Imagine being able to travel all over North America in your very home?
These vans that you can buy pre made have toilets, dining tables, beds, sinks. You can shower at truck stops or get a cheap planet fitness membership for that. I could do door dash part time and live out of my van. I really want to live in LA one day but apparently van life is hard there with the laws and cops, same with Florida I hear. Arizona during the winter has good weather, and during the summer I could go to Michigan or something. This is all possible (I hate to share this because I don’t want to stir up jealousy, but its essential to describing my desires) because I’m inheriting some money from my uncle in 2031. I can’t wait to live out of a nice fitted van.
I have been doing some research into this and van life is hard in most of the places where people would like to live from a van at. Enough people are doing this now that places that turned a blind eye to this before are cracking down now.
I am a remote worker and considering doing something similar.
Darn that sucks man. Well, hopefully there will some chill governor somewhere who will say “Come to our state you’re welcome” keeping my fingers crossed.
What I think will start happening is they will build communities where you can park your van that are affordable and safer, but that allow the state/province to collect taxes as they would from homeowners.
i have lived that way a lot before but never in anything so nice. my best was an old cargo van that i put a rug and a cot in. it was pretty good. wish i still had it. i have slept in walmart parking lots, campgrounds, rest stops, travel centers. you could also travel from national park campground to national park campground. i think they are managed by BLM (buero of land management). they have a lot. i think theyre free and have like 2 week stay limits before u have to go to another one but u can always go back to the same ones after a while. u can get a gym membership to a YMCA or a national fitness chain for showers. i wanna do it again someday.
Yep, saw that. Hoping it grows. We have a bunch of campgrounds across Western Canada as insurance customers and they are usually cool about me car camping for a couple of nights for free. They see my photography and are happy to enable me. I’m looking for an older van I can mod for this.
Van life is great. However, you have to set some rules for yourself. To budget your money to get to the places that you need to go. For example. Chips and sandwiches until you get to your location. Then you can have a meal at a restaurant. Bathroom stops. Are the hardest thing to come up with. Carry a Porter pot. Finding safe places to sleep at night. Such as hospitals. Police departments. Truck stops. RV parks. Parks and lake tours are great. But very expensive in gas. When possible, stay with relatives. That live in other states. Constantly check your weather and places that you’re heading to. Have a safe journey. I’m blessed the free highway.
Chips are a trigger for my diverticular disease and are verbotten from my diet. When I go car camping I take fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, and dehydrated soups with me. I never eat in restaurants because that takes me away from my photography locations and costs too much. I have portable burners that do what I need so I can cook where I am.
