Lifestyle Without Bound - Perspectives on Mobile Living (Documentary)

Old Reliable

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Stealth Van Masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUo2ifboHc

Published on Feb 27, 2015
A short interview with Dan Travels and a tour of his incredible, custom-built stealth camping van. Learn more about Dan's adventures on his channel at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKc5...

Converted van as full-time home for nomadic Canadian couple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFqdWesW0o

Published on May 25, 2015
Mat and Danielle spent their first date bonding over Lloyd Kahn’s book “Home Work” and discussing their ideas for simplifying their lives. They became a couple, but “somewhere along the way, we ended up doing the exact opposite of what we wanted,” explains Danielle on their blog.

“Instead of simplifying, we bought a house and spent months hauling furniture, paint and knick knacks into it to surround ourselves with stuff that we liked. Our bills went up so we got better jobs, started working more, and eventually all we did was work during the day and watch Netflix every night because we were too exhausted to do anything else.”

“Mat was the first to suggest making a change because he found our lifestyle stressful, but I resisted at first. I was really caught up in the idea of owning my own place, maybe starting a family one day and planning for an amazing retirement. I was also excited that I had a new full time job with benefits and that we were financially stable. Eventually I realized that all I was doing was working and I didn’t even like my job anymore. We decided that we should do something crazy: sell our house, quit our jobs and travel the world.”

Today, Mat and Danielle are living full-time in a converted van. Their back seat folds down into a bed. Their kitchen is a cooler plus camping stove. Their bathroom includes a solar camping shower and a plastic bottle toilet (with funnel).

They’ve eliminated a mortgage, but their are still costs, what Mat calls “like renting a really cheap apartment in a city”. Instead of paying down a house, Mat and Danielle have decided to focus on working less and experiencing more, both by exploring the world and their artistic interests: for Mat, it’s music and art and for Danielle it’s writing.
 

bev

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Old Reliable, I thought I'd explore this sub forum and found these videos. Thanks for posting them!

I found the differences interesting in the way the older people live out of their campers / vans, and the younger couple in the last video. For instance, the young couple seems to have a budget of up to three times that of the older folks.

I really enjoyed watching these. They have given me some things to think about given our current times and what is most likely coming.

Hopefully others will eventually find their way back here :)
 

Old Reliable

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Overcoming Your Fears.

“I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.

” Dawna Markova
 

Old Reliable

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Attributed to Mark Twain
 

Vulture45-70

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At this point in life I've a big house, rancher, on 1 acre. Sitting in the drive is my, I call it my yard ornament, Flagstaff 29 ft 5th wheel. Living in the Fl panhandle there are only three easy routes to take, North, East and West. God forbid on pulling to the Keys. Traffic is terrible. Have just about made this ole mind up to give up this big house for something smaller and head to Tn near the Blue Ridge mountains. With all the strife, turmoil and unrest taking place my decision won't be made until the coming year.
 

Old Reliable

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Freewheeling: The van life

RUN TIME 7:34 M

From baby boomers to millennials, some people have found a road map to happiness by living their lives on the open road, in RVs or converted vans. Tony Dokoupil meets the Schannep family, a couple that lives with their four children in a converted school bus; Bob Wells, an oracle of online


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndHJn_kMJXE
 

changed

Preferred pronouns: dude/bro
At this point in life I've a big house, rancher, on 1 acre. Sitting in the drive is my, I call it my yard ornament, Flagstaff 29 ft 5th wheel. Living in the Fl panhandle there are only three easy routes to take, North, East and West. God forbid on pulling to the Keys. Traffic is terrible. Have just about made this ole mind up to give up this big house for something smaller and head to Tn near the Blue Ridge mountains. With all the strife, turmoil and unrest taking place my decision won't be made until the coming year.
Let's hope you decided against it.
 
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