So it's nearly the end of March. Somehow. I moved into my van in October. The last 6 months has absolutely flown by - in hindsight, transitioning from a regular 9-5 bricks and mortar existence to fulltime offgrid vanlife in winter maybe wasn't the most sensible idea I've ever had, but in my defence, I had my reasons, but I've had a VERY easy winter - and that's despite not having any working gas or running water for the first four months.
Only a couple of weeks into van dwelling, I spotted an advert on a Facebook group for working nomads, from a chap called Mat, looking for a couple of weeks work helping out with the final push on a house renovation project, in exchange for pay, parkup and lunch each day. Two weeks work he said. I'm still here. There's more to this story than I'm going to write about here and now, as it gets quite personal, so I may come back to it sometime, but for now I'll just say that Mat and I have become very close friends, and we've helped each other out with a lot of things since we first met. So I've had a ridiculously easy first winter - secure parkup, good pay, water point, use of a bathroom, time to work on my van, a helping hand, and good company, to list just a few. I've boondocked a few times here and there, taken Sanchez away for the odd weekend in the woods, spent Christmas by the canal, but mostly I've been in one place living comfortably and trouble free. Which doesn't make for the most exciting blog content, but Spring is here at long last, just as we enter unprecedented times of a global pandemic lockdown - which poses it's own set of unique challenges for us Vanlifers. So who knows what I'll be writing about next time!
Stay safe, be good.
