lllindsey
Member
Well, I think it is time for me to pay more attention to this forum. I will be moving into my van next month and hitting the road.
I am 67. retired. my kids are grown. And technology and social security have now given me the opportunity to move into that hippie van i wanted when i was a teenager and wander at will.
I have inadvertently downsized over the years since my divorce thru spells of poverty, moving, staying with friends, staying with family, being tossed out by same, and learning to live in a small space. I currently live in a sixteen foot vintage travel trailer, but it is stationary in a mobile home park.. a cool one.. inside the loop in a city. This will not do.
Last spring i accidentally watched a video on youtube of a young woman living in her van and thought. damnnn why did i never get to do that. Then i watched more videos. and more videos and more...
still thinking i could not live on the road.
One day, sitting at my computer as usual, and feeling kind of alone and sad. I thought, why do you feel this way, Linda?
"Lack of connection," I answered
"lack of connection to what?" I asked
"People? the universe? ..."
I decided it was the universe i needed.. it was nature and stars and trees.
"how will i see the stars?" i thought?
a VAN!
Fortunately, a young couple had moved next door to me and the young man who was the same age as my baby boy (i have two boys)
but unlike my own son, he knows everything there is to know about fixing cars and making a good usable vehicle out of cars who seem to have no life left.
So, of course i consulted him first..
I need a van
you need to fix it for me so i can live in it
that's what i texted him.
So
we found a van with body damage so it was cheap
I knew she was mine
a 93 GMC Vandura
the perfect potential hippie van of my dreams.
He's working on it now and it will be ready for me to go sometime next month. .. i want to go so much that i have already sorted my things into boxes and various containers and compulsively plan how i will set up the interior of my new mothership
I am ready for peace, adventure, and fun. ...
and to run away from the rampant consumerism, that is ruining lives and destroying our planet
oops.. i will try to keep my rants on this particular subject short.
I am 67. retired. my kids are grown. And technology and social security have now given me the opportunity to move into that hippie van i wanted when i was a teenager and wander at will.
I have inadvertently downsized over the years since my divorce thru spells of poverty, moving, staying with friends, staying with family, being tossed out by same, and learning to live in a small space. I currently live in a sixteen foot vintage travel trailer, but it is stationary in a mobile home park.. a cool one.. inside the loop in a city. This will not do.
Last spring i accidentally watched a video on youtube of a young woman living in her van and thought. damnnn why did i never get to do that. Then i watched more videos. and more videos and more...
still thinking i could not live on the road.
One day, sitting at my computer as usual, and feeling kind of alone and sad. I thought, why do you feel this way, Linda?
"Lack of connection," I answered
"lack of connection to what?" I asked
"People? the universe? ..."
I decided it was the universe i needed.. it was nature and stars and trees.
"how will i see the stars?" i thought?
a VAN!
Fortunately, a young couple had moved next door to me and the young man who was the same age as my baby boy (i have two boys)
but unlike my own son, he knows everything there is to know about fixing cars and making a good usable vehicle out of cars who seem to have no life left.
So, of course i consulted him first..
I need a van
you need to fix it for me so i can live in it
that's what i texted him.
So
we found a van with body damage so it was cheap
I knew she was mine
a 93 GMC Vandura
the perfect potential hippie van of my dreams.
He's working on it now and it will be ready for me to go sometime next month. .. i want to go so much that i have already sorted my things into boxes and various containers and compulsively plan how i will set up the interior of my new mothership
I am ready for peace, adventure, and fun. ...
and to run away from the rampant consumerism, that is ruining lives and destroying our planet
oops.. i will try to keep my rants on this particular subject short.
