Ferry and tunnel crossings for a high vehicle are booked months ahead and priced by height, which is a small fact with large consequences. Attend club rallies at the same sites annually, park in a circle, help each other with mechanical problems, share aires and stellplatz knowledge obsessively, and travel in loose convoys.

The pitch, hookup, aires and stellplatz, wild camping as a contested practice, the awning, grey water, a rally, the elevating roof, the ferry, toll routing, the van referred to by name. The September British marque festival, the summer club rally calendar across Europe, the spring and autumn caravan and motorhome shows where next season is planned, and the American summer adventure-van gatherings.

May to September for the European rally season, with a late-season British anchor in September. The vehicles are usable year-round but the gatherings are not.

November to February, when the vans are laid up and the community moves to the winter shows.