Van Life

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Imagine falling asleep to the melodic roar of the ocean inside your conversion van on your cozy bed. A week of beach play and the Forest calls your spirit for your next adventure. You drive an hour away and find your next home with a delicious creek surrounded by tall, fragrant pines.

Van life is a growing trend in the United States. Van life is so popular that a whole subculture has been built around it. You may think that you know what van life is. You may have even been part of a van life journey. If you want to learn everything you need to know about van life, this page is for you.

If you have never heard of van life, it is basically living out of a van. This lifestyle is taking off because of many reasons. These reasons can include: to save money, to travel, for environmental purposes, or for fun and adventure.

Van life has become vastly popular as it allows those who partake to feed our primitive need for shelter and exploration. To keep van camping enjoyable and permissible for future generations, let’s do our best to keep areas clean and dispose of waste responsibly. If we all do our part, there will be no reason for van life not to thrive for future generations to experience the magic of this lifestyle.

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Van Camping Tips

Not quite like an RV, but better than a tent: Why conversion van camping may be the way to go.

Conversion van camping doesn’t give you the luxury of life in an RV, nor the discomfort of sleeping in a tent. It can be tough to safely heat a van at night, but it’s cheap compared to an RV, and you can go places they cannot. We spent more than 25 nights sleeping in our conversion van last year… Read More

Responsible Van Freedom Camping

It is becoming evidently clear that tourism is everybody’s business, and now the New Zealand community is speaking against responsible freedom camping. This turn of events does not come lightly, considering the Island has been a travel destination for many worldwide.

New Zealand is one of the sought after travel destinations. The beautiful sceneries, the exotic food choices, and of cos, the option of freedom camping …Read More

Homeless and Happy

To start off, “homeless” is in quotation marks, because maybe “houseless” would be a more correct term. I do have a place to call home. My car! Around the end of July I packed up my little SUV, put some stuff into a storage unit and dropped the rest off at DI. Handing over my apartment keys and housing contract, I took off.

I’ve spent the last 4 months living in my car and have loved it…Read More