Special isssue

Full-time RVing is a mobile lifestyle consisting of living year-round in a recreational vehicle (RV). Called full-time RVers or vanlifers, their RV becomes their only dwelling and their only mode of transportation. By being constantly mobile, their conception of home changes and brings a new relation to the world in neo-liberal times. It differentiates them from other mobile people, such as tourists, who still have a located place to come back to, or migrants, who want to settle in their new place of residence. This lifestyle on the road sheds new light on the concept of lifestyle mobilities. Based on research material from several fieldworks in North America and online, this paper focuses on this relationship to place developed by full-time RVers, their idea of home, their ways of making it a home, their ideas of roots, their capacities to be both at home and away, and the challenge they all face with respect to the structural rules of state operation: their need for a home address.