Ready?
Let's go!
I've spent the past year of my life preparing for this moment.
Planning to leave everything and everyone to live out of a van.
Under the autumn tree The chair where you would swing But I still don't feel completely ready yet.
You see, I spent every day basically the entire summer of 2021 renovating my van.
So after months of extensive preparation and planning to get on the road, I realized I never really fully got a chance to process what was about to happen.
I'm not just getting ready to live and travel out of a van, but I'm also getting ready to leave my hometown and kind of like my childhood behind and everything.
So it's kind of just been hitting me all at once that this is, this is like my last summer here in oregon as a teenager, still living under my family's roof and everything, with everyone I've grown up with, graduating and going off to college, all of us just kind of going down separate paths in life.
I'm just feeling pretty bittersweet and nostalgic and just like reminiscing on a lot of the moments I've experienced with these people and like my childhood and stuff.
This daunting yet inevitable transition into adulthood is like finally happening, after all the anticipation throughout the teenage years that this is like the moment of finally leaving and moving out, going into the real world on my own for the first time.
Everything I've ever known is in my life throughout the past few years living here.
It will probably never happen in the same way again, if that makes any sense.
I've kind of just spent the day driving around town revisiting some of my little sentimental spots here in my hometown.
This is like the first day that I've really been able to actually process the fact that Everything is about to change and it's time to say goodbye to this chapter in my life, you know.
I'm not saying I'll never come back to Oregon obviously, but it's just when I do.
It's going to be different.
Everything is going to change, you know?
I don't know.
I'm just, I'm going to be sad to leave, and...
It just doesn't really feel real yet.
This is the first day it's kind of started to feel real that I will be leaving.
I feel like I have memories in every corner of this place.
This is the spot exactly where I had my first kiss.
These are the clips.
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Maybe we could do like half of California for the first leg, and for the second leg we go all the way around to these states and go back up into the bottom part of California.
Yeah, we could actually like go here and then like here and go to the coast again.
Something has to work out.
I mean, we could take like the main interstate kind of like up to washington, most likely first.
We're definitely going to go in like kind of a circle, but most states over here are not really in our range at the moment.
And we don't even wanna, like, who wanna go to Alabama?
Yeah, I don't know.
Sorry, Alabama.
Oh yeah, and I guess I should probably introduce you to my friend, Mathias.
It's not gonna work.
Oh God.
Matthias just climbed this whole ass tree stump.
I'm on top of the world.
The two of us have become really close over this past year, bonding over our shared interest to travel in a van together.
Oh my God.
Natalie here.
What are you doing?
I think the meaning to life is chicken nuggets.
Spicy chicken nuggets.
Where did Matthias go?
Oh, what the fuck?
There he is.
Matthias is actually all the way from the country of Norway though, so we originally met online at first.
Don't lie to me.
Me and Matthias are on FaceTime right now and we just realized that we've never seen each other's toes in person.
I sent you a picture of my right one.
Oh my god.
After only being able to communicate through a screen for so long, it was really special finally getting to meet in person for the first time.
So Matthias is finally in the United States.
I'm currently just waiting for his flight to get here.
Oh my God, bro, no way.
Holy shit.
Oh my God.
You're not on the screen.
What the hell?
I like it a lot more in real life.
Really?
Don't jinx it.
Don't jinx it.
It's going to be so cool just sitting here.
Okay, look.
Super cozy, right?
Yeah.
It's so spacious.
And because we're literally going to be living out of a van together, the two of us figured we needed to get a little more comfortable around each other in person.
Should we start the icebreakers?
I'm terrified.
It's still looking weird though.
I don't know which eye to look into actually.
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, So we basically bought like a weapon for the van, which is this.
Let's try it.
Three, two, one.
Like half a second, not even.
Alright, we're making up a dance routine right now I'm gonna be like... Bye-bye!
At some point before getting on the road, I started to realize how excited I was to not only be getting ready to fulfill my dreams of traveling in a van, but also to be able to share this experience with someone else as well.
So now, the only thing I really had left to do before our departure was to try to make the most out of the time I had left with the people I grew up with.
There she is!
This is the bridge we would always go to when we were like 13 or 14 to sneak out.
We used to like be in a completely different place in our lives.
Yeah, and now we're grown and we're looking back and and it's the same exact location, but everything's different.
Our world view has changed, our lives have changed and the trajectory of where we're going is so much different, but this location has not changed a bit.
Hold it in here, let's go dancing.
I do believe we're only passing through.
Wired again.
All the curves left on you again.
All you, all you, all you Hold it in.
Oh, let's go dancing.
I do believe we're only passing through.
We're wired again.
Our lift goes after me again And I'll fight up on you.
As I get ready to leave everything and everyone, I can't help but just reminisce on these moments I've experienced growing up.
The amount of preparation and planning and everything that's gone into this has been insane.
But this feels even more insane now that it's finally happening.
Even with all the preparation and planning, when the time came to pack everything up and actually leave, I still can't even say I felt ready.
But if there's anything this past year has taught me, it's that you can waste a lot of time waiting for the right moment.
And maybe there is no real way to be completely ready for anything in life.
Especially not an experience like this.
Today is officially the day we're getting on the road to start van life.
We're just kind of finishing loading up some stuff right now, and then we should be off.
Here we go.
All right.
This is it.
We're going.
We got everything.
Ready?
Let's go.
Let's go.
This does not feel real.
No.
Oh my god.
Woo!
Really quick.
Just wanted to say that there's only a few hoodies and t-shirts left, if anyone is interested in checking out the campervan apparel still.
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It's also a limited edition release, so I don't think we're ever going to restock, so make sure to get it while you can.
And thank you so much to everyone who already got the apparel.
It really helps support these videos and everything.
Also, the support on the series so far has been insane.
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I fucked up quite a bit.
It was going good for some... No!
I don't know, maybe that's how people refer to me.
I, like, overuse, like, bokeh, bokeh in my videos.
Really?
She's the bokeh bitch.
I think she's a filmmaker.
Wait, wait, wait, you just did two.
I'm a pecan.
I'm a pecan.
Oh, and I have to stop, right?
That is a stop sign, yes.
Oh, my God.
I bought this off fucking Amazon thinking it would be a normal sized bottle and um... Capabilities.
Thinking capabilities.
That looks so lame.
I don't know how I'm going to survive summer next year.
Wasting my breath.
Oh, there's people.
Dab me up, man.
I don't know how you do it.
Got a vibe.
Oh, my God.
That was a terrible sound action.
I've never heard that one before.
This is the most depressing clip I've ever fucking watched.
Like one time Madison dropped her fucking phone off the bridge into a puddle and we had to tell the parents.
It still survived.
Yeah, didn't we have to tell the parents?
I think I said I dropped it in a toilet or something like that.
