Living on the road...cruising the open roads of the U.S. of A. in your VW van, windows open, a breeze blowing through your long, unkempt hair, your only care being where your next bong hit is going to come from...
Or living the nuclear family life, settling down in a Boston suburb where trendy babies ride around in trendy strollers while their trendy parents sip lattes and read The Economist.
These lifestyles appear, to me, to be mutually exclusive. Either you get along with personal hygiene and indoor plumbing, or you don't. My neighbor on Grove Street, however, wants to have his pot brownie AND eat it too.
(Actual photo) That's why he keep '60s van outside his apartment, and occasionally sleeps in it. I know he sleeps in there sometimes because I've caught him, shirtless, waking up and stretching his arms in the "bedroom" of the van (basically the trunk) in the early morning hours. He's even got a coffee pot in there- is that even possible?
Why you'd pay an outrageously overpriced rent AND the maintenance for a live-in van is beyond me, but to each his own.
Below, please delight in the comic deliciousness that is Chris Farley, in one of his best-loved roles as motivational speaker Matt Foley, delivering his "living in a van down by the river" pep talk.
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