. When we were driving the Pan-American Highway, we mostly just bought bottled water outright — Mexico has a well-established network of purified water stops that made this easy and cheap. But the further Read more
If you’ve ever wandered off the beaten path — hiking, overlanding, or camping somewhere with zero cell service — you know how quickly “no signal” can turn into a real problem. That’s exactly the gap Meshtastic technology is designed to fill, and in this post I want to walk through Read more
Our family of 5 travels the world full-time in a 4×4 Sprinter Van, which has taken us to over 40 countries and counting. We wanted to start documenting some of our border-crossing experiences to help others do the same. Below will you find the steps to prepare for the crossing, Read more
We’re a family of five that travels the world full-time in our DIY 4×4 Sprinter van. We started living on the road in 2008 by circling all of the US and Canada. Then in 2015, we downsized and started the international portion of our adventure. With over 40 border crossings Read more
Our family of 5 travels the world full-time in a 4×4 Sprinter Van, which has taken us to over 40 countries and counting. We wanted to start documenting some of our border-crossing experiences to help others do the same. Below will you find the steps to prepare for the crossing, Read more
Our family of five shipped our US-plated Sprinter Van from the US to Europe in 2018. We traveled the entire European continent, including some of Africa and Asia, until we shipped back to the US in 2022. During that time, we’ve gotten tons of questions about how we did it. Read more
Whether you are a van lifer, overlander or just adventuring in your vehicle, rising fuel prices is certainly causing you to think twice about how it is affecting your lifestyle. For those of us who travel full time on the road, the cost of fuel is what we refer to Read more
Lithium batteries have been steadily dropping in prices in recent years thanks to more efficient manufacturing processes and the global transition to electric mobility. Along with a boost in the popularity of vehicle camping, partially amplified by the pandemic, an explosion of portable power banks are now available on the Read more
If you are a full-time traveler and hang out with other full-timers, all conversations eventually lead to poop. It’s true. Today on the blog, I will be talking all about our portable toilet. These are the toilet topics I will be covering: What Toilet Do We Own How It Works Read more
Update: Drilling holes wasn’t a good solution for our van’s set-up. We ended up going with anti-condensation mats instead. We talk all about it in this video below. —–Original Post—– We have had a couple of bouts with mold under our mattress in the van after cold winters. With 5 Read more