Co-founders Jeremy Greenfield and Kayvon Olomi started pitching their idea out of a 1973 VW Camper on a trip from Tulsa to the NY Tri-state area, and then to Denver.
This option lets you use the ship's showers, bathrooms, and electricity for free – it just means that you're staying in your camper during the trip, rather than taking a seat on the ship upstairs.
The next year at camp they became an item again, this time for the entire summer, and again the following year during a trip campers took to Israel.
"It's just a different trip," a camper's father said.
The van, from Camp Serene Springs in Bethel, N.Y., towing a trailer with canoes, was carrying 11 campers and two counselors for a trip to Maine so campers could canoe the Penobscot River and hike Mount Katahdin.
The group's favorite presentation was by Customs officials, who demonstrated their canine unit and took campers on a boat trip up the Hudson River to Sing Sing Prison.
My wife and I were coming to the end of a four-year stay in Australia and enjoying a long-planned road trip in a camper van through the remote tropical north.
Q: My boyfriend and I would like to take our daughter on a road trip in our camper van to Beirut next year, driving through France and Italy, catching a ferry from Venice to Turkey, and then travelling along the Mediterranean coast, via Syria, to Lebanon.
We also have many owners that bought the camper van for a specific trip, often a gap year, and now use it sporadically, but nowhere near all year around".
Do-it-yourself home improvers can borrow tools for a weekend project, and hobbyist campers can rent equipment per trip, rather than splurge on all-new gear.
