#VanLife turned out to be the perfect solution for us. I’m a traveling nurse, which means I move to different towns and work at hospitals for about three months at a time.
Sometimes, I can stay up to a year if the hospital needs me and I want to stay longer. For the last three years, my family and I have been moving around, always renting apartments.
Since we already live a nomadic life because of my job, living in apartments was getting too expensive. We had to pay for pet deposits, extra rent for our cat, and moving costs. Each month, these costs added up to about two or three hundred dollars more.
We also love to go backpacking and snowboarding, so we realized we were barely ever home. After some calculations, we found we were spending a lot of money just to store our stuff in the apartment.
That’s when we knew we needed to switch to a mobile home to better suit our lifestyle and save money.
Danni is a nurse, so we’re in the city at least three days a week. This makes it easy for us because we can park right outside the hospital. Danni just walks to work, and after spending three days in the city, we head straight back to nature, where we love to be.
We’ve been living in our van for eight months, and it’s been amazing. Van life has merged our home life and adventure time so well that we don’t have to choose between the two anymore. They now go hand in hand.
We are thrilled with this lifestyle, and people often ask us when we plan to stop. Honestly, I don’t see an end in sight.
I’m Lindsay, and I’m Danni. We live in a van. We chose a 2018 RAM Promaster 3500 extended because it’s the longest one available, and we absolutely love it.
