Zen and the Art of Vanagon Maintenance
“One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!” ― Avijeet Das Not unlike a bricks and mortar home, a home-on-wheels requires regular maintenance. When you own a home there is always something to be done … from replacing batteries in smoke detectors to a new…
Freedom, just another word for nothing left to lose
One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things. —Henry Miller Do you ever ponder the word freedom? What it meant to you at different times in your life? Do you feel free now? If not, ever? When? Julie — My friends, Wanda and Joseph, shared my dream of backpacking…
Our case for possessing the Wanderlust Gene
Have you heard of the wanderlust gene? Scientists discovered the existence of the DRD4-7R genome not long ago. They say that roughly 20% of us have it! Those 20% apparently possess a stronger urge to explore new places, ideas, foods, relationships and embrace adventure, movement and change. Also those who have this gene are more…
Our journey toward home
Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. —David Foster Wallace A dream, however uncertain it may be, deserves to be fulfilled. And so we explore, observe and document, learn and interpret, invent. Travel is just one way we fulfill our dreams. Of course, it sparks more dreams too! We have…
Vanlife, the hashtag
What does it mean to you? Do you want to quit your job and hit the road? Do you think it looks glamorous? Fun? Cheap? Is #vanlife your definition of freedom? We find ourselves wondering why #vanlife has become an enviable lifestyle brand; why it’s become popular subject matter for newspapers, magazines, YouTube channels, podcasts…
An apparently never-ending living experiment
A friend of ours, we’ll call him Bob, sent us a message in response to one of our blog posts in December. Incidentally we first met Bob a few years before we left our formerly comfortable and hard-working life in Toronto but really got to know him when we journeyed west in Canada back…
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