Places I've lived in for months, not days. The van's the core, with the trails on foot and the coast by sail where it fits. My own spots, and never an itinerary.
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SailBook, ebook and paperback
How to cross an ocean as crew without owning a boat. Still the book I hand to anyone who asks.
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VanMap guide on Rexby
Two winters in Morocco and Western Sahara by van, with Wingo, on one interactive map.
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TrailPDF guide and planner
Your first multi-day hike, from a long weekend to a few weeks. Out this autumn.
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Four more on the same idea: base camps, my own spots, no itineraries, by van, on foot and crewing boats. Tick the ones you'd use in the form below, and the one with the most ticks gets made first.
SailTrailAdventure guide on Rexby
Island-hopping as sailing crew, plus the anchorages, the towns and the hikes on each island.
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VanTrailMap guide on Rexby
Winters on the islands by van and on foot: wild camps, trails and the ferries between them.
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VanTrailMap guide on Rexby
Tarifa, the Strait, the white villages and the wild Atlantic coast I keep coming back to, by van and on foot.
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VanTrailMap guide on Rexby
Green Spain end to end: the Picos de Europa, Asturias, Cantabria and Galicia, where I lived for months.
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VanTrailMap guide on Rexby
The Fisherman's Trail coast and the places I keep going back to by van and on foot.
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How I make these
I've lived on the move for twenty years, six of them in the van, and I only write a guide about a place after I've lived there for months. Morocco was nine months over two winters, Galicia more than eight, and the Canary Islands a few winters in a row. So you get base camps: where to put yourself, what's within reach from there, and only places I've stayed myself. The van is the core layer because that's how I travel, with notes for doing the same on foot, by bus or by sail. There are no itineraries. You get the spots, my note on each one (the road in, where we parked, whether you can stay the night) and the know-how to find your own. Where a rule or a price matters it carries a source and the date I checked it, and where I haven't been, it isn't in the guide. A few of these spots were pinned first on the member map of Ocean Nomads, a community for people who want to live a little wilder, explore a little further, and do it with good people.
Between guides I write slow letters from the road, and the gear and tools behind all of this live on my travel resources page.
