Fire in Mennonite settlement in Mexico destroys three RVs

Bürstner has halted caravan production as demand fell 13%. Poland is proposing to scrap road tolls for campervans, while Liguria counts the cost of 8,000 motorhomes descending on the region. Tom Hanks' son has swapped Hollywood for a trailer in pursuit of a music career, and a French couple has driven 100,000 km from the North Cape to Senegal — and that's not even the whole story. All this in this issue.

Manuel de Jesús Parra Valdez from Ciudad Obregón fulfilled his dream of traveling southern Sonora in a modified trailer. The project was designed for his future retirement and attracts the attention of locals.

Greece has cancelled its own camper van ban — a year and a half on, as if it got cold feet. In Tenerife, 500 motorhomes blocked a motorway demanding the same — pitches and dump stations. In Miami, 200 families are being evicted from a motorhome park by September, while Córdoba is only just applying for permission for a new overnight area. Plus 21 kg of cocaine in a motorhome in Lanzarote, a fake eight-wheeled Mercedes-AMG G63 and a Starbucks coffee trailer in Seoul — in this issue.

In Tijuana, municipal police arrested a Honduran citizen suspected of arson after a wooden room and a motorhome (traila) used as a dwelling were set on fire in the Roma neighborhood. The fire was extinguished by firefighters; no injuries were reported. The suspect was detained by neighbors and the victim before police arrival.

On April 24, 2026, a trailer-caravan attached to a pickup truck caught fire on Highway 57 in San Juan del Río, Querétaro. The fire completely destroyed the trailer; the pickup suffered minor damage or none. No injuries were reported.

Almería is putting up physical barriers to keep motorhomers off its former fairground — while Turkey simply evicts them from the beach. Lightship is quadrupling its electric-caravan factory in Colorado, even as 50% of Italian motorhome renters turn out to be under 35. Plus 800 kg of hashish in a motorhome at the Spanish border, Anker's 800 W charger running off the alternator, and Carstay as the mobile HQ of a Tokyo festival — all in this issue.