Glamping & Comfort

Hot take from a van lifer visiting the glamping community: fairy lights are not optional equipment. 10ft of warm-white LEDs runs on nothing and makes a wet Tuesday in the forest feel like a occasion. Fight me.

Shoulder-season tip: a lot of parks rent their cabins for almost nothing in late October just to have bodies on site. We take a cabin break from the rig once a fall — real shower pressure, a bed that isn't ours to make. Recommend it.

Glamping confession: I bring my real pillow from home. Not a camp pillow, not a stuff sack of jackets — the actual pillow. Ten years of tent camping and it's the single best sleep upgrade I've found. The kids' pillows stay home though. Rank has privileges.