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Alex Honnold Spent a Decade Living in a Van<\/h2>\n
A true outdoorsman, Alex Honnold spent a decade living in a van and, as he put it, going \u201cbasically wherever the weather is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s not like I love living in a car, but I love living in all these places,\u201d he explained to GQ<\/em><\/a> in a video published in 2020. \u201cI love being able to follow good conditions all over. And be relatively comfortable as I do it. And so that pretty much necessitates living in a car \u2026 If I could, like, miraculously teleport a house from place to place, I\u2019d prefer to live in a nice comfortable house.\u201d<\/p>\nThe van, however, has one thing going for it \u2014 literally everything is within arm\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you get put up in a really classy hotel room, and it\u2019s really big, and you have to walk quite a ways to the bathroom, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Man, I wish I had my [pee] bottle,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWho wants to walk all the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night when you could just lean over and grab your bottle and go?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s not like I love living in a car, but I love living in all these places,\u201d he explained to GQ<\/em><\/a> in a video published in 2020. \u201cI love being able to follow good conditions all over. And be relatively comfortable as I do it. And so that pretty much necessitates living in a car \u2026 If I could, like, miraculously teleport a house from place to place, I\u2019d prefer to live in a nice comfortable house.\u201d<\/p>\n The van, however, has one thing going for it \u2014 literally everything is within arm\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes you get put up in a really classy hotel room, and it\u2019s really big, and you have to walk quite a ways to the bathroom, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Man, I wish I had my [pee] bottle,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWho wants to walk all the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night when you could just lean over and grab your bottle and go?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n