from the van

Molly is a nomad and marketing strategist living in a Mercedes Sprinter camper van that she converted herself. I ran into her at a vanlife meetup, and we had an inspiring conversation about her travels, her work, and her optimistic world-view.

Visit her website at:

http://wildheartsriseup.com

Brie & Shawn are a delightful couple from Oklahoma who are traveling with their two dogs, Milo and Jackson, living and working full time in their van. I had a great conversation with them at a van life gathering in the hills of New Cuyama, CA.

Teddy is a career piano man. He's mostly played in piano bars and cruise ships, and his catalogue is like 400 songs. A year ago, he moved out to California in a dodge van that he coated in truck bed liner. Nowadays, he's busking around San Diego County at farmers' markets and popular coastal destinations. Teddy is one of the cheeriest guys I know. He's so fun to talk to, that I avoid walking by his van sometimes just so I'm not late to everything because I get carried away bullshitting with him.

Patrick is really my kind of maniac. He's a voracious student of life, a jack of all trades, and far more interested in living creatively than correctly. We haven't lived near each other in about 16 years, but we make a point to get together and dither nonsensically as often as possible. When I haven't caught up with him in a minute, whatever he's up to is always a surprise. It comes out of left field, and then totally makes sense. Please come listen to us talk about an unreasonably broad swath of topics on which we have basically no authority.

Julie and Heath travel around in a Dodge Promaster that Heath built out in 2.5 days. Like holy shit, my build took 30x that long. They're avid climbers, and run a climbing gear distribution company. They're all over the place all the time, and our conversation just scratched the surface of the adventures they're having.

Here it comes: a podcast where I have conversations with people about their relationships with residential vehicles. Vanlifers, weekenders, etc. We'll hang out, maybe drink some beers, and hopefully stumble onto something that you don't mind hearing. It's also available on the YouTube as a video series. For all the latest, follow the whole shebang on instagram @fromthevan