Liz Clark has been living on her boat, Swell, for nearly 10 years. She talked with us about what contributed to the decision to take off on the sea, the passions that move her through life, and the perfect paradise…
“You really have to sack up and just do it sometimes.” Ryan Lovelace shares with us this and other thoughtful insights about his Cosmic Collider van conversion, which you may or may not have been following on Tumblr. Here the…
Trevor Gordon is a Rincon local, artist, and world-traveling surfer. But he’s also a dude who spends a lot of time in a camper. He recently completed work on a 1991 Jeep Comanche in order to spend more time in…
With this feature we’ve been exploring the explorers who take off in vans, or in some cases trucks, for untraveled, quiet lands. Today, we have a similar explorer who’s taken to making the sea her stomping ground. Liz Clark has…
This is the story of Big Red, an antique VW bus that helped Tom Petriken conquer a fear of driving, after he upgraded her from years of improper upkeep (someone actually let the poor thing sit idle for four years).…
Last summer, we had an intern named Vanessa Ratjen. She was just finishing up college and was full of ideals about the way the world should be. After her time with Korduroy, she went back up to Canada with a…
Plenty of people move into their vans lately, but few do it to explore some of the coldest places on Earth. Ian Battrick outfitted his rig to withstand arctic temperatures and now he’s driving around testing out coldwater surf gear…
In this article we share a number of our favorite van made recipes that we’ve curated over the years. But first we dive into an interview with their creator, Emily Murray. If you’re here for the recipes, the recipes, and…
We continue our exploration of mobile living situations with some thoughts from Foster Huntington. He’s been living and working on the road for more than two years and here he talks about the surprisingly tough decision to make the switch from…