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Tradition
The timeless wisdom of countless generations of woodworkers informs everything we do. Things built the old fashioned way last the test of time, and carry a unique energy.
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Innovation
Cutting edge technology unlike any other van on the market. We use the best of the best components and systems to create un-paralleled off grid luxury.
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Freedom
The ability to choose what you want to do, where you want to do it, and who you want to do it with.
To us, building vans is about cutting ties with the anchors that hold us down, and setting sail into the opportunity of the now.
Shane Wright (Founder)
My passion for building tiny spaces started with the desire to skip out on rent while going back to school to study sustainable energy and environmental policy at Uc Berkeley. Always someone to question the decisions our culture takes for granted, when my girlfriend suggested that we live in a van to avoid taking out student loans I immediately was all in.
Not only was living in a van a perfect way to avoid debt, it turned out that everything I was learning in my classes was being put to a perfect test building the off-grid systems necessary for two people to live comfortably in a van. Solar energy, efficient water use, composting toilet systems, I was building and experiencing everything we talked about in school directly in the van we called home. It also wasn’t bad that our home doubled as our adventure mobile to feed our snowboard and surf addictions.
Wanting to share this gift I found with others, I put my experience to work by starting a school sponsored, non-profit that built a bus into a tiny home for a homeless family.
After school, I worked in the renewable energy industry. As an early employee of a startup that matched energy consumption to renewable energy production, I got to learn the intricacies of the energy space, and further refine my knowledge of how to build sustainable systems. Eventually, when COVID hit, my job went remote, and I did what I knew best, build a van and hit the road. Traveling the country and working remote from the van for the brunt of the pandemic turned out to be some of the best memories of our lives.
It was so good, I wanted to help others have the same thing.
So I partnered up with some master woodworkers with the vision of creating vans that marry timeless craftsmanship with cutting edge off grid innovation, and landship customs was born.