Van Neistat's Guide to Non-Miserable Vacations
Published April 04, 2025 · 1:50 · 32,693 views
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If you must fly coach, drive. A car is a storage facility and a mini home on wheels. Take at least one month for your vacation. Splurge. Have an I-don't-care attitude about cost. This sounds like a rich guy thing, but Van has seen what Americans drive. Expensive cars, expensive clothes, expensive sneakers. Drive an old Toyota and save your money for extraordinary experiences. Go to a scary but cheap place.
Mexico. It's hard to articulate the exact effect it has. Van usually just says it's magic. Whales while getting ice cream one night. It's almost like the danger is the price of admission. There's a bravery requirement, and brave people are generally rewarded. Under two minutes, and the compression itself proves the thesis.
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If you must fly coach, drive. When you fly coach, you begin your trip with misery at the
airport and you end your trip with misery at the airport. A car is a storage facility and a mini home on
wheels you can pull over for fun and stupid stuff. One month. Take at least one month for your vacation. Oh my goodness.
Yes. Wow. Look at this. We got our own little section.
Splurge. By splurge, I just mean live a little. Don't count your pennies. Don't
do everything on budget. Try to have a it attitude about cost. Again, this sounds like a rich guy thing, but I've
seen what you Americans drive. I've seen your expensive cars and your expensive clothes and your expensive sneakers.
Drive an old Toyota and save your money for extraordinary experiences. All right. Do you see him, bud? Yeah. He's
right there. Go to a scary but cheap place. So, this is the dream. Driving on the beach. It's hard to articulate the exact
effect that Mexico has on me and now on my family. I can't really put my finger on what it is. Um, I usually just say
it's magic. It feels magic. It's little things, you know. We saw whales uh while we were getting ice cream one night.
There he goes. You see him? Yep. I just got it. It's almost like the danger is the price of admission. It's like part
of what makes Mexico so wonderful is that you've got to be a little bit brave. There's a there's a bravery requirement and brave people are generally
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Toyota recommends — advice to drive an old Toyota on vacation
Films & Media Referenced
- Netflix TV show referenced in context of Mexico travel