hi I'm busty and I'm Sonia and down here
is our sweet little dog Pepper and
behind us is our van Groot it's a Fiat
ducato the smallest engine you can get
just two liters it's pretty much the
Dodge ProMaster I think
um I think the only difference is that
we have a diesel and yeah and the other
one wants runs with gas the black paint
for the plastic parts is black Raptor
additional to that we have some really
really bright LED lights tires we have
are BF Goodrich it's 16 inch for this
car this is the biggest we can use you
cannot really see it but we have air
suspensions so the driver can change the
pressure we have some additional locks
for for our doors we have it on the side
door and on the rear when we bought the
transporter it had no windows on it we
have one on the side and of course one
in the back the windows on the side and
in the back have two parts so like you
can you can have it just the shade so
it's darken or you just yeah have it for
for the box and then flies and it's next
to our gearbox or our Wellies and hiking
shoes and all that stuff this is getting
dirty and we don't want to have it in
inside the van this box is customized so
you cannot buy it like in a shop or
something this is our pretty big garage
camping chairs camping table or
backpacks on the right side and we have
all the tools we need you can see all
our electricity Parts DC to DC charger
so we can charge our battery when we're
driving the inverter so we can use our
230 Watts devices we have a 300 and
power leafy Pro and the charger so we
can charge the battery from our solar
panel with 180 Watt on top on all of
these cables it is like a fire alarm so
if something happens we really got to
know really quick that something is
happening we have a lot of boxes to
store our things on the left we have a
big drawer where we put like sports
stuff like something for barbecue and we
can fill out the water tank here we just
have to open the doors underneath we
have here our outer shower pretty easy
and quick to to set it up yeah we just
switch it in
and it's ready the water tank we built
in is about 70 liters and the gray water
tank we have beneath the car is I think
it was 25 liters for filling up the
water we have like this hole with us and
a filter
this filter is before the water goes
into the tank and we have the same
filter
before the tab so it's double filtered
once before it goes in the tank so we
have always a cleaned up water tank and
of course that we can
pretty much drink every water we get
that's yeah that's pretty nice
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an agency and I work for a big cable
company and it was really like a nine to
five job and yeah one day we decided
that's not what we won and so we had to
make some changes and one of them is
this paid I think at least 8 500 euro
for for just the transporter and
everything adds we wanted to build it
for around 10 000 Euro but we spend more
like 20 000. we moved out of our flat
and moved in with my parents yeah it was
kind of challenging to go back
especially it was during covet and
everything was locked down and yeah but
we had our project and we had our goal
in mind I think building the van there
were no really really red flags because
we didn't know anything about vanville
so everything was a challenge and we had
to learn everything it always takes
longer than you expected it definitely
it was always our common sense that we
want to ship our home here to have like
for us and for our dog she feels the
most comfortable in her space But to be
honest was a process to decide that we
want to spend that money because if you
just see the price tag for the shipping
is much better amount of money will
bring us 10 months in Euro just more
traveling is it worth it but then you
have it always in your mind you're
thinking that was our dream and it's a
lot of money but it's just because of
money we didn't do it then we would and
one day we would be very disappointed
about this I think it's like we want to
travel South and if we want to go even
further we need to ship it one more time
from Panama to Colombia but
that's already so far in future like we
our plans are more like okay what's next
week what's going on next week so yeah
we just kind of go with the flow yeah we
have here a mosquito net to keep all the
mosquitoes outside when we have the
doors open here on the left side we have
some small little fruit hammocks and a
big curtain to
um yeah kind of separate driver's cabin
from our living space we start our
office desk we need our mattress
and then we put it up in front
it's just amazing because it brings so
much more space somebody's working here
and the other person can do whatever
they like in the back we also can
swivel around our seats here and we also
can pop up the table here
it makes it just a bigger space right
over here we have our two burner kitchen
stove and that we're really happy about
it works really nice and smoothly
underneath we have our 11 liters propane
bottle lasts four months so we don't
have to top it up that much often small
little drawer just a little extra space
for
um yeah spices and cloth and kind of
stuff
and a little hack that we learned on the
way was we can open the door for our Pro
pen bottle from the outside but when
it's rainy you don't want to open the
door right so we put a little
sneaky tiny door to get in and open the
bottle and close it to be safe during
the night we wanted to have a really big
kitchen sink underneath our sink
we have our trash bin and some storage
for dog food and yeah whatever needs
some space we also have down here the
switch or our gray water tank so we just
have to turn around switch it on and get
all the gray water out and yeah then
close it again and we also can track it
down here we have our very little fridge
it's enough for two people for four or
five days so we're really happy with
that we also have a little freezer down
there so we can have some ice cubes and
some cold nice drinks here we have two
drawers to fix our drawers while we are
driving we fix it with this little oh
grabs here so they won't pop up if we
are going over bumpy roads then have
space to do like cooking stuff cutting
things and what we really love about
this corner is our Mexican tiles here
yeah we did that ourselves and we're
really happy about it right here we have
some spices and also a little spice
shelf that develops through the times to
a little photo corner with people that
we meet on the way up here we have a bar
but we can hang everything we want there
towels bikinis to dry so that's perfect
up here we have our upper cabinets
um
this is our little bathroom I would say
here on the left side we have all our
stuff to cook and my little Coffee
corner plates pots and pans over our
guest stove we have a teeny tiny
cabinets
where we have all the medicine things we
need and yeah right there we have our
panels where we can track our battery
and how much fresh water we have and we
can pull off our inverter right above me
we have a little window and it's not a
fan actually it's just a teeny tiny
window on top but we're really happy
with it if we open a side window and on
top
we have a nice little fresh Breeze
coming through right behind our kitchen
we have our sitting area here at this
bar we can set up our table
and you can move it around so everybody
can go out without standing at the table
underneath our seats we have loads of
storage we have our little trentolino
dry toilet it does its job and right
beside it we have our big dog box for
pepper we wanted her to have her own
space right on top
we have our biggest drawer
and I would say it's the fun drawer of
busty
because it's packed with technical
things drawing there our electrical
setup things charging things a really
nice Gadget that we have is our
projector so we can put it right here so
we can relax down here and have a big
movie night down here we have access to
the battery and we have some storage for
vegetables that meets in a dark space
and yeah and up here we have loads of
more food storage and now to my favorite
part of the van the big bed I think it's
pretty much a queen size bed for some
extra space we cut out on top and down
our feet so yeah that makes it extra
comfy and gives us just an extra 10
centimeters up here we have two more
cabinets one cabinet is for my clothes
and in the back it's busty's cabinet
also very nice organized under the
cabinet we have a little setup for our
iPad so we can relax here and have with
rainy days on Netflix and chill day or
something and yeah be good entertained
on the road
if you want to build a van and you're
new into my life do a proper planning
get in exchange with a lot of Van lifers
who build their van themselves don't put
too much pressure on it building the
perfect man that's what I wanted to say
my advice would be don't try to make it
perfect because it's not possible so you
will find everywhere like Corners you
cannot make it perfect and then you
watch Instagram and everything looks
perfect and
yeah the the white ray but if you look
closer every van has its little spaces
who are not perfect so
yeah so let
me know you're probably dehydrated you
and I were made out of 60 water and that
water these electrolytes in order to
function properly and if you don't have
enough electrolytes then you can be
experiencing things like headaches
tiredness weakness cramping and hunger
thank you
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can try it out and see how it feels and
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give the rest of it away to your friends
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