Van Life Guides, Budgets & Routes
The hardest part of packing for van life isn't deciding what to bring — it's accepting what to leave behind. Space is brutally limited, and every single item has to earn its place. After living…
Van life in the UK is a very different animal to the American version you see all over Instagram. There's no endless BLM desert to disappear into, the weather will test your resolve, and overnight…
The USA might be the best country in the world for van life, and it comes down to one thing: space. Millions of acres of public land where you can camp for free, a highway…
Buying a campervan is one of those decisions that feels simple until you start researching, and then suddenly there are seventeen different options and strong opinions about all of them. This guide cuts through it…
The most important thing you can do before buying a campervan is work out what it's actually going to cost you to live in one. Not the romanticised version — the real one, with fuel,…
The hardest part of van life isn't the living — it's the starting. There's an overwhelming amount of information out there, most of it either too vague to be useful or written by people who…
One of the first things that surprises people when they start van life is how much free camping actually exists in the United States. We're talking millions of acres of public land where you can…
Van life insurance is one of those topics that most people don't think about until something goes wrong — and by then, it's too late. I've seen people lose everything because their standard vehicle policy…
The solar setup question is the one that trips up almost every first-time van builder. Go on any van life forum and you'll see people confidently saying "100W is plenty" right next to people saying…
When I first started researching van conversions, every article I found gave me numbers that seemed either impossibly low ("I built my van for $3,000!") or eye-wateringly high (professional builds starting at $80,000). The reality,…
