Vanning Ain't No Joke Magazine Issue 1 Sept/Oct 2019
After 4 years of living in a van, many people have told me they live in vans because of me or that I have changed their lives. That’s where this magazine comes from. I thought to myself. If I could change peoples lives just from living my own life and show it on Instagram then how can I do this on a bigger scale? Not only do I have tons of stories and information to share but I know lots of people who also do.
After 4 years of living in a van, many people have told me they live in vans because of me or that I have changed their lives. That’s where this magazine comes from. I thought to myself. If I could change peoples lives just from living my own life and show it on Instagram then how can I do this on a bigger scale? Not only do I have tons of stories and information to share but I know lots of people who also do.
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Where do you see the future of yourself with the whole van life thing?<br />
Honestly, people ask me what I want to do when I’m done. I want to do this for at least<br />
a year, but I don’t really know. The cool part about my journey is I don’t really have any<br />
roots anywhere. I grew up in California and my parents moved to San Antonio. I played<br />
a little bit in Atlanta, that’s where most of my friends are but I don’t really feel like I have<br />
any roots anywhere to go back to. I’m kind of using this journey to find out where I<br />
want to be and I feel like there’s going to be opportunities that come up that I can’t even<br />
comprehend at this point so I try not to think too much about the future. I’m just gonna<br />
kind of let the process work itself out and see what happens.<br />
Do you have a favorite place you’ve been so far?<br />
I would say my favorite part of the trip was the baseball tour I did where I did 13 games<br />
in 14 days and seeing all the different baseball stadiums. I went to Daniel Boone national<br />
forest and I did a hike there called natural bridge which was pretty cool but I’ve been<br />
really looking forward to getting out west. I know there’s a lot of things I’ve been looking<br />
forward to seeing out west so that’s where I’m headed now so I’m getting excited about it.<br />
Your kind of like a bigger guy.<br />
Yea, 6 foot 3, 240 now.<br />
A lot of people who are your size<br />
kind of worry about that going<br />
into a van so hows that work for<br />
you?<br />
Well, the reason I went with the pop top is<br />
because I wanted the extra room so when I<br />
do set up the camper and I pop the top up, I<br />
actually have plenty of room. It hasn’t affected me too much. My bed is a bunk on top<br />
and I got a little roll-up foam Tempurpedic mattress that I put up there. I’ve figured it<br />
out. It’s been a process but most of the time when you go somewhere you’re not spending<br />
a lot of time in the actual van. You’re usually going out meeting people, going out on<br />
hikes and doing stuff, so you’re not spending a ton of time in the van. I would say the<br />
only problem I’ve really had is when it rains a lot and I am stuck in the van it does get<br />
a little bit tight. I think the key is to keep the van clean and tidy and pick up regularly<br />
because it does get messy<br />
pretty quickly.<br />
For sure man. Maybe we’ll see you out here!<br />
For more on Joe follow his YouTube and Blog.<br />
www.manvandogblog.com<br />
@ManVanDogBlog<br />
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