RELEARNING HOW TO VAN LIFE | Off-Grid Living

we had this super cool camp spot in mind but someone beat us to it Eamon I'm getting eaten alive, please! still working out many, many kinks of this van and I guess that's what this trip is just getting this van road ready. what is it? I know what it is! you got wild blueberries didn't you? yeah! we're going on a road trip baby after a long four months of building this van in the hot summer heat in the city we've decided whether it's finished or not we're done we're heading out! where are we? in the forest? on the recommendation of the @vanwives and lee we've come up towards algonquin park which is about three hours from toronto and we had this super cool camp spot in mind but someone beat us to it you gotta risk it for the biscuit bro so now we basically in these scenarios drive around aimlessly just hoping that on this crown land we can find the most amazing spot i'm the most amazing spot that nobody's ever discovered the uh the old Casa B here is the first time she's been off-road a few new squeaks which way do we go neither of them are roads on google maps in case you're wondering so it's not like we can navigate that way that looks pretty treasure traverse treasures treasures treasure chests let's go up no i don't think this van can do it but i really don't i think we i'm getting eaten alive please hurry sorry i'm getting eaten alive i'm not having a good time quick i'm eaten alive! I know there's so many horseflies in there oh my gosh oh fudge they're everywhere look at the bugs it's bad it's really bad boo and you don't even get bit imagine how it is for me buddy i think i you gotta go back to the city yeah so we made it to the end of the road there's no pretty lake but it's kind of a nice spot the bugs are fierce really fierce this little fire pit okay we found oh my goodness i'm having quite the troubles getting in a van we found another little spot pulled over we're gonna go check it out i don't think that trinity will make it down this trinity uh casabee trinity might make it down this road we miss you trin you little off-road devil you think this is too mucky and lucky nicky that's pretty soft don't even have max tracks we're such newbies to van life now but if you did make it down canada baby well not exactly the waterfront dream property we were hoping for on our first night out of the city but not the worst not the worst and there's no city noise freedom i'm hungry i was just finishing up the dishes when we noticed i'm glad i went in here notice the small wee leak... another leak! I think it's pretty normal to work out the bugs in the system trinity i've never had any leaks i know amazing but this one's a little more complicated so there are a few i was hoping this would be a single wrench job that's the one i want tools we'll be using today some vice grips some pliers wrench socket tape and drill turn off the water pump please yep that's number one oh okay take two let's do it baby oh my gosh guys we're missing my very crucial part of this i gotta turn on the water pump and turn on the water are you ready yeah okay i hate wasting all this water yeah yeah dry fish hook i did it behind the screen okay i'm not good at setting up angles clearly because this is my angle this is not how i would normally sit to chop i guess i'm in a funny mood this evening i don't know what to do about that but um because eamon was our plumber i'm gonna be our che f and i'm going to be making a thai green curry this evening so sit back relax everybody and enjoy the show hey bud i'm gonna go explore the neighborhood oh okay how come i didn't get the invite a little alone time is good for me okay let me see what's up here okay ciao bud will you come try this? pull those chilies out you know bec's all about presentation when it comes to cooking garlic naan it's like what's up girl isn't it just tested the toilet out what a fantastic experience i was just lying here while you were using the toilet saying to you i'm so grateful to have this house there's honestly no greater feeling than living in a home you've built i don't know i think it's so special true appreciation for all the deets for everything for these gorgeous backdoors for the stunning aesthetics of our back doors yeah i feel really lucky and on the drive out here i was just like all smiles so happy you ready for a big day tomorrow yeah good morning we had the best sleep the best the best sleep i think we went to bed at ten it's now time we're just having our morning coffee did i mention we had the best sleep the best we are heading about 20 minutes south with fingers crossed we can get a little lakefront view this evening you guys remember those squeaks i was talking about this is the culprit right here it just needs to be shaved down a little bit we'll sort them out when we get back first thing i do i'm so tranquilly our friend told us that this is the spot so we are going down a private road whose land is this i think it's crown land i think it is because you said there's lots of spots here okay so we're here definitely looks like a bit of a tight fit but i say we go for it this way not bad cheers you're supposed to be here this is all private property everything from back there the cottage you drove by all the way down this road all here and all the shoreline all the way to the oxtongue river all private what about the other beach well he was a nice guy time to go right in the middle of breakfast though she says it should be called teapot lake okay I knew it wasn't Lake of Bays I think the wrong coordinates somehow brought us to a very wrong spot yeah Jaz + crystal it's all your fault! the road to get here was fairly treacherous well it wasn't too bad it's definitely accessible but it was bumpy ass oh this spot's nice really nice look at this i know you're not one to push for suspension upgrades and bigger tires but it would be a no-brainer if we could have we had that yeah but right now i don't think so especially with the nerf bars we're going to keep going check out another spot here it is teapot lake beautiful well obviously we haven't booked anything here so uh hoping we can find a spot oh wow there's a cottage here hello cottager look at this setup man holy smokers come forward a little bit perfect welcome home thank you babe good to be here man who does this that's a human poo why would you do that so you're a little limited by where we can get the van i think people with four by fours have tried to come all the way up here but this looks pretty nice what do you think bud i like it oh wow for the good price of 3.99 whoa i just walked it yeah sorry i was really hungry it's okay do you want to try it do you not happening i just walked the uh the route again if i had recovery gear like a shovel or some max tracks or a winch we'd give it a go but we're still waiting on all that stuff so next time next time for now we'll just enjoy the spot we got let's start by getting some firewood it's not too much firewood around here you nice nice dead boy too let's go swimming bud yeah on route yesterday we pulled over so i could make lunch and i said to eamon why don't you pop into that canadian tire and get us a floaty because i'd love to be by the lake and we could get out on the water with this floatie and he brought back this amen that's not gonna fit in the room oh my gosh well spoiler alert i let him keep it it's obnoxious it lives on our roof the real reason i got it is because as i was scoping it out and looking at it lady came by and said that is the best thing you'll buy all summer even it's 10 times the size of you oh my gosh let's get ready to have some fun charlie whoa that looks luxurious (Muisic) river's gonna cry when you're gone we need an anchor all right here's the rock i'll have to tie this was worth it river's gonna is i whipped up a delicious salad with pumpkin seeds hemp hearts chickpeas all that good stuff and Eamon barbecued corn mixed veg onion pepper i've got dessert how's it look so good it's yours wow well that's gonna burn your mouth kid oh yeah oh oh baby delicious i gotta make a new one did you ever play chubby bunny as a kid no you never played chubby bunny but i'm down chubby bunny chubby bunny don't steal my techniques i got two on one side chubby bunny chubby bunny chubby bunny you're way bigger mouth to me chubby bunny chubby funny or no you win don't waste them don't waste them you win you win well this is a hot spot and i reckon if it was any closer to the weekend we probably wouldn't have scored it yeah it's too good to be true we actually just had some four by fours come up and asked if they can set up a tent they're sort of local in the area so they figured they would come set up the tenth tonight because they're coming here for the weekend so obviously we had no problem with it we're leaving tomorrow but water is right huh you gotta squat your stuff there and then first come first serve and this is all on crown land which is very similar to blm land in the states which is just i guess government-owned land that you can legally camp on or stay at for 21 days at a time um that's what we thought we were on this morning by the way hello what are you doing here crown land where we can safely and undisturbedly park that's a word can you imagine if they came like five minutes earlier while we had 12 marshmallows in our mouth it's a good thing we did not try this these guys are stuck four by four hey trin smart move are you are you becoming wiser in your old age yeah i am you would have tried that two years ago see you guys have a good one wow look at how beautiful i think we have an amazing sunset around the dashboard my eyes on the road i just thought i'd be alone trees you know you can judge how good your day was by how many of these you gonna use i had a pretty good day good night buddy good morning time for some coffee oh no i hate to turn the inverter on you can maybe hear the car running in the background that is because the induction trip this morning we have been living without solar and the system's been a-okay until now i guess so that's our maximum we're looking forward to getting some solar on there still working out many many kinks of this van and um i guess that's what this trip is just getting us road ready but can we have coffee this morning that is the question buddy will you make me some fire so i could have a coffee this morning yeah did you have a nice 12 hour sleep yep this stuff's gold french mercedes manual to the rescue no pressure huh guys well the fan life teaches you nothing it teaches you to roll with the punches to have patience to get hot water this is true this coffee is going to taste so good oh good one extra large coffee please thank you sometimes time is worth more of the money we've got a two hour drive and back to the six and we're tuning in to aaron ralston's 127 hours now this is one of my favorite audio books because i've actually read this one really yeah well bec read most of it to me so she was actually audiobook before audiobook was a 10. and i like to get into the adventurous mindset picturing myself drinking my own piece stuck in the wilderness yeah we're the type of people who can't even wait two hours for our water to boil but we're drinking our own pee in the wilderness anyways you guys have heard us chat about audible before so we want to say a huge thank you to them for continuing to sponsor this channel if you want to check out audible you can go to www.audible.com or text aiming back to 500 500 with that you're gonna get one blueberries i'm getting some wild blueberries okay with those codes you get unlimited audio original books which they've just increased from the one or two you normally get a free audiobook of your choice plus a 30-day free trial so that's awesome and if you're looking for something that doesn't involve an app or downloading streaming you can also check out audible's new thing called stories.audible where there are hundreds of stories for you to stream for free forgot my mask get going bud we begin and end of the trip with wild blueberries that's my best way to trip did you have a coffee yet way big coffee how's the audible head oh well we would have loved to stay in paradise for a while longer it's time to come home fix up this van we got quite the list huh howdy ho hello hey strangers how are you good how are you good you're back from the woods that's pretty standard but we got back to the office and jumped right into chaiwala bob all the things that take up so much time we accidentally deleted some products on our website so if you were of the few who couldn't see some stuff yes who did that we bob we're a team we take the blows together man we clearly have our work cut out for us so we'll see you sunday anything else you want to add bob we'll see you sunday no shout outs man shout out to everybody it didn't blow a fuse but it just tripped it tripped and then i looked up there and it i can't speak this morning well casabee is different from trinity she's set up similarly enough that i hate that me adventuring in the wilderness drinking my own pee and you

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Length: 26min 51sec (1611 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 16 2020