I have many rock climbing friends who live in vans and tents the majority of the year. I’ve spent significant time crashing with them. Nobody shits in a bucket

I have many rock climbing friends who live in vans and tents the majority of the year. I’ve spent significant time crashing with them. Nobody shits in a bucket. You find a place that has toilets of some kind. For example, in Indian Creek, UT, people camp in vans on unimproved BLM land. There is no water. But there are toilets where the roads turn off toward the camping, about a mile away. Every morning, people have coffee, and do a toilet run as you get ready for the day. In an emergency you drive over to the toilet. People definitely do pee in jars, but usually you can just pee outside somewhere. It’s not all instagram models. The lifestyle does work. But you spend some of the year crashing with friends, staying in nicer camps with cabins, etc