Episode 8: Community in Nomadland - Meetup Blog BW: Well, it was pure selfishness and what motivated me initially is I needed a place to live. I was going through a divorce and I couldn't afford to run two households all of a sudden. I had been a camper and a backpacker all my life. I knew how to camp and I thought, "Well, I'm good at camping, aren't I? That's the cheapest way I know to live." I drove to work every day past a car lot that had a van for sale, an old beat-up box van. I said, "I can live in that really comfortably." I bought it and moved in and that's how I was introduced to living in a van. https://www.meetup.com/blog/episode-8-community-in-nomadland/