USA Van Life Travelers Return - VAN LIFE BRAZIL
in our last video we brought you right up to the Border of Argentina and Brazil and in this video that's right where we pick up we are officially checked out of Argentina gotta get the van checked out and then we enter Brazil officially so come on guys let's go to Brazil [Music] all right it looks like the Customs guy from Brazil is checking out the garage area Kurt came out with paperwork so I think an inspection is all we've got left [Music] all right so this was kind of a weird Border in that normally we sign out of migration get our passport stamped and then we give our temporary import pass from the van back and then we cross the border we go to migration get our passport stamp and then get our temporary import pass for the new country standard process for all the countries however here before we leave Argentina I guess based on Logistics we had to get the van the temporary import pass for the van first which is usually the longest most difficult part it done yeah now all we got to do is get our ourselves on yeah well we gotta get off the gate for Argentina get ourselves stamped in and we're off and running and then the next stop is a bank because we need no money we need new money I think we have SIM cards from before but we'll have to see if we can make them work we're in a new country [Applause] it was a little bit hectic finding where we were supposed to park and go in and get our passport stamped but it's done the van is officially in Brazil snow and Kurt are officially in Brazil nobody wanted to check any papers on the kitty cats so they are officially in Brazil we made it about an hour outside of the Border City we're in Brazil we're all settled we're wore out border crossings always wear us out this is home for the night lots of little birds coming to visit Vanna and G at the door even though it's a gas station it's pretty comfortable we'll see you guys in the morning nothing special going on this this evening I want to tell you guys the first one is we have driven far enough North which remember we were in the southern hemisphere so as we're driving north it gets warmer we have on shorts and flip-flops because it is going to get up to 80 degrees today and that is exciting because we've been in the cold weather for a long time the next thing is we just got stopped on this little road for a donkey Jam there was several of the Brazilian Cowboys stopped us so that they could cross maybe what 30 or 40 donkeys that's the first donkey yeah last thing we've ever encountered we didn't film it real good because it happened so fast but then it was really cool to see the Brazilian Cowboys with their cool hats and everything too so our day is off to a good start we are eastbound we have quite a long drive to get to our next destination was about 4 ounce what we're doing we're driving east well we're going to show you anything cool we see along the way like donkey Crossings all right we have stops to fill up with fuel getting our windows cleaned and I think we're gonna check out this restaurant see if they got some grilled chicken [Music] lunch is served steak rice salad french fries topped with an egg Kurt got my egg because I don't like them no menu this is all there is oh and beans which is good on the rice it's good it's really good yeah that was a yummy lunch super quick super good how much did it cost uh I don't even know whoops but I have a feeling it was an expensive it was a nice little gas station stop we put our sticker on the window back on the road so day number two back in Brazil and we happened on this little Farm camping site and it was cool because as we drove down through the pasture well let me just first say it's closed kind of right now it's really during the summer time the owner was telling me and actually showed me a lot of pictures where they'll fill this place up there'll be people all out here in the pool diving off the dock they've got a a big thing back here for barbecues and and tables and all that and they'll get cars parked all around here people camping but so it was closed and he was going to let us stay up there by the house and I talked him into letting us drive town here through these pastures because of the catchers couple big dogs up there and so we drove through the horses the cows the Sheep of course the kitties always loved seeing the different animals and we're all down here all by herself on this little pond and the cows have just come up here to get some water and joined us some ducks have landed and the lap Wings have been all around but anyway second time second second day in Brazil we're gonna spend the night here but this is one of the incredible things I love about Brazil you're out here in the farm and it's easy to find a place in the nature just to get away and yes I already did get G out and he got a nice walk and so that was pretty awesome anyway here we are we crossed the border into Brazil just barely north of Uruguay and we kind of been bouncing along the north side of Brazil and the reason why we skipped Uruguay is we're kind of in a hurry I think I've told you in a couple episodes before we have some work we need to get done on the van well we did that volcano Slot Canyon hike and I met Gabriel back in Argentina and he was from Brazil and they had the combi and anyway he recommended this place in pelotas to get the work done on the van and introduced us and so on and so forth so we are going to pelotas Brazil we're beelining there we actually have an appointment with him tomorrow morning at 8 A.M to see if he can do some more work on the van there's a couple things we need to get done we'll tell you about that we really have not been able to get done here in all so we're going to palate the short stories we're going to polotus Brazil that's where we're headed to right now we have about two hours more drive and we'll be there to meet with them tomorrow morning [Music] shop continue in the morning we'll meet with him and if all that goes well and he's got the parts and stuff that we need and he wants to work on it now we just rode through the little neighborhood that has lots of airbnbs because if he can do what we need to do on the van we will move out of this thing for a week and we'll go to work on the van and get all the stuff we possibly can done here but we won't know that until we meet with him tomorrow and see how that goes all right so I already told you this is a referral that we're going to this morning to get the van remodeled fixed up but the problem is and it's a really good referral so I'm excited I touch base with him last night everything seems like it's on but the problem is he speaks Portuguese I speak English and I don't know if there's going to be a middle ground other than Google translate so we have some big work to be done so this is going to be pretty interesting here anyway let's go meet my con all right we made it to the Spy and it looks like we are in the right place there are three vans here [Music] all right good news guys everything worked out well over at the van shop we really like those guys they have a nice shop other than the language barrier which we're working through with trans Duke door a translator Google other than that everything's good we are moving into an Airbnb things move fast in our world so here we go so this is our Airbnb for five days we're having a very hectic morning because we are going to move everything out of the van so this little apartment won't look this cute much longer because there's gonna be a bunch of junk in here but we're going to use this time to do some spring cleaning and reorganizing of the van which really desperately needs to be done this is our home for five days [Music] it's not long to move everything in but it's what we got to do the kitties have a nice balcony view of a park down there it's definitely a new area of town but it's nice it'll be comfortable and the kitties will enjoy a break from being on the Rolling Wheels all the time now I gotta get back to work try to get this stuff put away as Kurt brings it up nice cute little apartment though so we're about 75 moved in Kurt has made a million trips we're literally bringing the dishes the pots and pans all the electronics all the charging gear everything so we can do a legit spring cleaning of the van but we are about settled in we can see the light at the end of the tunnel one of the first things we did was get bird TV going on YouTube for the kitties they love that especially when we're in an apartment I really like this one because I could just leave that door open and not worry about them on the balcony at all it's a super safe balcony for them so this is going to work out great for the kitties great for the van but I gotta tell you it's going to be a lot of work for me and Kurt but we've been planning to get this done for a long time and it's gonna be awesome I walked downstairs because there's a little grocery store down there and Kurt has left to take the van over to the motorhome rebuilding place which is exciting so I walked down to find me something to eat for lunch I just came back up and we got one kitty under there and another kitty under here silly kitties all right guys I slugged a lot of stuff up to the apartment to clean out the vent for all this maintenance but some of this stuff just wouldn't fit in the apartment but I have to say these guys are treating me like family it's absolutely amazing they brought out the coffee we've got the bed out back here you can see all the electronics over here we've got some electronic shop troubleshooting to do and some other projects on the board these guys are amazing we're digging in after we have some coffee foreign foreign s we've had is that our charger for our battery system is 110 or 120 it's what we use in the U.S what you plug into in your house however this particular charger that we're going to install will do either 110 or 220 and that's important because most of the rest of the world is 220. now we will encounter some countries I believe in Europe that are 110 so essentially we need the ability to run both and that's what we're going to do we're going to change out our charger which is unfortunate because it's a pretty expensive charger we're going to put the new one in that's going to give us the flexibility to do that and then we're also going to have the ability to flip a switch and then if we want to run power solely off of the grid where we're plugging into then we can do that as well and so this is a much needed Improvement to the van honestly I did not anticipate the different voltages in different countries when I built this so this is going to be big for us guys this is going to give us an additional charge Source pretty excited about that the every two-month chore of trying to figure out how to get a haircut when you don't speak the language is done those ladies were very nice I was starting to learn enough Spanish that it wasn't so scary to go in and get a haircut but I don't speak but like five words of Portuguese so that was back to being scary again but I think it all turned out okay now back to our apartment to do some more spring cleaning on all of our junk all right the problem I have is this right here see how loose that is guys so Marcel here is going to hook me up with some new ones all right it's coffee time again I've been getting treated pretty amazing by these guys look at this I've really been treated like family I've got everybody here helping out coffee everything thank you guys I really appreciate it really really really thank you so I've had a busy morning while Kurt [Music] is over working on the van at the motorhome place I've done a lot of laundry did a little bit of editing sorted all the spices which had gotten crazy in our van ah started going through old documents and stuff trying to downsize how much file space we need for hard copies for like original documents and old tax papers and stuff like that just cleaning house trying to make a little bit more room in the van but I am going to take a little walk because I need some exercise over to the little neighborhood coffee shop all right I think I ordered a quiche latte we shall see what shows up and thank goodness for the Google translator we are using it like crazy here I forgot what it was like to not know any words it's weird about the end of our first day at work and we've added several components we've got a lot of wiring to go through and check and clean up and tighten up but we made good progress today and we've got some really important components added to the system so I'm excited about that the day is winding down the mosquitoes are coming in but by the time this is done I think we're going to have some nice improvements that really make the van more livable and more comfortable and actually some of them are going to be Necessities as we move on down the road so a good day here in the van it is Thursday of our week here in pelotus polotus this is the first day Kurt has been hanging out around the apartment with us because he's been working his butt off doing all kinds of cool stuff to the van now what we have decided is things are working out so well we're staying another week to go ahead and hopefully bang out some more maintenance and more remodeling of the van but today was a no-go for working on the van because it is a holiday of some sort something to do with candy some sort of Festival a lot of things are closed so to celebrate the holiday we walked to the coffee shop and got little desserts I had a little blueberry cheesecake what was yours Kurt uh it was some little like cake or muffin but it was filled with leycheg which is the sweet cream that they have here it's almost like a caramel but it's really tasty and then it had this huge puddle of chocolate sauce on top of it which was thick and absolutely delicious it was so good but so much sugar I am racing now I need to run around this track about three times so that's kind of an update of what's going on and we do need to go upstairs get into the computers because we need to order some stuff for the remodeling Kurt has planned next week but uh sorry there's no super exciting Adventures going on but everyone asks us what would you change in the van after living in it for four years well that's what we're doing we're doing our wish list right yeah it's not what would we it's what we are what we're doing but for now we're headed back up to our apartment we'll see y'all a little bit later on we've been working on the van for a week we got here on Monday it really took about a day to kind of get everything figured out you guys probably know by now I have very complex system and so to explain all the work we wanted to do and kind of understand what we have going on in the van it took pretty much several hours the first day we dove into the work on Tuesday Thursday was a holiday today is Friday and we're completing the phase one work that we want to do on the van all right I am checking in from Airbnb number one Kurt is over at the shop working on the van I'm sure you guys probably know that by now I'm not sure if we told you that we extended our stay by another week but that means we have to move from one apartment to the other my job today is to pack us up get us moved to the other apartment so it's all done by the time Kurt gets home and I gotta tell y'all one of the bad downsides to living full time in a van is if you've got to do any work on your house any maintenance on your house you basically have to move everything out so that's what's going on y'all already know that but just to think about that if you had to do a full move out of your normal brick and mortar house every time you had a project think what a pain in the butt that would be well that's what's Happening Here all right let's get the first load carried up or down we're on floor 11. we're moving to floor number five all right some of you may be surprised some of you will not but we have sold our electric bikes it will make more space in the garage we just didn't use them enough to justify the tight quarters we have in the van and also we needed some money to pay for our repairs at the reveal that will be our home for the next eight nights similar layout very different style I like it we're a little lower to the ground the kitty is all like that maybe we'll see some birds we were too high all right let's get this done [Music] all right say goodbye to the bikes we are at the location where we are going to make the sale this transaction's almost over my kind brought me all the way out here as a long drive thank you my kind this is his friend he's gonna buy the bikes say goodbye guys we had our first night in our new Airbnb I didn't film any of it because we were exhausted but I cooked Kurt a yummy spaghetti dinner he got in late he's been working super hard on the man I know he's been telling you all about it we will be here for another week but this is where we're gonna wind this video down halfway through our van remodel and we'll see you guys in a few days cheers if you like this video be sure to subscribe to our Channel and hit that notification Bell so you guys know when we put out new videos and don't forget you can always follow us over on Instagram to see what's going on in between videos cheers guys
2023-08-01 18:03
