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Curiosityness

016 A Family of 3 with a Job Perfect for Life on the Road, Lamar and Ashley of Fite Travels

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Life on the road for Ashley and Lamar began with an 11 week road trip to visit all 48 contiguous states in their Honda Civic. At the end of the trip, it became clear that they both wanted to make traveling a full-time deal. Eventually, they found themselves purchasing a Ford Transit van and being featured on the HGTV show Tiny House, Big Living. The show actually encouraged them to speed up their build timeline and led to an awesome pullout deck in the back of their van along with a loft bed and some of the coolest lighting I've ever seen in a van!

Now they travel full-time with their 4-year-old daughter and pup Beirut while working as tour managers for various brands. What's a tour manager? You'll just have to listen to the episode to get the complete explanation from Ashley and Lamar…

 

Visit Lamar and Ashley on their website: fitetravels.com

Find them on Instagram: @fitetravels

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 16 of campers and vans getting coffee.

0:06.5

I'm Travis DeRose. I'm the host of the show. So thanks for being here and thanks for listening.

0:11.5

This episode is number 16 with Lamar and Ashley of Fight Travels.

0:17.8

F-I-T-E, not like fighting, F-I-G-H-T.

0:22.2

But they were super fun to talk to.

0:23.9

They have a cool story about how this all got going.

0:26.3

They, you know, they took an 11-week road trip to visit the 48 contiguous states,

0:33.1

U.S. states, in their Honda Civic.

0:36.2

And basically, they got back and decided they wanted to do it

0:39.3

full time and buy a van and do all that kind of stuff with their daughter Everley. And they also

0:46.4

have a puppy. So they got their van, did all this, started doing it. And then they applied and got chosen to be on the show,

0:56.4

a tiny house, big living on HDTV. So they kind of, they went on this and the show kind of

1:02.1

encouraged them to build this kind of extra cooler van maybe. And they have like a pullout deck.

1:08.7

They got some really cool lighting in the ceiling.

1:11.3

They have a loft bed for their daughter.

1:13.2

It's just a cool build.

1:15.0

And then on top of that, Lamar and Ashley also have a cool job that's very well suited

1:21.7

for life on the road and van life.

1:25.0

They are tour managers for different brands and companies.

1:30.3

And I won't get into exactly what that job description means.

1:34.9

But I'll let them describe it in the episode because it's cool and it makes sense.

1:40.0

And it's fun.

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