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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Location Independence with Mike & Jess of VanThere.com

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Mike & Jess of VanThere.com join Trav to discuss the joys and challenges of living and working out of their custom-built van, with no permanent address anywhere!

Transcript

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0:00.0

But then like we got in it, we're like, okay, fine, we'll test drive it.

0:02.3

And then like, Mike's face like lit up.

0:04.6

And I was like, he's smiling.

0:06.4

And I mean, we were homeless, like literally homeless,

0:08.7

you know, in between those moments.

0:10.6

And so it was, we were just like, okay. Let's do it pull the trigger

0:14.5

The Extra Pack of Pee nuts Travel Podcast

0:21.8

Episode Episode

0:22.0

Episode 320.

0:25.6

Wyoming is by far the least populous state in the US.

0:31.0

But I bet you already knew that. What I'm guessing you didn't know is that the entire

0:35.8

state of Wyoming only has two escalators. Yeah, you know those things that you go up and down on automatically, two in the entire state.

0:49.2

And they're both in the town of Casper. One of my lifelong goals is to boop around the US in a van or an RV and I think

1:00.8

for a lot of people that just brings up these ideas of the great American road trip and in your head you have this romantic notion of what it would be like to travel around the US in something that you could actually sleep in and you could take your time and you could just go and see all the amazing sites that around in the US.

1:18.0

So if you're someone like me and you have that romantic notion, welcome to this show because we're going to be talking to people who are actually

1:24.8

doing it which is pretty amazing. The one thing that for me would be a consistent because I've never

1:29.8

done this type of trip but it would be consistent with the rest of my travel whether I'm going

1:32.9

international domestic road tripping around the US it doesn't matter taking little flights around Asia

1:38.3

is that I will always be carrying my Tortuga backpack around with me.

1:42.6

No matter where I'm going, no matter what trip I'm taking,

1:45.3

it's my Tortuga backpack and me.

1:47.8

You can find out all about Tortuga backpacks

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