Van Life | Day in the Life + How to Get Internet & Wifi
Van Life | Day in the Life + How to Get Internet & Wifi
Life lately, van dwelling in the desert. Morning routine, working remotely, chasing light and the moments in between. Also – some tips for getting internet & wifi while traveling and camping off-grid. Thank you for all the supportive comments in my last video – staying on the road was the right choice 🙂 Sending you all good vibes!
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Hey 🙂 I’m Christian Schaffer, and I’ve lived on the road full-time since May 2018. This journey began in 2013 when I left the corporate world to build my career as an outdoor adventure & travel photographer. As a semi-minimalist, I eventually decided to donate/sell most of my belongings and move into my 4×4 Nissan Xterra. After 14 months of SUV living and falling madly in love with the open road – I bought a van and hired a team to build it out. Van life enables me to experience and document the beauty of our natural world on a whole new level, all while having my home and office nearby. My hope is that by sharing my own personal highs and lows along this (sometimes) wild journey, you might be inspired to hit the road or spend more time outdoors. Maybe one day I’ll see you out on that open road 🚐
**My van is a 2019 Ram ProMaster 1500 High Roof, 136″ WB with 25K miles**
#vanlife #howto #dayinthelife
Wow ❤️
New subscriber here. You truly have taken van living videos to another level. Sincere, pleasant, and genuinely helpful. No sense of ego. I lived in a van two different times in L.A. many years ago but was nothing like your experience. Very primitive. It would be great if you had a drawing where the winner could spend a day traveling with you. The serenity that you have would make it thoroughly enjoyable.🏜
SURE BEATS "LIVING IN A VAN…DOWN BY THE RIVER"
Hi Christian, sorry to bother you.. just getting into adventure photography and I’m looking for the best memory cards and hard driver for PC and go pro.. I noticed you dony have go pro can you tell us why and which memory card you use..
OH MY GOSH THAT SKY!!!!!!
I’ve never seen anything so beautiful in my life , just WOW 🌈🦋
Starlink!
Aeropress FTW!
I currently work from home (sales calls inbound and outbound) and need fast internet (100mb or higher). Would you think something like the Tesla starlink system or something similar would provide the higher speeds needed and the signal quality needed to be confidently connected? With the hotspot, you have to be within the range of a tower, but the starlink system apparently just needs a clear view of the sky
Your six string with two strings gone. I broke those two also, and no, have not replaced them yet. lol
Damn you fine
Good information and video as usual. You play music too. You are a talented lady.
It will be amazing when Starlink comes online fully for RVers.
On a nice clear Dark night the sky is full of beautiful stars and once you learn how to recognize them you’ll feel more confident and identifying them and perhaps if you have the right photo equipment you can get some good photos I’m not sure how you would do that I’m not a photographer…u said ur a photographer.
Lol I can sometimes use 30GB a DAY on my ATT iPad plan. $20/mo truly unlimited, just put the SIM card in a portable hotspot and done. Phone hotspots are such a pain.
Hey great video as always, very handy tips. 😀 Do you mind saying where you got that nifty little kettle? Thanks so much 😁🌈🌻 Donna from Aus xx
So Beautiful ❤️ enjoy your vidz
Google Fi is cheaper and has unlimited data. It has unlimited international data too!
Starlink may be the best thing to happen to boondocking in years.
Such an amazing video! Thank you so much. Loved the stuff at the end. Def want some of those tacos!!!
Good video. Learned a lot. I liked your video on how you make money the most so far because of all the traveling you talked about. You have a very interesting life. Be Blessed.
I love your videos! You are gorgeous too!
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I absolutely love this style of video! The mixture of behind the scenes with valuable information is a great combo. Keep up the awesome content, Christian!
I got the Drive X… No idea what I was thinking, just looked up the comparison with the Drive Reach and Reach is better. Saved it for an upgrade in a few months. Yay learning 🙂
New subscriber here. I know this video is older, however, I love it, and not because I live in AZ but because the desert sunsets and sunrises are magnificent.
i cant believe a video about wifi and internet is this engaging. loved it! love the artistry you put into your editing and footage!
Use satellite wifi = starlink
Love your vibe. Mind sharing what some of your favorite books are?
Awesome
I loved Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Hey! I actually have a dedicated wifi hotspot device from my internet provider… I have to say that it actually works better! It has more antennas on it to get better speeds. For example, my 5G wifi hotspot device from T-mobile can get me up to 600mbps in an urban area where my phone might get 100 max…
also, they dont put a limit on those devices like a hotspot from your phone!
I like the set up you got which is awesome. I don’t know much about out West. Are the nights very cool as I would think the days are very warm. I can’t remember from your videos but do you use solar panels?
Should get StarLink
How do you get internet? 3:17
Great channel Cristian . Keep going ….
Recently subscribed to your great channel. Perhaps you could do a video on managing health, medical services etc. looking forward to the next video.
Your able to notice, enjoy and share the beauty of earth with everyone. Your awesome.
That is great that you leave your inverter off when you don’t need it. There is real benefits to DC electrical versus AC, which is always creating fields even when not in use. It is my opinion why some people feel better living in cars (DC electrical). The only thing to watch out for is using cell phone inside your van, as it becomes a low power microwave oven. There used to be phones that would accept an external antenna, like the one you have for boosting your signal. Those microwaves also bother a lot of people. If you know any phones that take external antennas, or an easy phone modification, I’d love to hear about it!
Just catching up on you. I actually let your adds run. I hope that makes you more money. If you are ever in Minnesota you can do you laundry at my house for free.
You have the coolest life!
The scenery that you capture is out of this world.
Just a great video and your photography at the end enthralled me and that beacon light on the plane at 7:26 was special.
I just found your Channel and am working through your (amazing) videos, but I’m curious if you reveal the locations (especially in the NW/SW) that you love?? I understand if you don’t, of course. Keep creating 🙂
I’m surprised that you don’t have a bike. You do a great job making videos
The sky looks beautiful…amazing views….if u are out west in a location with little or no light pollution…check out the stars in the night sky…. easy ones to notice are the North Star the Big Dipper Cassiopeia The Southern Star Orion’s Belt and Orion and the Southern Cross and Scorpius depending on what time of year Orion is out during the winter months and Scorpius is out there in the summer months.
In Germany we use Teltonika Networks industrial routers for Van’s wifi and internet speed applications. (Made in EU) Speeds ramp up to 400 mb/s. Highly recommend to test it out. Works great. Mostly we use RUTX11 https://teltonika-networks.com/product/rutx11/ or RUT955 https://teltonika-networks.com/product/rut955/ as they have SIM failovers and Load Balancing features.
How do you budget? Do you use software or have you set up your own spreadsheet? I need help learning how to budget so I can start my van life here in the next couple years! At least that’s my target for when I’m gonna start! Thanks for all your amazing videos and pics! I hope to one day experience my own real life pics and vids!
I love you!!!!!
And I don’t have to tell you but you can navigate with the Northern Star and The Southern Star It’ll point you in the Solar North and solar South which don’t get it mixed up with magnetic north and magnetic South because that deviates throughout the world depending on what part of the country in the world you are … where the solar is more constant.
How long have you been playing the guitar?