Why The Van Life
Test post….. The first time I seriously thought about travelling for months at a time in a van was when my girlfriend Mary and I visited Arizona and Utah in early fall 2013. We only had two and half weeks of vacation time available. We thought flying would be too expensive and driving would’ve been too exhausting and time consuming. We ended up getting a rail pass with Amtrak for $600 each, there and back. It took us three days to go from Toronto, Canada, to Flagstaff, Arizona. This was a very comfortable and relaxing ride, considering we were in coach/economy class. It was great to watch the American countryside unfold in front of us — from the skyscrapers of Chicago, to the grasslands of