Amanda is a flight attendant who heard about van life years ago, but when she was looking for an apartment in the chaos of 2020, she decided she’d rather put the money into a van and enjoy the changing scenery. She bought her rig second-hand and hasn’t looked back!
She uses her van to commute to work and has been based around San Francisco for 8 months. When she’s not high in the skies, she loves being outdoors, enjoying all that nature has to offer. Enjoy the photo tour of her van along with our Q&A with Amanda below!
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In Her Van When She’s Not in the Sky
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Miranda and Kyle had done the “mattress-in-the-back-of-the-car” camping for shorter trips plenty of times, but when they couldn’t travel in 2020, it made them pause and consider what they really wanted out of life. Eventually they decided to purchase a van and have it professionally converted, so they could hit the road sooner rather than later.
The “Astro Van” has a great layout, with a shower and Nature’s Head composting toilet in the front of the van, and a large dinette in the back that becomes their bed at night. They have a great rooftop deck with a fixed ladder, as well. Enjoy their tour!
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Software Developer & Video Editor Choose Van Life
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These three friends all live tiny in Holland and travel together in their converted campervan, creating and selling their artwork.
They have an older-style van that required a lot of love to get it going, but now it’s a cozy and rustic little abode! We got the chance to interview Jolein about their tiny life, which you can read below the photo tour of their rig.
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Netherland Artists Hit the Road in a Camper Van
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This is Sophie’s second interview with Tiny Home Tours. Two years ago she was a full-time consultant living full-time in her van. Since then, she’s traveled internationally, spent some time in Baja, quit her full-time job, and started homesteading on a friend’s hunting land in Kentucky. Oh, and she gutted and re-did her whole van!
The van now has super groovy cabinets covered in 70s-inspired wallpaper. She swapped her stationary bed for a U-shaped dinette that converts at night, and she replaced her giant upper cabinets with lots more with a smaller footprint. Now she can travel in her van part-time and then live in the tiny shed she’s converting the rest of the time.
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Her Retro Van Conversion 2.0!
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For Alissa and Cody, what began as a simple lockdown project soon transformed into an entire lifestyle overhaul. They quit their jobs, built out this $60k rig and moved in ready to travel the country.
They have a hammock, hidden toilet, full-sized bed and tons of storage. They also discuss a hidden laundry chute and their trashcan situation onboard. Let us know what you like about this rig!
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Nurse & Security Design Engineer Quit Jobs for Vanlife
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Do you remember this family’s tiny house tour? We told you they also have a van and sailboat they travel in, and today you’ll be getting an insider look at their DIY van conversion (that was also totally debt-free!).
They did some super creative stuff with this conversion, including creating an elevator bed for the grown-ups that comes down at night and a living/eating/car-seat-holding area that turns into a giant kid bed. Let us know what your favorite part is below!
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Their Van with an Elevator Bed
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Nate and Maud might be one of the most adorable couples we’ve seen before! After meeting in Thailand just before the world shut down and then getting married so they could stay together, the couple chose to build out a van and hit the road with their full-time remote jobs. And they have no intentions of ever quitting #vanlife!
Their rig is almost entirely white on the inside, including a custom whitewashed tongue-in-groove ceiling. They have “long-ways” bed setup so they can stretch out (they’re both over 5’10”), and even a hide-away shower they pull out for 5 to 10 minutes a day. What’s your favorite part?
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Wildly-in-Love Couple Working Full-Time & Vanlifing
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Sarah had experience traveling and camping, but her launch into vanlife wasn’t as predetermined as one might expect! It was a bit on a whim when she was tired of apartment living that she went and bought her van. Thankfully she’s been working remotely for a long time, so she had the job part all figured out.
While she’s honest about the not-so-fun parts of living in a van, she has no intention of going back to an apartment. And when you see her beautiful van you’ll see why! (And yes, there’s a toilet).
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Her Spur-of-the-Moment Decision to Go Tiny
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I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a vanlife couple who spent as much time and forethought regarding making the move into a vehicle! They spent a full year plotting and planning and discussing all the things that could go wrong in order to prepare themselves. Now that they’ve been living tiny for over a year, they consider their van a “sanctuary” no matter where they go!
The result? An awesome van that perfectly suits their stealthy needs — Becky can take the van to work as a travel nurse and park at the hospital, and Drew works from the van (or a co-working space) as a digital nomad. Their bed design is a brilliant middle ground between “take it all apart” and permanent.
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Stealthy Promaster W/ Shower & Cool Bed Design
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