vanlife daily routines + week in the life
today is a chore day so i made a little snack for the drive i cut up some of this Chao cheese it's pretty expensive but it's a good brand and then i have cucumbers and hummus and i'm just gonna put the three together and eat it i just went to the grocery store and got a bunch of different produce and groceries it ended up being eighty dollars i want to say but i also got like sunscreen and uh trash bags and other like non-food items that i kind of needed and i also splurged on kombucha so i wanted to answer this question that i've been getting a lot recently because i've been traveling with people and that is how to find community on the road and i think when i started traveling solo i honestly had this perception that i would be traveling the majority of time alone and that this was going to be a solo journey and i didn't envision myself having a lot of friends on the road for some reason i just didn't really see it happening but now i honestly have started to develop all of these friends who are also nomadic and also living you know in their vans or their school buses or whatever it is and i think it's honestly just improved my quality of life because i was traveling for six months alone like totally solo and didn't really know anybody and it did get lonely after a while and i think there's a lot of pros and benefits to traveling solo but everything needs balance and so it's nice to have a community to fall back on so i would say the most obvious way to find community is van festivals this is something i only recently started kind of understanding and i just went to my first one which was van fest this month but there's also RTR there's descend on bend um there's schoolypalooza and i'm sure there's more that i haven't heard of and so that's a great way to meet different van lifers or people that are living nomadically also you can just meet people by doing things that interest you and getting into that community so for me i've met people rock climbing i've met people rock hounding for crystals i've met people doing animal rights activism and doing some of these things it can be intimidating at first to like go to a rock climbing gym totally alone in a new place or go dig for crystals alone or to go to an animal rights events alone like i i distinctly remember having some like fear and anxiety going my first animal rights event totally alone but i came out of that experience with new friends that are still my friends today so i think that's a really great great way to meet people and then another way is hot springs and i kind of the last year to have really gotten into hot spring culture in a way it's crazy people just go hot spring hopping and they just travel and go to hot springs and it's just this like a amazing opportunity to meet people really because people go there to socialize and it's all a lot of times it's travelers or i don't know i just love hot springs and i've recently really i've met a lot of good people through hot springs so i think that's a great way and they have hot springs everywhere i mean honestly you just have to do a bit of research and you can definitely find some cool hot springs where you can meet people and then um this is a way that i honestly haven't really gotten into community but i'm traveling with my friend abby and she's really good at this and i really look up to her in this way because she really meets people online so she like follows van lifers that she looks up to or that she has seen their videos or she's seen like what they're doing and she like reaches out to them and she actually reached out to me because she watched my videos and was just like hey we should be friends and now we're traveling together and we are friends and so i think that's a really good way that i haven't gotten into honestly because even though i do live in a van i honestly don't consume too much van life content i would say i don't really watch like van life videos so i just haven't really had the opportunity to reach out to people i also get a little scared and so i feel like that all plays a role in in why i like haven't but i think that's great and honestly like something i kind of want to get out of my comfort zone and maybe start doing a little bit more is like reaching out to people that i follow online and that same grain of train of thought is um dating apps and this i actually did do when i was in san francisco i just turned on the friend tick or you could do the dating tick and i just looked for people who like had a rock climbing picture or something outdoorsy or lived in a van and i met a couple people who live in vans through bumble and stuff like that i think the reason why those last two ways don't appeal to me as much as because i do generally like meeting people organically but with that being said i've met really amazing people like online and so i think that is also a great way to meet people so yeah that's kind of the rundown of how you can meet people and how i've met people i'm sure there's so many more ways and if you have any advice on how you've met people feel free to comment that down below so we can all share our tips but yeah i honestly think that before you live nomadically and before you start to travel or whatever like all of these things feel scary like what about safety what about meeting people am i going to be lonely but once you get yeah i don't know once you get into it it all just kind of works out and at least that was my experience and i think manifesting was also a very big part of my journey and every single day i would kind of just write like i'm surrounded by people who love and support me i attract people that are like-minded and i like really got into detail with what i wrote about my ideal people that i wanted to be surrounded with and i think i feel really happy because looking around at the group i'm traveling with currently i just feel like they really are my ideal people and the conversations we've been having at night have been so refreshing and beautiful and has just made me feel like it was all worth it like all the manifesting and all of the fear and the risks i took in in my personal life with relationships really paid off because now i'm starting to attract people that i really really relate to and value and love how are you guys feeling so good happy that that we actually are doing something to change the world oh i love you you're so cute maria that was so sweet wow you're so sweet yeah how do you think we can change the world i think we all can do a little bit you know like just small efforts i mean like i feel like eating more plants and just cutting out more meat is the easiest way that you can have an impact on the world like it's so easy i love having friends that they don't they're not vegan but then i love cooking for them and then be like oh my god this is delicious i totally could do these yeah and like incorporating in their life and like learning about like how messed up things are like my mom used to be the biggest like you know meat and potatoes person which was kind of my dad's input but she called me the other day and she was like hey abby like you'll be happy here i'm like eating more plant-based i think i'm gonna go vegan and i was like what because i've been like vegan vegetarian i just said plant-based for like three years now and she was not interested at all until like now so yeah same with my dad my dad has always eat meat and like i think in my culture like in venezuela it's like you eat meat or pork or whatever all the time and it's like normal and then we got here and my dad like opened his mind and understood like what's the cause and what he's doing and what he's putting his body and the animals are suffering because of our decisions and that there's something that we can do to stop that so he has been vegetarian for like two years now which like it's insane because like i never saw my family like making that decision you know here like now especially transitioning into veganism i feel like it's so much easier than like even three years ago when i went vegan there was like no vegan options now you have like vegan chicken nuggets you have vegan sausages like field roast yeah there's nuts excuse like chocolate and even like if i wasn't vegan there are things that are vegan that i prefer over yeah yeah yeah because i feel like it's just feels cleaner to eat too you don't have like all the fat and grease and all that too cook a vegan dinner tonight on our name for us do it for us yes and let us know in the comments i'm grateful for for people who question and to ask for further things to maybe have uncomfortable conversations with others for the sake of making the world a better place not just for us but for all the little creatures to dance around because without the uncomfortable conversations we might not ever find it in ourselves to ask the questions and do our own research to see what might actually be better oh that's so blessed last year what are we doing guys we're signing kion's birthday card he doesn't know there's a surprise cake surprise cake it's the best happy birthday to you what are you doing i'm writing a letter for kian's work you have been working so hard you made us dinner that you only deserve to be brought breakfast to your van oh and coffee's not ready maria just gave me some oatmeal and i'm going to take these dates that i made and they're just like little dessert dates and i'm going to cut some of them up and put them in the oatmeal so it has dates almond butter and like a homemade fudge i made and it i just put in the freezer so i'm going to cut it up and sprinkle it and i'm just gonna put like maybe two dates in there with the fudge i hope it's not too sweet i hope it's not too bitter i'm sure it'll be delicious yeah the transfer that was not smooth but it works it works for anyone who's still hungry there's like still granola and milk left over there there's kind of no oatmeal left but you could like do granola and milk do something with my hair it looks so cute i know i like what you're doing i feel like i look like the star wars girl yeah that's cute too actually it's very pretty are you ready for going on a hike mm-hmm what are we doing what hike are we doing do you know no i didn't remember it's like it's supposed to lead to a waterfall wait really oh my gosh i'm so excited it's a mile you're for it we got a few little you go to trader joe's their dried pineapple is not the best okay but if you find the dried pineapple that's starting to brown it is better than any dried pineapple you'll get anywhere else but you've got to find the darker pineapple interesting the light stuff we have some tempeh we have some cucumbers avocado kale spring mix carrots green onions radish avocado tomato quinoa and i think that's all yeah bread yeah what do you put in your bread we need this recipe yeah it's literally flour salt baking powder olive oil in the pan water in the pan which type of pan do you have um i don't know what it is where did you go my friend cause i haven't seen you in a while and then you take this guy off and then clean that out and then this pulls off and that's what everything gets pushed through and then this grinds it all and then that's it you just wash those four parts and that's it very randomly fits a lot of stuff even though it's like so much smaller than yours and this seat turns around like yours just a little sleepy so like there's that there's kind of some grossness in there the sink i haven't been using lately but it's honestly like kind of more convenient to to just like pour my own water rather than fill up the water tank and like use the sink and stuff it's a a beverage that has no flavor no sugar and it just sparkling water next got it oh it's got flavor um what we're all doing right now we're all meeting everyone a week ago um type of candy that's really um yeah at the movie theaters yep got it um what we do when there's a disco ball right above us yes and we want to work it got it okay carving it out what is he doing fire oh my god i can't fight around madonna oh the beast
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