Full Car Tour | Living in My Car

all right so it is pretty hot in this car so I'm going to make this video as quick as I possibly can and also I'm going to do this entire video without getting out of the car even once and the reason why I'm doing it that way is because to me that is a big part of stealth camping is being able to do everything without actually getting outside of the car because if you're in a parking lot that you plan on sleeping in for the night if you get out of your car and people see all the stuff you have in there it's going to tip them off that you are stealth camping or I guess at that point you're no longer stealth camping you're now car camping me I prefer stealth camping I prefer staying low-key so I want to show you guys my setup and how I have my car situated because yesterday I did go to my storage unit up in the Valley San Fernando Valley and I put a lot of stuff in there okay probably about 40 percent of my belongings especially the more space consuming ones like my guitar as well as my other storage container I put those in the storage unit so now it's set up exactly how it's going to be pretty much for the foreseeable future so first of all I want to show you guys the front seat or I guess you could say the cockpit of the car this is my trash can I usually just use one bag I put it on the door handle like this and then at night I'll put it over on that door handle over there but I keep a box of tissues right here just in case I don't know my nose is running or I'm having an allergy attack or something I keep my phone up here and I also charge my phone while I drive typically so that saves me a lot of time and a lot of effort of having to go somewhere else to charge my phone or having to burn my battery even further my power generator which I will show you here in a second having to burn my battery from my power generator to charge my phone instead I can allocate all of that to recharging my camera and my laptop now right here I have this attachment this allows me to either use my phone as a secondary GPS or I can put my camera on this right here I can simply just take this piece off and then I would simply use the bottom of my camera to screw it into this right here to this attachment and then once I'm editing the footage I can just flip the footage upside down and right here in the passenger seat I don't really have anything I just keep my bag and this is a flannel that I have I'm just wearing it today if you're from California or if you've been to California you know that it's best to dress in layers because it can be cold at night bro it gets cold at night it'll get into the 40s sometimes even the 30s last night I think it was probably 40 degrees I felt every bit of that 40 degrees believe me when I tell you it was cold but during the day it tends to be warm so have my flannel right there or if I'm wearing a hoodie I'll keep that there but at night I don't keep my bag there at night I like to keep the front area the cockpit pretty much completely empty per stealth camping that's one thing about stealth camping is that if you keep the front of the car empty nobody's going to know you're in the back usually when you stealth Camp you put a bunch of up in the passenger seat or the driver's seat and not only does that make you a target for police police or for security guards it makes you a target for criminals for thieves and there is nothing worse at least that I can imagine there's nothing worse than getting your car broken into while you're sleeping inside of it that sounds terrible wouldn't wish that on anyone but basically men keep the cockpit very very clean in here my center console I have two Chargers first I have my phone charger I have a really long phone charger I don't know why I got one that was that long and then I also have my power station charger which I will show you guys in a second like I said so just keep this in mind that this is where this is located and you can see I just run the wires out through these little grooves right here now let me go ahead and show you guys the back of the car and let me show you how I set it up at night even though it's the middle of the day I want to show you how I set it up at night for stealth camping so let me go ahead and show you guys how I actually get into the back of the car at night so it's a very very simple process as you guys saw earlier I have the front seat pushed up a little bit further than the driver's seat and that's for a reason it's because my bed is adjacent to my driver's seat so I can literally just step right here and remember I'm five nine I'm not that tall so if you're six five you might not be able to do this but basically I'll take one step here One Step here and boom just like that I'm in the back of the car just like that and nobody will know nobody will know especially at night my windows are partially tinted that's something I would recommend for anybody who is looking to do what I do as far as car camping goes do not be out here sleeping in a car with Fishbowl tint don't do that I have a tent and I have window coverage which you guys will see here in a second but first I want to show you guys my sleeping arrangements okay so this right here is the bed situation so basically as you guys can see I have this camper mattress and I'm gonna put a link to all of this stuff in the description I got this from Amazon I got the sleeping bag from Amazon and basically the only reason why I use this is because in my car specifically when I put the seats down you can see there's a big gap right there there's just a big drop off and you can feel that in your hip or in your back or whatever is laying on that Gap but with this camping mattress I don't feel it whatsoever in fact this camping mattress is very very comfortable it's surprisingly comfortable to say it was so cheap but I have this camping mattress and then I use the sleeping bag for warmth if it's any colder than what the sleeping bag can sustain me for then I probably just won't sleep there but if I do need a blanket I have one in the storage unit but like I said if I need the blanket I probably won't be there in the first place right here I have my pillow this is the same pillow I've been using since I was probably 16 and it is holding on for dear life as you guys can see but this camping mattress also has this little pillow piece on the back which makes this bed a lot more comfortable actually it optimizes the angle at which I sleep especially since in this situation you guys can look my feet are actually slightly above my head I don't know if that's good or bad but it helps to have that little elevation right there so right here on the side I have my laundry equipment I have my detergent I have some bleach in there I have a lint roller so on and so forth just basic laundry equipment I also have my Kindle e-reader which I like to read every night and every morning if I can but typically I would keep this right here so that when I wake up I could just grab it now right here I have my suitcase this is where I keep most of my clothes the majority of my clothing is in the suitcase it's folded up normally have too many clothes these days but the clothing that I do have is mostly in here but I also have things like socks and underwear as well as hats in this drawer and then right here I have my jackets hoodies denim jackets I have one thick coat which to my point earlier if I need to use that thick jacket I probably just won't be in that place at least for too long right here can't really open it with the bed out but I have my towels in here okay I live in a car but I am still a big proponent of not reusing towels I don't care what anybody says I'm not reusing my towel I don't care what you say I don't care what type of rationale you bring my way I'm not reusing my towels you can reuse your towels if you want to but I'm not doing that so these are my shoes right here I have three pairs of shoes I have the converse right here the classics everyone has to have a pair of bees but you gotta have a pair of these I have a pair of running slash hiking shoes I don't really use these too much anymore but if I need them they're there and then I have my Nike blazers which I have up there whatever shoes I'm wearing for that day I'll keep up there because it makes it easier to just put them on and then start driving but I don't like to wear shoes in the back of the car just because I don't want to damage the sleeping bag or even the upholstery underneath so I typically refrain from doing that right here I have all of my toiletries so this is going to be my face wash my soap anything that I need for showering and or a self-care for the most part is going to be in that bag right there and that's the bag that I take with me to the gym I'll typically have my toiletries I'll have a towel and I'll have a change of clothes and then I also have my shower shoes at the bottom and and I'll probably explain how I take a shower and all that in another video and then I have my curtains right here I use these curtains every single night to divide the front and back seats believe me when I tell you that that makes a world of difference some people like to put a windshield cover on but to me that is way way too overt it makes it very obvious that you're car camping because who puts a window cover on at night time or it doesn't make sense so like I said I like to make the front of my car look as normal as possible while keeping the back of my car very comfortable but also very minimalistic and if you guys haven't noticed I'm using a lot of dark colors here because it's much more difficult to see dark colors through the window whether at night or during the day but I like to use black gray things like that which are not as noticeable and that helps me with the stealth camping man even my laundry bag right here this is where I keep all of my dirty clothes the reason why I put the laundry bag right here is because I wanted to keep my power strip which I have right here I wanted to keep this from sliding if I let's say for example hit the brakes really hard then it falls down then I have to go and get it and it's just a big extra hassle okay so keep my power strip right here behind the laundry bag and that keeps it pretty secure and then as you can see I have a cord running from the power strip power cord running to my power generator so this is my jackery Explorer 300. the reason why I got the 300 is for one because I'm cheap and two because it's much quicker and much easier to recharge and you can recharge it while you're driving which is why I have the little cord running from the center console I would use this to plug it in to this port right here and I would charge it while I'm driving and when I'm taking road trips especially that comes in handy because the bigger power generators might take eight hours to recharge and you obviously won't be able to do that fully in a car more often than not anyways but I charge it when I'm driving and being in Southern California you do a lot of driving so that works out in my favor right here I have my technology bag this is where I keep my laptop sometimes I'll keep my camera in here if I'm going somewhere else whatever I have a lot of cords and just relatively insignificant stuff in this bag but stuff that I use pretty much on a daily basis nevertheless typically I will keep my camera down in that little compartment right there because literally nobody can see it down there it's in the shadows and it's behind the trash bag but if it's not there then it's here in this pocket and if it's not in this pocket or there it's up there on that mount or in my hand like it is right now and I also keep my water right here you guys might be wondering how I refill my water I do at the gym let me tell you guys something bro Planet Fitness this 20 a month black card membership I think it's 25 a month I don't know that black card membership is worth it if you're doing this lifestyle get you a Planet Fitness black card membership I'm not sponsored by them but we might have to get something in the works bro because they definitely come in clutch believe me when I tell you it's a place to sleep a place to shower a place to refill your water a place to get dressed a place to do a lot of different things we'll use the bathroom a lot of them are 24 hours and with the black card membership you have access to a massage chair hydro massage all of this extra stuff that most gyms don't even have and you can work out on top of that it's it's the best possible investment you can make right next to some really good window covers now I want to show you guys what this looks like when I put the window covers up in my car because these window covers make this car completely discreet at night it looks like the windows are just tinted it looks like I have a limo tint on the back in some places the cops might press you for having that on the front so I typically try not to use the window covers on the front unless I have something in the front that's valuable but like I said I like to keep the front empty anyways so I want to show you guys what the car looks like with the window covers on or at least I'm going to try to show you because it does get really really really dark in here but oh you know what hold on before I show you guys that I forgot to mention this right here is my food container so I keep all of my food which is all non-perishable items bread peanut butter granola canned food tortillas things like that I keep that all in here so that's my methodology I like to keep all of my food in here and it can be a little difficult to access but I like to eat fixed meals anyways I prefer not to just eat sporadically throughout the day because it can interrupt my flow if you will but yeah now I want to go ahead and show you guys what this car looks like when I put these window covers on mind you my car is already dark to begin with it's dark blue so at night it Blends in but once I put these window covers on nobody knows that I'm there okay so this is what the car looks like when I have the window covers on as you can see I have the back one out right there I have one on each side I'll typically only put the ones on the back windows like I said but I also have some that fit the front windows this is one of the best investments you can make some quality window covers because with good window covers you can get good quality sleep and you cannot put a price on that so in addition to using the window covers I have these two curtains which like I said divide the front and the back seats and the way that I do that is I'll typically move this right here I have this device this attachment similar to that one except it's bigger and I'll use this to hook the curtains from here okay I have a clip right here and then I have another clip on the other side right here so I'll run the curtains which have holes at the top as you can see I'll run those curtains all the way across I have two of them boom boom boom and usually what I'll do is I'll also open the sunroof a little bit to keep the ventilation going I should probably do that right now it's hot as hell I'm starting to sweat doing it for you guys but tonight I'm going to show you guys what it looks like with the curtains on because I don't really feel like having to unfold and then fold those curtains back up so tonight I'm going to go ahead and put the curtains on and I'm going to film that and show you what the car looks like at night because believe me when I tell you you can't see anything in here bro you cannot see anything in this car and it definitely feels very safe and secure it's also very comfortable and I'm getting all of this for 360 a month once the car is paid off zero dollars a month or I guess whatever insurance will be but yeah man I mean I'm living the life man I'm out here in Oxnard California I don't know if you guys can see that there's a basketball court I don't have a basketball but that's the ocean right there man I think it is anyways pretty sure that's the Pacific Ocean and you see it's just this little beachfront town a lot of old people a lot of retirees all that a lot of people walking around and whatnot but I'm probably about to go take a walk on the beach because I can

Channel: Jordan Green

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Id: NKccFEx2lWY

Length: 15min 41sec (941 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 23 2022