Other girls post makeup videos.
I post attempting to wash my face while living in a van videos.
I warn mothers and fathers to lock up their children’s IG accounts because they ikely don’t want them to see me and become inspired to:
- @ age 31
- With an a Ivy League degree
- And an amazing husband 3000 miles away, back home

While many are in an office on a Monday, I’m sitting in a Mercedes repair shop waiting for the van to get its fluids refreshed.
Uproot their lives to:
- Live in a van
- Wash up in the mornings in a Park and Ride Bathroom.
- Preach animal rights and veganism
- Roam the streets on early morning jogs
But…
I’m the least dissatisfied, physically healthiest, and the most at peace I have been in the last decade.
Not only that, but I’m learning to better appreciate my husband, my friends, my family, modern conveniences…
More and more with this detox of a lifestyle.
It’s funny because when I first met my husband, he told me of his plan to take his father’s old van and remodel it into a home.
I was skeptical, but two years after I first met him and heard his story, here I am washing up in Target bathrooms and loving van life.
Such a hypocrite.
But I’m learning to recognize and respond to different life settings, goals, and abilities.
There are certainly times when I miss having my own living space, a hot shower, a BATHROOM of all things, and of course, Sandy, but I’m enjoying being clear headed and building up on enough on the road learning in a close space with another person, my team mate, to return, or maybe not return, to wherever space it is that I wind up in next, a better, more informed person.