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Once upon a time, two humans and three cats decided to sell their house, get rid of 90 percent of their worldly possessions, and live together in a 17-foot van traveling the country. That's us: David, Jean, Ash, Ember and Kindle. And, as of a month ago, our one and only home has been a Winnebago Solis Pocket campervan we’ve nicknamed Sugar. Together we’re exploring America’s wild places-reconne...

Coming in Fall 2024: a radical change in our lives. The Van Life Diaries will document our life as a married couple in their 60s who embark on full-time life in their Winnebago Solis Pocket van. Did we mention the three cats who are coming along for the ride? Subscribe to the channel and keep up with Sugar the Van as she travels the United States (and beyond).

Here's a poem by William Wordsworth to commemorate our last day in our Helena, Montana, house before we start our full-time van life.

As we prepare for full-time van life in Sugar, our white Winnebago Solis Pocket 36A, we're doing some dry runs to work out any kinks and improve our packing and daily van habits. This week, we dewinterized Sugar (which involved filling and draining her water tank three times a tedious process); we repacked and reconfigured the "garage" underneath the bed, laying out all the essentials of van li...

June 3, 2024: Jean and I put our house up for sale in Helena, Montana, and began final plans to move into our campervan full-time. It's true!!! We are, in the very near future, about to live full time with the three cats in Sugar, our 19-foot Winnebago Solis Pocket. We are going to reinvent ourselves on the road, reconnect with each other (after 41 years of marriage there are a few frayed ends ...

This short video is a series of clips featuring our two foster cats, Peanut and Bean, sleeping (and sort of sleeping).

A two-hour float down the Clearwater River in Montana is good medicine for your soul. The 3.5-mile Clearwater River Canoe Trail is located north of the town of Seeley Lake in the northwestern corner of the state. The water is crystal-clear with good views of the bottom. We've paddled this narrow, jungly river in our inflatable kayak several times now and have rarely encountered other humans onl...

Our foster cats (dubbed the Jersey Shore litter) have Big Kitten Energy. After each feeding, the garage briefly turns into Wrestlemania Central.

We took our foster kittens the Jersey Shore litter outside for the first time. Okay, they were in a tent. But still, they had a great time sniffing the air and learning about grass.

Here is a video of the first week in the life of our newborn kittens from our foster cat Big Momma Sitch from the Lewis and Clark Humane Society in Helena, Montana. They're named after Jersey Shore characters explanation for the naming here: bit.ly/3oSPC2d So, we have: Snooki, Romeo, Nino, Jionni, and Jersey. And they're all cute as buttons. Turn the sound up for the full symphony of mews, purr...

Here are 90 seconds with Big Momma, our new, VERY pregnant foster cat from the Lewis and Clark Humane Society. Our thanks to them for letting us care for this stray cat who'd been living on the streets of Helena, Montana for the past year. Big Momma came into the shelter after a local business who'd been feeding her whenever she showed up at their door noticed that she was suddenly getting bigg...

Easter Morning at Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Fairfield, Montana. I've been meaning to visit Freezeout for years, but always missed the window of opportunity during peak migration season. Today was no exception. My wife and I were about a week too late to see the sky filled horizon-to-horizon with wings. But we rose before dawn anyway and had a nice morning drive north an hour ...

We ended our weeklong visit to Savannah, Georgia with an evening walk along the beach at Tybee Island. Featuring: Schuyler Abrams, Jean Abrams, and A Flock of Seagulls. #TybeeIsland #Georgia #beach #beachlife #beachvibes #ocean #oceanwaves #seagulls #horseshoecrab #Savannah #visitSavannah

Here's a tour of my son's workspace at Tramp Art tattoo studio in Savannah, Georgia, showing some Candy Corn Crypt merch, his collection of miniatures, his original art, and his flash tattoo. I could spend hours here, just looking at the tiny worlds he's created (these are just a few of the many miniature vignettes he has in his nook). Want more of this fun stuff? Become a member of the Candy C...

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