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An airport parking lot is an improvised village

A parking lot for airline employees has become a small community of people who live in motor homes and are rarely around.

Taking a back-road shortcut to catch a flight from Los Angeles two years ago, I passed an obscure airline employee parking lot โ€” and was surprised to see over 70 motor homes. It looked like there was an entire community planted right there in the parking lot of the airport. I wondered, who lived there โ€” and why?

I learned that this community was an employee parking lot turned motor-home park made up of pilots, flight attendants and mechanics. And I became fascinated by why and how the residents โ€” people who may have flown us across the country, or walked us through emergency landing procedures โ€” came to inhabit such an unusual place.

What a lovely little film. (via @JossFong)