After 5 Years of Living In a Vehicle Full-Time, My MOST Embarrassing Moments

How's it going everybody? I'm Nikki Delventhal and these are my dogs, Rodney and Camper Delventhal. For over three years we lived in a Toyota Prius, but now we're in a 4x4 Sprinter. And we're here to take you along on the wild ride. So fasten up your seat belts and let's have some fun. Don't forget if you like what you see, like, subscribe, comment, share with your friends, and turn on notifications. We would be so thankful. Oh my goodness, we got so much snow last night. You guys, we are snowed in in the middle of a forest. What are we gonna do? You want to snuggle, you want to play. I get it. Let's go. Where can you go? Come on. let's get you boys some breakfast and mom some coffee. So for the past four or five years, I have been living in vehicles. I was in a Prius for three years and then I was in two different trucks with pop-ups, two different vans, and now this van. Let's just say I've got a lot of good stories, but ones I haven't told you guys are the most embarrassing ones and they, to be honest, are terrifying, some of them. Like, it doesn't get much worse than that. So I figured to entertain ourselves on this beautiful, stormy, snowy day, why not get into some of the most embarrassing moments of my lifetime? Yeah. All right, we've got Rodney on duck and we've got camper on lamb today. So I made a list of 13 embarrassing moments I could think of, like the most embarrassing moments. Like this one time I was in Utah and I was in the middle of nowhere. I had not seen a car in three full days. So I thought, you know what? I'm safe. I went to the back of the Prius, I took a gallon jug out, got naked, started showering, and I kid you not, the first car that I saw in three days drives by and it's not just like someone overlanding. It is a family of like 10. There are kids. It was just terrifying and I went running and I ducked down and I was just like, oh my god, this is terrible. It was in the first six months of me living in my Prius. It was it was rough. It was rough. And that's not, that's like probably, we're going in order of like least embarrassing to most embarrassing. I got this guinea pig lung to make me feel better the other day. What a happy family. This takes a lot of concentration. I can't talk. You know, there are probably a lot of things that are very embarrassing that frankly I don't find embarrassing, like sleeping in a Walmart parking lot, washing your face in the bathroom there, at rest stops. But I do remember my first six months living in a Prius, I was maybe a little bit embarrassed or just like afraid to tell people. I didn't even show anything on social media for the first maybe six plus months. Maybe it was a long time before I finally was just like, no, I'm gonna own this. This is my dream. I've always wanted to do this. Yeah. So it's just interesting, you know, perspective. That's not milk. That's not milk either. There she is. Not to be mistaken with. I'm peeing this. Oh God, you guys, this is a good one. But I think it's just more embarrassing because I'm telling people about it. Because nobody knew about this till right now. One time. No. Okay. Yeah. So one time I was in my Prius and you have to pee, you know, there's no bathroom in a Prius, it's freaking tiny. And I missed. That was so bad. I'm so embarrassed. Oh my God, why did I tell you guys that? You guys want to tell them the next one? You guys have both peed in the bed multiple times, so I don't even want to hear it. The next three embarrassing stories are all on dates while I was living in a car. Oh my God, they're so bad. So which one do I share first? Okay. So I was in North Carolina and I was on a date. We went and got oysters. It was really nice. But that night we get back to his apartment, we're hanging out, two other friends, and I go to the bathroom. I'm not feeling very well, so I'm kind of just hanging out in there. And next thing you know, I wake up on the floor. I had passed out and hit my head and I couldn't move. I had bruises all down my side afterwards, but I scream his name and he comes walking in the bathroom and he puts his hand on my shoulder. And I immediately, that exact second he touched me, soiled myself. Yeah. I had my pants in front of my very new date. And to make it even better, he stayed in there with me while I asked him to call my mom because I thought it was dying. Mom, I had my pants. Well, when you feel muddy, you wash them. There was another time on a date. I don't know if you guys remember a couple years ago when I tore my meniscus. What I didn't tell you guys was that I tore it while on a bunny slope, like at the bottom, at the bathrooms. No one taught me how to fall. That was so bad. And what was even worse is that I got stuck with this guy for 10 days because I couldn't drive out. It was my right knee. Um, but also a huge snow storm came in hours later and we ended up piling like 20 feet and then even more like the storms just didn't stop. And once they did stop 10 days later, I put chains on my Prius and drove out with my left leg. It was so bad, but yeah, bunny slope. You're looking dapper, Rod. You guys ready to go for a little walk? Rodney doesn't usually last very long in the snow, so we're bringing his backpack. Well, it's not my fault I'm so small and cute. Seems like we might have some visitors on this dirt road today. We've already seen a snowshoer and a car, so we're going to close our window shades just, you know, so nobody can see in, see what we've got. It's a, just a smart move. This will also keep it a little bit more insulated so we don't go through as much battery, not as much heat is used. Before we continue on today's adventure, we are taking a little wellness break on the beach to do things that make us feel good and reset, like hanging with our friends, relaxing in the sun. And today we are listening to an audiobook. My friends, Jazz and Crystal, recommended that I listen to Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, an audiobook about how sleep improves your life and wellness for the better. Audiobooks are one of my favorite ways to pass the time, especially when I'm traveling, like on the flight to this beautiful beach or on long road trips in our van. So I am super excited to announce our video sponsor today, Audible. As an Audible member, you can choose one title a month to keep from the entire catalog. You also get access to a growing list of audiobooks, Audible originals, and podcasts. You can download included titles all you want from mysteries, bestsellers, self-help, wellness, business, and more. It's super easy to use in any situation. New members get to try it for free. All you have to do is go to audible.com slash Nikki D or text Nikki D to 500-500. All right, back to our snowstorm adventure. Got it. Oh my goodness, you guys, it just started snowing so hard. How are you doing back there, Rod? All right. And for the most embarrassing date story yet. So you guys know how I have a toilet that requires bags. Well, I come to visit my date from an adventure and let's just say I used one of those bags. And he said, do you have any trash? And I was like, uh, yeah. Cause he saw it. And so I was like, okay. So he takes the bag of trash and he puts it in the trash. So come two or three weeks passes and he decides to finally tell me that this particular bag didn't go in the bear bin. It went in the one next to it. And that evening a bear came in and ripped that bag to shreds. The rest, you could probably visualize yourself. Um, long story short, my feces were all over his driveway. His dog ate it. And so it gets worse. Then he proceeds to pick up all the trash, looks at his hands and you can fill in the rest from there. Um, this was like one or two weeks into dating each other and it was terrifying. Uh, good news is I am still dating this person. So didn't scare him off completely. But, uh, yeah, that has to take the cake for poop stories and embarrassing moments. Like the funniest part is when he told me though, I just went, well, what did you expect? I live in a van. Of course I poop in bags. Why wouldn't you put it by the second. A little something for you and a little something for you. All right. I'm thinking vegetables. We've also got this beet juice with ginger and turmeric and lemon. So good. Eventually I'm going to have my own juicer in here. I'm just trying to be as healthy as possible and have all the things we can organic clean. So on that note, veggie time. All right. We have about 20 minutes for our food to cook. So in the meantime, more stories, uh, and on the topic of showers. So we have that Utah experience that was terrifying, but, uh, also just showering in general at like beaches, anything outdoors and in public is just really awkward in general. Uh, but you also have national gym chains and truck stops. Now, normally that's normal, but, um, more often than not, I forget my clothes or the towel that I'm supposed to use to dry off. Um, at truck stops, that's okay. Cause there's towels there, but at gyms or laundromats, maybe not so much. Yes. Laundromats sometimes have coin showers. So this one time I'm in there and I'm using this coin shower and after my shower, I realized I don't have my clothes or my towel. So I ended up wiping myself off with the shirt I was wearing and then putting that back on. And I remember walking out of that stall and there were just so many people and they were staring at me because it looked like I had literally showered in my clothes. It was hilarious. But yeah, I highly recommend checking your bag for both if you can. Bon appetit. Oh my God. That looks so good. I've outdone myself as usual, but this is just like divine. The purple potato, that's it. First round of cleaning. So we are supposed to be getting another foot or so of snow in the next 24 hours. So instead of letting it compile on the van, I think we should start wiping it off, you know, periodically. It's melted a little bit in the sun, so that's helpful. Newest edition. Love it. Now for the roof. Somebody's having a field day. I love the snow. My goodness, you guys, I cannot believe another snowstorm is coming in back to back, but I don't know. It's kind of fun. And the sun's about to go down in 45 minutes already. It's four o'clock. Where did the day go? But as promised, embarrassing stories. So next one is something I deeply regret. I honestly have no idea how it happened, but I was in Idaho with a friend and we used a port-o-potty at a dog park and my car key, my house key, fell in the port-o-potty. And without even thinking, like no thought, hand went right in, grabbed it and pulled it out. It was like instant regret. Oh my god, it was so bad. Luckily it had just been cleaned, so it didn't, like nothing was on it, but it was like obviously something was on it. So I took an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol, like the value size, and just kept pouring it on my hand for like hours. Yeah, still regret that day to this moment. All right, dinner time for the boys while I set up the movie. Here you go, good boy. No, no, no, don't put it on the bed. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Next on the agenda, get Rodney a slow feeder. You're going to learn that you're going to get more food than you need, I promise. Pajama time. You know, most of my embarrassing moments came from simple everyday tasks while living on the road, like not knowing where to fill up water or how to or where to park at truck stops, things like that. So you just learn by making mistakes and getting a little embarrassed. But on that note, it is getting dark and it is time for us to go to bed. So we love you all. We'll see you next week. Thanks for being here. Well, you guys, I spoke too soon. Made a rookie move. Gray tank's frozen. So yeah, got some antifreeze and some salt water and I'm gonna get a blow dryer and pray. Poured some of this down there. Got some boiling water. I'm gonna throw a space heater and pray. It's working. Highly recommend it. If it freezes, get a hair dryer.