Tales From The Road

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 i

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 tru

By Sunny Lane | The Drift – Tales from the Road When solo female vanlife traveler Susan Lebold lost her husband to brain cancer in 2018, the life she knew fell away. In just a few short years, she had also said goodbye to her father and mother, and her son had grown and moved on into his own independent life. With the people she loved most now gone, Susan found herself standing at a crossroads—not just of grief, but of identity. "I didn't know how to live as a single, unattac

By Sunny Lane | The Drift – Tales from the Road For Debra Fleeger, healing doesn’t live in one place. It resonates. It travels. It echoes off canyon walls and settles into the quiet corners of lakeside towns. A sound and breath work facilitator based in Sedona, Arizona, Debra has spent years weaving sacred music into her work—and now, she’s taken that offering on the road. Born in Gary, Indiana, Debra has called Sedona home for over 20 years. But long before vanlife officiall

By Sunny Lane, for The Drift Not every journey starts with a dramatic leap. Some begin with a slow realization, a whispered idea that keeps circling back until it becomes something real. For Mallory and Matt , that moment happened in 2020. The world was shifting. Their jobs went fully remote. And instead of staying in place, they chose to go—all in. “We figured, if we could work from anywhere,” Mallory said, “why not actually go anywhere?” A Life Built on the Road What began