Tag: vanlife

fromrusttoroadtrip:

Join us at 8pm GMT as we release the first video of our Bedford CF barn find restoration and conversion project on Youtube! We will be premiering the video which means we’re inviting you to watch along with us, ask us questions and offer your input about the build in real time.

The video will detail how we removed all of the surface rust from the chassis and inside the cab, a technique which is really useful for any kind of van project. Also make sure you watch til the end, as we will be releasing details and giving you a virtual tour of how we hope to lay out the interior of the van once it’s built. We welcome any tips, advice or constructive feedback about the build, after all we’ve never taken on a project quite like this one in the past.

Join us at 8pm GMT by clicking the link below!

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ndelswick:

Having my own apothecary in our bus was one of the most important things for me to have. Studying & healing with herbs have saved me in so many different ways. 🌿

Knowing that our medicine grows in our back yards & along sidewalks is one of the most beautiful things to me. Yet it something that is overlooked. Did you know even the weeds that grow around you are medicinal & magical? .

I love the snow but my gemini sun prefers spring. 🦋

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ndelswick:

👋Hey.

Since there are a few new faces around here, I thought it was a good time to introduce myself & talk a little about my life.

My name is Nicole, I am 26 & I am currently living in a bus that my boyfriend & I converted into a home. We have two cats and my boyfriend & I have been dating for 6 years. I was ridiculously sensitive as a kid as I would have prophetic dreams of traumatic events that would happen to people I knew & didn’t know, I have been able to just tell how people feel (empathic) & can see inside of peoples’ heads.

In high school, I was supposed to die thanks to having factor five which made me have blood clots in both of my legs & abdomen. A birth defect ended up saving my life & that’s a whole other story in and of itself. These health issues paved the way for me to have endless paradigm shifts which helped carve my world view while also leaving me chronically ill.

I ended up going to college for nursing (much thanks to parental pressure) & ended up dropping out after the first year so I could follow my dreams of being an artist/photographer. I was successfully doing photography until it was too much for my health & now I work from home (our bus) & have my own mystic general shop called Oh Deer & Fox. (On Instagram & Etsy)

I am living an intentional & authentic life as a witch in a bus. 🌿

I like talking about & sharing art, scary stories, spiritual anything, photography, & so much more.

Please feel free to introduce yourself so we can get to know each other.

fromrusttoroadtrip:

Rain, rain… Maybe we just have an affinity for it because we’re British. Maybe we’ve learned to embrace the inevitable. But there’s something about a rainy night or even a rainy day that makes you feel snug, safe, comforted. That particularly familiar sound of droplets on a fibreglass roof, splashing on panes of single-glazed glass, forming ephemeral circles on our porthole as we watch. Watching it collect on the windows in frozen powdered white, watching it melt back into rain again. It enshrouds us like a cocoon, keeping us safe, leaking in through the holes and exposing the cracks but we don’t care.

And it didn’t half rain on our week away, but we were in England after all. Every day and every night it rained, although it didn’t dampen our spirits. Not sheltered by the ancient pine trees of the New Forest swaying over us. Not tucked up in bed with a cup of tea starting the morning slowly, appreciatively. Not splashing through puddles and fording floods and trekking over damp Autumn leaves.

You see we don’t mind the rain, because it never stays for long, as we never stay in place for long too. It’s fleeting, and transient, like our lives on the road. And it’s comforting, soothing, the soundtrack to so many days and nights spent in our humble little van.


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builtsosmall-campervantravels:

TRAVEL BLOG –

Before I left the campsite this morning, I spoke to a backpacker who had a wonderful setup in his van. He allowed me to take a photo to blog about it. He bought a Mitsubishi Express van with nothing in it and built everything himself from recycled parts and wood and some bought plywood (not much). He spent 10 days at a place with a drill/screwdriver and a $6 saw and made the whole setup. He even found an innerspring mattress in a plastic bag and cut that to make it not as wide. He showed me all the photos he took making it (fantastic!!!), that he had sent back home to show his family. He doesn’t have a blog, so I can’t link to any of it, but I’m so glad he let me take this. It’s so inspiring when you meet someone who has made a lot out of not much… … .

fromrusttoroadtrip:

Waking up nestled in the foothills of the High Tatras to discover ice crystals had formed on all the leaves, to a view that belonged on a postcard of Slovakia; big, purple mountains looming over us, tantalisingly snow-capped. A vast, lush meadow spilling out in front of us, a thousand hues of autumn scattered across its grass. A crisp bite in the air of a day not yet warmed by sunshine. The smell of coffee wafting out of the door, washing gently drying in the breeze as we prepared for the day’s hike ahead.

These are the simple moments we love so much about travelling, the ordinary for us that seems so extraordinary to outsiders. The ways in which we adapt to living in a tiny space by extending our home outdoors. To feel closer to nature, surrounding ourselves in it and embracing it, cold nights, wild animals and all.

 

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.⁣

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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