Upstate New York and the Adirondacks

Fun Fact: Adirondack State Park is the largest state park in the US! It’s bigger than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier and Grand Canyon National Park combined. We got to the Adirondack Loj late Friday night, Jakob made some great pasta with olives (thanks Natalie!) and we called it a night. We had been planning to spend […]

Starting to really come together

While things still take us longer than expected, we’ve made a lot of progress over the last week. The drawers under the bed, the storage cabinets next to the bed and part of the kitchen have all been finished up. We decided to use buy a pocket jig kit (Amazon), and have used it extensively.  Definitely […]

Time for a test drive

Since we got to State College and started working on the van, we have dedicated 100% of our time to the van. As we were finishing up with the bedframe, we kept seeing amazing snow reports from the Rockies, with more snow to come…so we decided it was about time to give the van a […]

Anddd… here it goes!

Welcome to our blog! In full disclosure, writing is not my strong suit so please forgive me. Anyway, here it goes… Jakob and I were living in NYC when we decided to embark on this adventure of outfitting a Sprinter van and traveling to Ushuaia, Argentina. In early February, we left our jobs and have […]