Awesome!!! Glad you are here for the ride! I am probably more excited for a wood stove than anything else. I have never had one but I hear the heat is unlike any other source. Plus the ambiance!! Who could resist!!? Plus things break. But a wood stove seems less likely to malfunction lol. Thank you for sharing 🤗
Girl, I hear you on the COLD challenge! I have done -27 in mine, and yes, everything crystalizes at that point! Consider seriously, the mini wood stove! :) It changed my life!
Yay!! Someone who KNOWS!! Lol I can’t handle being cold ever since I went no-heat van life. I fully intend on installing a wood stove as soon as the van is paid off and I can drill holes in it. Wood stove is the ultimate self-sufficiency tool! I can’t wait until that day. Wow -27!! 😱😱😱
@@SarahvanCaravan They really help cozy up your life too, they snuggle and share their body warmth! So amazing and they make great travel buddies too if you start them off early in getting them used to it :)
Haha thanks, Jackie!! Nice to see you again. I am happy someone gets my stoopid humour. I don’t think many folks liked my acting segment but it makes me laugh when I watch it so I pretty much just left it in there so I could watch it again later😂😂😂 I am going to pick up lumber for the build tomorrow. Hope it warms up so I dont have to work on this dang van out in the cold 😩😩😩
I am actually taking a woodworking class as part of my current program. Its torture. We will be making bird houses. Like. I dont even know what to do with myself because frikkin bird houses after already building cabinetry and houses for years. Im gunna dieeeeee. Lol but my point is… i hope i can score some materials there 😅
Also, I also subscribe to Vancity Vanlife, Chrome and Cruzie bear. his last couple vids have been about sound deadening and insulation. I know you have a butt puckeringly tight budget. However, if you think of me (wierd) take a peek. kluvubai! 😊
Lol I love that segment! It was sooooo fun to film. I think I lost a subscriber over it but now we have Cody to even out the score. Not everyone can handle this odd style I guess. You must be special 😁
LOL GEN-X!! I am seeing you EVERYWHERE! You are all over the place! Haha this is funny. Thanks for the ego boost and hope. I really hope I get monetized someday soon. Would be nice to earn some moolah for all this cra cra editing I do 😅😅😅 someday. And someday when I have lots of subs I am going to do something special for the OG subscribers. 😉
@@SarahvanCaravan I'm Everywhere yet nowhere all the time . . . I'm basically the Riddle of the Sphinx (not really, but it sure sounds cool -right?) Sincerely! You DEFINITELY need to get monetized here and earn that sweet, sweet moolah that I've heard tales of in abundance. But alas - I'm newly monetized and it's a slow go. BUT - it is going, and money is money. And your edits are REALLY good! I *think* I know how you did the intro part where the sky pauses, starts again, goes in revers . . . really clever that you did that. Love the creativity you put into these and the mini-movies you create. You're going to crush it here on TH-cam!!! I'm already a fan.
Thanks dude!! I will come check your channel next but right now I am busy watching my own videos. Stop disrupting my me-time! Lol Also. I may bring my van to TX to work on it in your driveway. Too cold here. Also also. CONGRATS ON GETTING MONETIZED!!!! That is the most freaking exciting thing in the whole world!!! YOU GO, DUDE!!! 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🤗🤗🤗🫵🫵🫵😍😍😍🙏🙏🙏
@@SarahvanCaravan Well DAMN! My apologies. I'll stop interrupting your "Me-Time" cause believe me . . . I get it . . . and when someone says "leave me alone" boy I do it. Like this one time my cousin told me to leave him alone so he could concentrate. Haven't spoken to that bastard in years cause I'm respectful of people's wishes - so your wish is my "DO IT!" Sarah. You won't hear a peep more from me until the conversational moratorium has been lifted . . . that's how I roll. Engagement on your channel be damned! You want quiet to watch your own videos (self-absorbed much there, kiddo?!) then that is EXACTLY what you'll get from me . . . . peace and quiet. Like a gentle summer rain on a distant meadow I'll just be here in the background quieter than the mist that renews the prairie grass in spring . . . . I just read a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson and am feeling a bit poetic . . .but enough about that. You need peace and quiet and solitude.
@@SarahvanCaravan Werner Herzog is a filmmaker who has a very distinct style of existentialism and dramatic gravitas, typically in voiceover. Imagine the second half of your video delivered in a dramatic German accent and you'll be pretty spot on lol
Hahaha Germans don’t have feelings 😅😅😅 (Im playing I love Germans). I wish you had a channel about how to write so eloquent and descriptive like you do. I love reading anything you write. Its like all your words are friends and they go to beautiful ballroom dances together.
BUSIN’!!!! I see what you just did!!!!! I am so grateful for the donation you just gave me. That was so kind of you. That will go straight towards the van build. I will let you know what part of the van build lol! This RV/trailer is not mine. I am only renting it. I am not able to afford the RV rental and my van so I have to choose one. I am choosing the van because it is like a two-in-one: transportation plus a home. I hope I am making the right decision 😬
Obviously that is the first thing I did!! The heat is wonderful. And just in time because we got more snow 😳 Thank you so much, Busin’! Now I just need the septic to thaw out 😁
Out of curiosity, are you planning on removing the stow and go seats? I've been looking at the Grand Caravan/Town & Country for the extra storage and also the relative ease of removing the center console to allow easy pass through access
Yes, I intend to remove all the seats. I just don’t have anywhere to store them right now. I will likely invest in a storage unit for all of my tools and the seats once I move in to the van. For now, I will stuff the storage compartments with insulation, but eventually, I would like to use them to house, solar components, and water tanks.
I am thinking about removing my centre console as well. I think I am going to see if it gets in my way first. My last van I was able to pass through but my first Van I could not. I don’t recall if it was super annoying or not. Lol
We loveee our tiny wood stove!!! Wouldn’t change it out!!! Can’t wait to see your journey!!! ❤
Awesome!!! Glad you are here for the ride! I am probably more excited for a wood stove than anything else. I have never had one but I hear the heat is unlike any other source. Plus the ambiance!! Who could resist!!? Plus things break. But a wood stove seems less likely to malfunction lol. Thank you for sharing 🤗
Girl, I hear you on the COLD challenge! I have done -27 in mine, and yes, everything crystalizes at that point! Consider seriously, the mini wood stove! :) It changed my life!
Yay!! Someone who KNOWS!! Lol I can’t handle being cold ever since I went no-heat van life. I fully intend on installing a wood stove as soon as the van is paid off and I can drill holes in it. Wood stove is the ultimate self-sufficiency tool! I can’t wait until that day. Wow -27!! 😱😱😱
@@SarahvanCaravan I KNOW YOU WILL DO IT! Can't wait to see when it happens :)
I just saw your wood stove videos!! Now I really want one… and some cats. Now I want cats.
@@SarahvanCaravan They really help cozy up your life too, they snuggle and share their body warmth! So amazing and they make great travel buddies too if you start them off early in getting them used to it :)
I love your creativity, your energy and sarcasm!
Haha thanks, Jackie!! Nice to see you again. I am happy someone gets my stoopid humour. I don’t think many folks liked my acting segment but it makes me laugh when I watch it so I pretty much just left it in there so I could watch it again later😂😂😂 I am going to pick up lumber for the build tomorrow. Hope it warms up so I dont have to work on this dang van out in the cold 😩😩😩
@@SarahvanCaravan Same. also equally sarcastic and those other things, we could teach each other. 😀 can you ask your lumber supplier for off cuts?
I am actually taking a woodworking class as part of my current program. Its torture. We will be making bird houses. Like. I dont even know what to do with myself because frikkin bird houses after already building cabinetry and houses for years. Im gunna dieeeeee. Lol but my point is… i hope i can score some materials there 😅
@@SarahvanCaravan Use those sad eyes when asking 😂
Also, I also subscribe to Vancity Vanlife, Chrome and Cruzie bear. his last couple vids have been about sound deadening and insulation. I know you have a butt puckeringly tight budget. However, if you think of me (wierd) take a peek. kluvubai! 😊
It was the “ I will be your dance money” and the despair in your eyes that pushed me over the edge to subscribe
Lol I love that segment! It was sooooo fun to film. I think I lost a subscriber over it but now we have Cody to even out the score. Not everyone can handle this odd style I guess. You must be special 😁
You are BRILLIANT!!! I love your sarcastic humor and storytelling. How do you not have 10k subscribers by now??
LOL GEN-X!! I am seeing you EVERYWHERE! You are all over the place! Haha this is funny. Thanks for the ego boost and hope. I really hope I get monetized someday soon. Would be nice to earn some moolah for all this cra cra editing I do 😅😅😅 someday. And someday when I have lots of subs I am going to do something special for the OG subscribers. 😉
@@SarahvanCaravan I'm Everywhere yet nowhere all the time . . . I'm basically the Riddle of the Sphinx (not really, but it sure sounds cool -right?)
Sincerely! You DEFINITELY need to get monetized here and earn that sweet, sweet moolah that I've heard tales of in abundance. But alas - I'm newly monetized and it's a slow go. BUT - it is going, and money is money. And your edits are REALLY good! I *think* I know how you did the intro part where the sky pauses, starts again, goes in revers . . . really clever that you did that. Love the creativity you put into these and the mini-movies you create. You're going to crush it here on TH-cam!!! I'm already a fan.
Thanks dude!! I will come check your channel next but right now I am busy watching my own videos. Stop disrupting my me-time! Lol
Also. I may bring my van to TX to work on it in your driveway. Too cold here.
Also also. CONGRATS ON GETTING MONETIZED!!!! That is the most freaking exciting thing in the whole world!!! YOU GO, DUDE!!! 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🤗🤗🤗🫵🫵🫵😍😍😍🙏🙏🙏
@@SarahvanCaravan Well DAMN! My apologies. I'll stop interrupting your "Me-Time" cause believe me . . . I get it . . . and when someone says "leave me alone" boy I do it. Like this one time my cousin told me to leave him alone so he could concentrate. Haven't spoken to that bastard in years cause I'm respectful of people's wishes - so your wish is my "DO IT!" Sarah. You won't hear a peep more from me until the conversational moratorium has been lifted . . . that's how I roll. Engagement on your channel be damned! You want quiet to watch your own videos (self-absorbed much there, kiddo?!) then that is EXACTLY what you'll get from me . . . . peace and quiet. Like a gentle summer rain on a distant meadow I'll just be here in the background quieter than the mist that renews the prairie grass in spring . . . . I just read a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson and am feeling a bit poetic . . .but enough about that. You need peace and quiet and solitude.
WTH it only took me 30 minutes to watch my own videos. I only have 3 of em 🤷♀️ you may come out of comment jail now. 😂😂😂
I'm so sorry *hugs*
Anyway... I love you went full Herzog in the second half
Lol what is a Herzog!? Imma have to Google that one.
I went German title of Nobility at the end? 😂😂😂
@@SarahvanCaravan Werner Herzog is a filmmaker who has a very distinct style of existentialism and dramatic gravitas, typically in voiceover. Imagine the second half of your video delivered in a dramatic German accent and you'll be pretty spot on lol
Hahaha Germans don’t have feelings 😅😅😅 (Im playing I love Germans). I wish you had a channel about how to write so eloquent and descriptive like you do. I love reading anything you write. Its like all your words are friends and they go to beautiful ballroom dances together.
@@SarahvanCaravan Aww! Thanks hun. I am pivoting my channel to an authortube thing so maybe I will. I'm crap at instructing though lol
I like your "Ugly mug". Not sure if you mentioned why you need a van-home when you have a RV-home.
BUSIN’!!!! I see what you just did!!!!! I am so grateful for the donation you just gave me. That was so kind of you. That will go straight towards the van build. I will let you know what part of the van build lol!
This RV/trailer is not mine. I am only renting it. I am not able to afford the RV rental and my van so I have to choose one. I am choosing the van because it is like a two-in-one: transportation plus a home. I hope I am making the right decision 😬
And thank you for liking my ugly mug 😂😂😂
@@SarahvanCaravan Please buy some propane with the donation.
Obviously that is the first thing I did!! The heat is wonderful. And just in time because we got more snow 😳 Thank you so much, Busin’! Now I just need the septic to thaw out 😁
@@SarahvanCaravan T.M.I. ;-p
Out of curiosity, are you planning on removing the stow and go seats? I've been looking at the Grand Caravan/Town & Country for the extra storage and also the relative ease of removing the center console to allow easy pass through access
Yes, I intend to remove all the seats. I just don’t have anywhere to store them right now. I will likely invest in a storage unit for all of my tools and the seats once I move in to the van. For now, I will stuff the storage compartments with insulation, but eventually, I would like to use them to house, solar components, and water tanks.
I am thinking about removing my centre console as well. I think I am going to see if it gets in my way first. My last van I was able to pass through but my first Van I could not. I don’t recall if it was super annoying or not. Lol
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