so those of you don't know me I'm
Alexander Travelbum and we're about to
drive this around America
come on in
so sitting in the back. actually I'm
gonna save it for last. so this van was
originally a trail master so we have
some upgrades here including these very
padded seats which are great for long
drives right now the stereo it only
plays CDs and radio and it only works
half the time I've been using this
Bluetooth speaker we have a backup
camera which I can't leave plugged in or
else it'll drain the battery here we
have my succulents which recently died
in Death Valley here right next to the
driver's seat
nice little cooler so we can grab a beer
while we're driving ah just kidding here
it says we get a hundred miles per hour
but I think I top out at 70 and don't be
fooled by the amount of gas in there
it's always on empty now welcome to my
kitchen
my living room my bedroom and my
bathroom this is a 2000 GMC savana
with 65,000 miles
it was pretty good when I got it but I
had to make some upgrades welcome to my
new home
okay so from my kitchen I found two
different cabinets from thirst stores so
they're each maybe five and ten dollars
to make this this one had an open space
in here and I put the sink in here which
is actually just a salad bowl with a
hole cut out in the bottom and a manual
pump sink which works like this so the
water that goes down this sink comes out
down here into this jug this is my gray
water tank and this is my white water
tank so this one has a tube going up to
the faucet and then there's a tube going
from the drain straight into here we
have my Vitamix over here pretty much
this is my bed from my bed I left the
seats that were originally in the back
it always was able to come down into a
bed because this was a conversion ban
and I just reassured the seats with this
material and a foam pad I found some
pretty cool leather pillows at the
thrift store and then I made these
curtains on the windows that are
actually insulated with reflectix should
keep it cool when it's hot and should
keep me a little insulated from the cold
in the back here I have my books storage
for sweaters jackets for the winter
towels you name it so the windows
already came with these curtains but I
installed some of my own
they are velcro Don so I can see outside
if I want now let's go into the back
here and see what I have in my garage
so here we have my bathroom which I move
into the main cabin when I sleep from
toilet seat on a bucket and I just take
these bags out
we have bathroom stuff
my very mini mini fridge and fits about
one bottle of nothing I have some art
stuff for when I spill
Chapman's quite often all of my shoes
and boots for now this is what I have
for sleeping just a big blanket I have
another ice chest here this is where we
keep our snacks chips rice hands of
beans soup ketchup olive oil cups now
let's go over my solar setup I needed a
solar because I make these videos I like
to sleep at night I need a fan I need to
run a fridge so here's my solar setup
really quickly I'll go over it more in
another video
okay so firstly I have 300 watts and we
drilled a hole to get into this is my
inverter which allows me to plug in to
the solar and get my power here is a
huge battery we have the wanderer charge
controller so next I installed these
curtains on a wire
I have a TV up here we have two
different kinds of mood light and then I
have this bat here you know just in case
you can never be too safe you never know
when somebody is really really gonna
want to play baseball then down here I
have all my clothes storage
I have camera gear in this drawer
kitchen utensils bowls place plastic
forks got nice spices I have my basil
and rosemary which also died in Death
Valley and wooden spatula mushroom tin
and of course you might need to get
ready sometimes and this is my bathroom
so I need a mirror so when I got this
van it was just basically a regular
conversion van it had all the seats in
here it at carpeting which I took out
and I put this in they didn't have
anything you see here now I did leave
the back seats because they
electronically go down and turn into a
bed and I like that actually instead of
talking about all the details let me
just show you
so these days everyone seems to be
naming their vans so I'm pretty sure I
have a name but comment down below what
do you think he looks like alright so
that's the tour of my van
in a few days we're going to be leaving
from where I live in the Bay Area near
San Francisco north or again Washington
Canada and then we'll see where we go
from there I'm calling this the
greetings from America tour because I'm
going to be sending you my subscribers
postcards drawn on postcards from all
around America as I travel join me on
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