I make more than $300,000 a year working 3 jobs. I gave up my home in Austin to live in a van and travel the country – here’s what it’s like

• Jasmine Wilson, 28, is a UX designer from Battle Creek, Michigan, who lives in a renovated van.
• She hopes to hit every national park in the US before finally settling on the West Coast.
• Here’s her story and how she rebuilt her van all by herself, as told to Lauryn Haas.

I bought my van last summer, and I started living in it in December. When I was in college, I always wanted to do this, but I went straight into working, so I never got around to it.

Then quarantine happened, and I realized that I move a lot. I’ve lived in so many states in the past few years, and I don’t like being stuck in one place at one time.

I was in a 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom house that cost $1,500 a month plus utilities with just me and my dog in Austin, Texas.

I realized I would be in my room all day or I would go to my game room because I used to stream back then. I’m a very simple person, and I like to be in chill spaces.