Vic & Max Are Living in a Sprinter Van for a 2.5 Week Road Trip!
Real Pod
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Vic is doing something wildly out of character… and that’s the point! In this life update, she shares why she and her husband, Max, are packing up and living in a sprinter van for a spontaneous three-week road trip across California. After a season of burnout, routine, and always chasing the next goal, Vic opens up about craving more freedom, curiosity, and space to figure out who she is becoming in this next chapter. She breaks down how the trip came together, how Max reacted to her out-of-the-blue idea, what van life will actually look like, and why this journey is about more than just the views. If you’ve been feeling stuck, overplanned, or disconnected from your sense of adventure, this episode might be the nudge you need. Tune in to hear why Vic is choosing spontaneity, simplicity, and the journey inward this season.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back. |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight. |
| 0:15.9 | Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. |
| 0:19.3 | Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, |
| 0:22.0 | and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content |
| 0:27.5 | that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just |
| 0:31.8 | unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real. |
| 0:44.5 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to RealPod. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm so excited because today, Max and I are heading on a road trip. |
| 0:55.5 | You may have, I don't know if you will have seen this on Instagram |
| 0:58.2 | because I think people can, you can listen to the pod before I probably post what I'm hoping |
| 1:03.5 | and planning to post today, but basically announcing that Max and I are going on. |
| 1:08.7 | It's a road trip, but it's also an RV trip because it's not just a |
| 1:12.2 | road trip. We're going to be living in a sprinter van. Devout RealPod listeners will have seen |
| 1:18.3 | this coming. They will because they will have listened to the burnout solo episode I did at the |
| 1:24.4 | end of Q4 before the new year. So it was like December 2025. If you want to go |
| 1:29.3 | back and listen to that, just to get the full scope of what really triggered this trip, |
| 1:33.8 | I basically was so burnt out at the end of 2025. And that's where a lot of these thoughts started |
| 1:40.4 | to come into my brain of like, when's the last time I've really been spontaneous? |
| 1:49.7 | I haven't had a plan. I've done something that sounds wild and crazy just to do it, |
| 1:54.5 | just to feel alive. And so I'm going to talk a lot about today those feelings and how this trip was born and what kind of van we're staying in and where we're going and all that stuff. |
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