And Ii'm back to where I used to be, living out of a backpack! Hey what's going on youtube, greetings
from a thousand trails location near dallas texas. No that wasn't clickbait in the title or in my
intro, Ii am selling my van tonight's actually my last night in the van so that's bittersweet
i know it's going to upset a lot of you but in this video i promise to go over the reasons why
i'm selling my van and what my future plans are going to be travel plans van life plans all that
kind of stuff because both of those things are going to happen but first i want to show you this
beautiful campsite i'm at so let's go holy cow this is a pretty big lake usually when you go to
a thousand trails the lakes are pretty small when they say the ronald lake they're usually man-made
and this might be man-made but it's i don't know if you can see how huge this thing is but
it is massive this is called lake tawakona it's just outside of dallas actually about an hour
outside of dallas and about an hour from where i'm gonna go and drop off the rv but i mean just look
at this place that's really cool check out where i'm camped so over here i was originally going to
be camped right there actually but i didn't want to be between those two rvs so i went ahead and
moved to another spot pretty cool little spot a great way to spend my last night in my van
i think we're gonna go over there and watch the sunset here real quick if you're enjoying this
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in about an hour i'm taking the rig over to national rv center i'm signing it over to them
and they're going to sell it for me i chose to do it that way because i really didn't want to deal
with the admin paperwork and they have a pretty good program for that so that's what i'm gonna do
driving it over there and selling it but now for what all of you really really really wanna know
why am i selling the van what's gonna happen now van life travel all that stuff so let's jump into
that so i love this van as you can see by that montage it's taking me to so many awesome places
but there's one achilles heel to this van that i just cannot change and it's limiting that one
thing is this van is not 4x4 it's not all-wheel drive i cannot take it off-road without worrying
about getting stuck i've been stuck a bunch in this rig although i've always been able to get
out except for once i had to call a tow truck to pull me out but i want to be able to go deeper
and further into national forests and into the desert into places where i'm likely to get stuck
if i only have front-wheel drive and it might be difficult to get out if there was an aftermarket
kit for this van that i could turn it into a 4x4 i would have already done it you guys know i put
the lift kit on here to get myself more clearance if there was a 4x4 kit i would be keeping this van
right now but there isn't so it's time to move on and find a 4x4 for my van life adventures
the second reason and i know this is going to sound crazy to a lot of you but i think
the van is just too big it's too big for me i want something smaller 19 feet or under and maybe even
way smaller and we'll talk about that in a moment i've cleared out the van i've got all my stuff
cleared out and i just have so much space in this thing you got all these cabinets all of this space
underneath here all the space behind that you can't see all the space in the rear of the vehicle
it's just too much for me when i was cleaning out the van to prepare to go into the storyteller i
couldn't believe how much stuff i had accumulated i'm a minimalist but i guess if i have somewhere
to put stuff i'll buy stuff so those are the two reasons no 4x4 and i think it's too big i
know a lot of you would probably get a shower but honestly that's just a minor inconvenience
and it's something i could have probably fixed at some point but those two big reasons i gave you
i can't change those alright so i know your next question is does that mean van life is over for
you no van life is not over for me on the first of april i am picking up a storyteller and i'm taking
it out for 30 days after i take the storyteller out then i'm going to figure out how i want to do
van life but i'm definitely going to do it in some form and it's gonna be one of two ways it's either
gonna be in a rig like a storyteller or a rebel something smaller something with four by four
probably on a sprinter chassis or i'm gonna get something smaller like a honda element
maybe a subaru and try to turn it into a little micro camper which means it would be my build
i'd probably get some people to help me but it's going to be one of those two ways i'm either going
to be in something like a storyteller or a rebel or i'm gonna be in something really small like a
honda element all right so let me tell you about the next few months of travel for me
so from the first to the 30th like i mentioned i'm picking up a storyteller i'm going to take
that over to southern utah we're gonna have a blast we're gonna explore everything southern
utah has to offer maybe we'll sneak on up to idaho and montana we'll see how much time we have after
i drop the storyteller off in alabama i'm gonna hop on a plane where you think i'm going i'll
give you a couple seconds to write it down below in the comments let's see if you guessed right
i'm going to hawaii i'm going there for two months we're gonna live in a van part
of the time we're gonna live in an airbnb part of the time it's going to be a lot
of fun we're going to explore the island i'm going to take you on some of my favorite hikes
and then we're going to come back to the u.s and hopefully by then i either have something
like a storyteller or a rebel standing by for me or i buy an element or a subaru and we go
build that thing out so one of those two things is going to happen which one would you prefer
me to being a storyteller or a rebel or for me to build out a little micro camper make sure you put
your answer down below let's take one last look at my baby as much as i complain about the flaws of
this travato it served me really well and took me to some amazing places and facilitated some
awesome experiences i don't regret buying this rig one bit at a minimum it helped me figure out
exactly what i need in a rag so so let me run in here and do some paperwork and hand over the keys
all right so i just finished up with national rv here and it was a really good experience
and i'm back to where i used to be living out of a backpack
but next week i'm being a storyteller so see you next week i'm a little sad
there's my van going to be gone soon but uh yeah um on to the next adventure
for the broken heart laying the weed to afraid to start the dreams that only came to pass them by
here's to the broken man who stood in ward when it hurt you can't
it might feel like it's too hard