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Jackson gets us started

Our good friend Jackson, a.k.a. Bus, used to work at Ready Set Van and I reached out to him curious if he’d seen any good deals lately or if he knew anyone to get me into contact with about Van Life.

Dean: Hey bus anyone you can put me in contact with to get on the phone with and chat out buying a van a used or new one? Me and Kyle thinking about it and we’re pretty seriously considering diving in head first buying one and just seeing how it feels for 3 months and if we hate it, we’ll, sell the thing and call it a small but worth it loss. You used to work at that company building them, right?

Jackson: I just looked for 3 minutes on Facebook marketplace and literally found one my old shop built for 54,900

Here’s the Facebook Marketplace listing from Glassboro, NJ:

Avoided a potentially less fun decision

Kyle and i had been looking at cars for weeks and months, but this Thursday we came very close to buying either a Ford F350 or a Toyota Tacoma.

We’d negotiated prices down for both, but walked out on both last second when negotiations just weren’t going well. We were upset twice to be leaving without a car, but everything happens for a reason…