Van Life Guides, Budgets & Routes
Summer is peak van life season — long days, warm nights, beaches, festivals, and the freedom to chase good weather wherever it goes. But it comes with one real challenge that catches people out: heat.…
Winter is the season that separates casual van lifers from committed ones. Done wrong, a campervan in winter is a damp, freezing, miserable box you can't wait to escape. Done right, it's cosy, warm, and…
Route 66 is the original American road trip — 2,448 miles of neon signs, ghost towns, diners, deserts and Americana, running from Chicago to Santa Monica. Doing it by campervan is a special kind of…
The Pacific Coast Highway is the road trip that sells the dream of American van life. Cliffs dropping into the Pacific, redwood forests, surf towns, and a ribbon of tarmac hugging the coast for hundreds…
The North Coast 500 is the closest thing the UK has to a great American road trip — a 516-mile loop around the northern Highlands of Scotland that takes in some of the most dramatic…
Everyone pictures dogs when they think of van life pets, but cats can make surprisingly excellent road companions. They're self-sufficient, they don't need walking, they sleep most of the day, and they're perfectly happy in…
"But how do you shower?" is the single most common question anyone living in a van gets asked. It's also the thing that puts a lot of people off the lifestyle before they start —…
The hardest part of packing for van life isn't deciding what to bring — it's accepting what to leave behind. Space is brutally limited, and every single item has to earn its place. After living…
Van life in the UK is a very different animal to the American version you see all over Instagram. There's no endless BLM desert to disappear into, the weather will test your resolve, and overnight…
The USA might be the best country in the world for van life, and it comes down to one thing: space. Millions of acres of public land where you can camp for free, a highway…
