I started living in my 1991 Westfalia Volkswagen camper van on February 1, 2011. It has been an adventure of life lessons and learning to live minimally. On this youtube channel I aim to give you guys who are interested in this way of life some insight on what makes life easier while living in a van. When I first got the idea to live in a van I thought it was impossible for a guy like me to accomplish such a thing. I was used to the typical American lifestyle. I had no clue what it took to live in a van. So I went to youtube and found information and encouragement from other RU-vidrs that really gave me the confidence to do this. After 8 months of living in my van I had learned so much about it that I wanted to give back to the community and share with other people who are interested in this way of life, some good motivation to live this lifestyle.
I'm going to move 1200 miles. I plan on staying in the uhaul for a month until I can secure housing. I have to look at where I'm renting, too risky to rent online. I'm planning on moving in the fall when it's cool bit not cold. I think for me and my pups this is the best option
Hey Chad. I've been watching your videos from before the pandemic. Your new van is magnificent. I envy you my friend. I really would like to live a van life myself, but I'm recovering from cardiac arrest. I have an internal Defibrillator that has to be monitored constantly. Just watching you in the van surrounded by a blizzard is remarkable. One question, have you ever been in a situation where some crazy person in the woods was stalking you? That's the one thing that worries me if I was on the road.
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ive used a small charcoal grill as a makeshift firepit multiple times, works pretty well and if it can stand hot cooking coals no reason it wont work for fire coals!
I got one problem with this Air Fryers the Teflon or Coating material on the metal i personal stay the hell far away there are toxic that's why i buy a simple one with only stainless steel !!!
This is beautiful how even melting snow and use that water directly isn't a bad idea ??? With all the garbage dumped in atmosphere like Chemtrails a filtering system will be perfect !
I enjoyed this video so much, it is like being there 😊 Great adventure to share! The drone footage following was very fun to watch. All of footage, music, dialogue and so much more was great as always in your productions. Thanks Chad
Love ya Chad, hope youre doing well, miss your van life videos...just rewatching all your early winter vanlife videos in your Volkswagen. I lost my 21 year old son and my youngest brother to fentanyl, five months apart and my best friend cancer recently and my youngest daughter has pancreatic cancer. Your videos bring me some peace and free my mind from grief and sadness for a short while. God bless you for that
This video is wonderful! I am in the process of putting a Jetta motor in my (previously diesel) vanagon, and building the vanagon to be driven off-road quite often. I do not want to sacrifice my new engine to the dust my vanagon will see. I should have similar room on the passenger side of the engine bay, except for the fact that the diesel version has the starter battery in the right rear corner of the engine compartment. So, I will have to deal with that. I would really like to get Donaldson part numbers for the filter assemblies that you used. I went on to VanagonLife's website to find that bracket, but had no luck. Today is Saturday, but I guess I can email him to find out details on getting a bracket made. Thanks for the video! Rick P
Nope. Negative. Absolutely not WILL not run a cleanable air filter. They do NOT filter enough to keep this kind of dust out. I’ve ruined motors because of running those filters in dusty conditions
Anyone loving this will also love Brent ‘ghost town living’ who bought an abandoned mine at Cerro Gordo and is rebuilding it. His adventures in those mines is fascinating.
So awesome thank you for your videos. I really enjoy them and educational .. thank you for taking us where we can't physically go be safe. God bless.🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸
wait this happened when winter was already over? March 3rd is Not the time for such cold temperatures and if they happen at this time they are typically brief so this was likely during winter like December January or February Just video was published During Spring
