When is a vanlife blog not a vanlife blog?
I suspect I’m finally getting an inkling of what it is I want to write about. Up to this point it’s been a pretty poorly defined urge to write something, somehow. Not really a travel blog - I don’t have the discipline or the desire to write consistently every few days about where I’ve been and what I’ve done. Aside from anything else a lot of the time it’s really not that interesting. Living in a van with a cat is often just normal life really. You work, sleep, eat, the same as everyone else. Just in a smaller space. I’ve read enough vanlife blogs and seen enough vanlife youTube channels to know there’s more than enough of that sort of content out there already anyway. The world doesn’t need another description of emptying a compost toilet or dealing with minor mechanical issues like they’re the end of the world, and it definitely doesn’t need any more clickbaity thumbnails with ‘Is this the end of vanlife’ scrawled over a distraught face.
So I think what this will end up being is a ‘moments’ blog, and a ‘What’s currently fascinating me’ blog - which may explain the politics and economics section. The moments are the bits of the journey that are still in my mind weeks or even months later, floating around and linking up with other thoughts to eventually form either a coherent, interesting, possibly insightful post, or a rambling mess of word soup. I’m fine with either.
