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I want to live in a van, and I want to be sponsored to do it. I see other people saying the lifestyle is vapid, but to be honest everyone I know that has done i

I want to live in a van, and I want to be sponsored to do it. I see other people saying the lifestyle is vapid, but to be honest everyone I know that has done it has embraced it. There's unique challenges for sure, and making sure that sponsor obligations and the like don't take over your life can be a real concern. But the idea behind it comes down to living a lifestyle that works for you. I want to do it because I want to spend the next few years of my life chasing dreams of being a professional skier, I'll probably not get there but I'd like to try it for a while. I'll sacrifice money, security, and a lot of normal comforts, but there's reasons certain lifestyles exist. Granted, I don't know how the transition after this period of my life will go, I think it's important to chase dreams for a while and not have regrets. I guess my whole thing is money doesn't buy happiness, but even then money is needed to support yourself and if it takes selling yourself out a little bit for sponsors and the like, so be it.

stevenwoo 9y ago
It's only two sentences in the article but it's pretty important - they had to move back in with their parents for four months when one of them got sick. So make sure you have that or someone you can really depend on if things go wrong. Assuming you are in the USA - the main couple in the story are so young that it seems like they would also be covered under their parents health insurance under the ACA as well.
- timmaah 9y ago
  > King and Smith, who are thirty-two and thirty-one, respectively My wife and I have lived in an RV for the last 5 years. We have met some amazingly strong single full-timers out on the road. It has got to be tough when something happens and you don't know another soul for hundreds of miles.
- pyromine 9y ago
  Yah I've got a good few years more on my parent's insurance, it's an overlooked fact that you need well-off parents to have a strong safety net while you're young.

stevenwoo 9y ago

It's only two sentences in the article but it's pretty important - they had to move back in with their parents for four months when one of them got sick. So make sure you have that or someone you can really depend on if things go wrong. Assuming you are in the USA - the main couple in the story are so young that it seems like they would also be covered under their parents health insurance under the ACA as well.

timmaah 9y ago
> King and Smith, who are thirty-two and thirty-one, respectively My wife and I have lived in an RV for the last 5 years. We have met some amazingly strong single full-timers out on the road. It has got to be tough when something happens and you don't know another soul for hundreds of miles.
pyromine 9y ago
Yah I've got a good few years more on my parent's insurance, it's an overlooked fact that you need well-off parents to have a strong safety net while you're young.