If you have not heard of the latest hashtag in trend (#vanlife), please do search it now. You will be treated to beautiful Instagram pictures of old and new vans parked in beautiful locales, captioned with some quote about how to get out of our houses and start living in a van. Across the world, hundreds of youngsters, couples and loners, millionaires and homeless, are travelling in vans living a seemingly pleasant dream with its own set of nightmares. Today’s Needull, a recent article on The New Yorker, will give you a glimpse of the #vanlife of a couple named Emily King and Corey Smith.
Scroll through the images tagged #vanlife on Instagram and you’ll see plenty of photos that don’t have much to do with vehicles: starry skies, campfires, women in leggings doing yoga by the ocean. Like the best marketing terms, “vanlife” is both highly specific and expansive. It’s a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected outdoorsiness, and a life free from the tyranny of a nine-to-five office job.
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I don’t see these two ideas as being diametrically opposed. For me at least, the 9-to-5 job imposes no tyrrany, as it is the wages from said job that permits me to engage in the great American road trips that we enjoy annually. Symbiosis!
Thanks for the article and the extra info! this is lifestyle that’s on the bucket list
All the best to you. This lifestyle does look very fascinating.
Hey Needfull — thanks for following teresabruce.me and the retrospective road trip I’m blogging about to help promote THE DRIVE: SEARCHING FOR LOST MEMORIES ON THE PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY. This particular piece you shared really spoke to me and I reposted it today on teresabruce.me, my WordPress blog. Cheers!