Living the Mountain Biker’s Van (or RV) Life
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The #vanlife is trending, and many are following their outdoor passions by living on the road. Julie and Reet Singh have been on the road for nearly a year while building their outdoor equipment rental booking service, TripOutside. We talk about the pros and cons of living on the road, and get tips for those who might be thinking of making the plunge.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
| 0:08.3 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. |
| 0:16.3 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | My name is Jeff, and today my friends Julie and Reet Singh are joining us to talk about living |
| 0:28.8 | the van life. |
| 0:30.1 | So about a year ago, the Singh's quit their corporate jobs and hit the road to pursue their dream |
| 0:34.9 | of starting a business and spending more time outdoors. |
| 0:38.4 | Their website, Trip Outside.com, helps some nomads and explorers like themselves find outdoor |
| 0:44.2 | gear to rent all over the USA. Thanks for joining us, Julian Reed. Thanks for having us. |
| 0:49.4 | How long were you guys thinking about trying the van life before you started? I think both of us definitely knew we wanted to get out of the lifestyle of corporate jobs, |
| 0:59.3 | and we both love traveling and mountain biking on top of that. |
| 1:02.8 | So we definitely knew that travel was going to be a big part of something we wanted to do in |
| 1:07.7 | the near future, but we didn't really know how. |
| 1:10.0 | So it was probably about two years of planning on how to figure out leaving our jobs and figuring out what to do next. |
| 1:16.8 | But the biggest decision to go with the RV was really our pets. |
| 1:21.4 | So we had two cats at the time, and we just couldn't decide. |
| 1:25.0 | We just couldn't long leaving them. |
| 1:27.4 | So we decided, okay, an RV would be the best decision. We could actually take them with us. We can mountain bike everywhere. We can be remote. We can work remotely. And, you know, it just really fit all those criteria. And we decided to do, I think, RV life. If we didn't have the pets, I think we'd probably be starting off with international travel. Yeah, we had a van for a year and then a pop-up camper |
| 1:50.0 | before that, before we started RV life. And we just loved our weekend trips and wished they could |
| 1:55.2 | last a little longer. So while we really did want to do the international thing, we also wanted |
| 1:59.6 | to bring our cats. So we're like, let's just go live in our RV then. |
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