It feels like only yesterday we were living the dream life traveling around in Dusty our 1993 VW Eurovan. The trip that ended in December brought our family closer together as we explored 3 provinces and 6 States over 3 months. As promised in the blog post “Finding Money for a Family Van Life Trip”, …
We are back on the road! The momentary thoughts of abandoning our Van trip are completely washed away. I am currently relaxing in my camp chair looking out on the red sandy cliffs of BLM land (free camping) near Zion National Park. The sky is completely blue as the sun is beating on my shoulders…
I felt complete and utter despair. I knew our ‘93 VW Eurovan was probably going to break down at some point on our 3-month trip but I did not expect it to happen just 2 weeks in. It just was not supposed to happen yet. We had plans… The most frustrating part about seeing the…
The tragedy happened about a month ago just before we went away camping for the weekend. I went to grab some food out of our fridge in Dusty our VW Van and noticed that the food was hardly cold. I headed to the buttons overtop of our windshield to turn the fridge on and realized…
There is less than a month until our VW van trip where we will be touring the US and Canada. Our family is so excited and we really cannot believe that we have pulled the money together for the trip. If you want to learn how we managed to come up with the money then…
Hi there! I’m Lily from the Blog Max and Ivy and we are a family of four based in Sydney, Australia. Our two kids are Max and Ivy, aged 3 and 2. I spend a fair amount of my time road tripping and enjoying the Van Life with the kids in our campervan while my…
Camping in Dusty our ’93 VW Eurovan has been one big adventure since we bought him in 2015. We bought him shortly after having our second daughter when I was having some intense nesting instinct while pregnant. Meet Dusty in this post here. There have been many ups and downs but overall the memories we…
Recently my husband Cam and I had the chance to go camping in Dusty, our ’93 VW Camper Van, for one night. In other words we had someone that was willing to watch the kids for us so that we could get away! The trip helped us to refocus and reconnect through a healthy mix…
We knew that getting a VW van would mean that we would be going on great adventures. Whenever I would see a VW van pic out in the wild or on the open road I had this inner pull, a strong desire to be that person adventuring with that van. In those pictures it just felt…
Meet Dusty our VW van. Dusty is new to us but a 1993 VW camper van equipped with a stove, fridge, storage, seats that fold into a bed for two and a pop-top to sleep two more. It is a vehicle that invokes adventure and exploration, with a little bit of a cool factor to…
