By Sunny Lane | The Drift Some people plan their way into vanlife. Spreadsheets. Timelines. Years of research. Heather Sossoman didn't have that kind of time. The Moment Everything Shifted "The last ten years of my life have been really hard," Heather tells me. "Raising three kids on my own, carrying that weight—and then I lost my younger brother suddenly." She pauses. "That loss completely altered my perspective. The reality that none of us are guaranteed tomorrow hit home in a real way."...

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...