I first moved into a van when I was twenty. Twelve years later, I regard it as the best decision of my life. It\u2019s allowed me to see the world, meet new people, escape college debt, and save money for a down payment on some farm land. My life is one long road trip that meanders between long stretches of exploring North America, two weeks abroad and staying around Southern California for business.<\/p>\n
Recently my girlfriend and I have been living in my van and using its mobility to get work done while exploring new places together. She is a professional surfer and has a surfboard bag and travel essentials company (www.sagebrushbags.com<\/a>) which she can run from the road. I am a professional surfer as well and have a small commercial agency. Our typical program is to pull into a city and use wifi and 24 Fitness locations to get work done and take care of personal hygiene. We research places to explore and hike online and talk to locals about their favorite spots. Sometimes we get a call from a magazine or one of the companies we work for to fly to somewhere in the world and surf. In this case, we put the road trip on hold and fly from whichever airport we are closest to and park the van in long term parking while we are gone.<\/p>\n This past July we didn\u2019t have anywhere we needed to be so we traveled across the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico for a month. We stopped to camp and backpack in some really nice spots. I took my Sony A7s with an Atmos Shogun 4k monitor and recorder<\/a> as well as my GoPro HERO 4 Black<\/a> and DJI Phantom 3 Drone to document some of our travels. I\u2019ve been a longtime Sony fan, their electronics have always seemed to last forever, but I\u2019ve been using Canon gear the past few years because of their early DSLR video dominance in the mid 2000\u2019s. It\u2019s great to see that Sony’s have gotten to be so much better in terms of image quality. I\u2019m going to be looking a lot more closely at Sony cameras in the future based on what I experienced so far with the A7s.<\/p>\n \n
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