Aww thank you so much for reading it! I'm so looking forward to your van life posts! I've only lived out of a backpack for short amounts of time in my life, for a month at the most. It always feels so good to have less things to worry about, especially while travelling when you want to be focused on the experiences rather than what you're wearing. Before I went to India I even chopped my hair to shoulder length to make things more manageable but it already grew back to where it was in just a couple years. There's something really grounding about ridding ourselves of unnecessary objects, it's definitely a practice I want to continue throughout my life.