I'm Marjorie Puntit, and this is The Nest or minisoe that's all about the delightful and delicious things that make our homes just where we want to be.

And I have a special guest today for The Nest.

It is Stephanie Hansen, and she is an

expert on The Van Life, as well as she's the host of the Weekly Dish on My Talk 107, and she is

the host of the Makers of Minnesota podcast. She's a regular on the Jason show, and she's the author

of the upcoming book, True North Cabin Cookbook

that's due in October.

My God, Steph, is there anything else you want to plug?

You're a busy woman.

You know, yeah, no, I think that's plenty.

So we just talked earlier this week about van life, which Stephanie has been telling us great

stories about. So I wanted to do been telling us great stories about.

So I wanted to do the next today to talk about van life essentials.

Because there's got to be a few things that you just can't leave your house,

that you got to make sure you've got them tucked into the van.

100%.

It was like trying to outfit a kitchen for the van was really my priority.

Okay, so you definitely need a camp stove.

And we have a full stove inside our van, but you do not want to cook inside your van unless

absolutely necessary because it smells.

And everything like your clothes and if you're like in a closed environment and you're cooking

and sometimes you have to if it's raining or something like that but we really get the most

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