Posted on Aug 14, 2019
VAN TOUR | SOLO TRAVEL | SOLAR A/C SHOWER BATHROOM | TIMCAST
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This fellow (Tim Pool) is a bit wild at times.
But he brings up a question.
Tracey Kaplan:
My van cost $53,894, including tax and license fees and a seven-year optional service contract that I decided to buy after reading about the struggles of vanners dealing with constant breakdowns. That was a big stretch for someone who drives a 14-year-old used car. But even with the additional $22,000 I’ll spend turning it into a home, plus the $15,000 on labor, the total price is a fraction of a traditional house. Many vanners spend much less, and some spend a lot more.
Source:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/19/van-life-my-80-square-foot-solution-bay-area-housing-crisis/
But he brings up a question.
Tracey Kaplan:
My van cost $53,894, including tax and license fees and a seven-year optional service contract that I decided to buy after reading about the struggles of vanners dealing with constant breakdowns. That was a big stretch for someone who drives a 14-year-old used car. But even with the additional $22,000 I’ll spend turning it into a home, plus the $15,000 on labor, the total price is a fraction of a traditional house. Many vanners spend much less, and some spend a lot more.
Source:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/19/van-life-my-80-square-foot-solution-bay-area-housing-crisis/
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I wouldn't want to live in a van or even an RV for that matter. Vehicles are not good investments, they depreciate pretty quickly and if you live in it, it gets run down too. You also have no real estate with a van/RV so you will need a spot to park and live. Not sure how that works.
I think there is a socio-economic piece to this as well as a lifestyle (minimalist) element. In some places, housing is becoming unaffordable and people are adapting to this reality. If people want to live like this and they can make that work for them, more power to them.
I think there is a socio-economic piece to this as well as a lifestyle (minimalist) element. In some places, housing is becoming unaffordable and people are adapting to this reality. If people want to live like this and they can make that work for them, more power to them.
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PO3 (Join to see)
Cpl Jeff N. - As History repeats it's self to those that refuse to learn from history. Question for you? Are they going to become a lighter form of the old Gypsy?
In 1332, a Franciscan monk from Ireland visited the island of Crete. While there, he wrote this description of what he called “the descendants of Cain,” whom he met outside the town of Heraklion:
“They rarely, or ever remain in one place more than thirty days; but ever, as though bearing God’s curse with them, after the thirtieth day, go like vagabonds and fugitives from one locality to another, in the manner of the Arabs, with small, oblong, black, low tents, and run from cavern to cavern, because the place where they establish themselves becomes in that space of time so full of vermin and filth that it is no longer habitable.”
Source:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/gypsies-history
In 1332, a Franciscan monk from Ireland visited the island of Crete. While there, he wrote this description of what he called “the descendants of Cain,” whom he met outside the town of Heraklion:
“They rarely, or ever remain in one place more than thirty days; but ever, as though bearing God’s curse with them, after the thirtieth day, go like vagabonds and fugitives from one locality to another, in the manner of the Arabs, with small, oblong, black, low tents, and run from cavern to cavern, because the place where they establish themselves becomes in that space of time so full of vermin and filth that it is no longer habitable.”
Source:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/gypsies-history
A People Without a Country: The Gypsies
Persecuted around the world and still subject to discrimination in modern day Europe, we look into the history of the Gypsy people.
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SGT John Greene
I've actually done the van life for years when doing out of town jobs. I keep gym membership to have showers. 24hour stores are good locations to sleep in. That way you are sry and washed. Not my perfered way of living but I get to pocket the per diem from company.
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Thank you my friend PO3 (Join to see) for posting solar travel - by the way I am catching up to earlier messages.
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I've lived in my van since 2015. Despite what people think I have a sustainable job and I own a house. I rent it out for mortgage expenses. Van life itself is a freeing experience. When I am finally done I have the house to fall back on.
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