Special Edition: #VanLife Takes Off
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 5 June 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Today we're diving into the "van life" trend that has picked up steam in the U.S. over the past year. Large numbers of people have been traveling around the country in camper vans and RVs. Some have even decided to ditch their apartments or houses altogether to make "van life" their new full-time reality.
We'll hear from Deborah Kane. She owns a camper van rental service called GoCamp and says business has been busier than ever.
But first, we're talking to Kristin Hanes. She has been living in different vehicles, as well as a sailboat, for the last six years. She runs "The Wayward Home," a website filled with advice for living more simply on the road.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, June 5th. We're diving into the van life trend that's picked up steam in the |
| 0:05.0 | US over the past year. Large numbers of people have been traveling around the country in camper |
| 0:09.7 | vans and RVs. And some have even decided to ditch their apartments or houses altogether to make |
| 0:15.5 | van life their new full-time reality. Today, we'll hear from the owner of a camper van rental |
| 0:20.6 | service that's been busier than ever the last year. She'll talk about things to consider now that |
| 0:25.2 | it's such a popular trend. But first, we're talking to someone who has lived in different vehicles |
| 0:30.1 | for the last six years and really embraced it. Kristen Haynes now runs the wayward home, |
| 0:35.1 | a website filled with advice for living more simply on the road. She describes both the fun side |
| 0:40.4 | and the less than glamorous reality of van life. Welcome welcome to the newsworthy's |
| 0:47.7 | special edition Saturday. When we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to |
| 0:52.8 | talk about something in the news, don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our |
| 0:56.9 | regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm Lacey Evans filling in for Erica Mandy during her maternity leave. It's now time for today's |
| 1:08.2 | special edition Saturday. You embraced the van life lifestyle long before the current trend |
| 1:16.6 | started getting attention. So tell our listeners how and why you got started. So I got started |
| 1:21.9 | actually with a Toyota Prius, which I consider any kind of vehicle living van life because it all |
| 1:27.4 | has the same values of freedom, independence, saving money, etc. So I did this in 2015 and I did it |
| 1:34.3 | so I could finally pay off this lingering debt I'd had for about 10 years, which was pretty much |
| 1:39.5 | impossible to pay off while also paying for rent in the San Francisco Bay area, which was |
| 1:44.6 | preposterously expensive. A guy I was dating actually had this idea of, oh, let's save $20,000 a year |
| 1:51.0 | by living in a vehicle and I thought he was crazy, but eventually I decided what the heck I'm going |
| 1:55.2 | to try it. And so I I've lived in a Prius for four months and I paid off all my debt and I saved |
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