But two actors don’t just walk away from their beachside home in Malibu if they are not on the identical recycled-paper page about what they actually need out of life.
“To be fully transparent about it, I actually didn’t wish to be in the general public eye anymore,” Nikki, who founded her sustainable jewelry line BaYou With Love in 2017, told Santa Barbara Magazine last 12 months. So she was onboard with retreating up the coast a bit, noting, “California has the flexibility to supply seclusion, but you can even be in driving distance to those major cities on the drop of a hat.”
And when she and her family hit the road, as they wish to do of their tricked-out Fleetwood RV when wanderlust strikes, the destination hardly matters as long as it’s off the grid.
“If I could like let you know my dream,” Reed said, “it might be to attain total food autonomy, to have zero connection to a supermarket, to city water, to anything like that—to give you the chance to live without counting on any system. So, you recognize, we’re not too far off from that.”
Keep reading for scenes from the road Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder have been traveling together for nearly a decade: