snarfersnarf
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Sup Y'all?
My name is Dave and I am 29 years old. I have been living in Central Virginia for the last 11 years on and off again. I have had a pretty insane last few months and it has led me to this web site and Bob's YouTube channel. I watched what seemed like hundreds of hours of van conversion and off grid living videos. I knew I needed to move into my vehicle.
I have been against the main stream since I was an angsty little punk in jr. high school. I never "grew out of it", like I was told I would. I never finished college and have worked service industry and craft beer jobs. A year ago this Wednesday I began a full time job with a beer distributor as the Craft Beer Specialist for the division. I made triple the amount of money I ever made, had benefits, tons of free beer, and got to travel around the country. It was so easy and I began to slack off. I would find myself to be very unhappy the end of the day. My job literally was to go to a resturaunt that we sold beer to and eat a burger or something else that was most likely unhealthy and drink two beers. I would go to the next account and repeat that a few more times. By the end of the day I would be so tired I would just sleep when I got home. I was gaining weight and becoming more and more depressed. I never had time to hang out with friends and I was isolating myself. Even worse, I couldn't go on road trips with my friends. Since I was younger I have always loved long road trips with friends. Growing up, I was lucky enough to have older friends in a band and I would carry their drums and sell merch to get into shows for free and I got to tour some parts of the country in a van. Fast forward to last year again, and before I started the job I drove from Portland Oregon back to Virginia with two of my best friends. I remember driving through the Mojave Desert and thinking to myself how life would be so cool if you could always be on a roadtrip. I didn't take that seriously until about two months ago.
It was the end of June and I was driving in a rental car to Louisville to visit my friend before he moved to AK. it is about a 7.5 hour drive from where I live. I was by myself and didn't have cruise control. I began to get bored and started to drive faster and faster. I am not trying to excuse driving recklessly, but I really am not the kind of dude to drive like a maniac. I am still not sure why I was going as fast as I was, maybe I was sabotaging myself without knowing it. Regardless, I was pulled over going 104MPH in a 70MPH zone in Lexington, KY. I was cuffed immediately. I told him I had weed in the car because it was very obviously on the floor of my passenger side of the car. As far as I knew I was going to jail and was going to lose my job, and my friends were waiting on me in Louisville! He came back and wrote me a reckless driving ticket and told me to dump the weed and so I did. He let me go. I was shaking like a leaf when I finally drove off. I have really good bad luck. From here I had to tell HR that I got the ticket and that I as going to go over on my allowed amount of points on my license. I drove a company car and that was a big problem. I decided to quit before I was fired. I had no idea what to do next. That is when I found out about this web site and about all you crazy van dwellers. I cannot wait to become one myself. I have all my stuff in storage and I am getting my first van tomorrow! I will be building it out and then getting a cargo trailer. Hopefully by the spring I will be heading west. I can't wait to meet y'all out there. Let's have some fun.
My name is Dave and I am 29 years old. I have been living in Central Virginia for the last 11 years on and off again. I have had a pretty insane last few months and it has led me to this web site and Bob's YouTube channel. I watched what seemed like hundreds of hours of van conversion and off grid living videos. I knew I needed to move into my vehicle.
I have been against the main stream since I was an angsty little punk in jr. high school. I never "grew out of it", like I was told I would. I never finished college and have worked service industry and craft beer jobs. A year ago this Wednesday I began a full time job with a beer distributor as the Craft Beer Specialist for the division. I made triple the amount of money I ever made, had benefits, tons of free beer, and got to travel around the country. It was so easy and I began to slack off. I would find myself to be very unhappy the end of the day. My job literally was to go to a resturaunt that we sold beer to and eat a burger or something else that was most likely unhealthy and drink two beers. I would go to the next account and repeat that a few more times. By the end of the day I would be so tired I would just sleep when I got home. I was gaining weight and becoming more and more depressed. I never had time to hang out with friends and I was isolating myself. Even worse, I couldn't go on road trips with my friends. Since I was younger I have always loved long road trips with friends. Growing up, I was lucky enough to have older friends in a band and I would carry their drums and sell merch to get into shows for free and I got to tour some parts of the country in a van. Fast forward to last year again, and before I started the job I drove from Portland Oregon back to Virginia with two of my best friends. I remember driving through the Mojave Desert and thinking to myself how life would be so cool if you could always be on a roadtrip. I didn't take that seriously until about two months ago.
It was the end of June and I was driving in a rental car to Louisville to visit my friend before he moved to AK. it is about a 7.5 hour drive from where I live. I was by myself and didn't have cruise control. I began to get bored and started to drive faster and faster. I am not trying to excuse driving recklessly, but I really am not the kind of dude to drive like a maniac. I am still not sure why I was going as fast as I was, maybe I was sabotaging myself without knowing it. Regardless, I was pulled over going 104MPH in a 70MPH zone in Lexington, KY. I was cuffed immediately. I told him I had weed in the car because it was very obviously on the floor of my passenger side of the car. As far as I knew I was going to jail and was going to lose my job, and my friends were waiting on me in Louisville! He came back and wrote me a reckless driving ticket and told me to dump the weed and so I did. He let me go. I was shaking like a leaf when I finally drove off. I have really good bad luck. From here I had to tell HR that I got the ticket and that I as going to go over on my allowed amount of points on my license. I drove a company car and that was a big problem. I decided to quit before I was fired. I had no idea what to do next. That is when I found out about this web site and about all you crazy van dwellers. I cannot wait to become one myself. I have all my stuff in storage and I am getting my first van tomorrow! I will be building it out and then getting a cargo trailer. Hopefully by the spring I will be heading west. I can't wait to meet y'all out there. Let's have some fun.
