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Never too late to have a van life
Zoomin English
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03/06/2025
This woman is 59 years old and converted a van into her home. Discover her van life adventures!
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Welcome to my van home. It really hadn't occurred to me to be in the van full-time
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until I saw someone else doing it. My name is Beverly Brown, I'm 59 years old, and I
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currently live in my 2004 Chevy Express 1500 van.
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There are definitely some challenges about van life and it is absolutely not for everyone.
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I get asked a lot about the bathroom situation in the van and this is my toilet which is also my
00:45
footstool and occasionally it's my guest chair. I don't tell them what they're sitting on
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and basically I made this pretty little cover for it but it's a just a little cassette toilet
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so it has a water tank on top and a holding tank on bottom. The lid pops up, I take care of business,
01:05
shut the lid, press this, it puts water into the tank and then when I'm ready to flush it I pull
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the handle right there and the liquid releases down into the tank and then at some point which is the
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worst part of van life to me is I just unlatch it and take this bottom tank off and empty it.
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And then there's the shower situation. Basically I have a bucket here
01:39
and it's a collapsible bucket that I fill up with water.
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I set that there. I have a hose here and I dip the hose down into the bucket of water.
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I pop that up and hook up the shower nozzle to it.
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And then I take the shower curtain and string it across the doors here. I have a bag full of clips.
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And I'll typically just clip it to the handles on the inside of the van.
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And string it across like that and that's my temporary shower for outside.
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At some point in my journeys it truly has become my little tiny house on wheels. So I gave the van a
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name. I call her Jennifer Vaniston and then to go with that name I had to get a Brad Pitt pillow.
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And I tease and I say we make Brad Pitt stops and then occasionally Brad and I get into a pillow fight.
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A lot of people have opinions about van life and living in the van and sometimes it's a little
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critical that like they feel like I've screwed up my life and now I'm stuck living in a van. And it's
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not like that at all. I feel like in some ways I've been inspiring to a lot of people. I have a YouTube
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channel called Becoming Bev so I get a lot of feedback from the channel. I do instructions about
03:43
van life and adventures in van life. And I get a lot of people that are inspired by what I'm doing
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and crave that kind of adventure in their lives. The best thing about van life is the freedom that I
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feel. And like I'll get questions sometimes like how can you live in such a small space? And I'll say
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but have you seen my backyard? So I feel like my backyard is oceanfront property or it's a beautiful
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river like where we're parked here today or a wooded area or the mountains or the edge of the Badlands
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National Park.
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