A FULL-time car-liver has evaded home payments in the back of their truck.
But, in a recent YouTube video, the driver said they the camper life comes with some severe downsides.
“I love camping, and I love hiking – I love doing both of those things solo,” the YouTuber Megan Clarke (@MeganClaarke) said in a recent video.
Clarke said she traded in her Toyota Corolla for a GMC Yukon – a large SUV.
She transformed the back into a bed, kitchen area, and storage closet in a series of videos.
The 24-inch bed rests one foot away from the car’s kitchen.
A minifridge sits in between the car’s two front seats.
The truck is also equipped with full electrical and energy storage capacity.
Clarke said the transformation took her a month to put together.
She also reported a total cost of $4,000 for the overall transformation.
“Because of how long I was in the camper traveling, and I wasn’t paying rent, it was a breakeven situation,” she said.
TRAVELING ALONE
The SUV build allowed Clarke to travel through the scenic Banff National Park in Canada.
However, Clarke said that scenic travel leads to loneliness.
The loneliness, she said, was easier to cure than when she wasn’t traveling.
“This seems like the best possible scenario of how to get lonely,” she said.
“When you’re lonely because your actually alone, you can just go out and talk to someone.”
She said handling loneliness on the road, devoid of other people, was easier to cure than in social situations where she felt misunderstood.
WINTER WARN
As temperatures continue to drop, drivers should know the risks of staying in their cars.
Car are engineered to maximize air flow from outside the vehicle.
The design intends to curb asphyxiation risks.
However, cars tend to leak heat through their windows because of their designs.
Drivers who stay in their cars while temperatures drop without pre-fixing heating leaks risk cold-weather health threats like frostbite and hypothermia.