EP 270: Bob Wells — The Ultimate Vanlife Guide: How to Live Cheap, Comfortable, and Free on the Road

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Bob Wells (CheapRVLiving) is the ultimate vanlife guru. Bob has been living in vehicles full-time since 2008 and has helped thousands of others escape the 9-5 grind through his YouTube Channel and website. We talked about his life before the road, the vehicles he’s lived in, the best budget options he’s found, essentials for $100 or less, heating systems, bathroom options, cooking tips, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit. My guest
0:07.0	today is Bob Wells. I describe Bob as the ultimate van life or car life guru. I guess you could
0:14.5	call him the ultimate nomadic dwelling guru. Bob has been living in some kind of a vehicle for the last 17 years since around
0:23.2	2008. He's got a very popular blog and YouTube channel and Instagram. You can find him at
0:28.8	Cheap RV Living on those platforms or cheap RV Living.com. He's got almost a million followers on
0:35.8	YouTube. It's pretty amazing. He makes very helpful videos
0:39.4	doing deep dives on all types of vehicle setups. So whether you are trying to save money and
0:45.8	you want to stop paying rents or whether you are hoping to live the dirtbag dream and buy a
0:50.4	vehicle and hit the road to travel and climb, He's your guy. He's talked to everybody.
0:56.8	He's done it all. He's seen it all. And he had some really great insights and advice.
1:01.1	Really interesting talking to him. And he's got a very unique worldview. I really enjoyed talking
1:04.7	to Bob. He's got a beautiful mission that drives him to do what he's doing. So anyway, expect to
1:10.1	get inspired to be more creative and save money with your living situation
1:14.5	if that's something that you want.
1:16.4	And expect to learn some practical, tangible van life or car life tips along the way.
1:23.2	Please enjoy Bob Wells.
1:27.1	Cause, cast. No one can do it like we do it, like who we do it. Please enjoy Bob Wells.
1:41.0	Well, Bob, well, Bob, it's really nice to connect with you.
1:42.8	I'm really looking forward to this.
2:01.5	You're not a climber, but the Venn diagram of rock climbing and car dwelling or van lifing, there's a lot of overlap there. And I'll just kind of use myself as an example because you and I've never met before. But in my early 20s, I lived in a Subaru outback for six months, and sometimes I was sleeping in the back,
2:06.1	and sometimes I had a tent, and was just traveling around to different rock climbing areas. And then I had many years where I was paying rent in various places in Oregon and just climbing and
2:11.7	working. And then when I turned 30, I bought this van that I'm in right now. You and I are having
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