VAN LIFE / The hardest thing about being a nomad -Stay in one place

Good morning everyone. I hope you're doing great. So it's been quite interesting if you want to say for the past couple of days. So my van's not doing the greatest. Friday, like three days ago, I just drove here in town and my van started acting. The check engine light is on. I checked. It seems to be maybe the spark plug or something around that. So I phoned, I called some of my friends. Chrome was in town and even Jeffy stopped by to say hi because we all help each other when something goes wrong. So yeah, we phoned like all the shops in town, the garage in town and the closest that I could get an apartment. It is Tuesday and when so it's in fact tomorrow. So tomorrow I'm gonna go at the garage, see what's going on with my van. But the van's still running just like not the greatest. Really slow. So I just parked right here. This little little park. I was just down the road this week, yesterday. Y5 and at night just drove not even two minutes and parked the van in a place that I can park the van at night. So yeah, it's been super quiet for me. I think I learned to calm down though because I always drive. I don't know. I'm not super good staying in one spot. So that was nice to spend like two days in one spot. I choose kind of a spot that was closed. I had Y5 so I was able to do a lot of things online. A lot of things that I was kind of putting off which is good, really good. But yeah, today, so the plan for today is to move from this park later on today. I didn't have a shower for the past three days, four days, something around that. Because yeah, it was like pouring rain yesterday. So I didn't want to walk to my gym which probably would have been like a 45 minutes walk. So yeah, so today we're gonna drive there because the garage is really close from my gym. And we're gonna go also take a grocery because I'm getting low on fresh food especially. Like I do have you know a lot of like canned and things like this. It's not like a problem with food but just yeah. I'm gonna stop at the grocery because it's right there too. So it's gonna be one stop and I can also sleep around there. So I'm gonna be just ready to go tomorrow morning. The one thing that I was like when I took the appointment for the garage is only that the garage don't have any waiting room. So the first thing I asked her I was like do you have a waiting room because I do travel with my cat. And she kind of laughed a little bit. She's like hold on I'm gonna ask the owner. So she called me back she's like oh your cat can stay in my office with me. So she might, I might do that or what I think I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just tell them I'm gonna stay in the van until you're to work on it and when you're ready to work on it if it's sunny and beautiful like it is today we're just gonna go for a walk. I know there's got a lot of like place to walk my cat around that area. So I think that's what I'm gonna do. We'll see tomorrow that everything go. But yeah today cat is outside which is good because it's been raining for two days. So she's just chill right there. She's pretty like I just realized that my girl you probably don't see her just like blend with with everything. She's just I guess waiting for some bird to walk by. Yeah we cannot see her at all. And I'm gonna clean up the van. The van is so messy right now. Yeah I almost don't want to show you just like the floors just yeah things everywhere. So we're gonna work on this. And also while I'm in it a lot of people was wondering where my cat litter was. It's just in the passenger front here. Not the greatest just a bin. And I used like I just changed it this morning. So I used wood chip. So I'm super lucky that kitty just usually go outside. So she don't use the little box very often other than when it's like really raining and all that stuff. So this week my friend Jeffy gave me this like it's like a sticky pad. So you can put like like some keys or whatever and they're gonna stay there and not move. But the problem is like it's full of my cat hair. They kind of the air stick to there. Sorry some kids playing right now. Curious I'm screaming. So yeah so I like the idea but I was hoping that the cat hair will not stick like this though. So I presume this sticky pad you can wash them but I'm just gonna use like a baby wipe and see how that go. All right a little bit better. There you go the house feeling a little bit better now. Trust me it's so good to open the doors and let the fresh air come. And I'm gonna probably gonna like spend a little bit of money on try to have like a full nice cover bed sheet. Like I don't have anything that match right now. Oh yeah it's been like sorry it's been like two days it's raining. So it's nice to open up and let things breathe and all that. So let's focus on my face guys. So yeah we're gonna enjoy a little bit of time here. Cat's still outside. She's just chilling in the sun. And yeah I'm gonna do the same thing because it feels so good right now. I'm sorry the cat but I pulled that chair for me not for you. Kitty what are you doing? It's my chair. Well I'm gonna sit now. Well I'm gonna sit. Hey I'm gonna sit. Yes kitty. She always steal my chair every time. Hey my monkey that's my chair. That's my chair. That's my chair. What are you doing upside down? My cat's been sleeping on the chair for like past 20 minutes. And I've been just sitting like on my van right now. Can I get my chair back please? Seriously. Move. Move little monkey. All right kitty let's go. Kitty. Good girl. Make me so happy every time my cat come jump inside the van. Every time I ask her to come that means that she's happy here. So we're gonna move. We're gonna go do grocery. Go a little bit online and I'm gonna cook you something guys. All right so we don't have like a long drive to the grocery store. I'm gonna have to kind of do a little detour because I could just take the highway and just pee there in like one minute. But I don't think my van's gonna have enough speed to take the highway kind of. So I'm just gonna have to sneak around around those streets. And so yeah tomorrow morning we're gonna be just beside the garage. So this is why I kind of decided to go do all of this today. Have a shower and grocery store and all that. So let's do this. Hopefully the van it's gonna be all right. I'm sure but it's just not driving very well. But that's it. So we made it for step number one. So the grocery just behind me. I have my gym membership where I can take a shower just down the road here. So I'm just gonna walk and do all that little things. And tonight when I'm gonna be able ready to go to bed just in the same street that the garage is I can park there and sleep there. I slept a couple times in this van and in my car too. So I know it's fine and tomorrow morning we're just gonna be ready to go. So for lunch dinner because I pretty much only eat once once a day while filming. So I'm gonna have some pierogies. They do make vegan pierogies by the way. So we're gonna have this. This I should have picked up something healthier. You know what it is? You were at a grocery store and they put that big display in the front of course. And I was like hmm pierogies, pierogies. So onion with it and I think I'm gonna put some mushroom too. So it's gonna be a kind of like strange pierogie plate. But yeah that's what I'm gonna have for lunch dinner. So what I do because I only have one pan or one burner I should say. I just let this boil and when this is boiling which it is right now. You can switch and put the onion and mushroom there. Let that on the side and it's gonna finish to cook. And when all of this gonna be all nice and golden I'm gonna put the pierogie here. Toss that on so they gone crispy and dinner will be served. I don't know if that happened to you before but I'm just cooking right now. I'm like why did I purchase some pierogies and I made like way too many. I have some for two people. All right good thing I have a green smoothie this morning. A small one but yeah add some vegetable. All right there we go my pierogies looking good. So I'm just gonna let that cool down. And I think I'm gonna let you with this guys. I know it may not be the best like video. But yeah we should be on the road. We should be go camping and have a campfire and all that good stuff pretty soon. Just need to get the van fixed. So this is what you know I have to do. Stay quiet and stay still until the van get fixed. And hopefully they can fix everything tomorrow. The problem when you live in a small town like like I am right now is sometimes they don't have the parts. So they need to get that from Vancouver and all that stuff. So hopefully they can do everything tomorrow. And after that we're gonna be back on the road. So thank you for joining me. And if you're not subscribed guys and do all that good stuff thumbs up. And I will see you soon guys. All right bye.