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Adventures with a ’79 VW

DIY: Reupholster your vehicles sunvisors

I am a huge fan of DIY (Do It Yourself) projects. From auto mechanics to costumes, I love working on and building things by myself (with the help of the internet for guidance). I want to start sharing my DIY projects a) To help others do similar projects and b) To show by example that […]

Hippie Van Man is a Proud Supporter of the Canadian Cancer Society

Canadian Cancer Society

I am extremely happy to announce that we have started a fundraising campaign for the Canadian Cancer Society. For those who haven’t had a look at the About Page, the journey from Canada to South America in the hippie van is in part, in memory of two special people whom I have lost in recent […]

Hippie Van Man Interview for Cheapflights.com: How to plan an epic road trip

don't forget to fill up

I was recently interviewed by cheapflights.com travel columnist Taryn Adler. She wanted the low-down on how to plan an epic road trip. Here is a re-post of the interview. The original can be found by clicking here. Warm weather means road trip season – woohoo! To help you plan, we caught up with the guy […]

Continuing the Developing Nations Project Aboard the Hippie Van

For those who have followed my travels prior to the Hippie Van Man project. You will know I started another travel project previously while on my 11-month India/South East Asia backpacking trip in 2011/2012. For those who don’t know about the project, here is a link to that blog, The Developing Nations Project. In short, […]

The Life of a Nomadic Freelance Photographer & Web Developer

Aaron Neilson Belman Freelance Photographer

As some of you will know, and as some of you may not, I am a freelance photographer & web developer by trade and I happen to pursue a fairly nomadic lifestyle by choice. I started taking photography in high school and majored in New Media Studies at the University of Toronto. The New Media […]

10 Life Lessons Travel Has Taught Me

Sleeping in the park in Pamplona, Spain during Running of the Bulls

I think Miriam Beard may have said it best, “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living”. After traveling to over 30 countries in the past five years, I have grown immensely as a person and learned many invaluable life […]

Soft Launch of HippieVanMan.com

I am truly excited to announce the soft launch of hippievanman.com!! After lots of hard work and persistence, I managed to get the site up and running, with a few blogs and some content to get things going. The van was purchased back in April of 2011. However I only got the idea in the […]

Reminders of Carpe Diem; Lessons from a fallen friend

Carpe Diem Java sunrise

For those of you who took the time to read through the About page, you will have read about one of the people I have dedicated this project in memory of, Jim Sissakis. Jim sadly passed away in mid-2012 after a year long battle with cancer. I posted this facebook note shortly after, and thought […]

Alex Currie a.k.a Runt’s Paint Job on The Van Finally Complete!

Alex Currie aka Runt paint job on the Hippie Van

Despite our best efforts and community involvement, we were unable to complete the paint job on the van in time for Burning Man 2011 as we had originally hoped to do. We had a couple set backs due to other maintenance and an unexpected rain which caused the not-dry paint to run. Nonetheless the van […]

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