VW motorhome campers are small - particualrly when compared to the huge RV motorhomes available in th US. If you’re planning a trip, its worth considering how you’ll cope with manoevering a very large vehicle, the amount of fuel it will use and how it will influence the type of great outdoors experience you’ll have. This is an informative account of roaming Utah in a VW Motorhome camper.
“I’m in a warm and cactus-studded desert, slouched comfortably in a camp chair, savoring a paisley-tangerine sunset. To my left, shrimp the size of plantains are sizzling on a hibachi. To my right, beer is chilling in a slushy cooler. And behind me stands my home, my wheels and the linchpin of my retirement dreams: a Volkswagen pop-top camper.
Like a lot of Boomers, I’ve envisioned my rapidly approaching golden years as not just active, but mobile: I yearn to explore the national parks of the West, trace what remains of Route 66 or meander down the Baja Peninsula, camping each night on deserted beaches. (In my fantasy, there are no bandits, armed drug gangs or time-share touts.)
But after once watching the proud new owner of a monstrously large motor home wedge it between two pine trees while trying to turn around in a Yellowstone campground - for all I know, it’s still stuck there - I see myself behind the wheel of something a bit more modest, easier to drive and less punishing at the pump.
For someone who grew up in the 1960s and early ’70s, that means only one thing: a VW camper van.”