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post 1647222063 09-17-2021, 09:56 AM
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I have a lot of friends that have the Van Life. We camp year around. The vans are nice but I really love pop up campers. You can actually stand up in them while cooking, sit at real table, etc. I used mine every weekend last winter. I only use a camper in the winter, otherwise a tent is just easier for me.

Look into FWC (Four Wheel Campers) or All Terrain Campers or something similar. Tons of FB groups on there. They are amazing and being alum framed, they are pretty light, like in the 700-1000 pound range.

Huge bonus of a pop up is you can take it off and still have a truck. The van is single function.
post 1647224003 09-17-2021, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted By Berts
I have a lot of friends that have the Van Life. We camp year around. The vans are nice but I really love pop up campers. You can actually stand up in them while cooking, sit at real table, etc. I used mine every weekend last winter. I only use a camper in the winter, otherwise a tent is just easier for me.

Look into FWC (Four Wheel Campers) or All Terrain Campers or something similar. Tons of FB groups on there. They are amazing and being alum framed, they are pretty light, like in the 700-1000 pound range.

Huge bonus of a pop up is you can take it off and still have a truck. The van is single function.
Age 41. Do girls get in ur pop up
post 1647224113 09-17-2021, 10:24 AM
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Just drove my girlfriends van back to my house from Utah, dropped her off in bumfuk nowhere lmfaoo jokes on her.
post 1647224203 09-17-2021, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted By GainzMcgee
Just drove my girlfriends van back to my house from Utah, dropped her off in bumfuk nowhere lmfaoo jokes on her.
Too soon Brian Laundrie, Too soon!!
post 1647230563 09-17-2021, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted By TheUniBrah
But where do you use it?

Inside the van? Parking lot?

How do you dispose of it safely?
In van

Fill it to rim with chit

Throw it away when full

Buy another at Home Depot for $3.50
I loe e.
post 1647231323 09-17-2021, 12:24 PM
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Seems depressing





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post 1647232093 09-17-2021, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted By LukeLissen
A van is not insulated. You'll be at the mercy of the weather. Most times it will either be too hot or too cold and often to extremes. If it's just right during the day then it's gonna be way cold at night. If it's just right at night then it's gonna be unbearably hot during the day as the sun beats down it. Also you're gonna be living in an overly humid box a lot of the time without A/C to remove the moisture that you're releasing into the van.

Without spending a large amount of money on gas-ran heating and cooling for it, then that's gonna be the case. No you cannot run enough solar on a van to properly heat and cool one which takes far more electricity than two small solar cells can provide, especially considering it's not insulated and instead made of conductive metal and will gain and lose heat very rapidly

Then you aren't going to have a shower or bath, a proper commode, a fridge big enough to hold a comfortable amount of food, and other amenities that make life not only comfortable but survivable.

Then if you do have enough stuff in the van to even be able to survive, you're going to be miserably confined to an insanely tight living space.

It's not the dream world that clowns on YT and Insta are making it out to be, but I'm sure the home buyers like Blackrock will be thankful you fell for it.

Again, I'm not talking about a true RV or camper hooked up to running water and electricity somewhere, with a commode and shower either hooked to a external or internal septic.

With the way things are going, if you own a home right now you better be doing everything you can to keep it.

The 'van life' is a new age scam and only mentally defective useful idiot fools will fall for it thinking they can do that long-term easily and successfully.

Can you do it for a short period of time in discomfort? Yeah maybe for very hardy people. Can you make a good life out of it? Absolutely hell no not, and no properly thinking person would think that.
Lmao you couldn’t be more wrong. Almost anyone that does a van build strips it and insulates. Urine idiot if you don’t buy a hi top that you can stand up in. Solar can easily provide enough power for a small fridge and roof fan. Who was generator to power small a/c. It’s a tiny space, it doesn’t take much. Small portable toilet, if you’re in bum**** no where, solar shower. Get a gym membership for most of your showering. I did a 10k mi road trip and went to some awesome parks, beaches, restaurants, skydiving dropzones, hiking, etc. it was a great time. Barely anyone who does that plans on living in their van long term.
post 1647232133 09-17-2021, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted By Rem0
The problem with most van builds is that they lack a toilet/shower and unless you get a large van (too expensive) they're simply too cramped

Who wants to **** in a bucket? no thanks jeff
I dig a hole 90% of the time, the other 10% of the time there is a toilet close by.

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post 1647232243 09-17-2021, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted By blazenbb
Lmao you couldn’t be more wrong. Almost anyone that does a van build strips it and insulates. Urine idiot if you don’t buy a hi top that you can stand up in. Solar can easily provide enough power for a small fridge and roof fan. Who was generator to power small a/c. It’s a tiny space, it doesn’t take much. Small portable toilet, if you’re in bum**** no where, solar shower. Get a gym membership for most of your showering. I did a 10k mi road trip and went to some awesome parks, beaches, restaurants, skydiving dropzones, hiking, etc. it was a great time. Barely anyone who does that plans on living in their van long term.
Install a heater, they make chinese knock off webesto heaters for $150, super easy install. Thermastat and all, set it at 70 and forget it for heat. Fuk AC, I have no use for that and I live in a desert.
post 1647232413 09-17-2021, 12:41 PM
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wood never live in a car or a truck, only way i'd be living in anything but a house is if it was one of these

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post 1647232423 09-17-2021, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted By Berts
Install a heater, they make chinese knock off webesto heaters for $150, super easy install. Thermastat and all, set it at 70 and forget it for heat. Fuk AC, I have no use for that and I live in a desert.
I typically don’t winter camp and have never had a need for one. If it’s cold I just use a sleeping bag. I have to have an a/c because I bring my dogs. I’ll hit the beach when it’s 90 out and there’s no way they would survive without it. The first trip I did I had a tv and ps4. I think I used it one time over a several week trip.
post 1647232583 09-17-2021, 12:44 PM
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[QUOTE=iloveus post_id=1647231323]Seems depressing

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErEMUUCXEAo1-Ac.jpg[/img]

[youtube]6sxCFZ8_d8

or could be fun

[img]https://thenetline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Alex-Honnolds-van.jpg[/img]

[img]https://adventuresportsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/honnold.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I watched that while on a boring ass flight, one of the van people gave that lady (in thumbnail) a book on how to kill your self if you ever needed to. Weird af and says a lot about the van life
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post 1647233433 09-17-2021, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted By Dale1988
Any of you brahs living in van or truck?

Just sold my house have 200k in bank but am living in my truck right now.

Any advice?
I did it for a summer once in college.

Obviously you have to pare down your belongings.

Keep your vehicle clean and tidy.

Establish a routine.

I was working the closing shift in a bar. So I'd get off work at like midnight hang out until 2 and then go sleep in the van behind the bar after it closed. 2am ish.

Morning routine was get up at like 9, go to the gym, work out, then long shower, shave, brush teeth etc at the gym.

Then go to the coin laundry and charge my laptop and my phone while I washed my work clothes and gym clothes. Then go to the grocery store and get my lunch.

Then I'd have like 4-5 hours to kill before work so I'd go to a movie or go get a DVD from the library and watch it on my laptop.

This was all pre smart phones.

On weekends I'd drive out to the country and go hiking and camping etc. Edit by weekend I mean Tuesday and Wednesday a those were my days off. You don't want to go camping on the actual weekend. All the good spots will be taken and there will be weekend warriors and busybodies all over the place.

It was a really fun summer and I paid off a lot of debt not paying rent or bills.

I had to get a place in the fall because it gets cold here.

So my big advice would be keep the car clean and work out a routine.
post 1647233733 09-17-2021, 01:03 PM
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you'll have plenty of time for living in a van down by the river....when...you're...living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!
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post 1647233943 09-17-2021, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted By LukeLissen
People who think that 'van life' is sustainable long-term are the same kind of people who'd fall for the Marxist scam.

No, there is no such thing as long term life in a vehicle just like there's no such thing as communism.

No, you haven't discovered some new way to live.

[I'm not referring to long-term life in an equipped RV with running water, stove, commode, shower etc, which is doable but can be miserable long-term]
Disagree. I am as far right conservative as they come and I liked it. If I wasn't married and a home owner now I'd do it again to save up money to buy a chunk of land up north to build a cabin.

That's my plan anyway but right now it's a five year plan. Without strings attached it would be a one year plan.
post 1647248573 09-17-2021, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted By blazenbb
Lmao you couldn’t be more wrong. Almost anyone that does a van build strips it and insulates. Urine idiot if you don’t buy a hi top that you can stand up in. Solar can easily provide enough power for a small fridge and roof fan. Who was generator to power small a/c. It’s a tiny space, it doesn’t take much. Small portable toilet, if you’re in bum**** no where, solar shower. Get a gym membership for most of your showering. I did a 10k mi road trip and went to some awesome parks, beaches, restaurants, skydiving dropzones, hiking, etc. it was a great time. Barely anyone who does that plans on living in their van long term.
Mental gymnastics to avoid simply driving somewhere and staying in a hotel because that's so hard and impossible if you wanna go places and travel.
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post 1647248913 09-17-2021, 05:06 PM
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right hurr breh >>

https://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showt...13&pagenumber=

that was in Wyo,ing a few weeks ago omw to the tetons and am heading out again Sept 27th probably to glacier then west, maybe to oregon but 100% to utah to get some good a$$ panorama pics of some arches.

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Imagine being a white male in the world's best country and having to live in a van. FUK, It really is over
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Originally Posted By Nonsense916
a book on how to kill your self if you ever needed to.
link?
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Originally Posted By Nonsense916
I watched that while on a boring ass flight, one of the van people gave that lady (in thumbnail) a book on how to kill your self if you ever needed to. Weird af and says a lot about the van life
You ain't wrong LINKS related

https://people.com/human-interest/va...suicide-at-28/

https://www.thewrap.com/nomadland-so...er-suicide-35/
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Just get a decent pull camper and a pickup truck then get a covered shell/bed cover for your truck to store other items.


Living in a van is too minimalist/poverty. Might as well get a decent truck and have something with a toilet, shower, heating/cooling, stove, fridge, etc.
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Originally Posted By guest89
Just get a decent pull camper and a pickup truck then get a covered shell/bed cover for your truck to store other items.


Living in a van is too minimalist/poverty. Might as well get a decent truck and have something with a toilet, shower, heating/cooling, stove, fridge, etc.
No NEWLL coach, NO care.

DED fooking SRS.

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Nah, I just fly out to cool places and stay in hotels while being gainfully employed like most contributing members to society, OP.

JFL @ this Millennial/Zoomer existential angst cope. These same retards who lost $$ and employability by "finding themselves" for a year will be the same fkers that vote for Bernie/AOC to "tax da rich" in 2024. Bunch of cux.
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Originally Posted By Realclout
No NEWLL coach, NO care.

DED fooking SRS.

Those are nice but mainly are designed for the wealthy to take a short term vacation.

1. Maintenance/up-keep is expensive.
2. If you have engine issues you've got to offload all of your schit while its in the shop for an unknown amount of time.
3. You still need to tow a trailer with a car of some kind.
4. Those have a higher up-front cost.




I've considered what I'm going to do when I retire if I'm unmarried. Its most likely going to be a F350 Diesel truck with a 5th wheel toy hauler so I can travel with my motorcycle in the toy hauler. Hell, even if I'm married I'm likely going to do that. I want to ride a MC on all the best roads in the country as well as visit our Western national parks.
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Originally Posted By guest89
Those are nice but mainly are designed for the wealthy to take a short term vacation.

1. Maintenance/up-keep is expensive.
2. If you have engine issues you've got to offload all of your schit while its in the shop for an unknown amount of time.
3. You still need to tow a trailer with a car of some kind.
4. Those have a higher up-front cost.




I've considered what I'm going to do when I retire if I'm unmarried. Its most likely going to be a F350 Diesel truck with a 5th wheel toy hauler so I can travel with my motorcycle in the toy hauler. Hell, even if I'm married I'm likely going to do that. I want to ride a MC on all the best roads in the country as well as visit our Western national parks.
COPE, DED fooking SRS. They have MECHANICS on PAYROLL to help you SIMILAR to TRIPLE A they ALSO use CAT engine which are GOAT used on 100mil MOTORyachts massive CARGO ships...etc TRUE about TRAILER but could POSSIBLE just RENT a cheap car at DESTINATION if necessary.

Anything LESS then THIS is PURE cope DED fooking SRS.
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