Let’s go First Gear
Blog about lifestyle, freedom, slow-living, travel & intentional living
We are Jonathan & Eline, married in 2020 and living in a van since 2022. For us vanlife is our way to go, and we want to help & inspire you to find YOUR way to go.

Intentional living
Putting your life in First Gear is all about taking a moment to consider:
Am I going somewhere?
Life on a daily basis
More often than not we are just living life from a day to day basis. Going to work, trying to take care of a house and family, going to sleep and doing it all over again.
Living life is for the weekends, but only if there’s time enough.
Questions of life
Thinking about life is even lower on the priority-list. We want to inspire you to take a moment to think about where you’re all doing it for.
Is there still a goal in mind? Why else would you do it? Does your life spark you joy?
Slow-living in First Gear
First Gear is slowing down, taking a moment, and considering if you’re actually going somewhere, where you want to go in life and contemplating how fast you want to live it. Living life intentionally. Let’s go First Gear!
What’s the road you’re taking?
Deep questions about life are necessary to ask yourself once in a while. The fun thing is: you probably won’t get the deep, true, ultimate answers. This blog also doesn’t promise you any of that. We do promise you that you are not alone in this. We want to inspire you (and ourselves!) to grab the roadmap once in a while to check if we’re still going somewhere.
Life questions
- Are you going somewhere?
- Where do you want to go?
- How do you want to get there?


Let’s go on an adventure!
- Inspirational, honest articles about life
- Taking life with a pinch of salt
- Inspiring you to follow your own way
“Life’s for the living, so live it.
Or you’re better off dead”
~ Passenger
Life’s for the Living
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