#vanlife
FROM LONG COMMUTES AND THE HUBBUB OF LONDON, TO WAKING UP ON AUSTRALIA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACHES. MEET KATE GALEA AND JOT CASTLE, AKA THE ROAD HOUSE COASTERS AS TOLD TO DANIELLE MUSTARDE
The “vanlife” hashtag has been used on over three million posts on Instagram. All over the world there are couples, solo travellers and friends living out of their cars, vans, buses and tents. My partner Jot and I are two of those muchfabled nomads.
We’ve called a Toyota Coaster minibus “home” for just over 18 months now. That means we’ve lived in this sevenby- two metre “box on wheels” longer than any other place in the 12 years that we’ve been together – and we’re having a blast.
PHOTOS KATE GALEA
LONDON
Way before Tinder, Jot and I met in the only gay bar in our university town of Reading. A couple of graduations later and we moved to Brixton, London. There we tried our hand at the age-old art of adulting. Back then, Jot was a primary teacher at a tough, inner city school, while I worked at a publishing company in Camden. We lived for the weekends when we’d drink cider on Clapham Common, plan who was hosting the next house party, and work out if we had enough money to get us to pay day. We couldn’t have been happier.