My family of 4 moved into a camper van for a year. I ran my business on the road, while my husband homeschooled our twins.
A family of four shares their experience of living in a self-built camper van for a year while traveling across Europe and Africa. The author balanced running a marketing agency remotely while her husband managed homeschooling for their twins.
Why it matters
The story highlights the growing trend of 'van life' and the challenges of maintaining professional and educational responsibilities while living a nomadic lifestyle.
The author and her family lived in a camper van for a year. Courtesy of Rin Hamburgh My family spent a year traveling in our camper van across Europe and Africa. Homeschooling our primary-school-age twins evolved into a very relaxed type of world schooling. Now back home, we are closer as a family than we have ever been. In August 2024, my husband Illya and I, along with our then 8-year-old twin daughters, set off from Bristol, UK , heading to Dover and the cross-channel ferry. We weren't just going on holiday, though. We were about to start a yearlong adventure, traveling around Europe in our self-built camper van , Phileas. The plan was that I would continue to run my business — a marketing agency — while Illya, as a stay-at-home dad , would handle homeschooling and the practical side of van life. It seemed foolproof.
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