A NEW CHAPTER IN OUR LIVES // Camper truck chasing the sun

A NEW CHAPTER IN OUR LIVES // Camper truck chasing the sun

We always think that we are
smarther than nature. No, we are not. We just have to go more south. The autumn is getting us. I think we’ll drive a lot of more south. Escape this coldness. We already came from Sweden to Germany. And you might be wondering why? Affordable laundry places everywhere. And finally, in Germany,
we can fill our LPG tanks, also. Now, after driving, I think approximately 1000km, while getting tracked
about our diesel consumption. We are surprisingly pleased. We were thinking about if this Kotilo will consume 16litres of diesel per 100km. Then it is a quite good result. But in reality, when we are driving
with the trucks on the motorways. It consumes between 10 and 11 litres
(per 100km) That’s really a good result. Either I’m really good driver, Or the speed of the truck is lowering the consumption so much, it goes to 11. Yeah. 11 is really good result. We were thinking 16,
and we would be pleased. Even if this car has the same horsepower, as our Ducato had,
this has much less torque. So when we are going up hills,
we are going at 70km/h. And on the third gear. It’s a bit strange and stressful
at some times, but when we are driving with the trucks
on the first line, it doesn’t matter. This is different driving,
but still quite pleasent. Butts of the trucks! We are stuck at the STAU. So, traffic is not moving
and everyone is making this safety lane in between the lanes.
So if there is like fire trucks or something
that needs to get to the accident place. They can get through this… And it shows that we are not in Balkans.
Because in Balkans there would be like BMWs
and… – Everybody was pushing. So it’s so polite here in Germany
we like it a lot. So nobody takes, advantages of this
extra lane here. And go past everyone. Yeah. In Balkans, there would be a lot of rich businessmen. It’s a pumpkin season in Germany,
so we are in autumn already. But it’s warm. And I have some gap in my common knowledge. I didn’t knew Artichokes are like flowers. They look like flowers. Something that you learn every day. Hello. From Middle Germany. We drove all the way from dark,
gloomy North Germany, to the… Bavaria. And we have never been
in this part of Germany. Yeah, we are taking
a peek of Romantic Road. Romantic road
that goes, in a southern part of Germany. And here is cute old traditional houses. And we are so excited
to explore this part. And can you see that
we are wearing a T-shirts. So it means we still got
a little bit of warm days left. Yeah. Perfect time to come. Now we’re going to visit Rothenburg and
see what it has to offer. We got our van
on the outskirts of the city. It was like one kilometer walk here. Now we’re going to explore this town. Yeah. Today it’s a tourist day. Then we will escape
the crowds in to the woods. Even if it is off season. Still, there’s a lot of people here. Yep. We have been wandering around here on the city center of Rothenburg,
this is quite nice. I like.- Or a village. And the best thing
about these houses are those, wooden beams that are shown on the walls. I think they are the most cute ones. And if you are driving Romantic Road,
you can see these houses a lot. They look like gingerbread houses to me. Yeah, but the market square full of people. I have to admit,
we are not really used to opening the truck door
and then walking to the camper pod. And this can be kind of draining and annoying
when the weather is bad and it’s raining. Luckily, now it’s not. We did a little mods to our truck. So behind this black shower curtain,
we store our stuff. Ta-da! A bunch of camping gear.
Our levellers and some kind of projects that we still need to finnish
in the camper part. Yeah, they are now nice…
and it doesn’t look like we are homeless. When there is this black curtain. And also we did have a leftover
pieces of the mirror tint. So we did to install them here In this tiny window,
so you cannot see through it. And I think it gives us a more safe
feeling. We drove whole day from North Germany all the way to almost southern spot. And there we are
surrounded by winery. So buch of wines is growing here. Everything inside of a camper is still in its place,
so it’s a good news. This is some kind of recreational area. So big place to park up your van. Even a huge firepit
if you want to make a bonfire. We are so tired that we don’t. We just call it a night
and go sleep in a beautiful surroundings. Surrounded by wineries and wine What are those? – Plants? Here is a lots of them. White wine and red wine. And Portugese
wine in Germany – which is weird. Yeah, they have like
a Portugese festival this weekend on this small town.
Maybe they also grow port wine here?
I don’t know, but yeah… Good quiet place to spend the night. Soon good food coming. We are making chicken and salads
and a rice. And this year, our travels are
a little bit different. Because we have a tight schedule. Yeah, I start at school.
So I’m going to be an engineer. Real engineer in a matter of years. So I bought a new laptop for that and bought a second
screen over here. And as Sara said, our schedules
are circling around my school. When ever I don’t have school, we can drive
or go to walks or do anything together. Otherwise, I’m pretty much… watching my screen. So basically,
nothing changes in my perspective. No. I’m joking. Joni is a full time student,
so now we travel like this. And if Joni is doing a full time
studying. What does Sara do? Well, I clean and cook. No. I will edit our videos. So it’s my part time job. Yes, Sara is a good editor. Yeah,
I love our videos they are so fun to edit, because these are great videos. It’s really juicy. I don’t know what wine this is. Well maybe a white wine
because berries are white, But that is all I know. You can use your phone And AI and it says you it is Vidal Blanc. Or Ribolla Gialla. Well it’s tasted little blank to me. Really beautiful region. We came to admire the gorgeous sunset. We are really close to the France border. So to us this looks very Frenchy. And all the hills around
this area are full of vines. Like you are surrounded by wine plantation. Yeah. Everyone is, going wine, different kind of varieties. Sometimes it’s, these kind of, hundreds
and hundreds of rows, sometimes it’s just five rows and an old guy collecting them. Yeah, there have been lots of
this huge machinery that goes like between the lines, like seven meter high machine. I think it will be like straightening up
the vines and putting the vines, on these, lines over here automatically,
so you don’t have to do it by hand. But we saw this one old guy, picking up the berries by hand,
like a traditional way. But I think he was his own own
five lines over there. Yeah. Who needs wine tours
when you can have these very informative tours with Vantastic about wine? Yes. We just know that
this is the cheapest one. This was Sauvignon Blanc and it was cross breed with the Riesling. So it can give you a lot of more grapes. So I think that one is going to the boxes. What we buy usually. – The bulk wine. But it is surprisingly good. Yes. But really beautiful area. And we have driven so much, our energy id going to the driving
and going more south. So luckily we have
these little pauses always. So we can go walk and
look for sunsets, and look for better wild camping spots. Or something. – Wow this would be amazing. There’s even a fire pit. I think this is just… for the farmers own. Maybe a private? – Maybe, yes. This is what travelling is all about,
getting energy. So you can actually drive tomorrow
more. Yeah. Unfortunately,
we are driving kind of fast pace, but we try to enjoy every moment of it. And this is really fast pace for us.
Because usually we go through Europe in 3-4 week time. And now we are planning like
one and a half weeks. Yeah. But beautiful sunset. We will go to van
and enjoy the rest of the evening there. Eating some sandwiches and something else. We don’t have a bread, because we
need to go grogery shopping tomorrow. Before we enter France. – Out of food.

About Vantastic: We are a happy couple who got rid of everything to travel the world. We make vlogs sharing our daily lives in a camper truck, our ups and downs, and our adventures around Europe.

What is your home on wheels?
Our pick-up camper / truck camper is Nissan Navarra 2005 with Bimobil Husky 240 pod.

What camera equipment do you use?
We use GoPro12, Røde VideoMicro with a dead kitten, Ulanzi tripod mt-16, Ulanzi cage G9, Ulanzi vl49 light, DJ Mavic Pro drone and Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the vlogs. Our electrical power set-up in our camper allows charging our cameras and laptop to film and edit.

How do you afford your nomadic lifestyle?
We live on a true shoestring budget. We travel economically, we cook all our meals, we dont visit tourist traps, we enjoy being in the nature and hiking in the nature. We worked traditional office jobs for years and now we live on our savings and investments. We dont believe you need tons of money to to pursue your passion. However, we have learned that you do need to sacrifice comfort, consistency and safety, but that it is possible, very worth it, and the only lifestyle that makes us truly happy!

What happens after van life?
Call us naive, but our goal is to travel forever.

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