Motorhome rescued from Argentina's Route 40

The Municipal Council of Tandil, Argentina, is drafting an ordinance regulating motorhomes and caravans. It prohibits overnight stays in public places from 10 PM to 8 AM and the dumping of gray and black water on streets, roadsides, storm drains, and water bodies.

Volkswagen brought the ID. Buzz back to the United States — complete with a mattress and curtains. A wildfire in Arizona burned down a dozen motorhomes, and Lake Tekir in Turkey flooded just as many. While Ibiza fines illegal campers up to €30,000, a retired couple from Mallorca has been living in 10 m² for five years and saving €1,400 a month. Plus: the largest campsite in the US at 607 pitches, a closed naturist beach on the North Sea, and Dolby Atmos in a trailer — all in this edition.

Journalist Ju Young Lee, along with her husband and two children, spent two years traveling Latin America in a motorhome. Due to the pandemic, the family abandoned the vehicle in Panama and returned to Korea, finally moving to Argentina in 2023, where she created Makaku, a space recreating Korean thermal rituals.

From 1969 to 1980, Argentina produced the La Boyita amphibious camper, capable of traveling on land and water. Designed by engineer Jorge Berichit, it weighed 350 kg and could be equipped with a 5–15 hp outboard motor.

The City Council of El Bolsón (Argentina) will consider a new initiative allowing motorhome parking in the center for up to 4 hours, but banning overnight stays. Fines for violations will be increased.

After almost 70 years, Bürstner has stopped making caravans — and nobody was particularly surprised once sales had fallen by a third. Sweden registered 62% more motorhomes and is preparing to let them drive faster. Chet Hanks moved into a retirees' trailer park in Nashville — for the country music career, not the savings. Plus a Korean workation site for 100 motorhomes, an unmanned trailer hotel on Hokkaido, and a gyrocopter pilot who landed on a highway and clipped an oncoming motorhome — all in this issue.