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“FINALLY! Our personal van is complete and ready to hit the road! So stoked on how this came out. We tried some new things in this van that we’ll go over in our van tour video this coming week. Huge thanks to all the companies involved on this project and getting us parts quickly despite all the crazy covid supply delays!!” 🤩🤩🚐👏
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Hi. Remember us? Full-time wanderers not wandering very far? Well, hopefully that’s about to change. 🤞 This June we are planning on traveling within Croatia. Visiting some of our favorite spots and hopefully some new ones too. And then in July, if borders become easier to cross and if we feel like it’s safe for our little family, we will continue our travel plans from last year. We will start in Ireland and the UK, and then meander down the coasts of France, Spain and Portugal.
We would love it if you shared your favorite spots with us :)

“Our beautiful home on wheels.
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Sometimes I have to pinch myself that this is actually where we live. Sure, it’s a tiny space, but it’s homey, and it’s OURS and we love it.
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Our home has everything we need, and nothing we don’t.
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Many of our friends thought we were mad when we said we were going to move into a van, but I’m sure some are secretly envious. But here’s the thing: if we can do it, anyone can!
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Live is short; if you want to do something, do it now, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
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When we are settled at a camp spot and it feels safe, we let the cats roam freely. They both check in on us multiple times a day and respond to our clicker calls and to my sorry attempts at whistling. Except for last Saturday.
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For the past couple days, Toby’s abdomen has been a little sore. After he jumped out of the van that morning, he didn’t check on us at all nor respond to our calls. Twin was also acting strangely by staying closer than usual.
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Dan and I walked through fields of tall grass, up hillsides, near neighbors’ barns and the streets in the late afternoon. At dusk, we noticed a fox and our thoughts went to a dark place.
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When the sun slid beyond the horizon and the brisk evening air entered the van, we reluctantly closed the van with one cat missing. We kept checking outside in the dark and after 14 hours, Toby came back. We lifted him into the van, he slowly made his way to our bed and remained there for hours until we could take him to the vet.
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He most likely ate something poisonous at our last camp spot and maybe hid somewhere to die that day. After multiple injections, he’s now on the mend and slowly showing signs of his old snuggly self again.

Next week we have to ferry off of the island and make our way to the city again to pick up Dan’s new residency card. I don’t think we can swing a day trip or even an quick overnight. With a cold front blasting through Europe right now, leaving the kittens outside here in the village isn’t an option. So they will be road tripping with us. To prep them for the trip, we’ve been spending time in the van together and they are confused but slowly getting more comfortable with it.

It’s the first phase of testing out this kittens in the van thing. The next will be how to open doors without them running out, how to have them spend time safely outside to get daily exercise and then leash training them.

We’ve traveled 10 years with a cat before but that cat was older and didn’t care to be outdoors. But these two? They are so rambunctious and really crave being outdoors that I’m having a real hard time figuring out what the best solution is for them and for us. I don’t want to take away their freedom nor do I want to take it away from us too.

The option of letting them be “wild” again is off the table. Either we adopt them or they will go to another loving home. Time will tell.

And we’re back on the road! 🙌
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It always takes us a full day of living in the van to feel settled in again. Clean laundry, random items shoved in bags, and food from the grocery store all need to put away in their designated places. When living in a space this small, it really makes a difference to have everything where it’s suppose to go.
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So our first stop was one we’ve spent some time at before. We knew it would be a good spot for the cats as well.
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And how does it feel to be out again? It feels like home. ❤️

Connaissez-vous ma chaîne YouTube? 😊 Je suis en train de mettre la touche finale à mon plus récent épisode 💻 Entre temps, je vous invite à aller y découvrir les autres épisodes. Voici les plus 5 populaires:
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▪️EP01 Comment en suis-je arrivé là?
▪️EP06 Vantour Sprinter.
▪️EP09 Vantour Promaster.
▪️EP07 Vivre en van l’hiver au Québec.
▪️EP02 Comment subvenir à ses besoins financièrement?
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Vous trouverez le lien dans ma bio ✌️😊
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So we’ve stepped up our anti-condensation game. Hopefully between our diesel heater, dehumidifier, rooftop fans and anti-condensation mats under our mattresses, we won’t have to worry too much about mold. Usually this isn’t an issue because we are always on the move and in warmer/drier winter climates.

Oh and speaking of being on the move, next week we head out in the van to do a border run for our US-plated van and see how this rambunctious kittens in a van thing works out.

We all need some color in our lives. Why not display them on your door 🥰
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An excerpt from our monthly newsletter...

“How do the kids feel about sleeping in such close quarters in the van?”

I just asked all the kids and they all responded with “Ummm, that’s what we always do.” Haha. I guess the difference with our kids and other kids is that this is all they know. It’s not strange for them to share a bed or a small living space or have a non-private bathroom or roadschool because they were born into this lifestyle. It’s natural for them.

They did actually have their own beds when we traveled in a Casita trailer for a short time. Ava (our oldest) says the van bed is larger thus better, Mila (our middle kid) actually enjoyed the personal space of her small bunk but likes the van too, and Luka says he doesn’t like sleeping alone so the van wins.

(1) The first photo is from our current van, a self-built mercedesbenzvansusa Sprinter. (2) Our casitatraveltrailers that we had for a little over one year with separate beds for everyone. (3) Our fourwheelcampers where all kids slept on top in a king-sized bed. (4) Our airstream_inc trailer where the girls slept together on a pull-out gaucho bench and Luka co-slept with us. (5) And one more photo from the Airstream because they were so little. Gah.

ORIGINAL HOT WHEELS PANEL BUS, DRAG BUS, DRAG TRUCK....TEAM TRANSPORT, SUNAGON
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When we exchanged our wedding vows, we’re sure we didn’t see ourselves spending our 19th anniversary cleaning and packing up our home on wheels. But that’s exactly what we did and we wouldn’t have changed a thing. In a couple days, we will say goodbye to the island we’ve called home for all these months for a little loop around Croatia and then finally across some borders this summer. Thanks for photo, mali.mish.ava ❤️

GIVEAWAY CLOSED ✨ Congratulations dakotaoutwest 💛 Y’all we’ve got a GIVEAWAY on our hands. I mentioned last month I’m working with stanley_brand this year and I’m stoked they agreed to do a giveaway of all my favorite products. I like to think of this as the perfect lil package for you to get your camp food and bev sorted out. Here are the deets:

The package includes:

✨Classic Pour Over Brew Set (seen in this photo!) - your camp coffee just got 100x better
✨Camp Percolator to boil water for your morning brew.
✨Legacy Quadvac Thermal Bottle - keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold at camp.
✨Legacy Never Leak Mug; your new best adventure friend.
✨Easy Carry Lunch Cooler (7qt) AND the Outdoor Cooler (30qt); the perfect duo for day tripping to your favorite National Park or a week long camping trip.
✨Adventure Full Kitchen Base Camp Cook Set; the ideal starter set to get you cooking and indulging in delicious camp meals this summer.

How to enter:

1. Follow us; hannahrheaume and stanley_brand
2. Like this photo
3. Tag your adventure buddy in the comments
That’s it! You AND your friend are both entered to win! Yep, the winner and their friend will each get this perfect lil camp package. This giveaway will run until 3/21/21, 5PM MST.

Only open to the U.S., giveaway sponsored by stanley_brand and is in no way affiliated with Instagram.

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Did you see the latest YT episode?
If not, go check the Link in bio.
This week capusedan & lboogie305 showed us their amazing tiny home on wheels. 🚌

Notre projet ça fait 2 ans qu’on y réfléchit! Des moodboards, des recherches, même des cours avec ecohabitationmtl afin d’en apprendre plus sur les maisons saines.

Nous avons une vision et tranquillement elle prend forme 🌱

Bien hâte de vous montrer ça!

#autoconstruction #printemps2021

Il y a 5 ans, j’étais en pleine transition. Une transition vers cette vie de nomade 🛤
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Depuis mon condo blanc immaculé de St-Henri, j’avais ce qu’on appelle la nostalgie du voyage. Trois mois à circuler le Costa Rica, le Panama, le Nicaragua et enfin l’Europe m’amenait à me questionner sur mon style de vie et mes valeurs 🌌
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Dans ma vingtaine, je n’ai jamais eu d’endroit où je pouvais dire “chez-nous” 🏡
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Quelques hivers passés dans l’ouest, je revenais l’été au Centre National où je louais une chambre dans un dortoir. Lorsque j’ai officiellement quitté le nid familial... à 27 ans 😅 j’ai commencé à louer un condo à Bromont en plus d’une chambre à Mtl pour faciliter les déplacements au niveau du travail 💼
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Pendant longtemps j’ai eu un pied à terre aux 2 endroits sans jamais avoir mon “chez-nous”, avec mes meubles, décoré à mon goût 🖼
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Ce condo était finalement à mon image. J’ai mis 3 ans à l’aménager et 19,000$ de déco et de meubles plus tard quand j’ai finalement mis la touche finale avec un beau set de patio en osier, je suis parti en solo avec un sac à dos 30L 🎒
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À mon retour, même après quelques semaines l’appel de l’aventure a continuait de bouillir en moi... et comme je l’avais fait en 2004 quand j’avais échangé ma Subaru (ceux qui savent, savent 😉) pour une mini-van afin d’aller dans l’Ouest et bien voilà que j’échangeais ma Audi pour une van 🚐
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Ainsi, mon désir d’aventure au quotidien était comblé tout en continuant mes fonctions de représentant 🤝
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Évidemment, sans le savoir j’étais en train d’écrire un nouveau chapitre de ma vie 🙏🏻
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Je suis maintenant nomade à temps plein grâce au support de précieux partenaires et amis que je tiens à remercier 🙇‍♂️ vanlifemtl cyclesdevinci guruenergie hlc.bike ote_canada treesmountainapparel blackvanagencecreative et bien sûr je ferai mes débuts sous peu sur evasion_tv en tant qu’animateur de la série bonvelo.ca 🤗
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Merci aussi à vous tous qui me suivez, me lisez et qui m’écrivent ça me fait chaud au cœur. Cheers 😊✌️

4700km plus tard, des nuits à -40, ben des sandwichs aux œufs, des douches chaudes dans les trucks stops, we made it! Je peux dire que j’ai fait la traversée du Canada l’hiver ✔️
Petite mention spéciale aux podcasts suivants sansfiltrepodcast jaydutemple merci d’exister 🙌🏼

On vous confirme que la saison des 5 à 7 extérieurs n'est pas encore terminée! Avec qui iriez-vous prendre une bonne bière @oshlag en nature pour profiter des dernières belles journées? Profitez-en et tagguez la personne juste ici afin de lui lancer l'invitation! 👇🏼
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We can say that outdoor happy hour season is not over yet! Who would you join for a good @oshlag beer in nature to enjoy these last hot days? Take a chance and tag the person right here to extend the invitation! 👇🏼

Look at those happy faces, they belive their van conversion will be done in 3 months. Oh boy were they wrong on that one.. innocent kids. 😏

If you had a deadline... did you break it?
No lying in the comments 😂

7 months an counting friends 🥲

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