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GLAD YOU'Re HERE

 

Travel Stats

We're always on the move. We figured it would be nice to keep track of the important details of our travels.

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1021

DAYS ON THE ROAD

 

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MILES TRAVELED

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38

STATES VISITED

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370

TACOS CONSUMED

Thank you all so much for all of the amazing words of encouragement after our grand reveal yesterday! You all made us feel so loved and excited for this next chapter of life on the road. Early next week we’ll be releasing a blog post with a full write up on our timeline, thought process, and details of the build. In the meantime here are some pictures of the interior living quarters in the new rig. These were taken about a week before @mainlineoverland installed the camper onto the truck! Last night was our first sleeping in her... and it was all we could do but sit around and say WOW!
After nearly a year and a half of transition, we’re finally home. ~ Thank you to @mainlineoverland, @fourwheelcampers, & @toyotausa for working with us on building our new home on wheels. She is a work of art. Thank you to @thelawbridal and @mikeillustrated for taking care of us for the last two weeks, and every time we’ve been grounded waiting for vehicles in the last year! We love you both with all our hearts ♥️ ~ More details soon to follow, but right now… we want to take it all in and enjoy this moment. We’ve waited a long time for this.
BFN rig #3: Lando - 2008 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 with camper shell buildout. Why we loved it: Inexpensive and fast to build out. Comfortable bed. Tons of storage space under the bed in the rollout drawers. The tail gate, all of our favorite memories in this vehicle happened there. Insanely reliable. Life in Lando was simplicity at it’s finest. Incognito for stealth camping. Fuel efficient. Extremely capable off road. Why we sold it: No space for working. Little options for escaping incident weather, and because it was time to move into our new rig.
BFN rig #2: Amelia - 1985 Toyota Sunrader 4x4 with a full interior renovation Why we loved it: We built our dream home out of the living space in this rig, and loved absolutely everything about the interior. Incredibly reliable 22R engine. Plenty of room to work/live. We love the old Toyota pickups. Crazy rare. Full sized bad that didn’t have to be stowed everyday. The most robust solar and power system we have ever had. Why we sold it: Too tall for some of the trails we like to go down. 4x4 is not the kind of overland 4x4 we need for our long term travel plans. Didn’t like the way it handed.
BFN Rig #1: Stanley - 1985 VW Vanagon with a Subaru 2.5 engine swap. Why we loved it: Comfortable and well designed living space. Room to sleep guests. The world has never looked better than it did through that windshield. Incredible VW community. Compact. Everything we needed, nothing we didn’t. Why we sold it: High cost of parts. Unrelenting mechanical issues. Not 4x4 capable.
Now that we have all this time on our hands after finishing the Sunrader build series, we’re going to start shifting the focus of our YouTube channel. From here we’ll be doing “tutorial” style videos for life on the road so we can pass on as much of our knowledge and experience on to you. So many people have helped us over the years learn and this is our way of paying it forward. On the channel this week is our first in the series: Top 5 Questions about Road Life Answered. We figured we would start basic and work up from there. Head to the link in the bio so you can feast your eyes on our new series. Also using this as a distraction as we move ever closer to our new rig… is it working?! (That was mainly a question for me 😬)
Happy casual Friday from our camp to yours. Stay warm out there my friends ❤️
It took us a long time to get around to telling the story of why we sold Amelia. This summer we kept saying to ourselves it was just because we were too busy with work, which isn’t wrong, I just think that it was more than that. Now that the whole story is out and the air has been cleared I think we needed that time to recover so we could wrap our minds around what happened. We needed the time so we could talk about our experience intelligibly and with dry eyes. We put our all into building her and giving her a new lease on life. In the end Amelia served the purpose in our lives that she was meant to. We are happy the chapter is now OFFICIALLY closed because we have exciting things on the horizon. You can’t move forward if you have your eyes fixed on the rearview mirror. We appreciate each and everyone of you for being there and offering the kind words of encouragement when we needed them most. We hope that we will continue to make you proud as we move forward and turn this experience into a life lesson and take on bigger and better things.

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