MY HUSBAND, GREG, and I moved into our van full time in 2018, on the day after our 5-year wedding anniversary. Traditionally, couples celebrate this milestone by exchanging gifts of wood, a symbol of strength and timelessness. On our anniversary, we took the last load of our stuff to storage and signed closing papers on the sale of our house. It was a bittersweet day—we were sad to leave the home we had custom-built just three years earlier, but we also had so much excitement for our future.
We became accustomed to living in a van pretty quickly. After the initial learning curve of sharing a small space with another human and everything we owned, it became second nature to
