 This is what the van life looks like on a Sunday morning just me and my oatmeal Just hanging out my boxers wearing yesterday's t-shirt Sitting on the front steps of Dan the adventure bus Just soaking in the view Beautiful this earth is oh and by the way If you guys haven't been to Utah before These little flies They mean business the flies around here in this area around the Colorado River are Relentless here's what semi organized in road ready looks like got a bunch of crap on the bed dumb trunk is secured things are in the sink The bus is not flying around Nothing on here This thing needs to find a home That's fine there. You got the cable up in the front Shoes are on the front porch I got my a road face on Supposed to sound cooler than that it came out Also a huge thank you to one of my idols long-time idols Andrew Zimmern from bizarre foods for the incredible life slash career advice that was Awesome, and I now have so much clarity right now So on that note, I'm gonna head towards St. George Which is right across the border right into Utah regroup. We'll pick it up there We got a tight squeeze here You guys ever done a drive-thru ATM with a school bus? In either I did find myself some Wi-Fi at a local coffee place and next door a place to potentially Trim down the mullet a little bit not the actual mullet part, but besides so I'm gonna go on a editing spree right now But I saved you guys the boring part of me actually doing the laundry, but the laundry is done There it is Right there That is everything I dirty not a lot of clothes, but that's almost half my stuff. Yeah Also remember this old thing well, I still have it I watched this as well because This was next to the You know what happened the other day with the poop water. So anyways also my Sleeping bag zipper broke so we're gonna take that back to Walmart. That'll be my third sleeping bag That I've gone through and What else? Yeah, so basically have a few errands to run and Who knows maybe we'll do a little Q&A to Make this video a bit more exciting today turn into errand day. I also got more of these No salt added soups the canned soups Even though organic ones are so salty and if I'm gonna live on this I Can't be putting that much sodium in my body Just because I'm too lazy to cook So these ones have a whopping 2% of your daily sodium and the organic Where am I? Okay, so Remember the Walmart I was in well Here's the Auto Center area and I was reading online that Some very smart person parked overnight here by the Auto Center So that they could access Walmart's Free Wi-Fi. It's also out of you know out of sight So that's good Also today I stopped by and I got another drone battery. This is battery number two So I think two batteries is good my last battery that I gave Nomadic fanatic had I think three batteries But I think I think two is okay, you know one just it wasn't enough I had to charge in between flights over at the Special hot spring which I haven't posted yet which actually the reason why I parked here So I can edit So I'm gonna do that right now, and then we'll play a little We'll play a little game later little Asked Jack's Q&A. I'm sure there's a ton of questions that you guys have And I'd like to address some of those in a video So you guys who might not read the comments or follow me on other social media platforms or Things like that can get answers to some burning questions All right, so as you saw today was a day of many errands and I wanted to do Something a little bit different which I've been meaning to do for quite some time Because there are and have been a lot of questions about how I'm doing exactly what I'm doing here So I Tweeted out and asked Jack's and as well I put it on an Instagram story first question comes from Drake night Does it ever get claustrophobic, and do you feel more connected to people because of your travels? I Haven't yet experienced a claustrophobic feeling Last night for the first time it was really hot in the bus when I was trying to sleep in there and any time I get hot I feel a little antsy Maybe claustrophobic, but otherwise. No, it's pretty spacious in here And I definitely feel more connected to people Because of my travels as you guys have seen I've bumped into many awesome people along the way A lot of people who just come up to me You know because they're so curious what's going on it. I just a little bit earlier I had a nice little family come by and take a picture of you know Danny adventure bus and stuff like that I'm at the parking lot of a Walmart right now and wills asks What sort of restrictions do you face especially if you are in an isolated area? How do you overcome storage issues? Okay, so the restrictions in an isolated area Number one is connectivity with the internet I do rely on the internet a lot and social media for cool locations for mapping directions communications with people Trying to interact as much as possible even though I would give myself an f for interactions on Twitter lately. I'm sorry, but Making videos all day long Takes up all my time and plus I'm driving. So it's like it's just hard. So I apologize and The storage issues I have a lot of like open dead space. It's not completely optimized and that's my fault because I Didn't really realize how much stuff I would actually take with me I thought I would take you know I still have not a lot of stuff, but like you know like a toilet and everything it like it just yeah I'm trying to get little containers to fix some things and I might actually Redo this bed and make it more storage friendly. But next question comes from Brandon Moore What is your favorite thing you learned since you first bought Dan and what has surprised you the most during your travels? The favorite thing I've learned is how to be more hands-on with building and fixing things Even the work I did on the bus like painting it putting these in there I've gained a level of confidence I've never had before with like my hands in building things. I always you know, I took auto shop and wood shop and stuff like that in in you know high school, but You know working on stuff with Chris was fun Musso kind of took the reins and did a lot of his stuff on his own and so that was cool But you know also breaking down places and then having it thrown an alternator in the bus in the parking lot of the auto parts store like that's just Like I'll always know how to put in an alternator. By the way, it's really easy and the thing that surprised me the most Was the cost of diesel and how bad gas mileage it is in the bus I was not anticipating that I thought I was gonna get like closer to 20 miles per gallon because it's a diesel however Having learned that RVs get like eight because they're gasoline I feel pretty good about it, but it's still so expensive Elizabeth Curran What has been some of the more interesting food and sights that you have encountered? What do you learn about Dan? The most interesting food so far was the Indian fry bread in Tucson that was awesome And that was something I didn't even know existed Those Indian tacos and all that stuff was awesome. Dan's pretty reliable just like Uncle Dan and You know, it's This whole experience of living in a vehicle Obviously I travel a lot and I don't stay in one place So I don't get people who Look at me like I'm homeless. I get people who look at me like oh wow. He's adventurous and so I've learned that Not just myself, but other people could benefit by living in a vehicle a Lot of people live paycheck to paycheck a lot of people have a hard time, you know Acquiring savings because life is so expensive. We are a monthly payment society and also a indebted society we buy things on the loan and I would say that This is a really smart way to cut your costs if if Someone's brave enough to live in a vehicle by choice even though they could Pay for an apartment. I feel like a lot of people could get ahead and get out of that cycle Amber says do you find that you talked to yourself? When not filming well, it's funny. I think I've always talked to myself, but I like have like a more Like loud dialogue with myself. It's almost like it's almost like I'm talking to you guys like I'm talking right now It's like I don't even see my camera. I just imagine all of you watching this right now But it's almost like I it's it's almost like there's a Show going like 24-7 or something or like I'm vlogging 24-7. It's really it's crazy It's like just because the camera's not even on I'll still talk as though it's on Ralph. It says how stinky does it get? Well, honestly not very stinky The stinkiest part right now is all the poo and the toilet, but there's so much disinfectant in there That you really can't even smell it so and normally the trunk is closed the dump trunk So not at all young David asks me when am I going to Alaska and Tucson? I'm hoping to get to Alaska at the end of May. I wanted to go sooner because If I could start with Alaska and then head over in the north by the time I hit like New York or something like that would be maybe like September October when it kind of starts to cool down a little bit And if I went back down the other way I just don't think I could have made it back to Alaska before it starts to snow because it snows all the time there All right The schoolie formerly known as Felicia asks what has been the biggest surprise for you out on the road such as Places to park people living in a bus full-time biggest surprise I would say honestly how easy it is like some people like online have talked about like Where's the right place to park? You know like how do how do you find a place like? It kind of blows my mind that people actually pay for a parking like if you don't have an RV And you don't have to have hookups with a power and whatever else you hook up I don't know because I don't have an RV, but like Yeah, you don't need to pay I'm in the parking lot of a Walmart right now next to the auto park Real close enough to get Wi-Fi for free So that is pretty easy you can like there's no if you're going to a big city or Through a big city or something. There's no reason you need to stay in the big city Just stay 40 miles out at the rest stop You're gonna have to drive that far any ways to get there So you might as well stop sleep there and then continue on and you kind of wake up as you go Driving out in the morning kind of wake you up and then you're at your destination like it's really easy people Have been surprisingly curious, but I also have to credit The Virgin Robo mobile wrap on the bus because it's just so big and so loud That you can't help but notice Dan the adventure bus You might happen to think I'm selling food in here, but that's okay It did catch your eye biggest surprise about living in a bus is like why didn't I do this sooner? Why didn't I live in a van sooner? I was making really good money in Los Angeles as a Bartender and I was blowing money left and right because I was making money left and right So at the end of the month there wasn't a whole lot of savings, you know what I mean had I done it this way I Could have Saved a lot of money that Kevin Fudamachi says Approximately how much did you budget for your adventure would love to consider my own trip, but I just need some pointers Well Kevin I figured out though. I figured that if I had a daily budget of about 50 bucks I could pay for Gas and I could pay for food and that would come out to about $1,500 a month. I used to pay $1,200 a month for rent So I that's why I thought wow I'm already paying so much money a month just to have an apartment if I paid a little bit more than the apartment which was considerably less than what my monthly expenses were I could effectively create daily videos For about 50 bucks a day and if anybody has a film background You know how insanely cheap that is to travel to make videos and to live like room and board so Just depends what you want to do with your project Brittany Lewinsky asks do you get lonely? Is it just you traveling? Do I get lonely? Honestly, not really because I'm always bumping into people You know Like I bumped into people at the Valley of Fire I bump into people at the Walmart. I bump into people at the Anywhere in park, you know people come up all the time and stuff So I have to thank the friendly humans for you know creating conversation I was gonna go and park tonight over close to the RVs and stuff But I wanted Wi-Fi and I wanted a little like Like quiet time because so many people come up, you know, which is awesome, but um, I Just wanted to sleep well tonight will Rivera. When are you coming to the East Coast? Well, will my original plan was to get to the East Coast like Florida by I think like November or December but since I had some things with the bus as you can see the lighting behind me and also I did some engine work and and some other stuff or forgot what but basically I Got a little delayed so then I thought to myself well I'll ask is my number one destination and also the hardest place to get to because of the weather So I thought well if I go in spring and then I can hit the northern states and then pop over there long story short I'm aiming for maybe October on the East Coast and then I'll make my way down and then back around the Midwest kind of Amber Brighoni asks will you be passing through Salt Lake City soon? Amber I am in st. George, Utah right now. I'm gonna be going to Zion Some other places Monument Valley some other places Salt Lake City and then Ogden for a meeting So maybe I'll have an assault like meet-up So you're invited by the way there were more questions Prior to this I just don't have a way to Save all of them besides just answering everything I can either on YouTube or on Instagram So if anybody has additional questions Write them in the comment section of this video and maybe I will do another one the next week And so maybe with YouTube I can have you guys commenting on The video which I can address like the next time I do it and then I can refer back to this one for Questions, but I will of course try to write back to you as well Just in case you didn't get the memo All right, so that concludes it for ask jacks Tomorrow, I think I'm gonna go to Zion, but as you guys probably have learned I don't really know my schedule