LIVING ON A HOUSEBOAT IN SEATTLE (tiny home tour)

this is pretty great i love the idea of being able to sit up here in the morning look out over the city as i have my coffee and [Music] we're karen nate and we've spent the last four years traveling to 100 countries this is exciting stuff but 2020 brought us back to the us where we bought a converted sprinter van to explore our own backyard over the last few months we've driven our van over 3000 miles across the country and we've just arrived in the city of seattle since moving into the van we've become really interested in what it's like to live in other tiny spaces from tree houses to converted school buses it's been cool to see how people make the most of their limited amount of space instead of worrying about trying to find camping here in the city we have rented a houseboat on lake union for the next couple nights which is only about two miles outside the city center of seattle so we're super excited to explore seattle but also just to experience what it's like to live on a houseboat am i going there anyway we're also still trying to figure out the best way to like move in and out of the van without a suitcase and right now it's our grocery tote bags cool you go this way home sweet home and uh that's it i love it oh they have the heater on [Music] so there's really nothing super fancy about this houseboat but it seems to have everything that we need and we're floating so let me give you a quick tour around this is the kitchen area the hosts have this super cute cork board with all the past guests as their guest book we have a full fridge and freezer plus unlimited fresh running water and a microwave two things that we definitely took for granted before we lived in a van i think we have everything that we need to cook a proper meal which i might do because these stainless steel countertops make me feel like i'm working at a restaurant and most importantly we have a coffee pot and the host has hooked us up with a full tower a pod and this is the bedroom the bed is not bad but one thing i didn't notice when we first walked in is this is one of those murphy beds which we have never slept in before so if we were living in here full time and we wanted more space we can lift the bed up and put it in the wall like that and it like clocks in and then this is like a couch thing but i don't think we'll be doing that it's really not that hard pretty simple actually and we could lay in bed and watch this entertainment system which if it rains as much as it's in oregon this might be really nice and next is a bathroom tour i was really surprised at how normal this bathroom felt we have a nice big shower and then our toilet is a marine toilet which i haven't used very many times it pretty much functions exactly like a regular toilet would you do your business you can flush the toilet paper and you press this little button to flush it and then you press another little button when you're done to fill it back up with a little bit of water i don't really know why you do that but that's the rules and then once a week a guy comes and pumps out the tank when it's full this is all really nice and super easy to use but i will say that our composting toilet in the van stinks a little bit less than this one does but and last but not least let us show you the best part of the houseboat which is outside i'm not even sure this boat is capable of moving but that's okay because the owners have left us this kayak that we can take out whenever we want to explore lake union we have a nice little table a barbecue and upstairs i think the best part of this whole thing is our rooftop patio we have another table up here and check out this view of downtown seattle this is pretty great i love the idea of being able to sit up here in the morning look out over the city as i have my coffee and i wasn't exactly sure what to expect but you can tell that everybody who stays in this marina kind of lives here full time there are a lot of really neat looking boats around us [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] coffee's ready [Music] if you know us then you know that we don't get up for sunrise often however the sun doesn't rise until at least 8 a.m here so we took full advantage of our rooftop patio and watched the sun rise over the skyline [Music] after we met the host of this airbnb yesterday we learned that there's actually quite a few interesting things to see here on lake union so we're going to take the kayak out this afternoon and do a little exploring if we fall in this water it is going to be so cold already wet and we're [Music] i think there's another one coming in yeah another one just landed i'm gonna be honest this is a little terrifying there's quite a bit of boat traffic and lake union is actually a runway used for seaplanes so we're staying nice and close to the shore so we don't get run over by an airplane these are sweet just a 10 minute paddle away is the actual house from the movie sleepless in seattle we'd actually never seen it before and so we watched it last night so we could appreciate this moment apparently the new owners have made a lot of changes to it but they've kept the original bench from the movie tom hanks sat right there that movie was the ultimate chick flick but i'm a little embarrassed to say that i kind of enjoyed it it's one of those movies that you just can't help but feel good after it's over the sweet house oh and now my leg is soaking wet i'm a sucker for chick flicks i loved the movie worth being in a kayak getting freezing cold water everywhere with sore arms gagging is so fun that was awesome we're making a run for it crossing the channel we're trying to get to gas works island and we can't follow the shoreline to do that so we have to cross with all the boat traffic oh what also you don't have time to wait i'm gonna eat so much for dinner tonight do you see how much water is in my seat that's what i've been sitting in oh my gosh love kayaking oh it is a beautiful day and we're at our second stop we have a pretty wet butt too my pants were my knee down and my shoe whose idea was this seems like one of those things would be a lot more fun in the summer so this is gasworks park and back in the early 1900s it was home to the seattle gas lighting company's gasification plant then in the 1950s seattle ended up switching from oil to natural gas the plant went out of business the city ended up buying land and turning it into this park that you see today but they left a lot of the park standing which is kind of what gives it its unique look and it's the only coal gasification plant left in the entire united states there you go i think i could just lay here the rest of the day why don't you paddle the kayak i'll just walk just need to dry off for a while all right we're off to a new country it's not canada wow these are super nice i'm slightly less content with our houseboat after paddling over to this side of the lake so our host told us about this houseboat that claims to have gained its independence from the united states in 1985 and it's now a sovereign micro nation located inside of lake union i don't think this is technically true i don't think it's really its own country also there's like nothing about this place on the internet so i'm not really sure what to expect except that i did read at that point it's not even on google maps so we don't even know if we'll find it we're like explorers we are approaching the sovereign nation of tui no one's here i think they might be doing renovations the country's under renovation i was actually super interested to see what this was all about maybe the the kings died and now someone else has bought the houseboat i wonder if since no one's here we can claim it come to sovereign nation once again oh this is such a bummer thankfully we didn't come all this way for no reason dinner is right there this is like the least graceful thing i've ever done oh i thought it was going in this slant if you knocked me in the water we did it let's go eat this is one of the few restaurants that our host told us we could park the kayak yet it's the bread bowl it is so hot oh i'm so happy whoa okay oh it's amazing we've heard so much about clam chowder since being in washington so i'm so excited to finally try it it's a diy clam chowder situation three two one yes thanks oh yeah oh yeah i committed too much oh it smells so good i can't think of anything better to eat with soaking wet pants on it's this beautiful creamy thick soup with little chunks of clam and bacon the bread bowl was a great decision too and since this place is called the salmon house we figured we had to get the fried salmon and chips [Music] well that made up for chewy tui being under renovation beautiful spot on the water to eat but the double-decker highway is pretty loud how dreamy do i look like an angel like a hard-working angel hard-working cold soggy angel got a little too excited about the coffee tower good oh are you okay yeah oh i thought because we weren't in the van this wouldn't happen anymore if it makes you feel better i was recording yeah it does a little bit i think it was this metal thing do you see my eyes tearing yeah you must have whacked it ah you're bleeding don't think so i'm not planning on following you you'll just knock me out with your stick the people who live there get tired of people coming by and taking pictures yeah definitely what was that you love kayaking i'm just glad it's funny bye don't get in the water there are a lot of pollutants yeah and fade to black [Music] you

Channel: Kara and Nate

Views: 1,163,165

Keywords: #vanlife, couple vlog, full time travel, kara and nate, kara and nate vlog, off grid living, sprinter van, tiny home, tiny house, travel, travel couple, travel couple vlog, travel vlog, unique accomodations, usa travel, van life, van life couple, van life usa, van life vlog, vanlife, vlog, house boat, floating home, boat life, living on a boat, floating tiny house, tiny houseboat, tiny house tour, boat life tour, tiny houseboat living, seattle, seattle vlog, washington

Id: GYYZV1Yk21Q

Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 08 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/i_am_sooo_done]

Ever since I saw someone point out here that they do little to no research showing up at a place and just wing it, I can't unsee it! 😅 Even in this vid there was very little planed by them other than just showing up, the Airbnb host then gave them some places to see

[u/doshinka]

They just don't like the van life, and it's apparent.

[u/[deleted]]

I liked this video, I live close to Seattle and I’m glad they showed a little bit of Lake Union. Next vlog should be longer as they’ll be showing Pike Place market and other areas of Seattle.

[u/LittleHiker]

How far did they go in that kayak? Dang.

[u/pokemanzred]

Did they just go and board someone's house to look through the window?

[u/[deleted]]

"We're Kara and Nate, we spent the last 4 years traveling to 100 countries. But, 2020 brought us back to the US, where we bought a converted sprinter van just to produce AirBnB sponsored content!"

[u/DancingSeaAnemone]

Trip Advisor is the second link in the google search results for Tui Tui Seattle. This is what I found, "Sorry, there are no tours or activities available to book online for the date(s) you selected. Please choose a different date." (no dates were selected its just a default) After seeing this I think they are searching for places they want to go but, going there knowing they are closed just to film something. I dont think this place was being renovated, its still Covid.

[u/ArnoldLayne1967]

Why don’t these two people do Sham-Wow and Oxy-Clean commercials and put it out as videos and all their stans will watch it and go “oooh” and “aaahh” and some dill weed will comment “ Look how pretty Kara looks with a Sham-Wow”. It can absorb all the rivers of tears Kara seems to put out every time they are called out for something.

At this point only real suckers and desperate people who have pinned their life on vicariously living through Kara & Nate’s camera will watch these two people who are churning out paid infomercials for the QVC network as travel vlogs.