For the first time in a while, I'm back in the van for a solo overnight adventure. After living full-time in a van for 2 years while my house was being renovated, life changed and I moved back into the house. But with my sister looking after the children for the night, I finally had the chance to escape and hit the road again.
The problem? I picked one of the windiest nights possible! 🌧️💨
Join me as I search for a park-up, battle the weather, cook dinner in the van, and reflect on what vanlife still means to me after all this time.
🚐 In this video: ✅ Solo female vanlife ✅ One night vanlife adventure ✅ Vanlife in bad weather ✅ Returning to vanlife after a break ✅ Finding a safe overnight park-up ✅ Real vanlife thoughts and reflections ✅ Campervan cooking
If you've ever wondered whether you can truly leave vanlife behind, this one's for you.
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🚐 ABOUT ME Hi, I'm Sara. I lived in a van full time for 2 years while my house was being renovated, and the experience completely changed how I view freedom, money, and simple living. Now that the renovations are finished, I'm back in the house paying off renovation debt, keeping costs as low as possible, and working hard to build online income through YouTube and other projects. My goal is simple: create a sustainable income that allows me to spend extended periods on the road again and eventually make vanlife a permanent part of my future. On this channel, I share the honest reality of vanlife, budgeting, debt payoff, simple living, travel, and my journey back towards financial freedom and life on the road.
The Weather Tried to Ruin My Vanlife Trip... Video Chapters 00:00 Returning to vanlife 01:40 Finding a park up 03:00 Exploring my park up spot 04:20 Thinking my van got stolen 07:15 Forgot to tax the van 12:47 Evening in the van 17:30 Good morning
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I've been spending two years in this van, during which time my wife has given birth.
That's the sky being made, I must go out and I'm going back inside the sky.
Life's a van, and I'm doing the thing I'm meant to do, but I'm moving forward to a tougher one.
I can't hold it because I'm holding it so tightly.
What a great start for the trail.
Come inside the van.
The weather is going well so far.
I hope to continue with the time now to connect to the camera.
The camera has been shared.
I don't recognize my numbers.
I'm dealing with my phone.
I'm going to work to connect it when we get to the parking lot.
My numbers were going out, as you can see.
My friends were dynamic.
They were going back a few years, during which time I was in the garage.
I don't know.
That has now been divided.
I had to enter numbers.
£60 a week isn't half bad.
A board with the numbers numbers here at this time.
Frame.
I'm coming back down for the year.
I'm not going to appear at this moment.
I'm showing up.
I don't know when I'm going to the park.
I'm going to see when I arrive at the place I'm going.
I'm going to show up for the audition.
You may not know, but the isles are like small peninsulas.
The greater part of the Mersey War belongs to Liverpool.
There are many good things and matters.
It's not the good years, but there are many good years and things.
I think there would be many good parking lots.
That's good.
I am thinking.
That's the different park down there.
I don't see any notices stating that you need a parking lot.
That's my fault.
That's beautiful.
It looks like there are a lot of things there.
I don't know, shops and things.
Felly, I'm not interested in this place.
I think we'll be able to park here.
I've gone ahead and slightly moved on.
It sounds incredibly promising ahead there.
I'm going on and I'm going on and I'm going on.
I'm going ahead to get more work and see the F1 practice.
I don't think we'll be able to move forward here.
I've been dealing with this for a little while now, off and on.
It's very nice indeed because I'm feeling quite well...
I think this is the Mersey War, because I'm well-versed in the Mersey War there.
It's very nice indeed.
I've heard about those things, and it's going to be really nice for the whole day and the like.
Well, I don't think this is the right place at all. It's fine for now, I'm going out now.
Do a little more walking ahead. I can't speak there yet because it's interesting paths.
Indeed, as it is not my usual way, it's a perfect place, for instance, I haven't gone to do a little bit of
Honestly, if you have any comments or anything, but let's just go and do a bit of wandering.
It's interesting, it's very interesting there, I hope in the courtyard of this castle,
It's interesting, I feel like I'm going to go out, the sandro is taking my north, it's interesting.
Where are my ways? I'm sure I didn't park a little down.
The stage? Really? Oh no, come on. Stage, no, I think I'm the one who's seeing it.
Jesus. Oh my goodness, I was panicking there, I was intrigued, my foundations had been shaken.
Oh my goodness, I was panicking there, my nerves had been shattered.
I'm parking sand for me, I'm parking sand for me.
What's that? It's interesting there. I think we're going to get involved in the matter.
This central backdrop, which is still being built along the way, will be a university, because recently I was filming roads
I was given a lot of food, and I ate the portion of the stew, paste, and casserole.
I'd say, since I haven't been out today, I'll bring her along with me, and then we can just go on our way.
Moreover, I'm not saying I'll pursue the path in the applicant.
I'm on my way. I don't know which way my destination is, but this one is perfect.
The assembly is in the very heart of the candidate, clearing the way within the candidate.
Oh, and just like that, lunch is served—nice and quick, a nice reheat that's gonna be hot on my
Knee, isn't it? I'm gonna eat it right out of the pan. I always just eat out of the pan in the van. Oh yeah.
Nice, I'm still here, I don't know what to do, I don't know whether to just stay here.
or see if there's, I don't really want to go, like, obviously I'm going to have to go back
Away from the front if I want to go somewhere a little bit less windy, I don't really want to.
Do that, to be honest, that might be a regret if I stay here, and then I won't be able to sleep because I'm
rocking all night
Do you know what I'm thinking? I might do something. I've got a nice full tummy now.
and I might just have a little afternoon nap, which feels very lazy of me, but I've got a nice
Beautiful view. Maybe the rocking of the van will put me to sleep. I'm covered in sand.
Um, I'm actually shattered right now. The cats have been waking me up—like, if you've
My life at home is busy. The cats have been waking up at five o'clock every morning. I've
I've been going to bed late working on the Food Channel and other things, so I'm quite tired.
So I might just take this off since, as you can see, I'm watching the F3, the F2, and the F1.
and whatever I might just put it on and have a little dose—that sounds lovely—and I've got a
Not that my eyes will be open, but you know people are swimming in that water.
Can you see them? They're mad. Maybe it's nice. I don't know. I just had a nightmare. I was just...
Lying there trying to get to sleep, and then all of a sudden I realized, oh crap, I haven't taxed.
My van's MOT ran out, you know. I said I took my van for the MOT the other day.
For my MOT, my tax had run out the day before; I took it, it was on the second of June.
I took my van in for the tax, and it ran out around the 31st of May or whenever it was.
And so, anyway, I was like, oh my goodness, I haven't even taxed it, so I've just been
I've been trying to sort that out for the past half hour—I'm sorted now, I'm all tired, I'm legal now.
I'm not sleeping, I don't know why. I tried, but I'm not, I'm not the kind of person who takes afternoon naps.
I don't fall asleep very easily; I get bored lying there, I get bored lying there with
My eyes are closed, so I can't see. I'm just going to be tired. What are we going to do?
I'm really thinking about this park; it's so windy, it doesn't really matter, but like...
as well as the wind, it's quite nice out there—just lovely, like the view and everything it's
Lovely, but there are quite a few, like there was a big one you saw before, but there are like
like a store, not a shopping center, but you know, kind of a shop inside restaurants and such
So, it might be busy, like it's Friday night tonight, so it could get busy.
To be honest, the noise doesn't bother me as long as no one comes and knocks on my van.
Like they did last time I came out, yeah, the noise and that doesn't bother me. Yeah, I think so.
I think I'll be all right here. I think I'm gonna stay here. Oh, do you like my England top, by the way?
I'm, um, I'm being very patriotic for the World Cup—let me show you the back, you see it?
I don't know if you can see it, um, I don't know why we're going to get knocked out at the first stage.
Oh no, we need, we know we need penalties, we need to wait for some penalties, but we're getting
Knocked out, but I like my new little top—I've got my mallet for the night.
This is boring, this is for you, well, not for you—I'm not going to use the mallet on you, but you know.
Flying by, I'm just sitting here, just editing a video for the food channel.
So it turns out this is quite a little spot for people to come and go in the water here.
Lots of people have been coming and swimming, kayaking, canoeing, or doing whatever else.
I feel like I want to go join them; I think they're actually
Freezing! I do love some wild swimming. I wouldn't like to be trying to row, I'd rather go to the left.
It's insane—it's actually quite nice and warm out there, like I'm sure from the pictures.
It looked like a blue sky; it looks really nice, and it is sunny and lovely—it's just that
Wind—it's absolutely crazy. Maybe it's not too bad out there. I think... what time is it, even?
It's wow, yeah, time has flown—between watching F1 and doing this edit and sorting some things out.
It's ten to six; time has absolutely flown by, so I think I'm gonna, um, I'm gonna go on a little
wander, stretch my legs a little bit—I think it's one of the things that I love so much about
being in the van like you can just park up, I can sit in the van and just get on with it
stuff, and just like people watch, and it's just nice. I feel like when you're in a house, you just
You shut your front door and that's it, isn't it? You're not interacting anymore, or I mean, I'm not.
in touch with anyone right now but like you're not seeing anything else other than just whatever's
In your house, I love being out in the van and just, yeah, being able to just go for a little
wander in a different place or see what's going on there—it's just awesome, I still love it, people
In there, it's obviously a thing, yeah, that's the uh, not quite a beautiful park, local docks car out.
There's a Morrisons just here; when you do a budget food channel, you need to pop in.
the supermarket and see what's available; this place looks like it's unrealistic
Well, that was a lovely little walk. It's lovely out there. I might go for another little wander.
Before I go, I was trying to spend the evening editing and doing some work, but
I can't concentrate at all tonight. I don't know, I'm feeling a bit contemplative, is that it?
A word, I think it is, um, yeah, I'm gonna go for another little wonder; I think this spot should
I'll be okay for the night, I don't know. Yeah, it should be. It looks like everyone's okay, I think.
Yeah, they should be fine since there's no ambulance. That's it, yeah.
Oh, it's so windy, it's crazy, but it's so nice.
Oh, that's wild out there—it's absolutely wild. It's amazing. There's something just magical about it.
To me, at least, it's just like being around water—I love it so much, even water like that.
Some woman came up to me—I think there were some people in the sea or something—the lifeguard.
That's about to rescue them—some woman came up to me, asking if I knew anything about it.
Yeah, they were just arriving as I got there. Why would you think that was appropriate?
A little water to go in, I don't know, I'm definitely feeling all the emotions this evening.
I think, like, when I'm in the van, it's as if I've stepped away from my usual busy life, and I'm just... in the van.
And I'm on my own, it just gives you more time to think about things, doesn't it?
filled with so many emotions, I'm being honest, it's just been up and down down there, I think I could probably
Get in that car park; I think the height barrier is like 2.2. I'm pretty sure I can fit under 2.2, but
I'm glad I'm here, as lovely as it is, just sitting here by myself, contemplating thingsLOGGER
stuff like when that camper van pulled up and there was like a couple in there, whatever, and I
Don't know there's something in me that
It would be lovely to share this with someone, but I can't, and I don't do it on my own, so that's that.
Fine, but yeah, there's a bit of sadness in me—I'm all right, 18 games in five years.
just one last little look out the window because I'm gonna stick
My window coverings—now it's like 10 o'clock, it's crazy this time of year how light it is at
It's late at night, but I think I just want to snuggle into bed now. It feels so cozy now, I know.
You can't see me very well, but can you hear the wind? I love putting the window coverings up.
Just like oh closing in on me, little little cave, listen to that noise, maybe I should have moved.
The van is rocking so much it's gonna be a rough night—just check the weather up there.
I kind of like it, though I don't want it. Let's go up for a quick one—it's half past ten.
Quiet out there. Fingers crossed for a peaceful evening. We'll see.
There's bird droppings on my window—I think that's bird poop, for goodness' sake, six o'clock in the
All right, good morning. It's half past six; I don't think I'm going back to sleep now.
I've just opened my cart.
There are people in that water; they are crazy.
I'm not getting anywhere swimming against the waves; I'm a miserable guy too, and I wish I could
I'm so tired, but I just can't sleep. I'm not a good sleeper.
I'm torn between having a lovely time here just lying in bed—there's something lovely about just
Lying in bed, you're watching the ships go past, and whatever I sort of want to get up and go for
A little wonder too, before it gets busy—I'm torn. I think, probably, bed might win. Let's see what happens.
It's actually like out here because it sounds wild, whoa, oh my god, I can't even. Yeah, it's pretty.
Wild wow, um, I'm freezing—that's confirmed. It's staying in bed. Oh my goodness, craziness.
right next to me, but it's absolutely freezing out there
It's horrible, I'm stuck in here. Oh, it's wild. I know, I keep saying that, but it's absolutely wild.
I've had a lovely morning just chilling out in the van, doing some bits of work and stuff.
And I think I'm going to head back home now; a friend has just turned up at my house.
I told them not to come this early, but they've done so. I'm gonna, um, I'm gonna head back.
and see them, fingers crossed, I can do this again very soon. Goodbye. Hopefully next time I...
Come by because I'll be back; I like this spot. Next time I come, it won't be quite so windy.