Wheel Travel Far

Sunny Eatin and Karin Balsley are from Nashville, Tennessee and decided to sell everything they owned to travel the world in their 80 series Landcruiser and rooftop tent.  Before they hit the road, Sunny was a rising criminal defense attorney and Karin was a network engineer, but an unexpected health scare jolted life into perspective, forcing them to look at each other and ask the hard questions, what did they really WANT?

Matt McDonald (@63mph) hit the road in 2013 in his 86'VW Vanagan he lovingly calls Donnie. He hit the road to jumpstart his photojournalism career and reestablish his connection to the land. His adventure took him to the remote corners of the West, all alone. It was in these periods of solitude Matt shaped his philosophies about life. While Matt ultimately decided vanlife wasn't the final answer for him, he evangelizes the perspective it can provide anyone – if done for the right reason.

The hosts of Wheel Travel Far, Megan Bristol & Nick Polinko, had only been dating a few months when they decided to ditch their Silicon Valley jobs, buy a Toyota Landcruiser & Turtleback Trailer, and point their car south for a year and half surf trip along the PanAmerican Highway. This episode is dedicated to answering the most commonly asked questions about their time on the road @thelongcruise.

The hosts of Wheel Travel Far, Megan Bristol & Nick Polinko, had only been dating a few months when they decided to ditch their Silicon Valley jobs, buy a Toyota Landcruiser & Turtleback Trailer, and point their car south for a year and half surf trip along the PanAmerican Highway. This episode is dedicated to answering the most commonly asked questions about their time on the road @thelongcruise.

Sunny Eatin and Karin Balsley are from Nashville, Tennessee and decided to sell everything they owned to travel the world in their 80 series Landcruiser and rooftop tent.  Before they hit the road, Sunny was a rising criminal defense attorney and Karin was a network engineer, but an unexpected health scare jolted life into perspective, forcing them to look at each other and ask the hard questions, what did they really WANT?

Matt McDonald (@63mph) hit the road in 2013 in his 86'VW Vanagan he lovingly calls Donnie. He hit the road to jumpstart his photojournalism career and reestablish his connection to the land. His adventure took him to the remote corners of the West, all alone. It was in these periods of solitude Matt shaped his philosophies about life. While Matt ultimately decided vanlife wasn't the final answer for him, he evangelizes the perspective it can provide anyone – if done for the right reason.

Megan Bristol and Nick Polinko are co-pilots, on and off the air. In June 2017, they ditched their Silicon Valley jobs to spend a year and a half driving and surfing their way south along the PanAmerican highway.

Before going on our trip, @thelongcruise, we had an idea of how and why people hit the road - mostly driven by the social media depiction of it.  A year later, we have been blown away by the variety of approaches and the diverse set of people we have seen and met. We want to help demystify "vanlife" & overlanding by sharing the stories and insights from the people actually doing it. You don't have to look like models with a large Instagram following and you don't have to be a hard core 4x4 truck guru either.  Anyone can do it! The people we meet care deeply about nature and are energized by being outdoors. Some are retaliating against a consumer driven culture and trying to reset their life by living with less. Some spent years carefully planning and saving for "a trip of a lifetime". And some are just crazy Australians who show up, buy a car, and live off rice and beans for 6 months while chasing waves. We think all of their stories should be heard.