One Van. One Family. One Standard.

We like to travel. Always have. Five kids, a lot of road, and at some point flying stopped making sense — too much logistics, too many connections, too much of everything except the actual trip.

So we found the van. Not any van — a Midwestern Automotive Design Daycruiser D6. MAD builds luxury Sprinter conversions for people who take what they drive seriously. Two captain chairs up front, four in the main cabin, two benches that fold flat for overnight runs. Private commode, microwave, refrigerator, 32-inch TV, WiFi. We bought it, and we've been putting miles on it ever since — summer runs to our lake house in New York, a white Christmas we drove up for last year, every trip the family has taken since.

Between our trips, it sits. And it's too good a machine to sit. So we made it available — to golf groups who want to do the trip right, to corporate clients who understand that arrival is part of the pitch, to families who refuse to compromise on how they travel. The standards are the same as when my own kids are in the seats: the van is clean, the tank is full, and everything works.

My background is construction and real estate. I hold a Certified General Contractor license in Florida and I've brokered luxury property across Palm Beach County — Jupiter Island, Hobe Sound, the barrier islands. In those fields, there's no hiding behind averages. The work is either right or it isn't. The van is run the same way.

When I say the van is maintained to a higher standard than most rentals, I mean it literally — because I put my own family in it. A $4 million custom home client expects the site to be immaculate. A Sterling Route renter should expect the same. One vehicle, one standard, no exceptions.