Instagram Van Life is bullshit. It's pure 100% Nebraska cow bullshit. I planned

my national park journey looking at Instagram and Van Life blogs and was like oh my

gosh it's so dreamy and I sold my significant other on it. I was like look at

this it's gonna be so cool. Like the reality of Van Life is spitting out your

toothpaste in a Walmart parking lot, sitting in libraries for hours to get

air conditioning and Wi-Fi and sharing 70 square feet with someone you're

dating if you're going with someone else.

Micah Meyer is practically a professional roadtripper. He spent three years

living out of a van and visiting 419 US National Park Service sites. On that

trip he became the first person in the world to travel to all of the sites on a

single journey. For the past 15 years Micah's dedicated himself to going on a

road trip every year. And some of them have been pretty massive. We're talking

multi-week, multi-month and even multi-year trips around the United States. I'm

Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.

Micah Meyer has dedicated a lot of his life to traveling by land. Along the way

he has documented his road trips online and he's built an incredible following.

It's been a wild ride for Micah but he hasn't lost sight of where it all started.

When he was 19, Micah's dad passed away from a soft-a-geal cancer. Micah turned

to roadtripping as a way to honor his father.

For me it was this this moment of seeing him pass away at age 58 after being

taught all through my life. K through 12 we're sold this idea of you know go to

school get good grades so you can get into a good college and there you'll meet

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