Wednesday, September 12, 2007

In a Van Down By the River

Sounds like fun:
This looks promising. A couple from Sarasota, Florida named Markus and Angela are planning to sell their worldly possessions, buy a used van, live in it, and blog about it. They are currently shopping for the van.

This was inspired (in part) by the 4 Hour Workweek, where Tim Ferris talks about living a totally mobile lifestyle. Well, we love America and before setting out abroad we want to have a base and find the best city to live in that we could make our permanent home.

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The rough plan as of now is:

  1. Sell most of our crap. Store the rest.
  2. Find, buy, steal, or otherwise get a van.
  3. Pimp out said van with a custom bed, office, LCD tv, etc.
  4. Get a high speed internet connection
  5. Get laptops, photo, and video gear to document this crazy thing.
  6. Figure out what to take along for survival
  7. Go!
See the river-van blog here.

I just bought Tim Ferris' book yesterday. I'll probably start shopping for my van in a few weeks....

On second thought, maybe I'll content myself with the trip across the country Dad and I took a couple years ago. After all, I don't want to end up like this guy.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Man, was that a couple of years ago already? Time sure flies when you're bogged down with dissertations.