Maybe #vanlife isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, one woman found
Traveling the country, driving past cornfields and mom-and-pop shops until you reach the Grand Canyon. Pulling up the trunk, kicking off your shoes and cracking open a cold one, while dangling your feet into the dusty summer air. Sleeping under twinkling lights. Seems like a picture-perfect life, maybe even one built for Instagram, right?
There are more than 5.4 million posts on Instagram to date, organized under the hashtag #vanlife. The New Yorker covered the trend in 2017, calling it “The Bohemian Social-Media Movement.” There are 35,000 members of a Facebook group called #VanLife, another 29,000 in one called Van Life: Dwellers, Nomads & Vagabonds, and thousands more in other groups going by similar names.
The #vanlife movement has a lot of overlap with the “FIRE” movement, which stands for “financial independence, retire early.” At the core of both: a belief that material things don’t make you happy. Ditching your earthly belongings and consolidating, maybe down to living in a van full-time, is where real meaning is, and work doesn’t have to mean sitting at a desk 24/7.Of course, in both movements, things can go wrong.
They took out the back seats and made it into a platform bed themselves, with storage space underneath. They even installed a “luxury” mobile toilet.
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