It is a well known hashtag "Home is were you park it", but little detail, in the Netherlands you can't always park your van were you like it.
From community to community and city to city the rules are different.
Of course you can hide and hope for the best. But that doesn't feel very relaxed.
We mostly look at http://www.campercontact.com and have a card for natural campsites. Ask around can also be helpful. Or sometimes employers or friends offer us a space.
I hope that we will become better and better location finders away from the "normal" places. What we see as a super van place is may be different.
We use the van all year and most of the time we are working in the area.
Only being on holiday is not so much our thing.
We can be in a museum or gallery, theatre, school or a https://www.workaway.info/workaway-account-en.html place.
To me it is no only the scenic mountain, ocean, forest view place or sitting around the campfire thing or the very well designed camper places, I love verity.
Our van is not only a home it is also an office and my atelier evry now and then.
On stage or truck area from a theatre, in an old factory, a hidden garden or abandoned castle, a museum area I can imagine a lot of places that are fun to stay.
I hope to find gems and surprise ourselves from now on.
That was quiet new. The sun came out and so did other good weather travelers.
Since we bought our van in september and used it all year, seeing so much others on the road and on the camp /camper-site is new to us.
But it helped a lot about asking us questions about our van. Questions we did not have before.
We noticed much people are staring at our VW and yes mostly we are the smallest van, we don't have a tv, we use laptops and phones more because we are not on vacation and we probably won't stay very long.
But that was not it, it had to do with our van and we started too look on the internet after questions. Like most people can't believe it is 22 years old. This is what we found:
The Volkswagen Westfalia T4 Transporter California Club Camper Model History
Circa 1992 the VW Westfalia T4 Transporter California Club model was introduced. The Westfalia California Club was based on the long wheel base “short nose” VW T4 Transporter (3.32m) and had a new interior layout when compared with the standard California model. The Westfalia California Club was available in a hightop roof version only.
(They only produced this type till 1994 we think)
For our travel and work situation the van is perfect and even while -8 in winter we survived with a little electric stove and some good thermo wear. To be honest I think it is quiet hot now the sun is shining.
