Last week on Instagram I asked for people to send over their biggest questions about the full-time travel/vanlife/overlanding lifestyle because I wanted to answer them! I got a ton of great questions from people and I wanted to pass along the Q&A to you guys!
I didn’t realize how hard good internet was going to be to find for the last few weeks! Better late than never, lets pick up where we left off as we were leaving Pennsylvania!
I'm so excited/embarrassed that we're doing our month on the road recap for the first time in a WHOLE YEAR! If you're new to us since our assorted builds over the last year…
A lot has changed for us recently, as I'm sure you have gathered. After 3 weeks on the road in Amelia we quickly realized that she was not going to be a long term fit for us.
Over the years (wow it’s weird that we can say that), Owen and I get a lot of questions about life on the road and we’re ready to start tackling those questions one by one. First on the list? Free time on the road, how much we have and what we do with it!
Another sad day is upon us. We're putting our dear Amelia up for sale. She's a 1985 Toyota Sunrader 4x4.
Hey Friends! I hope that this post finds you all well! We just wanted to pass along an update on how things are going with the build and other exciting things that we have in the works!
This past week Owen and I sat down to look for a picture and remembered that we had yet to share our favorite images from 2017. We know, we know...we're about five months late getting this posted, but better late then never right?
For the past six months our lives have been completely consumed by building out Amelia. We're so thankful to have had you guys with us every step of the way with suggestions and words of encouragement! We've received a ton of really great feedback from you all about how much you enjoy watching the build process so I thought that as our build is drawing to a close we could point you in the
Who's ready to dive into the nitty gritty of our electrical set up? If you're not, Pikachu will show you the door.
See the look on Owen's face? Figuring out our water system has left us stumped and wearing this exact face, time and time again.
Even though most of our work is being done on the inside of Amelia, we never get bored of this view. To say that we're excited to be done with this build is a huge understatement.
Hey guys! Sorry you haven't heard from us in the last two weeks. "Week 18" of the build Amelia went into the shop to have a thorough checkup,
This week I want to start off by showing you a few pictures of the various phases of life the bed area in Amelia has gone through during this build. I think it's the best way to truly appreciate how she looks now.
We feel really close to being done with Amelia, even though we know that we've a few more weeks of work to do.
The last step before we could install our top cabinets was getting our button latches and hinges installed in the doors. I was under the impression that it might take a bit of work (like seemingly everything else)
At some point this week I realized, I have worked on Amelia everyday for the last month! With some of our progress lately it has opened up the ability to work on so many different projects around Amelia that I haven't even considered taking a day off because there has been so many things on my to-do list.
Welcome back my friends, hope you all have had a great week! We had a great week of exciting progress. We're really starting to see light at the end of this endless tunnel.
Hope you all have had a great week. We, as usual, kept ourselves very busy over this past week! We had some exciting things happen that I'm so excited to tell you about! We've gotten a lot of questions recently about our ETA to get back on the road.
Hope this blog post finds you well! Do you see anything new in the picture above?! No, I'm not talking about Owen's creepy foot hanging out of the back of Amelia. Amelia got her new STRIPES!!
Hey friends, longtime no talk! Might I say, you look great today?! The last time we talked in depth about our build was the end of December and we had just wrapped up Amelia's fresh paint job!
MAK here! Sorry for the radio silence over the past few weeks. We were busy traveling to see family, enjoying the holidays, a fishing trip, and prepping for a wedding in upstate Michigan next week!
Sorry about not getting anything posted last week. We had to make a quick run up to North Carolina to tend to a family matter. On the way there we got a chance to experience the Snowpocalypse in our old hometown of Atlanta, Georgia!
This past week has been pretty different from everything to date. Up until now we've been rolling smoothly through the build. The order in which we've been tackling projects has been very clear, and there was a lot needing to be worked on all at once. Until this week.
I hope that this blog post finds you well, and that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. We had plans to opt outside, but sadly the weather said otherwise.
It's hard to believe that we are 5 weeks in. This past week absolutely wore us out because we working on Amelia every single day
Hello again my friends, MAK here! It's crazy to think that it has already been a week since we did the last update. This has been the 4th week of work that we have done on Amelia, and it was largely spent fiberglassing in holes on the exterior.
MAK here! We've been really busy these first few weeks doing sporadic burst of work on Amelia. Going forward we'll be posting our weekly updates on the build out. This time I'll be catching you up on about 3 weeks of work.
We thought it would be fun to give you guys a tour of our new home, a 1985 Toyota Sunrader 4x4, named Amelia. This tour is of her in her VERY original state and is likely how she came from the factory.
Our first night of the month Owen and I decided to finally catch a sunset from the top of Cadillac mountain. Despite the fact that we had been in the park for a whole week we managed to save this increadible view for last.