For those of you who have been following along since the beginning of our Buslife journey, you know that we have been trying to make it to Skooliepalooza since 2020. Between delays in the bus build, COVID, and an unexpected year traveling with the circus, …
As I write this I am sitting in a big empty house, all of the lights turned off but one, the TV is off, no music playing, just me, this computer and these thoughts. This is perhaps the most solitude I have seen in years. …
Hello friends, family and internet humans, Ayana here. Announcing the revival of the Let’s Live Everywhere Blog. It has been some time since I have felt the desire to chronicle or write about our lives, and a lot has changed. Since we left in October of 2018 to live full time on the road we have lived many different versions of Buslife–from full time fun-employment, to working and traveling with a circus, to now owning and running multiple businesses out of our 90 square foot treehouse on wheels. It has been a journey. Throughout this journey we have done and seen so many things, and I guess now as we move forward it feels like the time to more thoroughly share those things with you.
When Andy was younger he took a job in Oregon and moved out of Virginia for the first time. Amidst the emotional turmoil of this first experience striking out on his own he made a promise to himself: that every day he would do something that he could write about. He went on hikes, visited museums, explored local food and drink, drove on beautiful highways, and above all else sought adventure daily. After over 2 years of being on the road full time this feels like a powerful commitment to make in 2023.
This year will be the year that we do something we can write about every. single. day. The beauty of this commitment is that you can write about perfectly ordinary things, and you can write about profound extraordinary happenings (sometimes those feel the same to me, but I digress). Either way we will be seeking more adventures in the surroundings we find ourselves in, and we will be writing more.
Both feel important. Both feel lifegiving.
So this is our commitment to you all in 2023. Once per week we will post a blog here. Perhaps we will be sharing some grand adventure from the past week with you, or maybe we will just be philosophically rambling about whatever finds its way into our brains in those 7 days. Either way we will be living more and sharing that with you. After all, that’s what this whole buslife thing is for us, a way to live more fully and share that with others. Continue reading The Return of the Blog!
It has been a while since we’ve posted on this page, and the number one thing to blame is The Buslife Kitchen Cookbook. It has been several years in the making, but it really took over everything for the past eight months or so. I …
Coming into Boulder, we had planned a whirlwind month. We would see Ayana’s whole family (parents, brother, cousins, grandparents), two of Andy’s brothers and their families, Andy’s mom, all of our friends, and then we would take off to Moab for a giant family reunion …
We have a lot of new things going on around here. One of the really exciting ones is all of the new merch in our shop!
Check it out and pick up a shirt or a mug or whatever strikes your fancy. All branded with our logos. And stay tuned for all of our life updates–we’re doing our best to get them out quickly, but we really slacked off on this page for a while there. Oops!
Alright everyone, we’re going to do our best to quickly get everything up to speed. We let this go way too long, and now there is just too much time to cover to get us back to the present, so this is going to be …
As with any major life-change, moving into a skoolie brought with it all sorts of unexpected challenges. We did our best over the two years between purchasing the bus and hitting the road to imagine and plan for all the challenges that buslife might throw …
Which vanlife vehicle is right for me?
That is a question we all ask ourselves at the beginning of this process. At this point, you may have an idea of what you want, or you may be just beginning to explore the endless possibilities. I encourage you, regardless of where you fall on that spectrum, to read this post with an open mind and think long and hard about exactly which vehicle will best suit your needs and desires. This is a big project, a huge life change, and there are probably more options than any of us realize, so it’s super important to make sure that you choose a vehicle that aligns with your dreams.
Our first two months of life in the bus are in the books! We left Boulder, Colorado on October 16, 2020 Friends and family sent us off with tiny bottles of champagne, lots of hugs and just a few tears. It’s a weird thing to …