WE BOUGHT A VAN!

We bought a van! Let's rewind a little bit. Alright, here we go. We're buying a van! Holy crap! This Mercedes is ours, officially! Super exciting. A little scary, but... We have a lot of work ahead of us. We're gonna get started tomorrow. Hopefully we don't mess up too much. Yeah. Sorry in advance if you guys think we do stuff wrong. We are not professionals. Whatever. We are pumped. Dream come true. Woo! It's our new home. Our home on wheels! I know you can't see anything, but it's our first few feet of driving in the Sprinter! We're gonna be screaming for a while. This is pretty crazy. Thanks Adam for driving. Dude, this is sick! I'm too scared to drive it right now. Maybe I'll test it out in a parking lot first. Woo! So you may be wondering, how the heck did this even happen? Why is this happening? So basically, we moved from Texas to Seattle two and a half years ago because we wanted to live life more outdoors and have more adventure. We moved to Seattle, absolutely fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and hiking and road tripping and all that fun stuff. So much so that we're like, why can't we do this all the time? So, around Labor Day, we're hiking and we're like, we just want to be full-time travelers. How do we make that happen? So we were thinking, do we get a trailer, a van or an RV? Since we have Kona, we can't just go abroad for a year, which is what we would love to do. But we have Kona, we want to have her with us and we also need full-time income. So we ended up deciding that we were going to buy a van so we can work full-time from the van, we can travel all around the U.S. and we're going to build it ourselves. Yeah, I remember that weekend. I was like, let's buy it now, let's get going now. But probably thought it better to wait a little bit. Make sure we actually wanted to do it. We gave ourselves like six months to make sure we were really dedicated to this plan. Yeah, so the plan is to start building on it today. So we're going to cut into the side and cut into the roof. I'm really nervous about that, but here we go, jumping in. Full bore. So yeah, starting a building now until June. I'm flying down a couple times to help build it out. Catherine will be flying down every few weeks. But we're doing it in Texas because one, we don't have the knowledge really or skills. Not at all. We're learning a lot, but still. Yeah, we're slowly getting more and more confident. But mainly we have the space and materials and knowledge of her dad here in Austin to help us with the build. So he's going to be a huge resource. Shout out to Tom. Thanks, Tom. Thanks, Dad. So yeah, that's the plan so far. Yeah, so we'll be building it out in Austin, which is why we came to buy it in Austin, because I know that might be a little confusing. Yeah, so I'll be here a lot. Adam won't be here that much. So a lot of the videos from our build will be of me. So sorry. That's why Adam will be missing. I'm going to miss having him here. And it's going to be a really cool learning experience for both of us. It's a little scary. So yeah, as we said, we're starting the build today. In our next video, we'll share more about the layout of the van. But it's definitely going to be a more luxurious kind of van. We want to be comfortable. If we're going to be living and working in this full time, we want to be comfortable. For sure. So yeah, we're about to go get started. We're really excited to have you guys along for the ride. This is going to be a really crazy six months. We're going to be documenting the whole thing. If you want to learn a little bit more about our plans, we'll link to our blog below. We answer some of the FAQs we get from people when we mention that we're doing this. Yeah, we're excited to have you guys follow along. We want to give a shout out to Mercedes Benz of Georgetown, especially our man Tim and then Gabriel. They were both very awesome to work with. We've been talking with Tim for months to make sure we'd have a van when we flew down this weekend. He was just the nicest guy. So, thank you Tim. Hope you watch this eventually. I sent him our link. You were very awesome. Yeah, they're a great group of guys and they hooked us up. So, treated us great. Alright, do you want to go get started? I'm excited. Let's go do it! Let's go!