#living vanlife

[cheaprv]

Aspen, Colorado. Photo by Connor DeMott.

[fliegenengel]

I stretch myself like the sea, so that tomorrow can't deny a dance with me

[maudiemoods]

I've been meaning to make a list but I've been so busy WAAUGH!! but here it is!! I officially live in my van most of the time!

This is what the inside looks like! I keep my food under the bed and clothes in both the draws in the back (covered by a scarf) and the brown box thing! I have plenty of storage! I even made the floor and put doors in it so I can reach the space in-between that floor and the actual van floor. BUT! I don't use it ❤️

It's definitely a little challenging living in a van! Not for everyone and honestly I'm only doing it for the experience! Plus! I can't really afford a place on my own!

This little set up of mine took almost a year! I procrastinated a lot and had a decent amount of mechanical issues I needed fixed before even starting on the inside. In all, van price included, I spent around $7,000 give or take! I have a 03 Honda Odyssey and I really love it! I've been told I was lucky with it!

I don't really know how detailed people want me to get about this and what I'm currently doing but if anyone has questions send them in!

[travelingmaverick]

[this-is-radio-nowhere]

We've been fairly opaque about our lives, what we're doing and why, what this blog is even about for a bit now - truthfully, most of our content will be similar - the landscapes we see and get to photograph entirely eliminate the need for words, and the beauty contained within even my poor photography exceeds what any would be capable of.

That said, I feel like offering some. I'll do a tldr above and spew way more under the cut.

Short version is we're a pair of transbian wi es/freaks who have traded in a stifling one-bedroom in Denver for the most wonderful van in the universe, or at least the Midwest. We go places, take pictures, and share things related to the resulting experiences we have between desert truck stops. We are entirely biased in favor of living an openly trans existence. Life is, due to some part planning and large part fortune, good at the moment. I recognize immense privilege in being able to live the way I have dreamed of doing for 14 years. I hope that's enough to earn your follow and delicious reblogs.

So I'm @circeofjagd and my lovely wife is @naomi-no-kimi . I do IT junk, she's a calligrapher. We moved into a van at the beginning of the month. As you've seen, we've been bouncing around the desert. It took so much to get to live this way, and it is incredible, something I've wanted since I found myself on the street for the first time at 23. While harsh, it transformed my philosophy on life - being Wiccan, it was flexible enough to handle the shock. Altogether it was only about 14 months, split between Oakland, Northern California, and Denver. Far less than the entirely more badass travelers I've met and continue to meet. I was lucky to find housing with friends and now, some 10 years later a perfect home with my wife on the road. She has her own story and I am sure she'll take the chance to tell it.

We're both similarly lucky to be able to transition medically and live openly as gay trans girlthings. It's a bit much for small town folks, but largely people have been kind. I hope in living this way I can introduce more people to just what that looks like, even if I am more goblin than woman most days. Especially with the uncertainty of 2025 looming. We want to be a positive voice in remote places, humble travelers among the interstates, proof that we exist and can thrive being the people we want to be. I welcome you to join us.

[urban-hart]

found new place to rent. by meself. am relieved. am happy. am tiord.

i have to contact. someone. about government student financial aid's incompetence in citizenship verification. like, what more do you want from me. i've been a citizen for practically my whole life. ugh.

i will take an English assessment tomorrow morning since it's just online.

i have to go somewhere for da maths, i think. arrange an appointment or something. i don't know.

guys, i'm doing it. i'm adulting

[woodsrat]

~ everything carries me to you.

[just-mb-blogs]

"If someone thinks that love and peace are cliche and must have been left behind in the sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal".

- John Lenon

[fiachrahackett]

nostalgia of island

[cheaprv]

Glacier Bay National Park, Juneau, Alaska. Photo by Matt Howard.

[fliegenengel]

roadkill

[dansemacabre]

sometimes i think abt when the national park service was auctioning off old shuttle buses in zion for like fifty dollars and get just so sad. i have fifty dollars. that could’ve been me. THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN MEEEEE

[travelingmaverick]

Lotta lives in a van with her pet Donkey.

[oldieliebe]

Bulli-Liebe 🥰

Schön, dass ich die Möglichkeit habe seit knapp 14 Jahren Bulli zu fahren.

[theood]

It might just be a lot of things. I really don't know. I don't like not having any energy after work but it staves off a lot of our thought processes but at the same time I don't love it. It's tolerable but I want to be doing something else. I wanna be in the dirt and I want to feel the earth under my feet and I want to know she's listening to me and telling me it's ok and I want to take care of her like she's taken care of me. I want to plant trees and cut back weeds and learn to identify our native plants and I just can't do any of that and make a living. It's not even a volunteer opportunity for me. I'm just some random citizen who didn't even go to school for any of it. And I'm so lonely. I'm the loneliest I've been. I love all my friends online I do. Truly and wholly but it doesn't help the fact that I have no one around me irl. And it hurts. And I'm scared. And I am so small all the time. And I just want it to change.