009 50 States. 6 Months. Maybe. Matt and Megan aka The Dirty Darlings
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On their first date, Matt laid it all out and explained to Megan that he wanted to travel the country in his van. Nine months later, they were on the road together!
Megan and Matt started their journey with the goal of visiting all 50 states in 6 months. Along the way, they realized their trip had become a checklist. Instead of crossing things off a list and rushing ahead, they decided to slow down and enjoy the journey.
This episode was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed talking to The Dirty Darlings. In this episode we talk about how they were able to transition to remote work, why Matt bought a van that was already converted, why Kansas sucks, how much VanLife costs (as told by an accountant), and how to get a truly unlimited LTE wifi hotspot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Van Lifers, and welcome to the ninth episode of Campers and Vans getting coffee. |
| 0:07.6 | This episode was super fun to do. |
| 0:09.8 | I really enjoyed talking to these guys. |
| 0:12.2 | It was Matt and Megan, also known as the Dirty Darling on Instagram and their website, |
| 0:18.6 | the dirty darlings.com. |
| 0:19.9 | They're super fun. They met in San Francisco |
| 0:23.3 | about a year and a half ago. And on their first date, Matt just laid everything out and |
| 0:30.2 | said that he had already bought a van and he wanted to live in a van. Eventually, he asked Megan to |
| 0:36.1 | join him. And then nine months later, they were on the |
| 0:38.6 | road together. So we talk about that. We getting into like kind of what their goals were at the |
| 0:44.6 | beginning, which was kind of hitting all 50 states and six months to kind of find a place to live, |
| 0:50.0 | but didn't really work out the way they wanted it to. They kind of changed things up because they |
| 0:54.6 | just wanted to, you know, relax and enjoy the journey a little bit more. So we talk about that, |
| 0:59.9 | why they decided to do that. And we get into like a whole bunch of stuff, like how they were |
| 1:05.1 | kind of able to transition their jobs into remote work and continue that. So we talk about why |
| 1:10.3 | and how they were able to do |
| 1:11.7 | that and how you can do it too. We talk about why Matt decided to buy a van that was already |
| 1:17.2 | converted rather than buy one and convert himself. And then this is pretty cool also because |
| 1:27.1 | Megan is an accountant. So she gets into kind of the |
| 1:30.0 | details and some numbers on how much van life actually costs. So that's pretty cool. And we talk |
| 1:35.9 | about like how to get the best LTE Wi-Fi hotspot, just a whole bunch of really cool stuff. |
| 1:40.9 | And we really dig into their daily life and their relationship and all |
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