BY: NADIA ZAIDI Van life offers us the kind of inhibition like no other. Truthfully, living on wheels does make you happier, less stressed, and fearless. But it also puts you at risk of theft and other crimes. This shouldn’t…
5 European road trips for your electric car (infographic)
It’s no secret that road trips are one of the most fun ways to travel. Whether you hit the open road on a solo mission or with a car full of travel buddies, there’s nothing quite as cathartic as staring…
Living on wheels makes you happier, less stressed and fearless
BY: NADIA ZAIDI There is nothing like the wind caressing your face as you hit the road for travels unknown. Truly. People who live like nomads are happier, don’t experience the stressors associated with home living and are more audacious.…
10 Photos of VW Kombis that will make you miss the 70s
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP What decade do you miss the most? It would probably depend on the culture of each decade. What musicians would you want to see play, what fashion would you want to rock or what part of history…
VW camper for sale: the best 5 campers you can buy right now
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP If you live in Toronto (or any big city) you probably have accepted the reality that you may never be able to afford a house. In fact, the average price of a house in Toronto right now,…
5 tips that will make living in a van even better
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Cost effective, the ability to be mobile and the freedom to travel wherever and whenever you want are the obvious perks of living in a van. However, ask anyone who actually lives in a van and as…
VW Combi: 5 updates to bring your van to the next level
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Living in a VW van is the ultimate way to live and travel for tons of people who have chosen to join the van life. Some buy older, rundown vans and pour their money into renovating the…
Van life: what you need to know before you hit the road
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Have you ever wanted to pack your life into a few bags and just hit the road? Maybe you’ve dreamed about driving state to state in America or maybe your dream is to travel through European cities…
The 5 most epic VW camper renovations (photos)
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Out with the old and in with the new. Instead of buying a rundown house, tearing out the entire interior and making it your dream home, people these days are choosing to do their renovations on their…
10 quotes that will inspire you to join the van life
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP More and more stories are popping up about people ditching the typical 9-5 life and opting for something a little more unconventional and definitely more exciting: the van life. From young, single millennials to families complete with…
Meet the future Olympian who lives out of his van on America’s most desired coastline for free
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Stephan Shay is a runner and Olympic hopeful. Shay has a comparatively invisible ecological footprint than the average American. He is frugal, so he enjoys more financial freedom that many. But to many people, upon seeing Shay…
Feel like every day is the same? These photos will give you a catalogue of escape-plans
BY: ALEX BROWN All Images © Andrew Waits Many people, like Scott Mooiy, are turning to a new vision of the American Dream, one that is not wealth-centered, but where experience takes precedence. This new dream is valuable in its…
Photos of the nomadic van-life in California show the diversity of freedom
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE The nomads of today are less drawn to the freedom of the Great Plains and more to the freedom of gold sand and saltwater. They live by a realization: the van-life is not some commitment to work-shy…
How Alex Honnold lives out of a solar powered van with a kitchen and storage space (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the rock-climbing world, Alex Honnold has rockstar status from countless free-solo ascents of American landmark walls, including Half Dome, El Capitan and the Castleton Tower. This is to say, he’s climbed thousands of metres of vertical…
These photos from the greatest bedroom on earth give you a glimpse into the romance of van-life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The Internet and social media outlets like Instagram have accelerated the world’s infatuation with the van-dwelling, road-tripping, vagabond lifestyle to near obsession. Though the lifestyle and form of travel is nothing new in-and-of itself, there is new…
8 college kids converted a school bus and went on this decade’s rowdiest Alaskan road trip (video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN This winter, eight friends split on a Ford E-350 bus. They spent the next five months renovating and decking it out with old car seats and a platform on the roof to camp under the stars. After…
27-year-old designer quit Ralph Lauren to live in a van and build the treehouse of your dreams (Video)
Foster Huntington got into the blogging game in 2008, and has since amassed nearly a million Instagram followers on what is quite possibly America’s most inspiring photo and video blog. Though he was making moves as a successful designer for…
This family sold everything they own to visit 400 national parks in an Airstream Bus
BY: TYLER FYFE Thousands of dollars in renovations and several trips to Ikea later, the Works family found that although their life now looked like the picture-perfect images of home-décor magazines, between the marble-countertops and stainless steel appliances there seemed…
The Nimbus e-Car is the eco-friendly hippie van of the future
BY: DANIEL KORN Like most kids who grew up with the benefit of having older siblings, I watched a lot of The Simpsons when I was probably a bit too young to understand certain things about the show, the most…
This adventure-porn will make you want to drop everything and hit the road for good (Video)
A movement has begun to take shape between the Tiny House movement and an increasing number of #vanlife and travel blogs that inspire us to embrace adventure as one of life’s most accurate representations of prosperity. ‘Glamourous’ no longer applies…