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Winter pumps the brakes in the best way.Less hustle and bustle. More garage time. More reflection. It’s the season of standing there with your hands in your pockets, staring at the van thinking about things you never have time (or interest) in thinking about once July fun rolls around. Pontificating. Head scratching.One might ask, “Why do we keep these old vans?” On paper, it doesn’t always make sense. The quirks are ever- …

January has a different kind of quiet to it. The holidays are packed away. The roads are slower. The days are short and feel heavy in a way that is not bad, just honest. This is the long drudge of winter, and it asks less of us than the rest of the year does. For a lot of Vanagon owners, this is the season where nothing has to happen right away. No departure dates. No packed weekends. No rushing to get one more trip in before the weather turns. T …

Thanksgiving week always feels a little different.Not just because of the food or the long weekend, but because so many of us are headed somewhere familiar. Back to old neighborhoods, childhood driveways, or the houses where we once sat at the kids’ table. The roads this week seem to carry a little more meaning than usual. They’re the same roads that bring us home — whatever that word looks like these days. And as funny as it so …

There’s something funny about this stretch of November.We’re not quite in the holiday rush yet, but we can feel it gathering speed right behind us.Everyone’s talking about Thanksgiving plans, travel routes, food prep, family dynamics… but it still feels like we’re in neutral, waiting to drop into gear. The days are short, the mornings are cold, but somehow the holiday spirit isn’t quite here yet. There’s …