Van Down!

Surfing, Stranded, and Our Wild Ride to Panama

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Genres

Women's Adventure, Outdoor Adventure, Travel Memoir, Women's Nonfiction, Nonfiction Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Profanity

Type of Ending

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Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Jun 15, 2026

Page Length

236 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Van Down!

Surfing, Stranded, and Our Wild Ride to Panama

Published Copy

Blurb

Come for the chaos. Stay for the bliss. A surf trip to Panama goes beautifully wrong.

Adventure isn't always beautiful. Sometimes it's replacing a fuel pump on a Nicaraguan beach, sketchy roadblocks in cartel country, or learning to laugh when everything goes sideways.

Kate and Ben set off south to Central America in their beat-up Sprinter chasing surf and freedom. Because someday could turn into never.

Van Down! pulls you down the Pacific coast, intoxicated by waves and the unknown. The deeper you go, the more everything shifts: the culture, the risk, the illusion of control. Because the van has its own plans—disaster and bliss tangled together.

What people are saying...

"Kate reminds us with Van Down! that the best stories often come from the unexpected. She shares the tale of her dream adventure with both humor and heart!"

- Liz Clark, author of Swell

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