travel, vlogging, & van life

Resources

See all of our travel planning, budgeting, and packing resources, as well as the gear we use and love, and tips and insight into van life. We hope these resources can help you plan your own adventures!

Note: this resources page contains affiliate links, which means that if you use the links provided and make a purchase, we get a small commission at no extra cost to you. We will only ever recommend products we truly love, actually use during our adventures, and think you can benefit from too!

our favorite gear

Our camera gear for photography and vlogging

camera gear

Hiking Gear

 hiking gear

Backpacking Gear and Backpacking Packing List

backpacking gear

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travel gear

travel budgeting

how we afford to travel

Learn our top travel budgeting tips

our budget sheet

Download our template to budget out your future trips

our favorite credit cards

See our top travel credit cards that will earn you free travel

cheap flights

Read our all of our tactics to find cheap flights

travel planning

See our step by step process to plan a trip, what we do with our pup Kona when she cannot go with us, and download our itinerary template to organize your own adventure.

travel planning checklist

See our detailed step by step checklist that we use to plan our trips

itinerary sheet

Download our go-to itinerary template to plan out your own adventures

traveling with a dog

Learn how we travel with our pup Kona and where she goes when she can’t go with us somewhere.

find free camping

See what apps and websites we use to find free camping in the USA!

plan a camping trip

Here is our step by step process to planning a camping trip!

travel booking tools

flights

FLIGHTS

Google Flights is our go-to tool when it comes to looking at and tracking flight prices

FareDrop

FareDrop is one of our favorite paid tools to get alerted about cheap flight deals

View more flight tools on our Tips for Finding Cheap Flights

Google Flights is our go-to tool when it comes to looking at and tracking flight prices

FareDrop

FareDrop is one of our favorite paid tools to get alerted about cheap flight deals

View more flight tools on our Tips for Finding Cheap Flights

accommodations

We LOVE staying in Airbnbs! Use our link to get $20 off your first stay!

TripAdvisor is a great resource to read reviews on hotels (and restaurants + sights)

Booking.com is one of our favorite websites to book hotels

ACCOMMODATIONS

We LOVE staying in Airbnbs! Use our link to get $20 off your first stay!

TripAdvisor is a great resource to read reviews on hotels (and restaurants + sights)

Booking.com is one of our favorite websites to book hotels

transportation

Our go-to site to check prices for rental cars

If you have a Costco membership they always have great rental car rates!

transportation

Our go-to site to check prices for rental cars

If you have a Costco membership they always have great rental car rates!

transportation

Our go-to site to check prices for rental cars

If you have a Costco membership they always have great rental car rates!

luggage

Need somewhere to store your bags while traveling? Luggagehero’s gotcha covered!

Radical Storage is another great option to store your bags!

LUGGAGE

Need somewhere to store your bags while traveling? Luggagehero’s gotcha covered!

Radical Storage is another great option to store your bags!

LUGGAGE

Need somewhere to store your bags while traveling? Luggagehero’s gotcha covered!

Radical Storage is another great option to store your bags!

packing lists

travel packing list

Our detailed (and customizable) packing list to help you pack for your next adventure!

backpacking packing list

Everything we take with us on a backpacking trip for a safe and comfortable adventure

blogging and vlogging resources

Tailwind helps us schedule our pins. It has been a great tool to help us grow our website.

Keysearch is our favorite tool to research SEO keywords so our blog posts can rank high on Google. Use the code KSDISC for a 20% discount.

We have never had an issue with hosting our site on SiteGround. They have great customer service as well!

We use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit all of our vlogs for YouTube.

We use Lightroom to edit all photos for our blog and Instagram

We get all of the music for our vlogs from Musicbed. It’s licensed music from artists, so the quality and selection are awesome!

This course taught us so much about SEO and has helped us rank higher on Google. Stupid Simple SEO is definitely worth the investment!

Divi is the WordPress theme we use to build and design our site. It is very easy to learn and use. We also love it because there is a one time lifetime price tag unlike other builders.

Bench is the bookkeeping service we use. They have been easy to use, responsive, and very helpful. Sign up with them and receive 1 month free.

our van build

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our van conversion cost, tour, & mistakes

Watch our van tour, learn what mistakes we made, and see the total cost and products we used change image to our conversion header

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VAN LIFE FAQS: OUR VAN, LOGISTICS, DAILY ROUTINE, & MORE!

Interested in van life? In this blog we’re sharing the questions we get asked the most about van life, from why we chose our van, our build, logistics, our daily routine, and more!

van build series

View our van build YouTube series, including how we installed windows, what insulation we chose, and other build tasks!

Looking for resources to help you with your van build? Here are two guides we highly recommend!

Van Build Guide: We used Sara and Alex James’s guides and layout for our van. In their guide they list dimensions, products, and more to help you out!

Van Conversion Academy: This course from Two Wandering Soles is LOADED with helpful step-by-step instructions, such as how to install a fan, windows, water system, subfloor, and more! They’ve made it so you can spend more time building and less time searching the YouTube and internet black hole for information!

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