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Solo Woman's Journey to Happiness Living Full-Time in a Honda Element!
For the past year, Hana has been calling her Honda Element home, proving that adventure and comfort can coexist even in a compact space. Working remotely part-time, she has managed to cover her minimal expenses while enjoying the freedom of living closer to nature. Hana's story is a testament to the transformative power of following one's heart. Through Honda Element "van life," she has discovered a renewed sense of happiness, while immersing herself in the present moment.
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Thanks for watching!
Hannah's video was refreshingly cheerful. Thank you for having her on your channel. She gave me some ideas for my own van.
" I used to be annoyed by people like me" made me burst out laughing!
So kudos to me for bumping into this wonderful young woman. best wishes nd safe travels to you Hana ❤
I love her! What a positive and completely authentic person! You put together a great build and I wish you a lot of joy and happiness on your new adventure!! ❤😊
What a nice lady. It sounds like she's really enjoying her Nomad life. Thanks for introducing us to her Bob. Safe travels to both of you
Hannah is a shinning Ray of sunshine and no clouds!
Not boring and not mad at the world. Full of guesto and really ready for searching out the interesting places anywhere around her. Her car will be all she needs until it isn't. Great gal. I'd love to meet her and other part time or full time nomads. Thanks Bob for a great video. From Central Oklahoma, see you next time.
Gracie! Love the name! Love the 'love of life!' Hannah's story is wonderful to hear & see.
Hannah is truly "living in her Element"
She's absolutely gorgeous, I'm grinning like a looney because her energy and attitude is contagiously positive. She's a gem 😁
She sure is! 😎👍
Lololol good one!
😂 Funny
I love you, and your minimalist energy .. keep it for all the good stuff you encounter on your travels. Brilliant attitude. It's infectious!
I wonder if Hannah knows that elements have a built in table!! It covers the spare tire and then there are legs I believe or you can order them and turns the cover into a decent little table👍🏻👍🏻
Utah Jeff ….here…I owned a 2006 Element and it had no table setup. I know some of the early RAV4’s had a nice table. The reason why it is called a RAV 4 .,. Recreation Activity Vehicle- 4 cylinder
My Element got totaled and I really miss it . Looking to buy another one soon
The older CRVs had the table not sure about the new ones / Element does not
One good thing about living in an suv or van is that if you get real sick or have a medical emergency is….it turns into an ambulance and you can drive yourself to the hospital and save a bunch of money!
Dis woman has a personality & a 1/2 😄 she's lovely ,god bless 🙌, o hail up all the way frm Guyana 🇬🇾 south America Bob 🤙👋
Hannah - Well Done! Excellent rig! I am a minimalist too - in Africa.
It was great to such an upbeat person like Hannah. I just finished my first month on the road as a Nomad and I am happy, probably not as happy as she is but, I am getting there. I wish her safe travels.
What a wonderful setup. A great reminder of what’s possible!
Hannah has the best energy! I put my fridge on the front seat to save room in the back, the Element gets crowded quickly! She is an inspiration.
This was enjoyable to see!
You guys rock! Hana here, beyond grateful for your well wishes, feedback, and positivity! Truly, this is the most joyful time in a very full life. C’mon out on the road and follow your big beautiful hearts!❤️ See you at the RTR in January.
Nice comfortable Setup!!👀😃 Love how the K9 walked over and chilled out once the cameras started rolling! 😆
Her spirit is so refreshing! Good for her!!!
Hannah is exactly my age! Cool setup, the Element is a great design, too. Very versatile. I used to own one and wish I still had it. Honda should start making them again!
Amen David!
Wouldn't an Odyssey be better?
You know a lot of people don’t understand this type of living but If you think about it these small SUV’s like this element and say a ford flex (what I have) and vans are like mini Winnebago’s😁👍🏻
Hannah, you look plenty happy and quite healthy. Gracie appears to be an efficiently equipped rolling home. You've inspired me to get my Jeep more geared up -- with an awning and easy solar. Plus, I may add a tiny cargo carrier (hitch type platform, & strap a tool box onto it). The Honda looks taller/wider than my Cherokee. And, it has that cool versatile tailgate to use as a table or lounger.
Wishing you safe and fun travels.
Hi Bob, I always look forward to your videos. they are always very informative and contain more than showing the viewer how to eat breakfast in a van he he. I love this van. It is very cute. She sounds like she has found her perfect life. I am 68 and like her, do not have the money to do both. I travel in my van and also do house and pet sitting as well which I love. I get to have pets without the expense.
Awesome inspirational video. As im building out my van for this years trip to Quartzsite. Cant afford to bring my micro mini as gas is crazy. Cant wait for the fun in quartzsite @
What year/ mileage of Honda Element and bath room usage ? Thank you for the video. Blessings to you.
She mentioned shower equipment on the side door, but nothing about BR.
what a woman...enjoyed her so much, bubbly positive woman
Love your Honda Element, great cars.
Love your attitude and lifestyle. 👍👍
She's a live wire🎉 Wow, the Element gets 25 mph.
MPG, lol
A close family member lived in her Element six to nine months every year for over fifteen years for her traveling job, from Alaska to Mexico. She is now brick and mortar for health reasons, but she still has and uses it. The square shape I think is an asset for living in it.
Great video! Delightful woman! If you have wheels and any sort of income (for food and gas), you can do this! You just need to be careful so that you can accrue an emergency fund for repairs, etc. That’s what I’m doing on my minimal soc sec. Not easy, but the alternative (mouldering in a subsidized sr apartment in a cheap part of the country with no connections or community) sounds much, much worse!
The future of the entire middle class...
What a warm spirit she is!
Hannah,, Idea,,Find a Universal swivel seat seat base, then adapt your Element seat to bolt to the swivel base.
Bob, thanks for all you do. I'm a fan and follower ❤️
Ralph told me over the many years to always have a home base . He's not with us anymore . He's at the home base in the sky . Miss you POP'S .
Love her exuberance!
Love it! Just out there livin' life on her terms, not afraid to get out of her comfort zone and see the country and try something new. That is what life is about folks. And that personality!!!
This is great!! I'm just four weeks away from my trial road trip in my Element. It's so encouraging to see other women doing it successfully. Thank you for this video!! ❤
I want to come hang out with Hannah!
Full of life.
Great interview.
Thanks, Bob.
well she is Loud and Funny I wish i was as happy as HER !!!
This might be a good solution for me. I am looking more and more at Nomadic living in an SUV. I like what Honda has to offer in both fuel efficiency and longevity. If I were to find myself single, which will eventually be the case as my husband is older and has Parkinson’s, I will only be able to continue facing life one adventurous day at a time. I watch and learn meanwhile.
I bought a van for the Van Life but I have not had enough time to do anything with it yet so then I bought a pop up ⬆️ and I can tow it
I'm sorry your husband is dealing with Parkinson's. I worry about that, and have found many videos on it, especially using Infrared Treatments, that have helped. Many videos on doing exercise, and even boxing on a large punching bag.
I like her she's extremely positive and confident with her existence.
Love the confidence!
These Honda Elements are excellent with the reliable 2.4L and hopefully 5 speed stick. Can be made into a camper with the rear sunroof. -The prices are continually going up. Excellent seating for 4, with a high roof and rear seats fold to the wall. 20-25+mpg.
Now that Ford discontinued the successful Transit Connect, the Element may be my next car. It's a great option.
But hopefully I can keep the TC going "to infinity, and beyond." 😉
What I’d like to know is why the car companies stop making the most popular and functional vehicles - Honda and the Element, Ford and the Transit Connect. It makes me wish I could have afforded to buy a second Element and put it in storage for when my current Element, aka “Pumpkin” (color is Orange and I bought her on Halloween 2007), finally croaks … Pumpkin currently has 110,000-ish miles and is still going strong! Honda, please bring back the Element‼️
@@michaelinejunefrost9437 they were scheduled to bring it back then Covid hit and they didnt. But the redesign was said to be smaller, so I'm not sure we're missing anything. I have a 2008 with 128k miles and adore it. Have traveled and lived out of it for a month at a time and loved it.
firstly.. i love your channel .. secondly.. would that great set up work in a honda pilot ? [ rent is too high for me.. so i am considering hitting the road ] tx in advance
Get out your need list and a tape measure. Dip you toe in - go camping. You’ll figure it out.
Excellent. Good for you!
Love her good energy!
love her energy and her build.
Hannah, I love that Kiwi color. That color came out after I needed to buy a vehicle.
I love my Honda Element too & that swivel seat would be a game changer. Two years now I've lived in my HE. The swivel seat is too high of a price & I passed up on buying that swivel seat too.
Would love to meet up with U Hannah & create a community & share our land & life with other like minded people! 😉 CUDTR 🚙 Happy travels & stay safe. 😊
Love your ENERGY Hannah! ✨💖✨
Inspiring person. She's living a great life.
I LOVE that she's barefoot! That's true freedom right there.
Being able to travel comfortably all over the US would be wonderful. But I keep wondering how you would fulfill any kind of social life? Parking in the boonies where there isn't anyone wouldn't help. In fact, I would be afraid to be all alone. In an apartment or house, you can call 911 and get help pretty fast. Also, where do you go when you finally get too frail to continue traveling if you don't have a "real" home to go to? If you have a good retirement that probably would not be a problem, but otherwise what?
She said she has relatives she can go back and live with and it isn't a problem for her. She is 63, but apparently loves to exercise, as she says she hikes and kayaks. You're right about planning for your old age, so you can go to an assisted living facility, if you don't have relatives to help.
Good points
Love her attitude!! I’m 62 and have one foot out the door and living in my car BY CHOICE! Can you believe it? By choice. It’s calling me:) I don’t know why and I’m going to stop questioning it and just fkn go! Women like this give us older women such hope and inspiration. God bless her and others like her❤
Maybe start off part time while you still have your home base...test drive?
Me too at 67, in my Element, Elvira!
Hello from Puerto Rico
Your definitely in your element! Great job with minimalistic choices. Bravo.
I love her energy and positive attitude! But you never asked her how she goes to the bathroom or cleans herself. You ALWAYS ask that! 😆
Great spirited lady!
Love her good cheery attitude and many happy days to her🎉
I own the same car ..but when I purchased mine in 2005, brand new (200,000) miles later, it was called Galapagos Greek. Not Kiwi. I have spent very little money on repairs, and she still purrs like a kitten .. I hope Honda starts to make the Element again ..It is the best car I have ever owned !!! and I am 77 years of age
I'd love to hear more from/about Hannah:) Does she have a channel? What does she do for insurance? Etc...
I love her ❤ she’s so happy and we have the same thinking.. I don’t have a home base I stay in my Toyota Corolla and I love it 🥰
Hannah's enthusiasm if infectious. i hope our paths cross someday.
I can remember when the Element came out and a Honda rep at the Portland Auto Show remarked that its target audience was young active adults, and I thought... 'they haven't a clue who the real buyers will be'. And I was right. Many 40 to 60+ year olds snapped them up and many still have them. That said, I don't think it was the success it should have been cuzz now days the demand for them is very high and there are so few available.
Keep it on the high road to adventure, Hannah.
PS! Need better MPG... Slow down. Most of us are in a big hurry to go nowhere fast. If you are retired, what's your hurry? Anything over 55-mph and fuel mileage drops off significantly due to the coefficient of drag 'squaring' over 55-mph. Doing 65-mph into a headwind and watch that fuel meter drop no matter what you are driving.
Get the swivel! you're worth it : )
Thank you! Just days after this video was shot, two friends at the rtr swiveled it for me!!! ❤️
Thank you for interviewing Hannah, I love her attitude. I have been perfectly happy with our 2009 jeep Patriot for solo part time travel, but like the Elements, they are small and the gass mileage is not all that great because they are shaped like bricks... Our 2017 Toyota Sienna gets better gas mileage and is a mansion inside. Not as much ground clearance is not a problem, because as my son said, you will just park at the end of the good road and pull out your backpack and walk the rest of the way. Thank you again for taking the time to do these interviews and rig tours. Safe travels and I hope our paths cross at some point out on the road.
I would love to do something like this but I can't for health reasons 😣. I live the lifestyle vicariously through your videos. Thx
Wow shes amazing !! I wish i could find 3 of these women to come live on my land !! I need like minded people around me ! Is there a group somewhere to meet people !! ❤🙏🙏
SUGGESTION: Tell her to Get a roof rack to store things that are seasonal or things that she doesn't need to access all the time...or get a small enclosed car trailer that she can keep attached and locked. She can carry extra water and other supplies in it...or all the things she wants to free herself of right now but might need it later. Also, if she's going to sit out on her porch against the elements and woods...depending on where she is...she needs to purchase a screened tent that she can flush right up against the vehicle so that an animal or person can come up to her so quickly. If she does, she needs to close up the part directly under the tailgate to keep anything from coming underneath. Tents are sold at Walmart, amazon or any sporting goods store...this is the screened ones that she can hang out in during the day after putting a tarp on the ground.
Beautiful! I was thinking about getting a Crazy Creek chair again, mainly to use in a small tent. Does it support you enough without having to engage muscles to stay steady?
I’ve had a Crazy Creek for 40-odd years, and they are great as long as you are able to get up from where you are sitting! I find that engage my thigh muscles a bit to recline as much as I want, so easier if you are fit/younger.
Absolutely!
Lovely woman.
Love her ! Awsome outlook on life and attitude. Fun video to watch
I got an aftermarket swivel seat for my driver's seat - I like it, but it turns out to be an time consuming thing. Turns out leaving the passenger seat backwards is more useful.
Yes, I thought that, and she could move the bed on the other side and just switch things around.
That was really enjoyable. Thank you so much.
~I'm favoured, $230K every 4weeks! I can now afford to give back to the locals in my community and also support Charity Organizations. God Bless America🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nice simple build ready to enjoy for such a nice lady
😁 love her personality!
Nice to meet you, Hannah. I am also looking for a community. I hope to find some likeminded people to buy some land with. I just need to stay in S. California near my grandbabies. Best of luck in your travels.
Super cool !
Great positive energy !
Hannah has the spirit and drive that will make her successful. I wish her the best and hope that she does change her passenger seat to a captain’s chair. I personally am just working to start out my journey in June from Ohio to cross our great country. Ever the pandemic, I got the urge to get outside more. I will eventually will stop in Quartzite and seeking out others. But, I need to prepare.
If I was in suv full time I'd buy a swing hitch, with carrier, and build sink on it, counter, garbage pail area, h20 spot
Great love your outlook!!! (I would recomend you hide your license plate number: for security reasons).
So inspiring!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ Get it Get it! Keep living and loving and spreading kindness as you do.
Hannah, I love your love for life. And I love your color and car 😉
those are fun to drive like a civic. say more about the libraries
Just a handy side pocket on the door with my most beloved books and a few maps.
1 of my Sons has an element & loves it. All my Son's are Honda guys with 2 ,being Honda mechanics( these 2 live off grid & camp several days out of the week) Hondas are strong runners ( My Son's has almost 300k on it) He made a rack for the top. He has a hammick & pulls up by a tree & hands out in nature. Elements live a long, long time. Enjoy it! ✌️💞👍
It's hard living like I'm a truck driver but when I retire I may live like that if cost of living keeps going threw the roof for rent may be upgrading my jeep for a van
Very pleasant, positive lady! Nice Element, nice build. I really hope she finds an inexpensive way to swivel that passenger seat, by someone honest who does good work. I don't know how people manage the side air bag issue. Might have to have a way to turn it off when it's facing the rear. Best of luck Hannah!
Roof storage would be great!
Thanks!! You gave me encouragement;That I m on the right track. Headed South from Va. Keep Having Fun!! Barb
I've always heard there are lots of beautiful places to camp in Virginia.
Girl , I L O V E your energy! Where do you toilet? 5 gallon bucket conversion?
No grey clouds here, but the energy and Life that this woman exudes is GREAT!
Love the positive vibes and energy Hannah (you're a kiwi in spirit 🇳🇿🥝).
I follow Rosa in her Honda Element, and in some recent videos, there's been an Element meet up - which looked soooo cool - with a broad range of builds, and the most diverse party of people, all united by their Elements. They're a rare find. It's not often I get Ven Envy, but an Element would be right up there in my Most Desirables List.
Thanks for sharing 😘
Very nice video thank you and what a beautiful, charming woman living a nice life. 👍
Blessings Hanna
Truly a life of simplicity!
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Instant crush! I love this lady. If you explore the Oregon coast, you'll have a place to park on the farm and a tour guide for all the coolest places around here.
I’m in! Thank you!
Good for you..😊...
I love her! What a great gal! Kind of gal you want as your Best Friend - I hope we meet up someday, on the road. Have safe and happy travels. And I love her minimalist set up. Throw what you need in the car….and GO!
Awesome video very encouraged by Hannah!
Hannah is Great!!!