#VanLife: How a Sprinter van was turned into a mobile office

In 2022, you don’t need us to tell you that the styles in which we all work have fundamentally changed. And while it is by no means a modern concept to trade in a brick-and-mortar home for a van-based vagabond lifestyle, today’s flexible workforce has more opportunities to live on the road than ever. And that’s exactly where the #VanLife movement comes in.

But how do you set up a roving office to keep you comfortable, focused — and most importantly – connected during a 40-hour workweek? We got in touch with Austin Shoecraft and Melanie Hershman (known as The Nomadic Devs), a pair of road-based software developers who took the turmoil of 2020’s pandemic and turned it into a plan to hit the open road. They spent the better part of the last year purchasing, outfitting, and customizing a Mercedes Sprinter van to optimize it for a road-based office. After a few months of…