Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road

Re:Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road by taude on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:41AM (#19094629)

Great advice. Especially for people who might not know the realities of living a nomad lifestyle who might just be enamored with the marketing of it.

I toured around for 6 weeks in a van, all down the West Coast, visiting national parks, hiking, sleeping on the beaches, and reading a lot. It was a great time, and required very little equipment, and monetary investment (my buddy had a van already.) And what we did was glorified camping, though the day-to-day I don't see how it'd be much different than a fully custom luxury van.

People should start with a long month-long road trip like this to really get a feel, to understand how you'll provision food, where you'll eat, etc.

I love me a good long road trip, but I'd never move into one as a substitute for a home.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road by timmaah on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:45AM (#19094985)

> I love me a good long road trip, but I'd never move into one as a substitute for a home.

My road trip has been going on 2429 days. Couldn't do it in a van, but a 25 foot Airstream is surprisingly comfortable.

http://live.watsonswander.com/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road by notJim on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:45PM (#19098255)

Kinda hilarious to watch the graphic on your website studiously circling around everywhere in the West, except Nevada. Did the same thing on my 1 year trip, though.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road by taude on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:43PM (#19101400)

There's actually some decent enough places to stop in Nevada, like the Ruby mountains (especially if you're traveling from Utah to Tahoe and need to go by them anyway).

[ Parent | on HN ]