Dan and Brenda Cordray stand with their "fur babies" in front of their full-time home on wheels. After meeting at a vanlife gathering in Arizona, they've been on the road together for about three years.

T o most people, traveling the highways and back roads of the U.S. and staying here or there for a while is a method of temporarily “getting away from it all.”

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