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Scoucers in a van.

Cullpepper

There has just been a story on the local Bbc news about a couple who have sold everything they had, and converted  an old van They're living a life of adventure, driving wherever the road takes them. The girl said she was managing to work from home (The Van)

I've seen lots of videos on YouTube of people doing that, but they all seem to be in America, I think these are the firsr English ones i've seen.

Check out their webpage....... scoucers in a van. Do you think you'd have the bottle to sell up, then go and live on the road, Maybe with all this talk about the cost of living, and people not being able to afford rents & mortgages, maybe the alternative lifestyle is the way to go. I think it may be a good thing for the young ones, but couldn't imagine me doing it now.

  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly

    Me too! In fact only know it’s not as you’ve said. I must have thought there was crockery involved 

  • I used to go away quite a lot in ‘ Betsy the Bedford, she is a year older than me. She was born in 1966. I’ve been down to Lands End and up as far as Cumbria. The kids have grown up now,  so she doesn’t get any use. Hopefully next summer the wife and I can start cruising again. She makes people smile. As you can see, we don’t camp very close to other people. When I restored her my father had a small coach business, the coach trimmers did all the seats cheaply for me, the moquette is all done in British Midland Buses colours, bulletproof with small children!

  • I really admire people who do this. There is so much world out there that I'd love to explore. To be able to have the freedom of the open road and get off the beaten track sounds amazing.

    However I suspect the reality might be very different to the dream. I can't ever see myself having the confidence to do that on my own. I get anxious just driving a small car in the UK!  As soon as something were to inevitably go wrong I'd be in pieces.

  • My 2 vegans friends, a couple, couldn't continue to pay mortgage during covid, she was disabled, and he couldn't get any builders jobs anymore, so they sold their house, converted a minivan into camper van, bed sneakily hidden under roof of it, and they are touring UK along the coast, they started second round around already, and they're happy and having fun. They're in their forties

  • I really envy people who do that. Not sure I could do it myself though, i need 4 walls around me and a safe, secure home. 

    Often thought about getting a narrowboat and living on the river though 

  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly

    Just to add, when I initially saw the title of the post, I read it as 'saucers in a van'. Wink

  • Thank God I left the Rat Race, while I could. 

    I'm grateful for my home village, and local region. Cities have become Prisons. 

  • Some very cosy looking vans and occupants on YouTube. Sadly though, one of those ventures ended in Murder not too long ago. Look up the Gaby Petito case if interested, but it’s very sad. She was being coercively controlled during the whole adventure - her other half kept locking her outside of the van, which she owned. Then killed her in a National park before going on the run and ending his own life rather than face the music. 

  • I have a lot of admiration for people who do this, but even if it was an option for me, I wouldn't want to take it. Aside from the fact I can't drive, I think living in the likes of a camper-van would cause me to feel claustrophobic. Also, where would I hang all my diamond paintings? Scream

  • in reply to Deleted User

    I  learnt to sail about 25yrs ago. After a worh accident i was having physio on my hand. Went the hospital one week and the physio said to me, i've got something  for you, and she gave me a leaflet on windsurfing lessons. I said, you're joking, but she insisted pulling on a rope would be good exercise for my hand. So off i went to the docks in Liverpool. I spent more time swimming after falling in, but they also did dinghy lessons, so i switched, you never fell in as often. Anyway after some lessons, i found a local club. Sailed Enterprises with someone else from the club, then switched to solo, first a Topper which i'd learnt in on the docks, then bought myself a Laser. I use to read all the magazines in the clubhouse about people who had built their own boat, and set off around the world. Now wouldn't that be exciting.

  • I've been tempted to do this. I have a boat so not a van but it'd be interesting to see where the road (ocean) would take me ... I often think of doing this but so far never had the bottle, maybe when I'm older. In the meantime I'll continue reading and watching other's journeys and see how it worked out for them. But one day I know it'll be me. This world is big so big but our lives are tiny and we don't have time for everything it has to offer, that's why I want to do this get out there and see what's on offer. Exploring is my dream. Escaping the hustle of every day life is another dream.