The focus of this paper is to consider the visual impact of VW campervans, and the broader idea of ‘vanlife,’ in spaces where one finds visitors in campervans within their visual commons. It starts with an exploration of the digital visual life course of the Instagram hashtag #vanlife, and discusses the impact of how this digital visual practice manifests in physical visual space. It is argued that considering the physical visual presence of campervans identifies a representational struggle between people ‘from here’ and ‘from away’ wherever ‘here’ might be. As an almost sublime example of ‘vanlife,’ thinking about the ‘VW Bus’ as an evocative visually negotiated experience, the paper considers how their presence transforms the spaces they occupy into particular kinds of prescriptive places their owners imagine. While the main examples here focus on VW campervans on Vancouver Island, Canada, it is hoped that the analysis provided can be used to consider parallel phenomena that assesses how visual practices between ‘visitors,’ ‘residents,’ and ‘tourism brochures’ are negotiated elsewhere.

本文的重点是考虑大众露营车的视觉影响，以及更广泛的“房车生活”概念，即人们在露营车中发现访客在其视觉公共区域内的空间。它首先探索 Instagram 标签 #vanlife 的数字视觉生命历程，并讨论这种数字视觉实践如何在物理视觉空间中体现的影响。有人认为，考虑到露营车的物理视觉存在，可以识别出“来自这里”的人们与“来自远方”的人们之间的代表性斗争，无论“这里”可能在哪里。作为“货车生活”的一个近乎崇高的例子，将“大众巴士”视为一种令人回味的视觉协商体验，本文考虑了它们的存在如何将它们所占据的空间转变为车主想象的特定类型的规定性场所。