"VanLife" is just "glorified homelessness"....who would have thought?!

[DwightFrye]

It didn't work out so well for Gabby Petito.

 

[Pew]

Then I started watching this one couple who set off in a vintage RV to see all fifty states in it.... Several months later they've only made it to about five or six states and they went through a whole series of breakdowns on the old RV and have moved on to two different, newer ones. Now the trip is on hold because they have left on a long-planned (and postponed due to Covid) trip to southeast Asia. I am trying to wrap my head around how much this all must cost.... It can't be cheap.

Not cheap at all. My most recent trip to CO last weekend was ~$400 for a ~2200mile round trip in gas alone. I can't imagine the cost of gas in an RV.

 

[andrew_j]

A coworker who works remotely just 35 hrs per week in 4 days does this. Winter is insane to ski all over . Summer goes to interesting places. Looks miserable but has it down pat.

He built out a sprinter or MB van.

 

[ripcord]

Extroverts need not apply

 

[ZeeOSix]

... back in the day she would’ve been munched on by a pack of wolfs or a bear.

Nothing from preventing that from happening now if she's out and about where they live. Plus, there are human predators roaming around more than ever it seems.

 

[Finklejag]

Every time one of those vanlife videos pop up in my feed, it’s some half naked women in the thumbnail.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Every time one of those vanlife videos pop up in my feed, it’s some half naked women in the thumbnail.

The standard click-bait YouTube thumbnail.

 

[Owen Lucas]

I'd be fine with van life had it not required rigging some type of DIY toilet / shower setup in an old worn out stealth mode Fed-Ex truck that will explode all over the road in Albuquerque. Creature comforts are difficult to maintain in an RV let alone in a van where it is literally a PITA.

Can you make a rig where you park over a sewer drain, flush and run? Sure, but that's not very ethical.

The nomadic lifestyle may be fun for a few months or a year, what ever your tolerance maybe. Don't necessarily need to live in it all the time, the van would be just an alternative to a hotel and get you from A to B where you will be hiking and enjoying the outdoors most of the time.

You just better get used to using rest stops and have a gym membership to a large chain for showers.

 

[wander2039]

Somehow I started watching videos about people camping in their vehicles at Walmart, so now Youtube is recommending a lot of those videos to me. Some of the tips the people make are clever, like the guy who disguised his plain white van with ladder racks on the roof, and now no one bothers him at Walmart even when they are closed because it just looks like he's a contractor there doing some maintenance on the store. Then there was the guy living in the back of his Ford pickup, and he just parks in the back lot at the local Ford dealer and stays there overnight if he can't find a better, more "traditional" spot to stay.

Then I started watching this one couple who set off in a vintage RV to see all fifty states in it.... Several months later they've only made it to about five or six states and they went through a whole series of breakdowns on the old RV and have moved on to two different, newer ones. Now the trip is on hold because they have left on a long-planned (and postponed due to Covid) trip to southeast Asia. I am trying to wrap my head around how much this all must cost.... It can't be cheap.

I've watched the same couple.. Goes to show you if you have a old rig you have to know how to work on it yourself. I stop watching channels after a while, some seem to make it a norm. Don't think it's faked but they seem to be unluckiest travelers.

 

[wander2039]

Every time one of those vanlife videos pop up in my feed, it’s some half naked women in the thumbnail.

Yup click bait.. as I tell my wife those good girls but living in vans the crazy hot matrix must not be far off.