A peek inside the Wanderlust Retro

Aren’t you curious?

When I was growing up on Kauai and we camped or lived in our van for extended periods (what you would call “homeless” nowadays) I liked our lifestyle; the only time I disliked it as a kid, was when it was raining.

And on the North Shore of Kaua’i, it rained a lot. A van (or a tent for that matter) gets awfully small when it’s raining.

Sitting on the bed in our live-in van, sucking my thumb with favorite blanket

But something about those early years stuck with me more than it has with my three sisters, probably because I’m the oldest. I remember those peripatetic days with our parents well.

But my current love of camping and living on the road also has to do with the man I married.

Mike’s a surfer who shared a lot of the same values and early experiences as I did. He moved to Hawaii at 19 to surf, and lived as rough and outdoors as our family did in his pursuit of waves; and he LOVES camping just as much as I do.

This wandering life we currently lead might have been very different had I ch…