About Us
We’re Adam and Madi. In 2020, we started VanLifeJourney to share our experiences living full time in a 2019 Ford Transit. What began as a place for family, friends, and people curious about vanlife became a record of our van build, travels, and daily life on the road.
Today, we have a 2027 Winnebago Revel 44E. We’re bringing new stories to the site while keeping the earlier ones here, because both vans are part of our story.
Our Life Today
We both balance full-time jobs, teaching, and training for ultramarathons. Owning a van fits into a different routine now than it did when the Transit was our full-time home.
With the Revel, we want to keep sharing the same mix of photos, practical updates, and honest accounts of what we’re learning. The small details of owning a manufacturer-built van have a place here, just as the everyday realities of the Transit did in our earlier posts. You can meet the Revel in our new-van post, where we introduce this next part of our story.
How We Started
Travel, living simply, and spending more time in nature were part of what drew us to vanlife. Our early posts followed the process of building the Transit and learning how to live in it. Some were about national parks and hiking. Others were about storage, water, or finding a place for bikes that didn’t fit under the bed.
A week on the Oregon coast, for example, included bike rides around Newport, beach sunsets, and time reading and hiking at Cape Lookout. It also meant working around rain and arriving at a campground without a reservation. Our posts kept room for all of it.
From Vanlife to TEDx
Our time on the road also led us to give a TEDx Talk, “Vanlife and the Art of Belonging: Creating Community on the Move.” We spoke about what those experiences taught us about home, community, and belonging. You’ll find those reflections here alongside our travel stories.
Thanks for following along. If you have a question about something we’ve shared or want to tell us about your own vanlife experience, we’d be happy to hear from you.
