Our names are Jessi and Andy. We live for travel, art, experience, and our vanagon, Moose! Jessi is a tattooer with a talent and passion for design. Andy is a plumber by trade, with over fifteen years of experience in the industry. when we met, and had his first vanagon, Silvia. Welp, in what seems like a whirlwind, Silvia was lost in a tragic fire, a pandemic welled up around us, and both of our jobs came to a screeching halt. We did our best to turn this into an opportunity, and buckled down in our search for a new van, enter: Moose. Of the many vans we considered, Moose was the one we came back to time and time again. Once we had settled on a van, it quickly became a full time job working out the logistics of buying a vehicle on the far opposite side of the country and driving it back home LEGALLY. You see, Moose was in Oregon, and our home is in New Jersey, which made acquiring him more challenging to say the least. After months of phone calls, scribbling on notepads, and filing forms, it was time to pull the trigger on operation "Get Moose"! We masked up, packed a duffel bag full of camping gear, and flew off to Oregon with the hope that Moose was truly the adventure ready rig we needed to get us back home. He absolutely was. Our plans went off without a hitch, and we left Oregon with stars in our eyes, and adventure and exploration in our hearts.

     The road home was long of our own design, shamelessly taking advantage of the choke hold the pandemic had on the country, we meandered through the midwest. We returned to New Jersey with the taste of adventure on our tongues, and a thirst for more. We spent the next two and a half years with our noses to the grindstone, saving what we could, and polishing Moose into a rig fully suited for full time travel. 

     By August 2021 we had set out on what we hoped would be an endless adventure. In the last year on the road we have learned so much, seen so much, and met so many amazing and inspiring people, we just cant get enough! As we are now starting to settle into our still relatively new lifestyle, we're finding time to focus on some of the projects that we've been talking about for so long, like this one!

     So that's how we got here! thanks for checking us out and stay tuned for future blog posts containing: a more detailed account of our adventures, ramblings, and whereabouts; reviews and insights on the places we go, where we stay, what we eat, and more; plus observations, lessons learned, and lifestyle hacks pertaining to life on the road!

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jessi & Andy

The wind was picking up as the sun started to set, blowing hard enough that I stowed the awning away before we crawled up into the loft for bed. Within a few hours, the wind was strong enough to keep us awake, and not long after that it was bad enough that we began to worry for the canvas. To ease the stress on the canvas, we opened the windows… and awakened a short time later covered in a fine layer of sand. It was in our eyes, all over the bed, EVERYWHERE. Once we realized that we were caught in the middle of a dust storm, we hunkered down in the bottom and dropped the top. If you’re familiar with the westy interior, you can understand that with the trunk packed full of gear, and the top down, there’s nowhere to sleep.. So Jessi laid down a board between the front seats and padded it with blankets, and I folded down the bench seat flat and curled up around the dog while the storm battered Moose’s exterior and buried the few things we had left outside in the dirt…its impossible to be ready for everything on the road, the most important thing is being able to shake off the dust and move on to the next adventure.