We are converting a Ford Transit into the ultimate adventure campervan, and would love for you to join in on the ride🌟 We’re building Miles (name of our van, named after the one and only Ken Miles🏎) after hours and during weekends. We cannot wait to get ready and take Miles (and hopefully you) with us on our new adventures.
Author: Tobias
vanlifeyoutubers
@steveandaudra had this awesome idea to bring us YouTube vanlifers together to inspire each other and help our channels grow. We are reposing their post here to make it easier to find and easier to click on links to everybody’s Instagram and YouTube accounts.
Steve & Audra say it best:
“Calling all vanlifers, especially those of you who have a YouTube channel! We know how challenging it can be to grow a YouTube channel since we’ve now been working at it for months. We have a new appreciation for how important subscriptions, likes, and comments are. We know that hours and hours and a lot of work go into many of the videos that are posted. As we’ve worked hard to get to our first 1,000 subscribers, we have also been trying hard to support other #vanlife channels by subscribing, commenting, and liking their videos. Would you join us in this effort? We are a part of a great community and we think it’s important to support one another. Here are a few ways you can do that:
✅ Comment below to share your channel so we and others can check it out
✅ Tag someone else who you know has a channel
✅ Make a conscious effort to support vanlife channels
✅ Don’t just watch a video but subscribe, comment, and like (it helps with algorithms)
✅ Add #vanlifeyoutubers to your posts about your videos so it’s easy to find them
✅ Start following that hashtag (We just did!)”
“Let’s come together and support each other. We’re in this together. The van life movement is taking off but it’s hard to get found on YouTube when you are just starting out. We have found that there is so much to learn from watching other channels and it helps get to know other vanlifers and get inspiration for future travel! We love that!”
Please consider subscribing to our channel 😌 we have listed our friends below so we can all get to know and support each other 🤩
Iceland – Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Dyrhólaey and Reynisfjara Beach
Traveling Iceland – Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Dyrhólaey and Reynisfjara Beach Iceland – the land of fire and ice ?❄️ We visited during the summer, but it was nothing less than spectacular!! Iceland has spectacular waterfalls and beaches, we visit Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Dyrhólaey, and “the black beach” Reynisfjara Beach with the famous arch. Happy watching ?
The ultimate adventure campervan – inspiration
We are planning to build the ultimate adventure campervan! One of the hardest things, when you are building your van, is to decide what layout you are going for. In a van, you have very limited space so you need to be very conscious of what you decide on and you will probably not get everything you want.
We want a van the is suitable for all our adventures. A van that will fit our bikes inside the van. Non of is like to make up the bed ? so a permanent bed is a must. When you are off the grid and do all different kinds of adventures a bathroom/a and shower is a must. We also need a dining area that we also can do some work.
Here are some inspiration that is quite close to what we are thing to do.
Some ultimate adventure campervan inspiration
Freedom Vans – Friz Roy
This beautiful van is very close to what we are planning to build when it comes to layout and features. For style and feel The Fred van and Pauls are more what we are going for. This van comes with a bike garage, side to side permanent bed, a bathroom/shower, and a dining/work area. It even has an AC. The AC is mounted on the floor and under the van which gives more rooftop space for solar wich is nice, but I don’t think that is a valid solution for us because of winter, snow, and dirty roads. This van has a diner booth witch is something we will not have, we will use the driver seat as a second place to sit. This van is a Mercedes Sprinter.
Freedom Vans – Fred
The only Ford Transit on the list, so our van ?. This van is built for a couple that love to ski and mountain bike. They also wanted a place where they could work on while being on the road. Sound familiar? This is pretty much what we want ?.
Paul The Punter – Pro-Built Custom Van For Mountain Biking
Pauls van is a real master pice and is not far from what we have in mind for ours. Some of the main difference will be that he is lacking a separate bathroom/shower and he has a gas burner (propane) and we will have an induction top. His van is a Promaster and ours is a Transit.
Check out the full van build on his YouTube channel.
Matt Jones VW T6.1
This is a quite different van and build than we have in mind but we are a big fan of both Matt Jones and his YouTube channel, so it would be just wrong not to mention him here :). When that is said the van has some really cool features like the bike tray, heated storage for drying, and the possibility to edit on the road.
Öxarárfoss and thingvellir (þingvellir) – Traveling Iceland
Welcome to windy Iceland! We’re visiting Thingvellir (þingvellir) national park. Here the tectonic plate of North-America and Eurasia meet, it is also where the Vikings had their thing. You can also swim between the two plates here!! We also visit the beautiful Öxarárfoss, and try our best to navigate the Icelandic weather and nature.
Traveling to Iceland 2020 – Traveling during a pandemic
Wonder how it is to travel during a pandemic? How you can make the necessary precautions? Or maybe you’re curious about Iceland?
We traveled from Norway to Iceland, two countries with very little Covid-19 cases. However, we still took all precautions necessary, and then some more. Watch this video and join us on our first flight since January 2020, and get a first look at how Iceland is during the summer.
First day of the trip:
We traveled from Gardermoen airport in Oslo, Norway to Keflavik airport outside Reykjavik in Iceland. (Before that we tested ourselves for Covid-19, it was, of course, negative, we also wore facemasks when required and made sure of social distancing. We followed all rules in Iceland and Norway). We rented a car from Enterprise car rental that we had during our stay. We stayed at Radisson 1919 for the entire stay. On the first night, we visited Sushi Social in Reykavik to have dinner and drinks.