hello hello and welcome to another fan chat tuesday oh super
we're going to run through these like the billio so um find the pause button
as it stays from the title we're just going to run through all the terminology that's used around
camping caravanning motor homing campervanning van life yes and we're going to start off with that
one aren't we van life van life for me is the fact that it's based around a van life based around a
van home it's got a van at the front of it a class built on a van camper van there you go yep next
i thought we're running through it quickly okay next um um a pitch pitch a pitch who
knew what a pitch was oh well there's that kind of pitch but then there's also your camping pitch
yep so just you bit of grass where you park your van they charge you some money yep
cool next um elsan also known as cbb i've no idea what elsan is um something sanitary maybe and cdp
is chemical disposal point it's where you enter your emptied when your jitter is full that's where
it goes also a place where you can empty your black water yes which gets us onto grey water
yes which is everything you flush down your sink down your shower tray
um not the toilet it's nothing to do with toilet paper yeah anything anything that's waste water
that doesn't contain poo or wee is grey water and that door is black yep and while we're on water
what is portable water potable water is what you can drink my dear it's
not potable so you can move it a bit no well it isn't a van
i see i've got my po yeah so portable water drinking water yes
downtown and we're on and weights weights weights you've got your blade and weight
your blade yep you've got your um
mtplm mtplm and you've got your whatever weight you can put in the van what's that called
that is your um permissible load weight okay oh um oh is it called i'm sure i'll edit this
out yeah i'm sure well um payload payload i'm sure everyone's been shouting payload
and payload is the stuff you can shove in your van so there we go all the interesting things uh
next one let's get wild camping out of the way while camping boondocking or boondocking it's
about parking up somewhere that isn't defined as a campaign or camping ground yeah or anything like
that yeah let's get power in the van volts uh amps what what what what amp waltz oh oh my god
obviously they just relate to power power from solar power from devices
that you're going to run and storage of power as well yes
different kinds of fans have we've done this already we've done different times of van
let's move to one we haven't done pop top pop top uh is normally fitted to a camper van to get extra
height from a low roof camper van yep but not just a camper van there are motor homes as well i've
never seen one of them at home oh yeah japanese i've just done with the roof deck oh yeah the
motorized ones it stairs in the back no it's got a lift in the back it's hardly pop is it it pops
lpg lpg auto gas liquid petroleum dpl yeah gpl lp lg all sorts of things including um the
green bottles which is camping gas sometimes or barbecue gas and then you've got um the red bottle
which is propane and blue bottle which is butane and they're all gas that you can put in your van
with the right regulator to help your fire burn and your heat to work and all that kind of an
opg in england as i found out the other day is 100 percent 100 propane i thought you can send 100 lpg
100 propane but it's different in europe it's not recycled chip fat no i'll be nice if you would
though leisure battery or house battery uh that is the battery that is meant to power everything
in the back of the van so it isn't meant to power the starter motor to start the van side of things
keep the engine running it's not meant to power the lights things like that it's just meant
for the habitation area and that is another thing hab and hab check and habdo they all
relate to habitation area which is the bit where we really live in yes and also on the
battery kind of thing you've got your starter battery yeah starter battery which is different
which is as i've just said all the power up front for the van bit of your van
park up perk up pretty much like a wild camping or boom docking it's a place where you park overnight
where you're kind of not going to get bothered and the pancake can be referred to for anything
it's a pub park up it's a council car park it's a beachside park it's a lay by well out of the
way somewhere down the a3251 up yeah there you go hook up oh hook up it's not when you're on tinder
different kind of hookup and not let's be inclusive let's not forget grinder okay
you know it's hook up power yep um and that brings you on to sure power
or mains power hookup power whatever you want to call it essentially that is 240 volts that's
coming from outside the van that you plug in through a special connector in your van and then
you get power around your van power around your van power for coffee i thought you nearly swore
if you like no no four copies four coffee levelers levellers on the level man on the level preferably
most of the time especially if you're in the gas fridge or you want your water to drain in the
right plugin in apple in any plug hole and they're essentially plastic wedges that you drive up
one side or the other or one corner to level your van and if you're wild camping you can use rocks
and stones and things like that absolutely to stop you falling out of bed yeah see my poet and
you didn't know it yeah tracks and waffle boards yeah um track some waffle boards if you get stuck
maybe we've used them once or twice yes they're not clean put it that way
no which i don't think they should be no they shouldn't be but we used to pop up
solar panels the other day there were they were they've been used properly as well though yes
multi-use it is technically a gadget oh yeah oh there you go
airs and grace there's increases we have none
sorry about that but that's kind of in with the um with the park ups as well isn't it
there is a dedicated place where camper vans are supposed to go and are allowed to go
and is a step down supposedly from a campsite yeah most of the time pretty good got all your services
there you might have to pay for things like water and things like that electricity as well
but it also comes along with a new form of van life and that is the camping guide yep because
that's what they call a campervan over there which they don't have a different definition of camping
camping car covers uh campervan motorhome and a class so yeah complica yeah
and along with all of that stuff including the heirs you get a service point yes a service point
to service yourself not yourself oh yeah in it yeah it is filthy mostly i don't actually know
most of the time they keep them clean but it's to get rid of your filthy stuff yeah service points
where you go to get your water to empty your loo and stuff like that and it's either a dedicated
place in all in one go or it's kind of spread out a little bit depending on which country you're in
they do it slightly differently don't they just makes things interesting sometimes you go up there
and you look like a newbie every time it's like oh what do i do where does that fit into there
and births not about children or animals many things have given birth this family's probably
giving birth in a factory in germany it probably didn't sound like that candles out ladies but
they always get me with birth because birds don't necessarily mean how many people you can travel
in the bandwidth no that's different that's belted seats and not belting ones because i
mean they're like they might look like new ones we've got built-in belted seats yeah
but otherwise it's just for safety really that a special crush harness is built into the seats
with the seat belt some pre-tensioners all that belted in there and that means people can travel
in a forward direction in the van with you not always a forward direction yeah true as opposed
to just sleeping yep because sometimes you can get a six burst motorhome with two driving seats
or two belted seats which are always confusing like why do you need six beds for six where are
the other two people coming from are they flying in all the four people i've seen two belted seats
and uh yeah that just about concludes our very quick oh ten minutes quick think we do well yeah
kind of things if you know more then explain them down below yes
i'm sure everybody will read but it's just stuff like things that surprised us last week
it's just stuff that we never thought we'd have to learn about now and stuff that we sometimes
spell out to people that say oh what do you mean by that and we thought well
let's put it in a video yeah why not as you do all right yep see you later guys