By Sunny lane | From the Drifter Workshop I spent a morning in the Drifter workshop last month, and I'll be honest—I wasn't there to talk about warranties. I was there to watch a build come together. To see the wiring run clean through labeled channels. To watch a cabinet get test-fit, adjusted, and test-fit again. To hear a master builder explain why a particular fastener matters more than the one that looks the same but isn't. And somewhere in that conversation, warranty came up. Not as a...

Written by Sunny Lane, When Tess started travel nursing in 2015, the adventure was real. New cities, new hospitals, new mountain ranges to explore on her days off. But behind the highlight reel, something important was missing. “Every three to six months I packed up and moved into yet another apartment,” she says. “Furnished with other people’s things, filled with memories that weren’t mine. I loved the adventure of travel nursing, but deep down, I never felt like I had a true home.” Like a...

By Sunny Lane | The Drift – Tales from the Road When solo female vanlife traveler Susan Lebold lost her husband to brain cancer in 2018, the life she knew fell away. In just a few short years, she had also said goodbye to her father and mother, and her son had grown and moved on into his own independent life. With the people she loved most now gone, Susan found herself standing at a crossroads—not just of grief, but of identity. "I didn't know how to live as a single, unattached person," she...