good morning
to ensure that the vans extra safe there's no gas going through the line it's even
when it's ready to turn off we shut off from the propane tank so just to drain
the line fully
so now that's gone out will shut off it from this valve just a little extra
precaution better safe than sorry it might look like we're on some kind of
liquid diet huh this is what we have most mornings. A plus smoothie and a hot tea.
good let's fire up the jet a lot of interest in van life in the city a lot
of people have messaging us saying hey what's it like to live in a van so this
weekend we're gonna bring you guys along for the ride and show you what it's like
to van it up in the city will show you kind of where we park some of our favourite spots
snap what it's like change lane we just stopped at one of our local
coffee shops... it's called The Christie.
I'm sipping on a soy latte.
and Eamon was trying a Station Cold Brew Coffee it's like really quite nice outside.
so this is Trinity Bellwoods Park it's probably one of the
more popular places to hang out at least in the West End of Toronto and we're
gonna be meeting my sister and JT oh I've always wanted one of those things I
think we need one for the van did we find a parking spot yeah one of the I
think best things about our van is ...
while it's like one of the smaller sprinters it actually will fit in
parking spots do you get out and help you?
Oh
just about to make dinner and then we decided oh let's go to Fresh because
you've got to maximize the time that you're in a city so we're headed to fresh I think
I'm gonna try soup or maybe a burger
this is where we were this is how far we made it to the grocery store we were
like let's go to fresh instead which is just up here I thought you said you were
getting the mushroom burger
headed back to JT and Mel's place we're gonna drop them off
we've established some spots in Toronto where we can sleep no problem one of
them being our office but also some little side streets that allow you to
park overnight and the key to being able to stealth camp in any city I believe is
just making sure that you're ready for bed when you get to a spot so we've
already had dinner and we'll make sure that the lights are off that we've kind
of got the blinds closed and we'll just pull up to a street and sleep and then
before we really get up in the morning and start like making a lot of ruckus we
might move and just like kind of do it a little bit more stealth and I think
that's the key fellows camper wonder if you're in there we just stopped at the
local Tim Hortons which is like a coffee chain here in Canada and use the
facilities they like this spot is it's just it's a normal residential street
but on the one side the side that has the side door is just a church so
typically you're not gonna get bothered there no one's gonna be in there the
other side is kind of a normal residential street with a bunch of
houses but that's the side where there's no windows so Bec's just closing that
off and that will block the light from the front and then we've also got this
one and that one blocks off that window so now I'll go outside and show you kind
of what we look like with the lights are on we've got that same kind of curtain
is on the back here very very stealth
now that we're all parked and settled in you can do whatever you want
brush your teeth a little laptop Club it's kind of ridiculous I'm working on a
movie right now oh we got footage on two different hard drives so I have to have
them both plugged in which is super annoying I have to wipe buddy's feet
down because he's literally so filthy otherwise I'm not allowed into bed no
you're not like that's just a little bit some days are so much worse that's so
nasty buddy hate when you treat me like that