Commuting to work in a camper van
A modern-day hippie's van life on Jeju Island
“I live on 2 pyeong, but my front yard is 20,000 pyeong.”

This is a record of the first day of van life of an adventurous person who happened to live in a camper van, and continues to live van life intermittently until now.
Anywhere you can park your camper van becomes your front yard.
However, modern people who cannot become complete hippies continue to commute to work in camper vans.
I wake up in the morning to the sound of birds and fall asleep to the sound of a stream.
At night, I stare blankly at the stars and drink while looking at the moon.
Every day feels like a trip, filled with excitement.
I sincerely hope that the "slightly special lifestyle" contained in this book will be helpful in filling out your life's answer sheet.

Even if you don't buy a camper van now, there will come a day when you will live in one, but life is unpredictable.
Who knows what will happen in the meantime?
I will choose to be happy now, and use my current happiness as a stepping stone to live happily tomorrow.
--- p.20

When you look at the sea, you don't need to do anything else.
Just listen to the sound of the waves and feel 'now, me, here'.
If you look at the sea like that until you get tired of it, you will realize that even in a sea as calm as a lake, waves crash.
--- p.29

“Even if I don’t have a lot of money, I should be a happy person.
“So that someone can look at me and have hope that they can live happily even without much money.”
--- p.38

Of all the things I truly desire, how many are truly my own desires? Do I truly desire them? Or do I desire "me, the one who possesses them"? Isn't what I truly desire the envious gaze of others? Are possessions truly the only way to prove my worth? If a society requires me to prove my worth through possessions, isn't that society flawed? Shouldn't a person's worth be judged by how much they contribute to the society they belong to?
--- p.54

“You can’t sleep after drinking coffee, you just feel less tired.”
--- p.86

Perhaps, because of the joy of pioneering a path no one has taken and the thrill of standing where no one has stood before, I want another adventure today.
--- p.96

I am once again grateful for everything.
The more I live, the more I feel like my emotional debt increases.
Perhaps life is a process of paying off, one by one, the debt of the heart that we took out with our lives as collateral from the moment we were born.
--- p.105

I have that dream too.
Park your camper van in a scenic spot along the coastal road and open the doors wide.
There is coffee and a kettle inside the camper van.
Anyone can take a break for free.
However, there is a condition.
After using a camper van, you should do at least one good deed for a better world.
What will happen?
--- p.123

Even I think I'm very positive.
So I think I adapted to van life quickly.
If discomforts like humidity, heat, and cold are windows, a positive mindset is a shield.
The spear still can't penetrate the shield.
In the future, the shield of a positive mindset will never be broken.
Like that famous movie line, no matter what the situation, I will eventually find the answer.
--- p.146

Because I had faith in myself, I was able to buy a camper van and live in a camper van.
Maybe what I really wanted wasn't a camper van, but the belief that I could survive in any environment, that I could somehow live happily in a space of just 1.5 pyeong.
--- p.184

Life is a journey that takes me.
Anyone who has ever traveled with someone they don't get along with knows this.
When traveling, it's not about where you go, but who you go with that matters.
A walk in the back mountain of the neighborhood with someone you love is better than the Himalayas that you are forced to go to with someone you hate.
So, little by little, I got closer to myself on the road.

--- p.194