About Me

I walked out the door of my cottage and left nearly everything behind to answer the lifelong call of my wanderlust.

Now my home is the 148 cubic feet inside a 2010 Toyota Sienna. My backyard is anywhere I park it.

Before that, my plans for putting rubber to road were stalled by a profound depressive episode triggered by my mother’s death. During that long depression I held hope that if I could indeed manage to pursue my dream of van life, it might actually save me.

In the periods that I could muster the fortitude, I inched forward with my plans. Years passed, but I persevered and launched on the vernal equinox in 2019.

I haven’t looked back.

As a full-time digital nomad traveling the US and Canada, I have an inordinate amount of time to think. A brutally honest self-assessment made it clear that I use my life on the road to self-isolate (long before the pandemic made it a thing). It has become essential that I explore what else, besides wanderlust, propels my travels. Not only for those I love that are struggling to understand, but for my own emotional well-being.

This self-examination is serialized in my podcast, “The Carol-Van: A (Van) Life Podcast.” Through deeply personal narratives, I follow breadcrumbs leading to painful, ridiculous, and triumphant revelations. And hopefully, back to those I love.