As RVs regain popularity, younger fans seek out ways to rent their joyride
by Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times
Nov 12, 2018
4 minutes
Somewhere in Colorado, between the Grateful Dead concert at Red Rocks and the drive through Telluride, Mike Lawson and his son, Nainoa, became converts to the @gorving movement.
It wasn't a change Lawson, 49, ever expected to make. Like many Gen Xers, he once viewed recreational vehicles as dinosaurs from the pre-recession era. Then he began to enjoy a fully stocked camper van with solar power, bedding, stove, running water, refrigerator and more.
"Wherever you end up at the end of the day, a parking lot, a river, the forest, you can just stop and spend the night, cook dinner, have a campfire, sleep, get up and go," said Lawson, who designs and builds furniture and houses.
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