Back in the summer of 2020, my partner and I decided to put all our belongings in storage and commit to living in a van for a year. It took us six months to convert our 1997 Dodge Ram into a miniature ...
Ola Szczecinska is a graduate of the University of Toronto. Her writing has been featured in Narrative and Geist magazines. My Toyota was my temporary home. But one Christmas, I resolved not to be in ...
Every year for the past several years, I’ve volunteered at food pantries in the Los Angeles area during the holiday season. When we all line up in the industrial kitchen armed with gloves, hairnets ...
I've lived in my vehicle for years, and I've learned tips about this lifestyle along the way. It can be difficult to spend winters in my car, so I follow the good weather. As a solo traveler, I ...
At the onset of the pandemic, Eric Kehoe, 32, had his van stationed at the Rocky Mountains in B.C. Kehoe enjoyed van living for years prior to the pandemic. For him, it was a way to slash some ...
Toronto-based Tal Gershon, a 30-year-old nurse, and Mads Lott, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher, regularly pack up their Mercedes sprinter van and hit the road. For months at a time, they live ...
Mallory Dunlop, a 30-year-old dancer, and Daniel Tossos, a 30-year-old musician, co-own a work-in-progress 2018 Ram ProMaster van that doubles as a living space for road trips and a mobile hotel at ...
“I’d racked up credit bills, student loans and a line of credit. How a life on wheels helped me get back on track.” When I was a master’s student in organizational development at HEC Montréal in the ...
A young Londoner named Lewis has chosen an unconventional lifestyle by trading a rented flat for life in a van parked in the heart of the capital. Under the handle @lewis.ldn.vanlife, his videos of ...
A Canadian snowbird who drove from Florida to Prince Edward Island says he now finds himself living in his car after being turned away by officials at the Confederation Bridge because of COVID-19 ...