Join us at Camp #VanLife as we discuss everything you need to consider when starting a lifestyle of full time overlanding, travel and adventure. Topics Discussed in this Video 02:09 Who are Tim & Liz? 03:35 How did you get into van life? 04:35 Hightop vs Poptop & is 4WD necessary? 09:17 What's the difference between preparing a weekend-warrior & a full-time adventure rig? 12:45 What advice do you have for preparing a vehicle for van life? 15:00 What do you have to organize and did...

In this episode of our Adventure Experts Series, we're going to find out if travel, adventure and van life is possible for the older generation.  And we'll also discover why you shouldn't wait until you retire to have your adventure! HOSTS: Ben & Leah from Kombi Life GUEST EXPERT: Tom Summers Available in video cast at: https://youtu.be/Z_RK4qULJHs

In this episode of our Adventure Experts Series, we invite you to join us as we sit down to tackle the most frequently asked questions about traveling the longest road in the world The Pan-American Highway.  We're joined by veteran traveler Aaron, from Hippie Van Man to discuss what it's actually like to overland the PanAm HOSTS: Ben & Leah from Kombi Life GUEST EXPERT: Aaron (HippieVanMan) Available in video cast at: https://youtu.be/1XgN-LRoO8M Find out more about Aaron...

It would be the dream of many to live full time on the road, to regularly wake up to new and different sun.   In this episode of our Adventure Experts series, we invite you to join us as we sit down to discuss our experience of living on the road full time, so that we can share some of the lessons learnt from being digital nomads HOSTS: Ben & Leah from Kombi Life GUEST EXPERT: Chris, from Chris & G Travels Available in video cast at: https://youtu.be/b31M3F4FDl0 Follow Chris and...

Overlanding safety is one of the most important concerns for anyone embarking on their own travel adventures.  In this the first episode of our new Adventure Experts series, we invite you to join us as we sit down to discuss our experiences dealing with corruption and bribes from the police and border officials as we overland across the world. HOSTS: Ben & Leah from Kombi Life GUEST EXPERT: Aidan Klimenko. Available in video cast at: https://youtu.be/uAEHILvm8K0 Follow Aidan's...

Coming to you across the world, directly from the Arctic ocean! Can you imagine what it feels like to arrive at the top of the American Continent?  To complete a dream, half a decade in the making?   We had a long time to anticipate this part of our expedition, but never in our wildest dreams did we think that our PanAmerican adventure could climax in such an epic way. Truly we reached the top of the world, and in this podcast we are taking you there with us! This episode is brought to you...

We finally made it! After all we have been through these last few years, with countless breakdowns, fires and visa issues, we made it across the Alaskan Border to start the final leg of this 4 year epic journey.  In this episode we start off in the small town of Dawson where we talk about our encounter with a dead human toe. Yes, we drunk the infamous sourtoe cocktail and it is as disgusting as it sounds. We also diiscuss the struggles we faced to get our VW bus to the border and how we...

After 4 years of driving the PanAmerican Highway from Chile to Alaska, our Bus caught fire.  If that was the only drama that we've faced it wouldn't be so bad but as those of you who follow our Kombi Life YouTUBE travel series, this will be the 11th time the engine comes out of our dear Kombi. We've discussed our adventures previously as guests on other more established podcasts, but unfortunately we couldn't find anyone in the Yukon to chat with so we thought we'd just make our own.  In...