In her 20s, “I started connecting the dots between what you do for the planet and what you do for yourself,” Reed told E!. “It’s an evolution and a lifelong pursuit.”
And when the Twilight actress and her family hit the road, as they like to do in their tricked-out Fleetwood RV when wanderlust strikes, the destination hardly matters so long as it’s off the grid.
“If I could like tell you my dream,” Reed said, “it would be to achieve total food autonomy, to have zero connection to a supermarket, to city water, to anything like that—to be able to live without relying on any system. So, you know, 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 a decade: