Travel
We borrowed a van for a day. Then we wanted a different life.
The San Diego vehicle swap that helped turn two bus people into van people.
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Still figuring
it out.
The places. The work. The everyday.
A home for the stories between the videos.
Building businesses, living on the road, becoming parents—and everything we learn along the way.
A RECURRING QUESTION
Would we
do it again?
The choices that shaped our homes—and how they look with a little life behind them.
Start with the Murphy bed16 STORIES / MANY CHAPTERS
From the first cut to the next chapter. Pull up a chair.
Travel
Building
Building
Four months outside, building the place we were going to live.
Our first school bus conversion began in 2018, with a job loss, a very large vehicle, and plenty left to learn.
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Building
Fourteen feet to fit an entire life.
A closer look at the living room, workspace, wet bath, kitchen, and Murphy bed in our Sprinter.
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Building
Design the day before you design the van
A floor plan makes more sense when you know what an ordinary Tuesday needs from it.
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A Murphy bed gives you space. It also asks something of you.
The useful question isn’t whether a transforming layout is clever. It’s whether you’ll enjoy using it.
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Before the first cut: questions for your bus build
The questions worth sitting with before a school bus becomes a construction project.
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Parenthood
Why we went from a bus to a van—and wanted a bus again.
More room, easier movement, a growing family: the right home kept changing because our life did.
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Parenthood
A home should be allowed to change with your family
The layout that worked for one chapter doesn’t have to carry every chapter after it.
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Parenthood
Your family doesn’t need somebody else’s itinerary
A good day together is a better goal than getting through every stop.
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Tools
Business
Lessons
THE MOVING PICTURES