Rootless Living

BUILDING THE DREAM SKOOLIE

Professional rock climber Alex Honnold deserves much of the credit for the fact that my boyfriend Aaron and I have lived in a converted school bus for the last three years. When Alex became the first person to free solo Yosemite National Park’s famous El Capitan rock formation in June of 2017, we were paying $1,400 a month in rent for a tiny one-bedroom house in Seattle, working jobs that didn’t inspire passion. We were already looking for a way to escape the rat race just a few years after entering it.

Soon after Alex’s historic climb, we were watching a video on YouTube about his achievement, which then autoplayed another video of Alex giving a tour of his van

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