An Honest Story about Vanlife in the Mojave Desert

It was July of 2020 and I was driving back to my home state of Colorado from Indiana for the last time after taking the opportunity to relocate during the pandemic. Following close behind was my partner Luke, with our newly purchased Ford E-350 Super Duty Turtle Top Shuttle that, over the next eight months, would turn into our full-time home on wheels. Vanlife was on the horizon.. Then it was May of 2021, and we were trotting around the outskirts of Mohave County in Arizona in search of a plot of land to purchase and call our own.