Journal

Field notes for flexible campers.

How to find a pitch when everyone says it's full, why the best nights are the unplanned ones, and what it takes to build a map that asks for you.

An orange and white VW bus parked on a seafront road

Field guide · 2 min read

Ask Claude where to sleep tonight

Twenty to eight outside Biarritz, every car park barred. Bo on the evening Liv asked Claude where to sleep, and how to connect Vacamp to Claude in a minute.

A winding road through a pine forest, snow-capped mountains in the distance

Behind the map · 2 min read

Behind the map: teaching Vacamp to read campsite booking systems

Six hours in a lay-by with nothing to do but read over Liv's shoulder. Bo, a 1980s VW bus who never books, on where the prices on the Vacamp map come from.

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