introducing adventure vanlife
"Home is where you park it"
We have had our eye on this for a while but ‘van life’ has become hugely popular. In simple terms it is people enjoying adventure and outdoors while living in a van. Any sort of a van, a kombi, a panel van, a motorhome or and RV. It’s about being moveable and self-sustainable, basically ‘home is where you park it’.
There is an interesting feature from ‘Stuff’ – I have pulled out some of the key facts – if you do not have time to read the whole feature – www.stuff.co.nz/travel/114056313/how-instagrammade-van-life-a-phenomenon
Here are some of the key points:
• Consumer report reveals grey nomads - the term for road-tripping retirees popularised by the 1997 documentary Grey Nomads - are the minority. Instead, a survey of more than 2500 people suggests the average age of an RV owner in Australia is 33, and almost half have children at home.
• There are 679,378 recreational vehicles registered in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Motor Vehicle Census, roughly one for every 13 households. Ownership of RVs - including towable caravans and camper trailers, motorhomes and campervans, 'pop tops' where a tent pops out of the roof of a van, Kombis and converted panel vans - has grown 5.2 per cent a year for the past five years, faster than any other vehicle type in Australia.
• Like the hippies and surfies travelling around in Kombi vans in the 1960s and ' 70s, there's a counter-cultural element to the #vanlife phenomenon - this time with an economic edge.
"There's a real trend in social media and generally in society to have this kind of escape and a lot of it is to do with people wanting to disconnect from the city ... and slow down a bit,"
Now sure these stats are from Australia but you can guarantee the same results here in New Zealand and weather you hire a motorhome, buy an RV fit our your own panel van you will be part of the wave of grow adventures who are taking their adventure on the road and their ‘home is where they park it’.
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