Posts in Pre-Trip
A Big, Fat Van Post About Big, Fat Topics: Van Progress and COVID-19
A Big, Fat Van Post About Big, Fat Topics: Van Progress and COVID-19

It’s still a lot to do, but I’m definitely on the home stretch. Besides, it’s good I’ve got plenty to do, since I’m out of work for at least three weeks.

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Pre-TripCarson CostaVanlife, Van Build, Health, Coronavirus, COVID-19, isolation, Working, Apocalypse, video game, Danica, Cabinets, Bed, Benches, Blogging, America, Experience, Goals, History, Inspiration, Marathon March, Overcoming problems, United States, Subfloor, Worried, DIYComment
The Final Days Before The Pacific Northwest
The Final Days Before The Pacific Northwest

Everything that I’ve been thinking about just to keep myself going for the last year and a half. The life I’ve been dreaming about is eight hours away.

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Pre-TripCarson CostaAppliances, Blogging, Breaking Things, Comedy of Errors, Carpentry, Challenges, Charge Controller, Cabinets, Excitement, DIY, Electrical, Exhaustion, Self, Heat, Learning, Family, Frustration, Fan Install, Inner Thoughts, Sink, Business, Customer Service, Catching Up, Adventure, Full Speed Ahead, Fridge, Fuse Box, National Parks, Late Night Musings, Late, Danica, Drawer, Slides, MDF, Guests, Friends, Zach, Battery, Brackets, Kitchen, Thanks to, Planning, Mishaps, Neighbors, United States, Possible Formatting Errors, Range Oven, Fan, eTrailer, Solar, Panic, RYE, Rotary Youth Exchange, Travel, Trial Run, Stress, Time Crunch, Self-doubt, Wiring, Vanlife, Van Build, Wood Working Comment
I've Named the Van, and I'm Nearly Set to Go
I've Named the Van, and I'm Nearly Set to Go

The last week before I left was just as insane, because all of that was still going on, but I also had a lot of goodbyes to get through.

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Pre-TripCarson CostaLosing my mind, Stress, Frustration, Friends, Family, Van Build, Vanlife, Visits, A Peek Inside My Weird Brain, Blogging, Comedy of Errors, Challenges, Curtains, Cabinets, DIY, Exhaustion, Self, I'm late again, Inner Thoughts, Planning, long drive, Mishaps, Neighbors, Wood, Panic, RYE, Rotary Youth Exchange, Travel, Self-doubt, Trial Run, Time Crunch, Worried, Wood WorkingComment
A Few Thoughts on Americanism
A Few Thoughts on Americanism

Forth of July was the one day every year that I always felt unstoppable. It made me feel empowered, one person supported and held up by millions of people, like every dream I’d every dared to entertain was as close as those fireworks, falling down upon me from the stars.

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Pre-TripCarson CostaPolitics, Americanism, United States, America, Reflections, Rotary Youth Exchange, RYE, Germany, Venezuela, Inner Thoughts, Pride, Nationality, A Peek Inside My Weird Brain, Blogging, Self, Why?, Learning, Self-doubt, TravelComment
I Destroyed Part of My Build
I Destroyed Part of My Build

I was dead set on pretending I had no van, and that I’d never been crazy enough to start this insane project, for the rest of the day.

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Pre-TripCarson CostaVan Build, Vanlife, Ceiling, Tongue-and-groove, nemesis, Exhaustion, Self, Self-doubt, Panic, Challenges, Problems, Difficult, DIY, A Peek Inside My Weird Brain, Comedy of Errors, Frustration, Learning, Cursing, Anger, Breaking Things, Things Breaking, Worried, This Happened to Me, Inner Thoughts, Planning, Mishaps, Boards, Wainscotting, Stress Comments
Making Great Headway
Making Great Headway

For about 60 seconds I felt like I was going to pass out with horror, but the solution is pretty obvious and not that big of a deal, even if it wasn’t going to turn out super pretty.

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Pre-TripCarson CostaDIY, Vanlife, Van Build, Walls, Wiring, Problems, Panic, Progress, Comedy of Errors, Ceiling, Carpentry, Recesses, Full Speed Ahead, Giving Up in the Best Way, Perfection, Deadlines, Electrical, Sealant, Furring, Insulation, I'm late again, kismet, Mishaps, Time Crunch, Wood, Subfloor, Wood Working Comment