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welcome back to another video here of our van life Series today we're going to be camping
off grit we can't wait towards the Lake Mead area of Nevada it's going to be a lot of fun
Anna's packing up uh getting some what if we have groceries here we just went to the
grocery store gonna be off grid so we're gonna be cooking for ourselves definitely won't
have the option of eating out maybe some other people have some grilling going on have some
yummy food but I'm doing grocery shopping trying to find spots for everything this is
what we go through every day huh it is it's fun though all the time trying to find more
room here we got lots of room in this kind of garage you can see firewood there so start
putting this wherever it fits all right everything's all packed there's a surprising amount of
room in here I'm sure we just said that a second ago but it's like every I always need
to find places basically everything under here is almost empty I know that's what I
was just showing them like under here there's so much room but uh yeah this is good we're
digging this so far this whole van life thing he's looking at the map to see how far we
have to go to get to our maybe off-grid campsite it could be a little bit of searching to find
the right spot but right now it says an hour and 48 minutes all right the endless Adventure
is still with us over here there's their setup they're I think in the gas station now but
it's time to hit the road I believe yeah let's get going [Music] all right we're now about
30 minutes into our uh I think it's a three hour uh drive and the views are awesome this
whole side of the United States is just unreal honestly now if you guys are new around here
and you don't know who we are it's Trevor and Anna it's the delightful Travelers we're
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you that follow along week to week we're glad you're back and you're probably wondering
if we're liking van life and I thought I'd just quickly talk about that we're literally
on day three and we've been filming every single day it's pretty crazy but we are loving
this this has been so fun we've we've we're able to even empty the toilet we didn't film
that because we didn't want to gross you guys out but we're figuring out all the gray water
and how to hook everything up and what all the buttons and control panels are for and
just I mean this is what everybody that has an RV and Van life says I mean we just feel
so free we can do whatever we want we didn't really have a plan today and we decided to
try this kind of off-grid camping or wild camp we are meeting some other friends there
Max and Marin from Voyager Guru if you guys would have saw them in video already and of
course we have the endless Adventure here with us as well so we have a caravan of Vans
and people today all going to Camp off-grid so for those of you that are tuning in for
the very first time we are renting this van we have not in fact bought it even though
I kind of wish we did don't have the money for that but it's a great way for us to be
able to test out whether or not we'd like a van whether or not we think we live in a
van or at least part-time live in a van if it's too small maybe we'll try out an RV sometime
at some point and see how we like that how they compare with each other um but this is
probably a bit of a tease for us because as I said we can't we could never afford this
so we want something down the line it would not be something nearly this nice or this
expensive but it's doing really well so far so we when we first got it we basically just
kind of threw our stuff in here and then went into a campground for three days so it's been
parked so this is our first time driving with everything kind of full everything in the
cabinets and it's doing really well the year of this van is like 2021 or 2022 I can't remember
what they told us when we left so we'd never buy something like this it's probably in the
six figures but we are curious we'd like to buy something probably 20 years old or so
in pleasure ways or Road trucks Catch catches our eye and if any of you have advice on like
maybe is one better than the other or do you guys prefer one over the other leave us a
comment because we are kind of just peeking I don't want to call it shopping around yet
but we're clearly loving van life but we're curious if we got one of the two which would
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well this has been a ride what do you think pretty intense
multiple times yeah okay I stopped here because I know you can get down but can you get back
up with Clementine that's the question and even our van and the van and is it this is
this the way it's definitely the way all right we made it down the uh Hill no problem there
it was a little gnarly but now uh you can see Eric and Allison taking their time but
they're making it they're making it Eric went down to scoto Max uh now we're gonna figure
out how to get there hey man look at this van it's very sweet where are we we're lost
we are uh we're we're in we're in the desert we're in a beautiful somewhat secluded part
of the desert but uh yeah the roads are a little gnarly how do we get to where you are
down backwards that road yeah I think you guys have to back up just a little bit all
right we'll back up we're so close but we're hitting a few roadblocks as we get down there
one we just don't know if the RV can get where Max and marinara and I don't know if we explained
before we said we were meeting up with Max and Marin but they were actually came and
picked out a spot and I think they had some backup spots for the RV so we're trying to
figure out if Eric and Allison they're trying to I think they're trying to figure out where
they can get to at the moment they might Park a little bit away from the water where Max
and marinar it's all very confusing at the moment I'm gonna check all the cabinets there
was a lot of rattling going on here the moment we got off the main road and onto the dirt
road it was like super shaky I thought literally everything was gonna break but not bad I think
we're okay okay good I do think everyone ever have uh one of these of our own everything
would be plastic what do you guys think do you guys for people that actually have a van
or spend a lot of time in a van plastic or glass so this is going to be home for the
night our friends are kind of way off in the distance but I think it's only about a five
minute walk we'll go down there in a little while but yeah this is this is Desert camping
at its finest Eric and Elson they decided to kind of stay just back there mainly because
there's this big uh hill with a lot of like loose gravel and we just don't think we'll
get back up but hopefully we can get out of here and uh tomorrow we're only here for one
night doing this but so far so good and it's hot in the desert so we're gonna talk a little
bit about how we're possibly going to survive 24 hours or however many hours it is off-grid
no electricity how does this work this is the first time for us so if you're like a
super expert van lifer you're probably gonna laugh a lot at us because we've never done
this before this is our third day in a van we know nothing about going off grid or how
any of this stuff works so I hope you have a good laugh if this is something that you
enjoy I think this thing has solar power yeah we haven't actually crawled up to the top
to actually check but there's a big panel over here that says solar yeah I'm pretty
sure it does have solar we just don't know how long it'll last we don't and it appears
to be charging right now obviously it's very sunny out and it should be for the next three-ish
hours so we'll be charging there but then it'll be dark so the other question is like
how long is our battery Gonna Last there is clearly a battery in here I think they told
us that as we drive the battery charges the battery charges there's also a generator if
we need that there is a backup generator hopefully we won't have to use that but it's great knowing
that it's in here we just push a button and it turns on so that's convenient and we have
water we have water and there's a water pump that's another thing I don't know is like
when we turn the water pump switch on and we're not actually using the water is it still
pulling power or not I'm just going to be careful and keep it off just because I don't
want to drain the battery accidentally so we'll just use that uh as we go you guys again
and probably laughing at something like of course you can leave that on or no definitely
keep it off but maybe leave a comment below if you know the answer all right here's the
Eric and Clementine here and we're talking about how you're how are you able to like
stay off grid you guys did it before yes yes we have we haven't gone that long off-grid
with commentine but uh we're easing into it the most important thing I think is we have
our solar panels on the top they give us about 400 watts of power and good sun and that charges
up a 300 amp hour battery bank that's in there and of course has an inverter so we can you
know charge all our devices through that 120 volt um you can't really run the AC so if
we stay off grid for a while we usually do it in like a temporary climate we don't want
to do that in uh The Heat Of Summer we also have a big old propane tank down there and
that thing is pretty sweet you can actually run the heater with that for a long time so
you can stay off grid in Winter for a good amount of time then there's the water tank
that ours holds 40 gallons some people have even more than that but 40 gallons you can
take a shower but you're probably only going to get two five minute showers but we usually
just uh have enough to wash our hair and then use wet wipes to kind of clean our bodies
and stuff so we can stay a little bit clean and we can stay off grid for a really long
time I think we could go a week or two we're gonna put that through the test in the coming
weeks all right but we'll see well now we feel good we're just over there so that's
good we didn't think you could do like a week or two oh yeah definitely and we do promise
to give you guys a tour of inside of their place maybe in the next video or something
like that it's kind of dirty right now so you guys don't want to see in there we just
we just everything just bounced and shook all over the place from this off-road Trail
we just came down to Max and Marin's uh off-grid truck it has basically a camper attached to
the back and I'll get uh Maxwell or Marin to explain more of that how they're able to
go off-grid like this the funny thing is I think it's like 20 minutes from their house
which is kind of uh it's it's around Lake Las Vegas or close to Henderson but look at
look at this setup you guys so this is crazy The Gangs all everyone's just meeting each
other but like this is Lake Mead a sliver of it Sun's going down over there I mean this
looks pretty epic we are way off in the distance that way that's just someone's uh truck who's
out fishing but yeah we're way back there it's really it's really not that far at all
we just didn't want to risk the drive but let's go uh let's go talk to Maxim Aaron found
Max he's gonna take us through how they're able to do this off-grid stuff this yeah what
a rig this is this is so cool yeah so we call her Dakota she is a FWC a four-wheel camper
just a pop-up camper and the really cool thing is that she can go pretty much anywhere because
it's basically a camper that fits in the truck bed and so wherever the truck can go the camper
can go yeah and we have it set up pretty good we've got the awning we've got yeah look at
this awning I walk under it with you this is the Batwing awning this is so cool 270
degree batwing and then we got the speaker set up over there with the music can we peek
inside yeah check it out oh you can pop in there so it's super comfortable inside because
like the upper loft there the bed actually slides out it becomes a full king-sized bed
uh and we've got a furnace too so we do a lot of winter camping yeah stuff for skiing
so do you have solar or do you run stuff off the so engine we usually just run off the
engine for now we've been thinking about doing solar but we we do like a week two weeks kind
of Max and so far our batteries are good for that uh it hasn't hasn't been an issue up
until like because we're kind of moving from time to time we'll spend like a week in one
place and we'll kind of keep moving so it hasn't been too much we don't run anything
too power heavy oh I absolutely love the inside of this I actually can't wait for Anna and
the rest of the gang to see this what are you girls doing chilling by the fire get a
beer hi [Music]
it has a fan so as long as you start it it'll just blow up and smoke and flames and be perfect
so I feel like if we commit to Van life maybe we need to get one of these yeah these guys
maybe we need to do truck life yes
by the way this is Marin and you guys just saw Max so if you guys were watching like
what three three videos ago two three videos ago okay oh my God staying with these guys
and uh they took us on like a tour around Las Vegas but kind of a little bit more often
we went to the Valley of Fire right yes State Park
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good morning I'll just leave pretty good um something that we figured out last night and
hopefully it's not a problem and it's just the way it works in here but we got to bed
probably at 11 o'clock or so and went to go turn on this baby which is the AC slash fan
above us and it doesn't turn on and then we also figured out that the outlets aren't working
so I'm assuming it's just because we're on battery powder Power that's all it is so we
had to open these guys the windows get a cross Breeze we have a little USBS in yeah we got
this um little fan here we bought for emergency situations so that works and then we have
a well we have our speaker and there's like uh hear that it's like a noise machine coming
out of that this little guy comes in handy for us the reason we have it on is a white
noise machine at the moment is in case anyone's around this morning they're going fishing
we didn't want to be woken up I should turn it off it's pretty good we don't travel without
this thing it comes in very handy even in Van life do a battery check here so you can
hold this little button in so now it's back to full ah it's back to full okay so yeah
it was two thirds before yeah last night when we got back probably like 10 10 30 from Max
and Marin's it was on two thirds which I thought was weird because it wasn't even doing anything
I mean I had to run the fridge and stuff while we were gone but clearly there's solar on
the roof powering it putting it to full and that's what we wondered yeah interesting time
for coffee I need to wash my face get woken up and definitely make coffee thankfully we
have a kettle we've got propane and a stove as long as I can get it lit oh there you go
there we go fire fire we also have these little coffee thingies I don't know exactly what
to call these but the way they work is you put them in a mug and they sit on top and
it works like a pour over you just put your coffee inside we absolutely do not travel
without these I mean these are so they're almost just as important as their phones yes
we like our coffee that much but maybe what we'll do you guys ask us we've asked us about
these in the past and I think this little fan some of you might be interested in that
we'll just put some links Down Below in the description in case you're interested in them
they come in handy for us maybe they'll come in handy for you we're just finishing wrapping
up here you can see the endless Adventure they're ready to go in the background and
yeah we got a what five hour drive ahead five hour drive this is gonna be our longest drive
of the whole trip so it's gonna be a long day but we're going somewhere really exciting
so here we are so we're gonna make our way from here uh which is we're very close to
Lake Mead and we're going all the way over to Palm Springs that's very dependent on
earlier in the video so yeah we got about a five hour drive I think the weather's nice
can't ask for anything more but how about the desert huh desert camping first for us
those are camping first loved it loved it for sure and off-grid went okay yeah we know
now we know the ins and outs I guess we need to use our generator if we want to do anything
more yeah that's the key we could have done that I think it might cost money to use our
uh our generator I can see Max and Mariner just they're not coming with us today it's
just the endless Adventure in us going but they're coming way down there just coming
up probably to say goodbye yeah but speaking of goodbye it's time for us to wrap up if
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it from the desert in Lake Mead in Nevada wishing you delightful travels see you soon
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