This whole place was way up on a mountainside and the valley we were overlooking below was the size of New Hampshire. You could see the Great Sand Dunes National Park from there, and it looked tiny. I remember thinking, That’s it?

A two-week trip was the perfect opportunity to ask, “If we were living in this van full time, what would we want to be different?” Unsurprisingly, we came up with a pretty daunting list of projects.