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WORDS & PHOTOS BY JENNA KNIGHT
My now husband, Travis, and I began our idea for a change
when we were vacationing in Tortola in the winter of 2015.
It was the most beautiful surf trip I had ever taken. After
our trip, I came back to Maryland for my next semester at
school, I didn’t feel like myself and I really hadn’t since I
began college. I initially went to college because everyone
else was going and because I didn’t know what else to
do. I was living for the expectations of society and what I
“should” be doing. I also didn’t know what career path I
wanted to follow. I needed a better sense of myself, and
who I was as a person.
In eyes of maany, it was a major disappointment when I
decided to withdraw from college. But I finally felt like I
could breathe and take a step back and get a better grasp on
my life. It took Travis and I 6 months to buckle down and
create a plan for change. This plan included a 1993 Chevy
van. We gutted that babe and made it a total adventure
mobile. It was such a rewarding obstacle to fix up an old
vehicle. Travis did so much work on the engine to make
her a trust worthy chariot to the west coast. Our van was
complete by the fall. We had incorporated a pump sink,
cabinets, a retracting bed frame, tv, mini fridge, and a solar
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