Tag: vanconversion

fromrusttoroadtrip:

We all need a little escape from time to time, a break from the mundane, the routine. So we’re heading to the South East of England for a week, to explore, to relax, to find fresh scenery for our photography. To discover the wild moors and rocky coastline of our own country we have seldom explored.⁣
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In true Rusty Roadtrips style it’s forecast to rain and howl all week, but it’s inevitable in this area of the world anyway- we’ll survive. This same wet weather is making it difficult to make much progress on the Bedford, not to mention our own van, but these are the limitations we accept by undertaking such projects in the winter. And if numb hands and cold feet are the sacrifices we must make to travel full time in the future then so be it.⁣
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Anyone else heading off somewhere nice this week?

fromrusttoroadtrip:

It feels so strange, to be left behind. To spend our first winter in three years not on the road but standing static, rooted in one place. To experience the changing of the seasons from our memories, so familiar yet also so distant.⁣
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What even is normal anymore? Is this normal, working our jobs, saving our pennies, making the most out of living in one place? Or is the new normal to be on the road, to live our lives in perpetual motion, scraping by and facing life’s problems head on? Who knows anymore. Our double lives are worlds apart, and it’s too painful to think about whilst living the other. Remembering those we’ve left behind while we travel, or remembering how it feels to wake up in ever more unfamiliar places whilst we are greeted by the same view every day.⁣
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Only one of our lives ever manifests itself to other people at a time, and they never intertwine. Only we can see them both, laid out before us, future plans and memories past, the full scope of our two worlds which never collide but shadow eachother inextricably.⁣

Follow the hashtag #Fromrusttoroadtrip to follow our van conversion project and our travels around Europe! 🌍 

fromrusttoroadtrip:

Want to take a sneaky peek inside this gorgeous rustic home on wheels? Well guess what? You can!⁣
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Back in July we met up with Tom and Sophia of @vanderingaround while they were down in Cornwall and they were kind enough to give us a little tour around their recently finished LDV Convoy conversion. It features a wonderful cabin vibe with a cosy woodburner, beautifully bespoke kitchen and loads of unique little details dotted around. And have you seen their spice rack?!⁣
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Head over to our Youtube channel NOW to watch the tour of their wonderfully cosy home on wheels! Link below, and don’t forget to hit that subscribe button! 🙌⁣

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Couple Create Rustic DIY Tiny Home on Wheels | Van Tour on Youtube

fromrusttoroadtrip:

#Throwback to… Well, throwback to nothing, really. This is our every day vanlife in all its glory. All the glitz and glamour of our daily grooming routine.

So what if we wash our hair, our clothes and our plates all in the same bowl? So what if we hang our pants to dry in a tree? This is our normal. It may be a little unpredictable and a touch eccentric, but we love it. We’ve adapted our routines and found new ways to survive and thrive. And you know what, we’d rather be washing our hair with cold water in a washing up bowl by the sea than sat behind a desk for 40 hours a week.

It may not be the most likeable, shareable, Instagrammable of moments but it’s real, it’s raw, and it’s just that little bit different and alternative to the chains and shackles of a normal working routine.

So yeah, #Throwback to Greece, to just another day on the road, another thread woven into the patchwork blanket of colours and landscapes and memories that is our vanlife normal.

Follow the hashtag #Fromrusttoroadtrip to follow our van conversion project and our travels around Europe! 🌍