Hi, I’m Gary Varner: a writer, traveler, and curious observer of life. Welcome to this site where I share my writing about my nomadic vanlife, van mods, product reviews, and other relate good stuff. Please check out my new book Modern Nomad: The Alternative Vanlife, available on Amazon.
My recent background includes retirement from corporate life (communications specialist) at the end of 2018, then spending a year downsized and living in a rolling, 21′ camper van wandering America and enjoying its natural wonders. After 2019, I sold the van and settled in Ann Arbor, MI, as my home base with lots of plans for more travel across America, Canada, and Scotland/UK. But thanks to Mr. COVID-19, our mutual unwanted societal guest, those plans have to wait.
Since then I experimented with converting a Subaru Outback to a car camper, then eventually back into a van with a 2021 Winnebago Solis pocket called VanGeist, which is my current nomadic road house.
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