Twenty-five gifts sailors actually use, from a liveaboard since 2016: the galley, sleep and dryness, light and safety, the long hours, and the short list of things never to give a sailor.
Twenty-six lazy galley meals from 48 sailors, sorted from no-cook to one-pot, with the two tricks that make lazy possible on a boat: the pressure cooker and the solar oven.
The six places the van world goes when it gets cold, from Quartzsite and the Slabs to Baja and the Texas coast, with what each costs, who ends up where, and why the migration exists.
Many casinos let vans and RVs sleep free in a lit, patrolled lot for a night or three. How the check-in works, the players club catch, what it costs, the Las Vegas exception, and the casinos on the winter route.
Sixteen unwritten rules of cruising life, from the anchorage to the marina to two people on forty feet, with the red flags more than 150 readers of That Sailing Life named.
I asked my van life Facebook page whether they would give up a house for a van. Nearly 300 answered.
A room-by-room tour of Kristin’s 1972 CT-41 after years aboard: the saloon, the galley and its Force 10 stove, the nav station, the stateroom, the head and the cockpit, with three other cruisers’ boats for contrast.
Fourteen mistakes new van lifers make, from the emergency fund nobody sets aside to the roof vent people skip, with what we do instead after years of living in vehicles.
Twelve small campers a car can pull, sorted by real weight band, with which ones have a bathroom, what each costs to start, and the three that have quietly left the market.
The minivans that convert best (and the two no longer sold new), six minivan camper conversion kits with the prices they list, a six-step DIY build, and five real minivan campers people live in.
Eighteen real campervan interiors that feel like home, from a made bed in a forty-year-old VW to a wood-slat ceiling, with one line on why each one works and how to copy it in your own van.
Van life has no posted rules, but every campground knows when you break one. The thirteen etiquette rules, the city overnighting rules nobody tells you, and the ones readers added.
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