Welcome to the Normal to Nomad podcast, where we share stories, thoughts, ideas, and conversations on our journey to find balance with nature in a technologically advanced world.

My name is Barron.

And I'm Elsa.

We live together in a 13-foot scamp trailer with our dog camp in the American wilderness.

Greetings and welcome back. Today we have our friend Lindsay visiting us from Alaska and she has been on the road for how long now?

Almost two years.

Living out of her van, solo, which is incredible, and we're

going to dig into what that's like. Is this solo female traveler? She's got a lot of

cool things going on, working on a festival that she's throwing next year. 20, what year?

2020. 2020.

So that would be very cool and lots of other things.

So should we dive into it?

So to start out, just tell us kind of a little bit about yourself and why you're living out of a van and like how you did that.

Okay.

My name is Lindsay.

I was born and raised in Alaska, specifically Palmer.

It's a small town located about 50 miles northeast of Anchorage.

I started living in a van almost two years ago.

Before I dove into that, I researched it for around two and a half years.

And what really got me into looking into vans was I have a face and body painting company, and I was operating that out of a Honda CRV, which is kind of

just like a small hatchback. And I needed to upgrade because I could not sleep in the vehicle and have all my

festival stuff in there at the same time. So I was researching vans, what was the best option for

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