Shine a light
Picking up from where the previous post (officially) left off, after a mere three and a half hours of very gentle crossing conducive to napping we arrived in Rosslare Harbour and clanged down the ramp of the ferry to begin…
Heading to Ireland
Finally there’s a semblance of warmth in the air, the days are longer and brighter and the dark and cold days seem to be behind us, at least for now. Over the past few weeks we’ve (that’s me and Travis)…
Winter living
It’s been a while since the last blog entry, and as such you might have been thinking that I’d turned into a frozen lollipop or just jacked the whole thing in and taken refuge in a warm flat somewhere. As…
Heading South
As I sit here in Inverness library with the wind and rain rattling the windows, after three months and two thousand miles or so touring around Scotland, I’ve decided it is time to head back towards London and the south-east.…
Non-confession time
I think I might have identified the single biggest stress factor with vanlife for me, and to be honest I feel a bit ashamed of it. It’s not the driving, or having to choose what to take with me and…
Sutherland
I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t know much about Sutherland before I came here. I didn’t even know it was called Sutherland. I just knew that there was a bit of road between Inverness and John o’ Groats to drive…
Homesick?
I want to live with you In the fifth dimension In a dream I’ve never had Cos I just can’t live like this In a world like this I just wanna kiss goodbye We are not of this world And…
What it takes to live in a van – early thoughts
Now I’ve been at it for a whole two months I’d thought I do the preposterous thing of trying to opine on what it takes to make this a happy and fulfilling way of life. Not for anyone else mind,…
The Isle of Skye
I resisted a sky related pun for the title of this because surely they’ve all been done already at this point. Also, this is the first post I’ve done mainly focusing on a specific location so I should probably leave…
So what’s it like to sleep in a van?
I’ve been living full-time in Travis for just over six weeks now. That’s still way to early to give any kind of meaningful insight into whether this is a way of life I think is going to work for me…