I'm nearing 50 now but so much of the things which interest me are happening with young people in their late teens and twenties. Make TV, Instructables, Youtube, and various message boards where people "create" and "invent". The Social Media isn't so much of interest to me. Posting "Selfie's" and telling others that I don't know how cool they are and hoping they will do the same for me is, in my view, a waste of time and effort. Again...that's just me.
I grew up with one foot in the pre-internet era of what the older folks would call the "real world", and the other
in the emerging world the young folks would call "Cyber Space". In my reading I discovered that nearly 100 years earlier Mark Twain was describing the same phenomenon in his life which he described as "the old days"
and "the Industrial Revolution". He pointed out that modern men were trapped in the industrial revolution
(with their seniority system and perhaps being in debt) to where they couldn't step back from it and go get
a new "perspective". Twain was old by this time (died in 1910) but he had traveled the Globe and gained a
view of the world others could only marvel at. In those times most people would never travel more than
50 miles from their birth place during their entire lifetimes.
Perhaps this is why so many of the folks here are "old farts". That and the economic down turn in recent decades that has facilitated so many peoples ascent into "hard times" and learning to cope while finding that
"new perspective" in their lives that Twain once spoke of. The old folks have the experience to handle the task if they can rise to the occasion where the younger ones have the energy if only they knew what to do.
(so they don't just look like traveling vagrants to the LEO's and land in trouble)
I would suggest to any of the young Van dwellers to have a list of places that you want to visit on your
itinerary. Have a Map with a route marked on it and a list of places. There are magazines and publications
that detail travel destinations. These could be scenic places, museums, historic sites, events, and activities you'd like to experience. All of these things can give a young person new perspectives in life. Older folks can benefit the same too.