Vegan #VanLife and the Freedom of Living in the Back of Your Car

Written by Doug Hay

Have you seen people living the #VanLife on YouTube or Instagram and wonder what it’s all about — maybe even gotten a little jealous?

Meet NMA team member Chris, who lives the van life in Alaska every summer.

The concept — so foreign to most of us — was just too intriguing for us not to discuss. So we brought him on the podcast to find out what it’s all about, and he dished the details: The good, the bad, and the poopy.

Here are some of the topics we discussed in today’s episode:

Is #VanLife really as glorious as it seems in the photos?
What do you eat as a vegan… cooking in a van.
How to decide what to make room for, and what to trash.
The poop problem.
Being a vegan in Alaska.
Cooling your food on a glacier.

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