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what's up I'm Philip liberal I'm from
Montreal based in Los Angeles well this
is my home actually for not living in
Squamish right now happiness on me I've
been traveling for 12 years as a model
living in a suitcase just before turning
30 I decided to make myself a gift so I
bought the van I did a trip from LA to
Vancouver by every national park and I
came back to driving by the coast a
month road trip came back in LA fully
addicted of the freedom of the van life
starting my third year living in it now
I'm in Canada falling in love with my
own country my van is my bedroom and the
world is my living room what is it that
you really need in life like food water
and a bed at night right voila I fill my
fan as a weekend van and I end up living
in it the only thing I can say it's put
electricity first thing first solar
panel with a second battery because I
cannot charge my computer or my drone
that's the only thing I'll say and also
because it was a weekend ban it's a
cooler in it so solar panels extra
battery a real fridge not a cooler got
to change ice every three days so that's
a downside
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Rowland all right my little van it's
Ford e350 Super Duty 2011 ninety three
thousand miles haven't been in the
garage yet since I was three years it
did some modification this drill bumper
were a chrome and it looked really bad
so I went to see a guy he charged me for
400 bucks I think to paint it and he
said the only thing with that little
grill is plastic so it's gonna chip so I
decided to go to a store buy myself a
little spray can black mat it looks okay
it looks better though change the tire
it's sadly not a 4x4 I got stuck a
couple times but it's part of van life
it's fun like as soon as you get out of
your comfort zone that's where adventure
start and when you get stuck you have a
little like point 5 second of but
then you're like ok what to do what to
do it's like no problem only solution
what I said before
and that's where the fun starts so
$16,000 to convert us to convert 4x4 so
I'm not going to do I wanted to have the
roof rack whip for everything that I
cannot fit in the van so I have a picnic
table a crash pad a kayak and my soft
stop surfboard eight feet of rope life
you should definitely if you have a van
put off-road life you need those I think
sometimes when you reach a off-road
places not off-road but like just a road
like here at night it gets pretty dark
and just for deers like safety do that
shower that's pretty cool it's a small
five-gallon bag it heats up with the Sun
so like two three hours the water reach
a really hot temperature to take a
shower otherwise it's good it's rinse or
do my dishes or extra water you see it's
not fancy man
all right come in swivel seat I change
the base of both feet and it gives you
so much space because usually if it the
regular side the back comes here so you
have what like two feet of living area
by flipping it it's my everything I eat
on my computer I do everything here it
and it makes it so much bigger again I'm
not fancy I just have those jar of water
that's it and every campground well
usually I became ground have a spot
where you can fill up your bottle so
even if you stay or not they just go
fill up your bottle say let the shower
bag actually as soon as you see water
you have to fill up your bottle yeah
sometimes you cannot run out of water
that's important my cooler I mean I'm
okay with it but if you start a new van
that's why I'm saying put electricity
because you got left
yeah I have all my son I don't know if I
can show you
higher it's not that bad so all my fan
for clicking out loving walk that is a
bit fancy it's much anyway
and then that's probably a mess yeah so
let's not go there but that is all my
plate my dry food bag for dirty clothes
you don't know where to put it you need
to have a specific place so it's not
going to be all over the place
that's pretty practical little two
burner stove propane that's all I need
oh and what I like about that one I see
some people that put in like the
Volkswagen it's inside it's stuck on the
come in the counter but what I like
about the portable one is as soon as I'm
somewhere I can cook outside
I cook outside because it doesn't smell
and you have more room you can like use
a table picnic table or whatever so
portable stove it's I like it if I if I
build another van I will put affordable
so again bed is the memory foam really
comfortable like it was $600 u.s.
you cannot go cheap on the bed it's
really important waking up like sore or
waking up fresh come on I did a three
inch and I have an inch and a half of
feather on top so it is like a cloud
it's really good recommended highly
recommended I also build my bed I build
it so it can be too little couch with a
table and I never used it it's probably
going to be good to resell the van but I
live outside I just need a bed to sleep
so when you do long time van life you
learn like different things like that
the bed even if it's five minutes
sometimes you think five minutes is okay
but day after day after day after day
nope don't do it it has to be as easy as
possible just have a regular closet no
door nothing no rope if my clothes fell
off the closet it just means that I'm
driving too crazy my closet teach me to
take my time driving don't rush and
surfboard just with elastic my to
surfboard or stuck into the window they
like barely barely eight inch that I
lose in my van all my gear under the bed
lift lift up your bed from the ground
and storage you need storage so
everything under the bed what else that
point that I found without where Oregon
the best thing in life are not things
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don't be too serious normal is boring oh
it goes like all the way to the other
side so I like sets both sides I have my
wet to when they're wet I love them with
chains on the ladder yeah don't forget
to lock it though I changed for winter
when I go snowboard I have all my
camping gear my chairs my action I have
dry bike that's important if you want to
go hike through rivers or just the day
at the beach
I have a tent but I just bought so happy
about it I just came back this morning
from my second backpacking trip in my
life I'm addicted fully addicted now I
have my super flop fluffy ultralight
sleeping bag my ultralight tent my
backpack behind my surf my van comes
with the Beavers when you back up so if
you don't have that at least put a
camera on top these things are quite big
so you need something you need a rear
view other than that you just need guys
and hit the road when you live in a van
every single tiny spot you can find to
more storage you find like
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I never heard any teacher in school
telling me how to live life only like
follow the rules which I'm not good
under this is the best life lesson
living in a van connecting with nature
and yourself I learned so much about
myself since I'm in the van
what do I really need what do I want
where I want to go what I want to do
everything is special there's no problem
there's only solution because before
Devon I kind of had that Beverly Hills
type of life I wasn't happy so I decided
to leave and that was like from a really
really big house to this and I'm now
since I'm more happy thankful Marley or
Dalai Lama if you ask them are you rich
like what kind of Christian van life
makes you millionaires life boy
do it yes my advice do it thanks for
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