Van Tour of Solo Woman Living in a Cargo Van on $900 a Month

and uh introduced her and told her story very very inspiring story we're gonna take a look at her rig now do a tour but you really should go back and watch the uh the interview it was it was amazing uh angel's got a lot of uh inspire very inspiring story and i think you'll be really grateful that you did go watch it so uh angel can we take a look at your rig absolutely doors open let's go check it out let's go check it out okay this is a 1998 dodge b1500 mark iii ram van lots of words for an old clunky dodge van that i love to death well you got that high top so that's right this was modified into a handicapped vehicle um which i love because it gives me when you walk into it you can walk standing up you don't have to bend in half to get through the front doors right so i really like that very nice uh let's take a look inside okay so uh tell us all about your setup pretty it's certainly comfortable it is very comfortable i have a twin size bed because with it being just me i don't need more than that i have um my electric outlets up here and this cord runs underneath the bed to the battery pack and all the power stuff in the back uh let's see yes i have two 200 watt panels on top oh that's good and i have two 100 amp hour lithium batteries under the bed wow that's very good so it's just to start off you know just make sure i have enough yeah that's that should be playing but one of the things that i've done is you'll see velcro throughout the van you know i have it right here because with my other phone that's outside right now there's velcro on the back i just stick it there and i watch a movie sure great idea so i love coming up with cheap easy ways to fix things velcro and magnets are the way to go and those pressure clips there's my bathroom this is the master bedroom suite so you've got your bedroom you've got your bathroom i empty it every three to four days i made sure that i got the ltva pass so that i can go and empty it for free i have found that the ltva pass is a lot more economical you're not paying five dollars twice a week to dump your toilet you're not paying five dollars once a week to fill up all your water you know you just save a lot more money that way and you are staying out on the ltv no i'm on blm oh yeah i use them for their services and pardon me to visit friends and if i stay the night then i'm still covered because i love to follow roles right rules are in place for a reason my summertime pride and joy is right here i have a window ac unit during the summer i have a cover that goes on and all these get emptied the cover goes on so that it pulls the outside air in to uh do its air conditioning thing on and this will run off of my solar once i have a slow draw put on it but without a slow draw i can always just plug my van into shore power and um run everything off shore power if i want to so pretty happy with that behind the bed that is my uh garage area the fuel tank for my diesel heater is back there this is my catch-all um the top two drawers are well the top drawer is my nightstand junk drawer the second drawer is where i keep my silverware and whatnot this is where i keep all of my cooking utensils and then you've got the dog drawer the electronics drawer and the bigger catch-all for everything else this was purchased at lowe's and was gifted to me this cubby holder and i had two of them i do not recommend them for anybody ever really you take a curve too tight because you're swerving to avoid some idiot on the road and the glue board that they're made of you can have it screwed down to the floor you can have a screw to the floor if it is still not strapped in tight the glue board falls apart and your whole thing falls over which is dangerous if you have two little dogs that can't decide where they want to lay down at right but i do plan on remodeling i've been in the van full time for less than six months so we are gonna remodel and put a real storage cabinet in here yeah i like these little screw-in hooks i have them all over you know i just i hang whatever i don't like clutter so i just hang up as much as i can or shove it on a shelf but i've also got my refrigerator right here it's nothing major it's not name brand or anything like that no but they work great it works great it keeps everything at 25 degrees and i'm happy as a clam with it it's a 24 liter so it's a much smaller one than a lot of people get but you start downsizing everything after you've been on the road for even just a month or two you're like oh i don't need to have 25 gallons of water just to go out for two weeks actually yeah you do but you can always go back into town and refill right so i'm down to seven gallons for refilling for a week you know i've cut down i used to have three of these larger totes right over here three of them were filled with food and whatnot i'm down to one and it's still quite a bit of food you know that's still a lot of food to carry around but up here this is my clothes closet you know and i also because my clothes are in a dust proof bag everything else just gets shoved up there i haven't invested in all the fancy window coverings and everything so this fabric shower curtain is what i use to cover my side door windows oh yeah you know this it it does this one is used to cover the garage if during the summer i'll sleep with the back doors open and you know i have my sunscreen you know just my little dicky sunscreen and what i do is because i told you guys i love my clips i just open this up and i hang it across here and that blocks everybody from seeing me you know i just use my clips up here to to attach it and then nobody can see through the front to see me which i find amazing and they love it i mean i'm not super self-conscious about people looking at me if i'm just sitting in here reading or anything like that you know they want to be nosy let them be nosy they want to get too close there's two dogs that's going to give them you know a little bit of a deterrent but other than that everything is just storage i just shove it everywhere yeah it's fantastic you know it's minimal cost but maximum comfort the only thing about getting the older vehicles is you have to understand you're probably going to put in more than the value of the van fixing them i've replaced the front end well my ex-husband's replaced the front end of the van twice um you know because you order parts off amazon or something like that there they may not be the best quality and they may fail so you may be doing your work twice which is what happened to the front end but that's okay because now it runs beautifully good good so it's just uh it's it's working out well for you you you really like your life yeah i have my space i'm very comfortable in here i feel safe um the dogs are comfortable you know i've got this is a 12-volt electric blanket right here 15 bucks from walmart not a big deal you know and you've got the diesel eater and i have the diesel heater but this blanket is not mine oh this blanket belongs to the chihuahua that's penny's blanket but yes i've got the diesel heater turned or down here up here is the control panel and we can turn it on just like that and then you can start to hear the air coming out of the diesel heater i can yep and all of the lines and everything for the diesel heater are run outside and underneath the van and then it will come back up in the back to the fuel tank for the diesel heater so yes best 135 dollars i've ever spent yeah people most most people really love them yeah everyone that comes in my van that doesn't have one they're like oh we're ordering one now yeah because they see the benefit of it it's just it's amazing right okay and um i didn't ask i should have asked earlier how can people contact you are if they if you want if they want to uh through facebook i have a facebook group page called angels adventures a-y-n-g-e-l-l adventures and they can also find me on youtube at angel's adventures very good so be sure you go and check out her facebook page and our youtube channel absolutely i love having people come my inspiration on where to visit and things like that come from my viewers and uh from my group page i have a lot of people that are like you know you're in court site are you gonna go visit baus because nobody ever visits bells i'm like i need to go visit bells right so that's you know one of the videos that's coming out soon on my channel is visiting bells and why other people should right very good so you have the 400 watts of pin of solar and it's really interesting how you mounted them here yes um my ex-husband is very amazing very creative wonderful guy and at first he was saying i would have to store the panels on my bed take them out and i'd have the cord and so i kind of told him one day i'm like i'm just going to take it back to court site and have this one guy build a rack for it and he goes you can't have a rack built you've got fiberglass i said well he told me about how he was just going to stretch the legs on one mounted to the side so then my ex was just like i can do that i'd probably build one stronger than what you can get so he built it he built the frame it is measured exactly for the panels it's um attached with bolts to the metal sides of the van there is uh caulking or sealant under the plate so no water gets in there to rust out and i do check you know regularly i'll check for any stress fractures or anything because any time that you have additional designs to a vehicle you want to make sure that you're constantly checking them bolts come loose they shear off things like that so once a week i just check my bolts and check my little hooks up here these are for if i want to hang a tarp to get shade over really good so i've got the two in the front the two in the back the back is for shower room uh-huh well he did an excellent excellent job oh thank you i will make sure he knows yeah that is obviously really uh really good good work i really like how it kind of goes inward because usually it goes straight up right but he's also put a deflector plate on the front oh yeah so that i don't get as much air under it to lift up the back end yeah because i'm still new to driving bigger vehicles like this yes these tall vehicles especially in the wind it can really be squirrely oh yeah well looks like he did just a great job well angel uh thank you so much for the tour of your rig uh for a minimal amount of money you've got a maximum comfort in life and joy in life absolutely i have a whole new lease on life yeah so i'm really enjoying it and i want to thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to be on your channel and to share what inspiration i can with your viewers very good and folks if you ha you need to go back and watch our interview because angel was given a diagnosis of six months to live from cancer and she's living on nine hundred dollars a month and so she's a real inspiration story yep i was given six months and it's been four years since the diagnosis right and and how to live with uh an illness like that you know yeah you've mastered it all so thank you yeah i just i i just want to share the inspiration i want more people to find joy in their lives i think that's missing in our world today very much so yeah well folks i hope you got something out of this video if you did like us on youtube subscribe to the channel hit that thumbs up button and we'll talk to you later bye for now [Music]

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 28 2022