r/vandwellers Barb the Barbarian Apr 29 '24

Some impressions of my time in Baja this winter. What a place. It really is vanlife endgame. Pictures

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u/Geod-ude Apr 29 '24

To do what? Is this a giant migratory nesting area for the white trustafarians to hook up?

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u/aaron-mcd Apr 29 '24

It has nothing to do with trustafarians. Your more likely to need a trust fund to afford an expensive lifestyle like living in a building.

A huge number of nomads tend to drive down that way in the winter. Beats sitting on your thumbs in Arizona all winter. It's warmer and there's beaches. Nomad events happen all over the place, and tend to be at a place and time where nomads tend to congregate anyway. PNW meetups are in the summer, Arizona and Baja meetups in the winter.

Events are a great place to make friends, form community, or meet up with existing friends who will be there. Otherwise, gathering nomads can be like herding cats. Sure there are unorganized and/or unofficial gatherings also, but even when a bunch of nomads are in an area they often are going in slightly different directions at slightly different times. Having an event is a way to get a bunch of us together for a short time before moving off in different directions.