RLM 011 Sept/Oct 2021

Rootless Living

For Digital Nomads, By Digital Nomads

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From Team Rootless
IN THIS ISSUE you’ll find some really inspiring renovations, but our favorite renovation is the new look to the Rootless Living Magazine. Earlier this year we hired our Managing Editor, Jess Stiles. Jess has done an amazing job collaborating with our
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Coffee To Go
TAKE ONE LOOK at Chad Ellingson’s Volkswagen, and you’ll determine pretty quickly that he knows a thing or two about coffee. Half the vehicle is packed with coffee supplies, the tailgate is down to operate as a mobile brewing station, and “COFFEE” is
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Bringing People Together With Food
AS SOMEONE WHO loves food, in all facets, my favorite thing is to use it to bring folks together. We’ve been living “in community” off and on this past year and it has changed so many things about the way we live and the accoutrements that we carry i
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Year Long Weekend
IT DIDN’T TAKE long to learn to connect on Zoom calls and pretend there wasn’t a dog barking or a baby crying in the living rooms of everyone’s homes due to the coronavirus. Flash-forward to present day, and my partner and I have packed up our L.A. a
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The Feed
#RootlessLiving “It’s so insanely cool to see all the different people and ways others travel and live!” @roamsweetroamers @our_rv_days “Summer outdoor movie nights are a family favorite. The kids' pure excitement at this little switch from indoor to
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Happy Vintage Campers
IT ALL STARTED with 300 bucks and a wild idea. In 2016, my husband and I, along with 8 of our 9 children, were planning a 2-week summer vacation in the Midwest. We knew that our budget wouldn’t allow for staying at hotels, so we looked at other optio
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Sur-Ron Electric Dirt Bike
DO YOU WANT the freedom to visit remote, off-grid locations while also mitigating the risks associated with becoming stranded with no cell service? As fairly novice overlanding nomads in a 30-year-old vehicle, we had similar thoughts related to our 4
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When Roots Come Calling
IT WAS A rainy Saturday afternoon and I was feeling blue. I decided to hop on Instagram and catch up with a few traveling friends I hadn’t heard from in a while. After a quick scroll, I came up empty. Had they gone dark? Thankfully no. A quick handle
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More Than a Breath of Fresh Air
AS SOMEONE WHO is a quarter Welsh thanks to my Grandad's heritage, I knew surprisingly little about the country of Wales before my trip this spring. In fact, all I really knew was there are miles of rugged coastline, the climbing sounds amazing and t
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The Social Media Trap
VANLIFE IS BOOMING recently and it’s been an incredible ride to watch this movement take off. I’ve never met so many like-minded people in my life until my wife, Dani and I hit the open road over 5 years ago. I love van life. I’m always finding mysel
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Discovering Vanlife
VANLIFE WAS NEVER on my radar. I was living in Sydney, Australia by the beach and working full-time as an event planner. Then the global pandemic hit, and my life flipped upside down in 10 short days. On a Monday in late March, over 300 employees at
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From the Berlin Metropolis to Microvan
AFTER LIVING THE big city life in Berlin for five years, we left everything behind and started traveling without a plan of returning anytime soon. We met in Berlin at a house party four years ago and have been together since. I moved there to complet
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Big Bend National Park
IF YOU’VE EVER driven through Texas, you know it's big. Having traversed many miles of Texas’ vast landscape in our time RVing the states, we’ve seen some beautiful and memorable landscapes, but we’ve also experienced that mind numbing feeling of, “w
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Downsizing For Life On The Road
WHEN YOU FIRST think about living in a mobile tiny home, you most likely search the internet for DIYs and how-to articles. You save ideas of how you would like your build to look. But what about downsizing? One of the biggest changes that you will ma
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Utah National Parks
WE SPENT TWO months traveling around Southern Utah this past spring, with the major goal of visiting all five of Utah’s National Parks: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands. Despite all of the parks being relatively close to one
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Bringing the Clark Cortez Back to Life
FOR BETTER OR worse, my husband Andy and I have found ourselves in a tiny home-onwheels restoration group: The ones who are convinced they should don vehicle production uniforms because they are essentially re-manufacturing vehicles. The do-everythin
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Road Work Ahead
WORKING FROM THE road isn’t a new concept, but in the last year, it has become a popular option for many people. While technology has made it possible for digital nomads to stay connected, having a mobile office doesn’t need to be complicated! You ju
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The Van Design & Build Process
DESIGNING A HOME on wheels that is specific to your wants and needs can be a challenge. Working with a space that is less than 100 square feet, but must fit everything a conventional home has, is no small design feat. We’ve gathered advice from three
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Precious Cargo
WE ARE NOT your average couple and our story is anything but ordinary. From the moment we met for the first time online, it was clear that neither of us wanted to live a typical life. The internet is what brought us together, but it was our shared dr
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Gone Scamping
OUR CAMPING JOURNEY did not start with the RV and travel trailer side of things. In fact, John and I had never even been camping before we met each other back in 2016. We decided to get into the world of camping together, mostly to bring our furry co
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Renovation Lessons Learned Collab
RENOVATING A HOME is tough work that requires persistence and problem solving. Renovating a small space like a school bus, RV or Airstream is an even bigger challenge. With odd nooks and crannies, unknown prior updates, and any number of unexpected i
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Rootless HQ - RV Reno for work
WE WAITED WAY too long to renovate our home on wheels. Not only to feel more like a home, but to actually have functional working spaces since we spend most of our time inside the RV working and sleeping. Most RV’s today are designed with the weekend
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Boondocking
GPS: 32.5918, -107.9758 CITY OF ROCKS STATE PARK is a dry campers’ desert paradise offering up a breathtaking mirage of large sculptured volcanic rock formations in the shape of boulders and pinnacles, rising as high as 40 feet. Located in southwest
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Gear Guide
Here is everything we had to buy, rent or borrow to finish our own RV Renovation. You won't have to run out and buy everything, but there are some tools that make the job so much easier. If you ever run into us and need a tool to help make your renov
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Podcasts
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system. Focusing on a different cult each episode, Sarah takes a deep dive approach, looking at the hist

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