Hi! My name is Sunshine and I'm new to the whole concept of van dwelling. My wife and I (and our two puppies) travel extensively for our business (we sell jewelry and oddities at conventions). We're from South Florida but moved Jersey City (basically NYC) last year to be close to family and shorten the drive to many shows. We have a 2007 Honda Odyssey that we use to haul all of our stuff; it worked for a while, but we are just starting to grow out of it.
We finally came to the realization that it doesn't make sense to pay rent for an apartment that we are hardly ever at. After some lengthy conversations and nudging from friends, I finally convinced the wife that an RV (or something similar) was the way to go. However, we also have some debt that we'd like to pay off and we don't want to add anymore, so we decided to kit out the odyssey for sleeping and get a small cargo trailer. We aren't looking for anything fancy, just a way to be comfortable for travel in between shows (sleeping hunched over the steering wheel at rest stops has gotten really old, really fast). We plan on maintaining a small base with friends or family as we need a place to make things until we get a larger living space to travel with.
Thanks for reading!
We finally came to the realization that it doesn't make sense to pay rent for an apartment that we are hardly ever at. After some lengthy conversations and nudging from friends, I finally convinced the wife that an RV (or something similar) was the way to go. However, we also have some debt that we'd like to pay off and we don't want to add anymore, so we decided to kit out the odyssey for sleeping and get a small cargo trailer. We aren't looking for anything fancy, just a way to be comfortable for travel in between shows (sleeping hunched over the steering wheel at rest stops has gotten really old, really fast). We plan on maintaining a small base with friends or family as we need a place to make things until we get a larger living space to travel with.
Thanks for reading!
