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so we've been in vehicles for the last
three years we've had three different
vehicles in those three years we've had
a Vanagon a Westphalia and we've had a
Toyota Sun Raider and now we're in the
toyota tacoma so what really drew us to
living on the road was we also work as
designers from the road and we kind of
just wanted to follow what inspired us
and being outside and climbing and
hiking and fishing and surfing those are
the things that inspire us and so if we
can just surround ourselves by those
things we feel like we can be better
designers better artists for ourselves
and for our clients so yeah I think that
also getting that work/life balance in
order is really important for us and you
know when we're out on the road it's a
lot easier to maintain that yeah when we
punch the clock or close the laptop or
whatever it is that signals the end of
our day you know we're in a unique and
really beautiful place that otherwise we
would have no access to so it's really
nice just to have yes the world that
inspires us like right outside our back
tailgate
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so currently we are just sleeping and
this is just a fiberglass camper shell
and we did a really basic bed platform
that has two full-length drawers
underneath it that holds our food our
work supplies our clothes and I think
that might be actually it pretty basic
so bed on top and then on top of the
camper shell we have two Macs tracks for
in the event that we get stuck it
happens and we have our Yakima box which
has gear for fly fishing spearfishing
backpacking camping surfing when rock
climbing and we carry three surfboards
as well I am a graphic designer and
illustrator and I do motion graphics
typically when we're trying to find a
place to work at least in this Tacoma
we've been going to coffee shops because
there's not really any place in the
Tacoma for us to work so we go to a lot
of coffee shops and libraries every once
in a while we'll work from the truck and
we have like a solar panel set up that
helps charge our laptops and stuff like
that all of our other previous rigs we
were able to work from them and that was
a much more comfortable setup and I
think our long-term goal hopefully by
the end of the year we can be in
something a little bit more like that
just because from a sustainability
standpoint of our work that's what we
need to be in but right we just needed
wheels and some some new views and so
the Tacoma was perfect for us a typical
day in the life of living in a Tacoma
team effort is the only way that this
works so we both will wake up at the
same time
Owens always on coffee duty so he makes
coffee and all gets started on breakfast
and then when we're done with that if
we're working then we'll just go ahead
because honestly the earlier we can get
to our work the earlier we can get it
done
and the earlier we can get it done the
more time we have to play so so it's
always we're always trying to like leave
some time in the day to play but
otherwise we usually try to find a nice
hike to do really try to take advantage
of wherever the unique places that we
are and then dinner looks a lot of the
same all takes team effort we have to go
to bed at the same time because there's
some robotics required for sleeping in
this so yeah every every effort has to
be in one direction when getting in a
setup like this I think as we wind down
in the evening we're usually like right
here actually and just sitting here
hanging out we yeah we like to end our
day sitting on the tailgate eating
chocolate chocolate in the dark this is
pretty much everything that we own I
will a lot of people ask us if we have a
home base or a storage unit we are from
Florida even though we don't actually
live there we have family there and I
think that we only we have a storage
unit but it has family heirlooms and
artwork in it and that's it but as far
as like everyday living equipment
everything is here everything we have
and I think that people are always
really interested about how much clothes
we carry we carry about one cubic foot
of clothes a person and then we have one
compression sack for cold weather stuff
and that's it we just don't want our
lives to be dictated by things we want
our life to be dictated by the
experiences that we're chasing and we
felt like the best way to do that was
just to have as little as possible with
us at all times and sometimes I feel
like we do have a lot of stuff I mean we
have this like Yakama box that's just
full of gear it's brimming it's gear for
doing fun tivities exactly
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so I think that the biggest difficulties
we find in the Tacoma is just that when
it rains we don't really have anywhere
to go so we'll just sit in the cab and
watch a movie or we'll go someplace to
spend some time
we're so subject to whatever the weather
is because tech mean we live outside
like our living spaces outside and if
our living spaces what life can be
really challenging really quickly but
we've been able to find some really good
ways around that finding parks with
pavilions to cook under it's more more
hoops to jump through but we always
manage to make it happen
so we're showering we usually just try
and find a place that as a shower or we
jump in a lake we also have a Nemo
shower bag that we use frequently serval
like go to a climbing gym and climb and
then take a shower go to a yoga studio
and take a class and then shower and a
lot of times at campgrounds you can pay
just there's a quarter or coin-operated
showers that are always a really good
resource it feels like we never shower
in the same way two times in a row so
it's it takes some creativity to find
some of those like hygiene necessities
so as far as sleeping in the back of the
truck is concerned it's actually really
really cozy there's enough Headroom for
us to kind of sit up and for that it
works fine for us we don't mind too much
we've never had a huge amount of
headroom and any of our rigs so this
isn't too bad actually for us sleeping
wise and it stays really warm which is
great yeah in cold incidences when it's
when it's warm what we do is we have a
bungee cord that will actually pop this
open not all the way in instances where
we want to have it at least a little bit
closed so it's not fully open if we're
totally comfortable somewhere we will
just leave it all the way open we also
have venting windows in the side of our
camper shell and I made these velcro bug
mats that go over the opening because
bugs are a real issue in the summer
almost anywhere so we have bug nets for
over that and then we also have a full
bug net that because it's fell
in here and it velcros all the way down
and drops over this entire opening so we
can leave it open and we don't have to
worry about bugs I would say that most
of the time we're camping out in the
wild wild camping we try to be as far
out as we can because we like being out
in the quiet and not necessarily that we
don't like to be around people but just
that we like having our like solitude
sometimes for sleeping at least when you
get in and tuck in for the night it can
be a little vulnerable feeling and any
time like if somebody does walk by or
another car passes by I am a light
sleeper so I always wake up and just
kind of like to know what's going on so
it's just nice to put ourselves out in
scenarios where we feel as comfortable
as humanly possible when we do go to bed
a lot of people have asked if we would
recommend a setup like this and yes I
feel like a thousand times yes I would
recommend a super simple setup and what
the benefit is is there's not a huge
investment in this truck we bought the
truck and we spent three hundred and
fifty dollars building out the living
portions of it you really don't know
until you get out and try it and
unfortunately for us you know we've been
through two other previous vehicles
before this one and neither one of them
are right and we lost a lot of money in
those situations yeah I think we always
recommend for people to try and go out
first with something like not crazy
super nice just something cheap just to
get you out there to see if you even
like it to begin with
before you go ahead and dive headfirst
and make a huge investment
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there's so many things that I think that
we love about being on the road I think
that the one biggest thing is we never
expected this because when we went on
the road we knew that we are gonna get
all these amazing destinations all these
beautiful places but what is actually
overshadowed that is the people like
constantly meeting people that would
never ever be in our life otherwise and
they're gonna be people that will be in
our lives for the rest of our lives and
we're always in this place where help
isn't necessarily needed but is always
so helpful and just the kindness by
absolute strangers that are given to us
on a day to day basis I mean it it's so
much faith in the world just because of
the way that we live and the kindnesses
that are always extended to us on a
daily basis and I think that the other
thing is just being able to choose how
to fill every single day and having that
power over our life I don't think that
many people can say that and I think
that that breeds a lot of happiness we
were recently in Newfoundland and
everybody has a bad day and we were we
were having a bad day we were camping
out kind of by the lighthouse on the
point in hearts content
Newfoundland and this older gentleman
approached us while we were making
dinner and was just chatting us up and
he was very knowledgeable on the city in
the area and he's like I'm the mayor of
heart's content and I just wanted to
come out and welcome you to our town and
tell you how welcome you are to be here
and how it's an honor that we have the
chance of hosting so many people that
come from all over the world and that
you are taking time to be in our town
and he presented us the crest of heart's
content in the form of a like a little
pan yeah and as soon as he like turned
his back and walked away I just started
sobbing and it's just amazing it was
just every time a day is bad I feel like
the world just gives back in so many
ways that reaffirms like what we're
doing and why we're doing it and how
great people are
I hope you enjoyed the video if you want
to follow maca knowing you can check
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nowhere and we actually met them at a
big van life meetup in quebec called el
campo it's a really fun event organized
by go van and we'll put a link to their
website in the description of this video
if you're interested in future events
thanks for watching see you next time