You may have noticed that we’ve been incommunicado for the last several months! A couple weeks into the van build, we realized that as much as we wanted to document our van building journey, we also very much desperately wanted … Read More
It’s been a month and a half since we purchased Alevander the Great. It’s been about two weeks since we started hard-core working on it. This means every day from 9am – 6pm (except for one day, Jon’s birthday). Yet, … Read More
Today, I am 37 years old. Is that a big deal? Well, given our decimal-based numeric system, turning 37 is conventionally uneventful. Usually, a 37th birthday isn’t an overly-celebrated event. It certainly isn’t 30 or 40.
We did it! Our house was finally listed for sale on Friday, February 22, 2019. After a month of hard work, our home looks great and quite fit to be sold. (Although, truly the home stager and the photographer probably … Read More
One of the best side effects of this crazy goal to sell our house and convert our first ever campervan in a period of 2 months, is that we were able to enjoy some of the unique excitement – and … Read More
It’s the ninth day into our van build. We’ve gutted almost everything previously built into the van. There were a lot of pieces. This is because the previous owner, whom we’ve named Steve, built his own mobile man cave inside Alevander. … Read More
I can’t help share our next big adventure with anyone who will listen. Be it coworkers, family, or friends, I’m eager to let folks know that we’re selling all our possessions (house included) to beach it up in Mexico and … Read More
Get it? Alevander the Great, instead of Alexander the Great 😀 After a month of researching and shopping around, we have FINALLY found our van.
Traveling across Mexico and Central America for a year?? Woah, that’s super cool. What’s not super cool is getting a ton of stuff done in order for that to happen…
I was walking back towards the wife. I knew she was going to be sad. She’d had her heart set on it – or at least on this van search being over. And I was about to burst her bubble.