Five Reasons Minivan Camping Is REAL Camping! 

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Camping is whatever you want it to be. Those same people saying it’s not real camping are ok with someone having a $200,000 camper with 4 slide outs and a party patio.

I drive a 1999 Plymouth mini van that I have set up as a camper. I spend a lot of my time in the Ozarks, so I can just camp out at my favorite fishin' holes. If you ever see a maroon and rusted up mini van in Missouri, give me a wave!

The first and last time I went camping was 10 years ago. Someone ended up camping in THEIR minivan, and there was such a debate amidst the other camping members. I think people like to make suffering a competition when it's really just not a big deal. It's like eye contact. It doesn't hurt anyone to avoid eye contact, but some folks just get so butthurt about it because they have some preconceived expectations that they refuse to let go of. I'm glad you're able to enjoy nature through minivan camping :D On a separate note, WOW! I see what you were saying about how you rarely wash the minivan. Sometimes it looks spotless.... Other times, it has a story to tell! Just like your channel :D

We agree, two adults & a small dog. This is a well structured, point by point argument proving how we have safe, practical, economical & fun way to camp. Thanks

I have a 2009 Pontiac Montana, that I plan to turn into a campervan. It gets great gas mileage that you can't get in an RV. I'd rather sleep in it that have a bear walk into a tent. Have you checked out the stove top heaters that you can use on most camp stoves? There's also a tube you can connect to your passenger side air vent to blow hot or cold air into the back to make it a livable temperature when you park. Jon in rural BC, Canada

I've owned 2 pop up campers, and 2 travel trailers. Those worked great with kids. When I first started camping, it was in a tent, and then my first pop up, but it was all "dispersed" camping. Once the kids were in the picture, it was setting up at state parks, and RV parks. Now I'm back in a tent, and looking to get back into dispersed camping. I don't think it matters how, or where you go, it's the camping experience that matters. Great video, have a good one.

Great video! Very informative and reassuring as an alternate way of camping.

Thanks for the shoutout for submariners brother, but to be honest, of the four submarines I was on, none had as much rack space as your minivan! Great “work” and keep them coming!

It's safer than a tent too.

great ideas thank you

Best camping rig is whatever's in your driveway! Good video sir

I agree! Great way to express the pros and cons!

I love minivan camping! So much fun and easy to pick up and go!

Looks like fun to me! I camp in my Tahoe! I’d love a minivan to do your style of camping! Thanks!

Fixing a 2014 for camping. Looks like yours. Made decision to have tracks out tomorrow. PIA.

Love it 🚐🚴‍♂️😎

Of course it counts! What kind of AC unit are you using please? Tia! Love your ideas and info.

BEST VID EVER.

I prefer inside a vehicle.i feel safer and more comfortable

Ive been wanting to try this forever but I've had both vehicles I've ever owned towed by the police, and both times there was literally no reason. They seem to find a reason to take your car here in Texas.

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You mentioned a portable air conditioner. What are you using?

I camp in a Jeep and it gets me to some amazing places. But it SUCKS to sleep in. I have several tents, but unless I'm hiking in (which I never do anymore) I just sleep in the Jeep.

camping is whatever you want it to be. is it a tent and a shovel (for the bathroom)? for some. me i tried tent camping, cant say i enjoyed it. i started with a 30 year old 26 foot trailer. i really just like having an actual bathroom and a shower, other than that a chair and a camp fire is all thats needed. had to get a bigger trailer with having kids, but really unless its bad weather i'm not in it much anyway. i met a guy out camping once, had a new truck, new toy hauler trailer (45' foot) and a side by side thing. talked to him and he's over $250,000 in debt with all of it, for something he uses a few times a year. crazy! maybe people are thinking its not camping because of all the gadgets, a/c, fridge, power stations. things are just cheaper to make and everything is getting made portable and easier to bring along, i have all those things just in trailer form so who knows. the only limiting factor to minivan camping could be ground clearance, getting to some of those out of the way spots. however you can easily get into and out of places that i could never get a larger trailer into, pros and cons either way. in the end does your "camping" get you out of the house and do you enjoy it? thats what matters. been enjoying your videos for awhile now, keep up the good work!

Where did you get your bookcase?

What I TRULY HATE IS PEOPLE WHO PUT DOWN VANLIFE!!!!! OR VAN CAMPING!!!!!

Truth

F the haters. Why someone think that there should even be a definition of “camping”…😂

It's real camping! It's car camping, not backpacking. Who's sitting on their couch telling you it's NOT camping? Edit: Unless you're just staging the campsite?? Which does not seem to be the case.

It is vanlife!! The best life. Unless it is them doing the "camping" then it's NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS HOW YOU CAMP

When did people start defining "real camping?" Anyone who's not sleeping on the ground with moss as their bed and leaves as their blanket, digging holes with their hands to go to the bathroom in, catching meat with their hands and whatever they find in nature, skinning their catch with a rock, using rocks to create a fire, cooking their meat on sticks over the fire, using unfiltered water from a stream, and wearing hiking boots isn't "real camping". Tents, blow up mattresses, containers of water, pots and pans, cooking utensils, shovels, matches, etc. are all luxury items that detract from the "natural experience." I cannot imagine people deciding their level of comfort is real camping and anything over their level of comfort is not. That line of thinking is one of the most narcissistic, egotistical things I've run across in awhile.

I think RVing is not camping. It’s RVing. Like a motorcycle is called a bike when it’s not. A bike doesn’t have a motor.

legit? such a wierd word why the f care what anyone else thinks. life is short and do what you want to do.

If we were to sleep in our minivan, it would be to avoid high motel cost. Camping has nothing to do with it.

Is this a woke thing? HAHAHAHA, who cares what others think. they do not define me. Its all subjective and open for individual interpretation.... I think, (GRIN).