Tag: wanderlust

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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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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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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.

 

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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?

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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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One of the most celebrated gardeners of modern times, Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), laid out a tiny garden just north of the castle in 1911. The castle, garden and nearby lime kilns are in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors.Turner, Thomas Girtin and Charles Rennie Mackintosh all painted on Holy Island.

This is Northumberland.

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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

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I’ve always been of the mindset “do what you wanna do”, ever since I started my very first school. I could never understand why you would want to live your life doing things the way other people tell you to do.

This mindset got me into a lot of trouble as a kid; I was expelled from 9 different schools, refused to wear uniform, refused to hold a pencil properly. Refused to do anything unless it was my way. Now as an adult, this mindset gives me unbounded freedom: why would I let anyone tell me how to live my life?

Although all of our friends and family love that we’re travelling in our van (apart from my dad, who keeps asking when I’m gonna get a “real” job), there’s a certain pressure from society which channels you into a consumerist lifestyle to maintain the current system.

It’s like passing Go on a Monopoly board, jumping through hoops as they say: when you’ve finished school go to college, when you’ve finished college go to uni, get a degree, get a bit of paperwork that proves you can do the job you’re good at. Now to pay for that degree you’ll need to work for the next 20 years of your life, although there aren’t any jobs, and while you’re at it you may as well add another 20 years onto that because you’re going to need a mortgage for that house you’ll never be able to afford.

It was amongst this tide of pressure that we both put our feet down and said no, we won’t swim with all the other fish, we want to fight against the current. We don’t want to carry on racking up debt for the rest of our lives; we want to see the world.

But society needs debt to thrive, and by removing ourselves from that cycle we become antisocial; we don’t play a part in the system and that makes us outcasts. Radicals.

But more and more of us are waking up, realising there’s more to life and a different way to live. We’re part of a movement who decide to cut our ties, break the mould, and allow ourselves to be free. We reject debt, we reject the items you’re supposed to need in order to be considered successful, and we just do what makes us happy. Because 80 years is a very short time on this planet, but a very long time to not be happy.

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