No plates. No bowls. No mugs. No real cutlery. If you had told me that's where I'd end up I probably wouldn't have believed you — but here's the thing, it wasn't really a decision. It just kind of happened. Two separate meals, both eaten on the run in my truck. Both times I forgot my fork or spoon in the back and grabbed from my stash in the glove box instead. Both times I was eating straight out of my Rubbermaid Brilliance container sitting in my cupholder. And both times I

If you had told me a few years ago that I'd be cooking out of a truck bed with three appliances and ten spices, I probably would have laughed. But here we are — and honestly? I eat just as well as I ever did, just a simpler version of it. My three main cooking components are my Breville Mini Oven, a single burner butane Coleman, and my Jetboil MiniMo. That's it. Between those three I can handle just about anything I want to make. The Breville Mini Oven My Breville lives on th

This is by far the area that has been the hardest to figure out. I'm not necessarily picky about what I eat, but I do try to stick within a certain realm of what I eat. Some of that is hard to find when I'm out in the middle of nowhere. When I'm truly active, I can put away 5,000+ calories a day pretty easily, which means I burn through food pretty quick. Starting off, I had everything filling up about half my backseat floorboard. I definitely had anything I might be in the m

From basecamp to backroads — what full-time minimalist living looks like for me.

As one saying goes “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” There are a million different ways to convert a truck/ van into a camper. ...