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Discover what it's really like to live and work on the road in a camper van full time from eco-vanlifer and founder of the Diversify Vanlife movement, Noami Grevemberg.

Feeling dissatisfied with her office job and her "stationary home," in 2016 Noami Grevemberg took a bold step. She quit her…

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Hiking isn’t the only way to escape to the mountains, of course.

After spending three years living part-time in a 20-square-foot van myself, it was such a joy to revisit that particular flavor of wanderlust through Noami’s story—particularly since she doesn’t gloss over the harder aspects of an unconventional, nomadic life on the road.

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