<a href="http://reddit.com/r/vandwellers" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/vandwellers</a> if you're interested<p>alex honnold is a climber whose van looks nicer than my apartment: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+honnold+van&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=8i35VIbOGtfloASRl4DQBg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1029&bih=758" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+honnold+van&safe=off&cl...</a> (granted my place is a shithole)
I think this is really amazing and counter to what we expect from a millionaire baseball player. It shows that he is the captain of his own life and no signing bonus is going to change that.<p>The benefits of this are huge! Cost of living is zero and he is not trying to keep up the star image and the costs associated with that. He is putting that $2M and his paychecks away and watching it grow and inevitably when he retires in the next 10 years from baseball he will have a nest egg that will sustain his lifestyle forever.
Love this guy.<p>I spent nine months living in a van while traveling all over Japan. Flirted with excessive consumption for a few years in Tokyo but ended up coming back to frugality (although I live in an apartment now heh).<p>The good parts of living alone in a van are too many to list. The worst parts are 1) dating, and 2) all the fantastic views and vistas you don't get to share with someone.<p>> He named it Shaggy after a character in "Scooby Doo." He sings it songs and writes it poems and gives it Valentine's Day cards. He takes it for hiking expeditions in the mountains of Tennessee and surfing trips along the Carolina coast.<p>I so get this!!
Thank goodness baseball is back ...<p>I love this story because I love baseball and I'm saving up to buy a (1980s) Westy to travel with.<p>If you'd like another out-of-the-ordinary spring training baseball story, the Oakland A's have a pitcher who throws with <i>both hands</i>:<p><a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/pat-venditte-oakland-athletics-switch-pitcher-spring-training-mlb" rel="nofollow">http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/pat-venditte-oakland-athleti...</a>
I want to cross the contry in a van!--my deceased father<p>I always wanted to do something like this--myself!<p>(My father did buy a VW van, but got sick. Like myself--he put off really living until it was too late. I'm glad I saw
this story. It's a reminder I need to stop making excuses.
Some of my excuses are legit--like harassment from cops for
just looking like you live in a van.)