Bacon yummmmmmm

Thanks Olga 🙂

Thanks Rory! Your suggestions were a big help, gave me a good alternative to Errigal in that wind.

Thanks Colin! Hope you get out soon, might be a while before I'm off on another van adventure. Client work kinda takes over my life this time of year

Thanks John! 🙂 Jacket lives In the van now, still too warm for it tbh. It was 17c a couple of days ago! normally getting a lot more frosty days by this time of year

@@StephenJReid I am sure it will come in handy at some point. It snowed a bit in PA this afternoon; very cold too!

Thanks! 🙂 Keeping at it

Thanks Gary! Yeah originally I have planned to head on out around the coast on a long loop home but lost about 5hours waiting on the rain to stop.

Thanks Stevie. Not happy with the increased fuel bill, although thankfully it’s a reasonably efficient van (41mph). But yeah least regrettable major purchase

Thanks! It’s a beautiful area, can’t wait to get back again 🙂

thanks!

Thank you Martin! Glad to have you here 🙂🙂

Haha my wife would disagree and would always go for ketchup 😁 Naw I bought that t shirt before we did the collab. Hopefully do another collab with him sometime.

Would be good to get him over to the Mournes.

@@colinhalpin2076 we discussed it. Might happen someday. It’s a big commitment for him to come over.

Thanks Garry! 😂

Looking forward to getting back and actually climbing errigal some day soon. Originally that was the plan but I’d really like to be able to fly my drone to show it off but that requires a much less windy day

Thank you! 💨

Thanks Mary! Yeah I’ll get back to Errigal another day. Wanted to be able to properly show it off

This is the wisdom/mentorship I’m here for.

Double decker bacon sandwich.

What about Three Bacon Sandwiches? 😁 Gotta be streaky bacon, crispy fried.

@@StephenJReid well now you’re just being ridiculous (except about the streaky, crispy bacon - anything else is criminal).

Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise! Seek help

Oh wow that’s a lot of distance, I only do about 22000km in a year. Helps that when I’m not out, I mostly work from home. Yeah absolutely right it is a bit of a mindset. I’ve kinda chosen to earn less too, but enjoy my time more. The nature of my work is that I could squeeze in probably 3x more work if I just was focused on earning

Ahaha 😂 that was you?! Thanks! Louise thinks it’s funny every time it happens. It’s nice to be reminded that there’s actual real people out there who watch the videos and not just names and profile pictures 🙂

@@StephenJReid ohhh absolutely bud your content is brilliant, and to hear it from a Norn iron lad is even better. Ps I'm gonna buy a van 🤣

@@stephenbailie2086 Thanks! Van is the best thing ever

@@StephenJReid yeah I'm looking at a tourneo for multiple seats and stuff

Thanks Brian, yeah just about managed to salvage the video after Rory popped up 😂 I’m flattered you think the joinery work was good enough to have paid for!! 🤣🤣 Did it all myself with no experience other than a trial and error attitude. There were a lot of errors along the way 🤣 Still all very much a work in progress. I expect it to look quite different in a years time. But still probably more utilitarian. Plan on carpeting the ceiling and walls. Will make a big difference

Yes occasionally the rain stops 😂

@@StephenJReid Online Weather Alerts in Australia announce “Rain expected in 30 Minutes”. Online Weather Alerts in Ireland announce “Rain expected to End in 30 Minutes”.

@@StephenJReid It doesn’t stop as such. There’s occasionally a temporary pause when it runs out and the next delivery is late.

A good day is when the rain is falling vertically as opposed to going horizontally 😀

Haha, keep the Tourists away 🤣

@@StephenJReid yeah its an awful place, no towerblocks, no theatre, just empty wilderness, hills, sandy beaches and wild coastline

Thanks Paul!

Thanks Timo! I’m hoping to head back and show off the coastal area more soon.

@@StephenJReid When I get there, we’re gonna meet up. That’s a fact.

@@timovehkaoja let me know if you’re going to be here! 😁

@@timovehkaoja let me know if you’re going to be here! 😁

@@StephenJReid For sure!

Thanks Ajay!

@@StephenJReid you are welcome sir

Thanks Kevin!

I have a small portaloo and use shower wipes if I can't get to a site. I might buy some kind of actual shower that I could hookup out the back. Actually just published a new video that mentions this

Thanks, a timely question. I will checkout your new video.

Thanks Paul!

Hope so! I heard that fuel injector issue was only vans made in 2019?

Thanks and Yup that was the GoPro at night.

@@StephenJReid thanks for replying. I have the go pro 9 and wondered what it would be like at night so was just curious.

It works well enough to tell a story as long as you have a decent headtorch.

Just lower the seats in the back, instant mini van

@@StephenJReid good idea , still like the thought of a van though , get a bike in and all the rest of the gear then i can escape 😂😂.

It’s the marmite of cameras

I really love some of the views those cameras can give, like full body, or unusual angle/unreachable perspective shots… but I do think the swoopy sea sick camera rolls need to have had their day soon 🤓 🤮

#parttimevanlife

Well he managed to!! 😂

I just left the van open for 3 hours, low crime area 🤪

Whoops, our markings are different in Northern Ireland. Always two solid lines, so I hadn’t noticed this. Appreciate that’s not a valid excuse. So thanks for letting me know.

Interesting question Jim, so I thought I’d go add it up as the perception can be very different from reality. In the last 6 months I’ve been away from home (on these kinds of trip) 23 nights out of 365. So I’m home 94% of the time. On average I’m only away 1 night every 2 weeks although it’s really less as half of those days were over 2 trips to Lake District and Scotland. So weeks can go past and I’m not away. I schedule my time and take time off to make sure I spend quality time with Louise so it’s all good 🙂 I just don’t share all that time online

@@StephenJReid interesting to get such an honest answer. you make it seem like you are never home and live in your van most of the time. How many youngsters are gonna see these vids and think that this is the way to live ..as a homeless digital nomad in a ford transit and pooping in a bucket. Videos can be very deceptive , not that i am saying you are but the vids as i say present something that isnt reality, if you know what i mean.

Don’t know why but “homeless digital nomad” makes me think of a blockily animated 1980s video game featuring a hobo.

@@jimgiraffe5253 Haha there are worse things “youngsters” (to me that’s anyone under 25) could be doing. I actually think the van life trend has been fantastic at promoting more local tourism and maybe even encouraging people to take pride in their own country more. For a long time it seemed that the only acceptable way to “properly” travel had to involve a plane. The problem is, the alternative to “making it seem like I’m never home” would be to post loads of boring videos that no one would watch of me sitting for hours editing in front of a computer. Videos by their nature are a form of deception and it can be benevolent or malevolent. To tell a story you have to edit, you can’t show everything. And you’re right, it’s very easy to tell a harmful story with video. See it all the time online. This 15min video was edited down from about 1hour of footage which was shot over about 24hours. So actually only 1% of the entire trip made it into the video. Makes you think.

@@Dreyno someone needs to make that video game 😂