Send us a text When we first hit the road, we treated van life like a never-ending vacation - up for every sunrise, chasing every sunset, squeezing every ounce out of every day. But eventually, my body hit a wall. What started as a dream road trip turned into two months of running on empty… until a sharp pain in my chest forced everything to stop. In this episode, I’m talking about the burnout no one prepares you for, how costochondritis became my very blunt wake-up call, and what slowing dow...
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Send us a text When we first hit the road, we treated van life like a never-ending vacation - up for every sunrise, chasing every sunset, squeezing every ounce out of every day. But eventually, my body hit a wall. What started as a dream road trip turned into two months of running on empty… until a sharp pain in my chest forced everything to stop. In this episode, I’m talking about the burnout no one prepares you for, how costochondritis became my very blunt wake-up call, and what slowing dow...
Postcard #1: I Got the Dream Life, then Forgot how to Enjoy it
Postcards I Never Sent
27 minutes
5 months ago
Postcard #1: I Got the Dream Life, then Forgot how to Enjoy it
Send us a text I always thought once I got the dream life—traveling full-time in a van, chasing the Pan-American Highway, waking up in epic places—I’d finally be happy. But here’s the plot twist: I got everything I wanted… and still felt like a mess inside. In this episode, I talk about the emotional side of van life that rarely makes it into the Instagram captions. The quiet pressure to “make the most of it,” the guilt of not feeling grateful enough, and the realization that external freedo...
Postcards I Never Sent
Send us a text When we first hit the road, we treated van life like a never-ending vacation - up for every sunrise, chasing every sunset, squeezing every ounce out of every day. But eventually, my body hit a wall. What started as a dream road trip turned into two months of running on empty… until a sharp pain in my chest forced everything to stop. In this episode, I’m talking about the burnout no one prepares you for, how costochondritis became my very blunt wake-up call, and what slowing dow...
