For reasons I’ll never know, my mother named me Misty Dawn. For reasons I do know, I’m in the early planning process of designing a stealth camper van. So this blog is a place for me to compile my research, general plotting and various shinanagins in a public place because I have a lot of family and many friends who have threatened me with harm, ok. Not really. I can drop the dramatics. But many individuals keep telling me they want me to post so that they can live vicariously through me. I’m cool with that. So I’m trying out this blog thing for my Octopus Van. After two and a half years of pretty much being a homeless sailor, I’m super excited by the prospect of building my own place that will be able to move with me.

So I am a human that got fed up with the “normal” status quo life. I lived a fairly boring childhood. I got the college/university degree, got a job that actually was using said degree. Kept moving up. Made it to corporate. Had a whole lot of tenure. Wanted to kill myself. Yeah. I hit a dark wall. Which I think is more normal than society wants us to believe here in America. But I’m lucky. I was able to break myself out of it. I took it upon myself to reconnect with friends I hadn’t heard much/anything of in the past decade. One of those friends had a new hubby she’d been crushing on for awhile. He asked me a lot of questions because I droned on about how miserable I was but had no idea what to do because I’d been doing the “normal” think for 14 years. He suggested that I go be a sailor. I asked if that was actually a thing outside of the military. Turns out it is.

So “who is this?” A crazy sailor who loves octopi and is thinking she needs a mobile land home that can go from port to port with her. Starting an actual blog for those in her life, both old and new, that are interested in the concept of building their own van home.

My gosh. I’m joining the #vanlife trend. Wild. I’ve never been trendy in my life. Well first time for everything and whatnot. Cheers!