78 year old Solo Woman Designed her No-Build Minivan Camper for Freedom and Adventure.
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2023
- This minivan has everything, including the kitchen sink, that Evelyn needs for her adventures. She has contagious energy and enthusiasm for life and she plans to be a sightseer mile after mile in her 2020 Dodge Grand Caravan.
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I am a single childless poor woman in my mid forties. I have cried many nights about knowing that I will be homeless in retirement. This video made me less scared of my future.
We have Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. We have women only meetups and caravans. I hope you can join us. 💙🦋💙
Butterfly Tribe Women who Camp:
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There are a lot of us out here. Prayer and trust in God is everything and let Him lead the way because He is always with you even if you don’t feel it. Make Him your best friend.
Yes, why not you?. You are as smart as the next person. Instead of crying about fear of the future, feel the excitement of planning your escape! You can do it❤❤
I’m about to be homeless and I need some help with getting a van so I can live like this please help me!
@@SunflowerBees70 watch Bob Wells channel @CheapRvLiving.
She's not 78 years old she's 78 years young. She beats me at 65. What an inspiration ❤
I totally agree. 😊👍
She beats me at 52! She’s so inspiring.
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She beats a lot of the 40 years old I know
It's nothing wrong with saying 78 years old. She would not be upset. Using " young " instead of "old" says that there's something wrong with being old. I'm 67 years old. But I was once 20 years old, not 20 years young!!
Being old is synonymous with being very lucky to be still alive!
Many young people don't reach adulthood, many babies don't get to even walk. 😢
Living on the road sure beats dying slow in some old folks home.
Good for that young lady!
I agree! 😊👍
Beats laying on your couch til you die
She is my hero. THIS is what you call aging gracefully, FOR REAL...not who has the least wrinkles. I watched in awe while she matter-of-factly talked about her solo traveling at 78. She makes nearly 80 look great!
That's so nice if you. 💙🦋💙
GOODLORD, Please Bless, let her Go different directions avoid Trouble anywhere to everywhere, In Jesus Sweet Power.Praying U God in Jesus Name >Amen
Agreed!!
@@PrattmaryWhy do you assume she is homeless? She has a very nice stationary home.
Many senior women who worked hard and cared for families all their lives are finally able to choose freedom.
Never feel sorry for these adventurous women who are out fulfilling their dreams and having the time of their lives - not wasting away just waiting for death.
This choice is certainly NOT for everyone, but for some of us, it is the ultimate adventure!
Wow, danke für diese Antwort.
Genau um das geht es, endlich die eigenen Wünsche zu erfüllen nachdem man immer nur für andere alles gegeben hat.Auch wenn man es gerne und in Liebe getan hat.
So geht es am Ende darum in Frieden und Harmonie, Erfüllung zu finden.
Ich bewundere diesen Mut und die Stärke dies alles umzusetzen. Mögen all diese wundervollen Lady's wohlbehütet bleiben und die beste Zeit ihres Lebens haben.
Mit den allerbesten Wünschen und herzlichen Grüßen aus Deutschland ❤
I'm so impressed with all the amazing senior women flying solo and enjoying their lives🦋
Yes. Our grandmothers didn't have this choice. 😊
I'm 60 and disabled, this is perfect for me.
It's sad that this is what their lives have come down to. Living in a van? No one 78 years old and sane wants to live this way.
What’s worse is these old guys who get their gold watch from the railway and sit on the couch getting fat watching tv. Usually dead in a year with a stroke. Too many flat thinkers out there.
I hope to do that too someday.
This woman has more courage than many younger people. 😉👍
A wonderful and young-at-heart woman. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
So someone younger who has a house and works to buy it has less courage than someone living in a van? So unless someone goes and lives in a van they have no "courage"? What about people who think the idea of living in a van is horrible? They don't have courage?
@@danielrn133 What I has wrote, was not a comparing between vanlive or living in a house. It was a comparing between people who have the dream, to live in a van! So many younger people want to do this, but they have often less courage than the wonderful lady in this video.
On the other hand, many people live in a house out of a sense of habit and security. The insecure feeling of living in a van, or having so little space, or traveling alone and going without a lot of material things would scare them.
To live in a house or a van, can be courage or fear and escape. Both is possible.
This is a question of consciousness.
I thought at 50 it was just a pipe dream and I was going to be vicariously living my van/car life day’s through others forever. At 78 you’ve just inspired me to never lose hope and to start manifesting these dreams into actions! Love your little set up too ❤
If we are still breathing and moving we still have time ! Don’t ever give up on your dreams
@@beabeautythat’s what I always say!!
Me too
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For 78 years old you look beautiful.
May God be with you in all your journey.
She is great. 🙂
@@ButterflyTrackswhere is her channel? I adore her!!!
She is well groomed, wearing light makeup & lipstick. Her jewelry is trendy but tasteful. I wonder if she did her toenails or had a pedicure. You can live in a van and still look good. 💅🏼 💄 🪞 🩴
What a wonderful woman! She’s full of guts and adventure mixed with super tidy and efficient.
She's just fantastic. Love her, and the pure joy she feels for her future adventures. May she have years of safe and happy travels.
I want to be her!! She’s awesome!
I love the set up. She's so organized and she's carrying a minimum of things. Inspirational lady!
Yes. She inspires me to go through and minimalize again! 👍
Can she remember what's in all these bags? She's very organised and I wish her well.
Thanks for sharing God bless you 🙏 looks amazing and beautiful
You would have to be [organized] if you live in such tight quarters. That's for sure! You definitely must have priorities down to a science. I say this both from years of experiences and all of the notes I've taken along the way. Note to self: Do NOT do THAT again! Note to self: Do this next time instead! 😂 😬
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I'm also a solo senior (74). Life was passing by too quickly! So I drove my campervan from Southern England, to Outer Hebrides islands. 100 miles off the west coast of Scotland. The journey was for 3 months, visiting Isle of Skye, Mull, Iona, Staffa, Uists, Barra, Eriskay. Isles of Harris and Lewis. It was an adventure of a lifetime, meeting so many senior solo ladies, many from Europe, also in their 70's. Your never too old to get out into the big wide world and fulfil your dreams!
Hi, Sally. 👋 I've met so many solo senior women enjoying their lives like we are. I'm 73 and I've been fulltime for almost 2 years. Enjoy you adventures! 💙🦋💙
😊you go girl
You are living my dream
That's been my experience over the past 50 plus years of solo tent camping most of the time. My hubby of 52 years not into camping and that's often the case with all ages of women I enjoy meeting on the road. Many have partners fellas or gals and they are not into it but trust and support them to go on out there. Now that's love. and respect. What I love is nature and sounds like you too. Amazing. I just bought my very first RV of any kind a year ago. A 22 year old Class B+ that turned out to be in dire need of help. Not realized how bad until I drove her home 550 miles in the dead of winter. But she's going to be wonderful. My intent is to shape her to my personality but also keep all I do in the original or easily returned to original lay out. I plan to utilize the sofa as my bed as I redesigned the jack knife sofa but it still works just as before only with fresh new upholstery. I have the three top back cushions to complete tomorrow. Otherwise I finished the seat sofa cushions yesterday and the dinette and arm rests last week. I did all the trim the end of last summer after tearing out walls to repair water damaged walls and floors. I learned what wood hardener and fillers are and no doubt used some new products totally out of the box ways no one intended them to be used. It now looks lovely and clean and I will one last time attempt to clean the fabric ceiling because my first two attempts left it more stain looking than it was before I started? I understand that the foam backing and glue that held it to the fabric has broken down over the years and now making it dingy. I have at last resort an actual paint for fabric to use but I played with a piece from inside cabinets as a sample strip I can practice and do fabric checks with products before attempting full ceiling treatments. And the paint turned a bit on the yellow side. Contacted the maker and they did think it might though on leather it stays true white? But I want to try Shout the laundry cleaner too as it's done amazing things for carpet stains now and again. I plan to travel to Alaska and ferry her back down the coast, Take ferry over to the San Juan Islands which is about as close to similar adventure as you took. Nothing quite as amazing but for her maiden adventures I can't wait to get her road ready. She's missing a spare tire that I need to track down and but think her engine is in good condition and she had only 42K miles on her. She's not far from ready. Friends who've owned RV's for years will visit next week and they plan to show me in's and outs with plumbing, cleaning water heaters and rods, and LP and electrical info that the so called manual neglects to inform or tell you. So kinda want to get her as cleaned up and ready for her inspection when they arrive. Friends from the 70's in college and caving era. We lost track of each other for 30 years then we found one another after retirement and been enjoying camping trips to ride our bikes...peddle power not electric or gas. Though won't rule that out. Hubby is 86 and we can't figure out how he got that old. Really just like that & really life's too short to pay any attention to age. Until suddenly oops it's here and we are what no way..I too turned 74 too this past Feb. There is no reason why one should not enjoy life and stay active. I think we all hate formal exercise but we all appreciate it's benefits and what's great is staying physical in life so one doesn't realize they are exercising at all just having fun. May your life be full of even more amazing adventures. You go girl!!!!
Thank you for posting. I am 61 and on the way home from work today I was in near tears thinking I would never camp again or even be able to use the RV. So now I know I just have the wrong equipment for my age. I need to only have a better set up. I pray I can do what you are doing when I retire. Thanks again for sharing.
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Hi, Evelyn, from another Evelyn! I'm 76, have been a wanderlust all my life, lived full-time in a 17-foot travel trailer for 7 years, a 5th-wheel for another 2 years, and now that I'm stationary, I still camp in a tent, my preferred accommodation. You remind me of me for more than the shared name. We are exactly the kind of "senior citizen" that breaks the "senior citizen in a rocking chair" mold. We're out there, us older women, living life under OUR terms, strong and independent and purposeful. You go, girl! (I hope you made it out west; I live in Oregon 😁)
🤗 Good for you! 💙🦋💙
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Hey two Evelyn's....I'm here in NW MT and hope you make it out here near Libby MT. If so I'd try to come up with a creative means to make contact .Like a note at our chamber of commerce welcome station on how to contact if you are coming through. It helps I know one of the ladies who works there too...by the way she's an independent lady who owns a small van camper too and actually rides a Harley. Oh my gal friends are wild and woolly sweeties at a variety of ages. Facebook via PM or personal messaging is another method to connect to avoid leaving personal info on social media where anyone could happen by. I know a lot of folks do it but I'm a little wiser these days. I've been tent camping for over 55 years and turns out my funny hubby of 52 years is not a camper. Now really how could that happen I mean I was putting up a tent all summer long when we met in college and we met through caving and only after we were married did I discover his actual dislike for camping for camping. I've never lost the love. I even set up two XL outdoor day beds with real bed mattresses I covered years ago with water proofing pack cloth to protect from all elements and one year I slept out every night through the end of Oct. Most years we get a rain spell in Sept but one year it was an early extended Indian Summer. Ahhh love outdoors. Had a friend at 78 visit in 2014 who arrived by train and we slept out on the patio beds and camped two solid weeks up the river and a night over at Flathead lake because she wanted to do that. And she'd never seen Glacier Park so we spent a trip over there too. She was here 18 days. She passed away 3 years later and her son asked me for all the photos I might have of her two visits over the years. She also rented most Octobers a forest service cabin or look out on her birthday to enjoy with or without another gal friend so she really enjoyed the outdoors. I'm a huge supporter of those who do. So here's too all the brave Evelyn's and gals who are not afraid or if they are still put their foot forward and go out the door and into adventure land. May your path always be a safe one.
It’d be nice to hear more about her story of why she decided to do vanlife and maybe a little bit about her life. But thank you for this video. I love this lady’s smile. She has such a kind way about her.
Agree with you! I would love to hear about her life, how she picked her van, and how she picks where to park.
This needs a part 2!
I also just asked about parking. :)
There will be a part 2. We'll be traveling together again in a few weeks. 💙🦋💙
@@ButterflyTracks I'd love to hear about her diet. She looks in great shape for her age. I'd suspect she's avoiding the worst aspects of the SAD diet. Well done Evelyn!. My mum's name was also Evelyn :).
I would love to know how you keep warm?
Lord, 🙏 protect her on her journey 🙏
My same prayer. 💙
May God protect this grandma. Sending love. 🙏🏻❤️
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This is a lovely set up for her Wheel Estate. Very tidy and well organised. Evelyn is so advernturous. I wish her safe travel. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for watching. 🦋
😂 "Wheel estate." I call my rig a " motor lodge." ( The scout about motor lodge!)
"wheel estate", love it.
Yes agree❤🎉
I would just like to say how I respect this lady who is as old as my own mother. I sure hope it was your decision to eventually have to live like this. There's nothing wrong with doing this if it's your decision. Even if it's not. You are a true survivor to do what you need to. Inorder make life work. worked law enforcement for 31 years in the south and have seen so many people including parents and children doing this because of the cost of living. People bury the heads in the sand and act as though it's not happening. Even my own daughter,son -in-law were about homeless because of the poor pay of the Military. I would have done anything to keep them of the streets. It only because of the war with Iraq that he was able to get 99 % disability and his retirement. That allowed them to buy a small home and do much better. What we tend to forget is where they were 8 years and now they act as though they have all the money in the world. My daughter has never held a job and was not raised in that manner. I got a little of track but it shows how we forget. In my case. All the calls I would get that people would complain about things like this nice lady I never ran anyone off despite my orders. Now it's my turn to have to do this because I was hurt in the line of duty and had half my skull crushed. While the tests were coming back they also found that I had had Multiplesclerosis and said I'd be in a wheelchair within 5 years. Because of my belief and determination I have been beating that for 15 years now. On SSDI and rent going from $725.00 overnight to $1100.00 I've had to figure a way to survive as well. I was going to do as this nice lady. She really doesn't tell you she can't stay a campsites and says she likes to stay at the Cracker Barrel. I'm going to tell you the truth. So you can know. The camp sites that were never ever full except on holidays and always were asking for donations. Well now they are full of people like her but they are leaving there now because of the greed of money. They figured this was the time to raise there rates and get there piece of the pie. Call and do the math and it will equal to my rent going up. People, all I'm saying is if you stick your head in the sand eventually you will be here to. 9 years ago I had a 5000 Sq foot home on the lake and was making $160,000.00 and it went away in the blink of an eye. Peace...😮
Great video, Jan! I hope I have her energy at 78! She’s inspiring!
Yes, she's a sweetheart!
You will
Wow! I am so inspired by this lady and want to be just like her in a few years! I am 68 years old, semi-retired RN, thinking about setting up something like this and maybe hitting the road as a travel nurse. I have one more grandchild to see launched into the world, so as soon as he finishes high school, I hope to be on the road. I have a nice home, in a great neighborhood, that I will turn over to my daughter to live in and I can use as a base of operation. If all works out, I will be embarking on my senior adventure at age 72.
We have a Facebook group for women who are interested in traveling and camping. It's for women only and I hope you can join us. A safe place to exchange information about nomad adventures, caravans and meetups.
Butterfly Tribe Women Who Camp 💙 🦋 💙
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@@ButterflyTracks may i join?
But if you wait for your grandson to be born and finish high school, wouldn't you be closer to age 87? 🤔
@@aquaseahorselove3939 The grandson in question is 13 years old (son of my late son)...4 more years to get him through high school...that's what I meant by 'launching' LOL!
@@ButterflyTracks Thanks! I'll check it out...I have two other sisters interested in something like this.
Thanks. I m a french woman, 74, and you give me HOPE...
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Great tour it’s so inspiring to see senior women living their best life.
So true. Thanks, Kimberly! 😊
Well first off. She makes 78 look good.
Second. I love the simplicity because everything is neat and tidy.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Plus she has pepper spray and a hammer as a means to protect herself.
Great job. She looks very happy and I’m happy for her.😊😊
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78 I'm 55. Inspirational. I can be excited for my future even at my age❤❤❤
Yes you can! Are you a member of the Tribe? We have Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. Butterfly Tribe Women who Camp: 💙🦋💙
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Evelyn! First of all, let me say girl, you look absolutely AMAZING! 🌹 I am a 71 year old gal and after a LOT of research, UA-cam tutorials and incredibly inspirational people like you, I have just begun building my own micro camper. For all of the same reasons that you and others share, I want to DO THIS for the rest of MY days. I have been a vagabond since I came out of the chute and the good Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I'll be right behind you! See you on the road, Evelyn! Peace out! ✌🏼 Naomi🌹
We have a Facebook group for women who are interested in traveling and camping. It's for women only and I hope you can join us. A safe place to exchange information about nomad adventures, caravans and meetups.
Butterfly Tribe Women Who Camp 💙 🦋 💙
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What an inspiration 💗 I want to live like this & I'm 53. Everything is too expensive and life is too hard. Living like this with her positive attitude would give me the freedom I've been longing for 🙏
Are you a member of the Tribe? We have a Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. We have women only meetups and caravans. I hope you can join us.
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How adorable is she?! Age isn't stopping her from living life! Hope she comes across others who keep an eye on her, while out and about! Love her!!
What an inspiration this adventurous woman is!!! What a cutie at age 78!!! You go girl!
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And to think a decade ago, I'd get off work from the night shift and snooze in my vehicle outside my house to not wake up my kids too soon, and I'd be able to get some sleep too🤣🤣🤣🤩...i LOVED it...ive even stopped at a nearby campground to take a nap after working all night.. I'd LOVE to be able to camp and travel the country!
Sounds like you have a good start. 💙🦋💙
You are probably a nurse, working all night. I used to come home from working all night in summer and sleep in my hammock in the yard. Some of my best sleeps😊❤️
@shirleymckamey2426 close...not a nurse, but similar to a midwife for horses instead of humans
Warms my heart to see her living for herself. Go Evelyn!
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Love that she can still drive at her age ::::I’m much younger but can’t drive no longer due to spine injury and bad right knees 😢❤Salute to you young at heart Lady 🎉❤
What a sweet lady! I can think of several words to describe her - enthusiastic, passionate, strong, organized (my downfall), prepared (was she a girl scout way back when), adventurous, kind, etc! Such a nice person! Thank you for the introduction. I'm so glad to have met Evelyn.
You are so welcome! 💙🦋💙
❤ I can’t believe she is 78. Bless her and what an inspiration like all of you traveling gals❤
I respect this generation more than any, my parents are around her age and they lived thru so many hard times. I get aggravated with this young generation of give me , give me and get it to me now attitude. Think of all the inventions she has seen, my parents went to one room school houses, grew there food bc their parents never owmed a car. Survived wars, polio, and so many technological advances.. they are tough!! Im so glad you have an amazing attitude and you may not realize it but your an amazing role model for the rest of us
Well said.
How beautiful is this person. I'm in my sixties. She's my role model!
I agree. 💙🦋💙
Love it! I’m all tucked in at Cracker Barrel and decided to see who was doing what and here is this lovely soul! Great set up! Can’t wait to meet her! Miss my tribe!
Miss you too, Ramona. She's doing the Route 1 Roadtrip!
Me and three of my adult children (two who are Autistic like me), are living in our 2013 Toyota Sienna. It isn't by choice though. That's a long story....anyway, I have been trying so many things for sleeping, curtains, cooking, showering, etc....and it really is hard for four people to live in such a tiny space. I love watching videos like this, and gaining inspiration. It has been two yrs now, but living in this van hasn't gotten any easier. I did have a mosquito netting like hers a while back. I had to buy two though. I had one on each side of our sliding doors. I did have to cut some, as it was a lot of netting, and it was long, so I used some of what I cut off on our sunroof to keep bugs out when I open the window. I used double-sided tape to hold it in place, and it's still there. It's been about a yr now, but the netting along the side doors was coming undone/falling down, and just getting in the way. We were all really frustrated with it, so eventually I tossed them out. We have no space for a "kitchen" as we sleep in the middle of the van on a platform that was given to us. Been trying to find a more comfortable mattress, since the Amazon Japanese floor mattress is way to thin/firm. We are hoping to find a way to fix all the issues, so we can start living instead of constantly worrying about all of this stuff all of the time. We have had some expensive issues with our van (compressor, radiator fan, battery, alternator, rotor/breaks), and now we need to replace our tires, and fuses/fusebox. 😢 Anyone looking to live in a minivan full time, just know that it may look cool, but it is a lot harder than you think. We didn't choose to live this way. We were forced into it. We are barely making ends meet, and we are sleeping at a gas station every night. Those who make it appear so easy are people who have a lot more money than we do. So unless you have the funds to support your new lifestyle, you will be struggling. Vanlife is "freeing" to those with the financial support of a great job or steady/healthy benefits. Without that, you will struggle/suffer hardship. These are the facts. I pray that one day, we won't have to struggle so much.
I'm so sorry you are having financial difficulties, and I'm proud of you for finding ways to survive. You're right. That is a world of difference from what we're doing. I pray you have a brighter future soon. 🙏 💙🦋💙
First I am so very sorry. My husband was diagnosed with vascular dementia. Right now he is fine. But once he dies because I am his caregiver and not working. I won’t have the financial resources to support myself. I do have young adult son. That is 26 years old he lives on his own. In little place with my 3 year old granddaughter. So if something happened to my husband. Yes he would let me move in with him. I have had a lot of mental health issues. He has been taking care of his mom his whole life. I don’t want him to continue to have to do that. Yes I have other family members that I could stay with. But I have pets the last time I moved in with my mom. For year my cats broke things and destroyed furniture. I really don’t want that to happen again. You and your children need place to live. Housing is human right. No one should especially disabled mother with disabled adult children. Should be left with no place to live. I don’t know what state you and your kids are in. But if you ever find yourself in Illinois. We have driveway you and kids. Can park in and food we can share. It is just my husband and I. With dog and cat. I always promised myself. That after our struggle being poor resulted in me. Being in ICU that I never wanted anyone to end up in the same situation. I won’t give you details. Because you and your kids have things a lot worse. Sending hugs and prayers from Illinois.
So sorry to hear that 4 of you live in that van. I had a queen size bed in my Ford Windstar. It was very comfortable plywood covered with camping foam from home Depot. Most comfortable bed I've ever had but I had the entire back to fit it and put storage underneath.
Well , at 78 ,I was also born 1945, I admire you so much. I just pray you stay healthy and I am sure you will because of your outlook on life. Unfortunately I have a bowel disease and could not live in a camper for obvious reasons , well for a start I need gallons of water everyday. Take care of yourself and I have subscribed to hear more of your tales. God Bless from the UK.
Welcome to Butterfly Tracks. 😊 💙🦋💙
Good luck with your health🤞🙏🏻. Take care.
She exhudes peace and confidence. I bet she ain't got any (if any) health issue. A simple build that demonstrates you don't need the fancy vans with all the latest gadgets and glitter to make it on the road and be fully happy with your choices of living a lifestyle so many look at in horror. Bravo and thank you for being such an inspiration !!
Are you a member of the Tribe? We have a Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. We have women only meetups and caravans. I hope you can join us. 💙🦋💙
To keep us all safe, we like to see a little about you in your profile. There are also a couple of simple questions. 😊
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78 years young!!! what a wonderful lady. So much energy, looks great and empowered!! bless her soul!
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Thank you for introducing Evelyn. She is a Lovely lady. Wishing her great adventures.
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I love it. That metal strip is like a metal yard stick. That's all. What ever metal stick would work. Walmart in tool section or paint section. But I love that you are following your heart and passion. Your living your best life I'll bet. I'm impressed with your van.
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So fun but scarey ! I’m not that brave but I’m an admirer of her guts!
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I love what Evelyn has done with her van!! So neat and tidy with everything a person really needs. We don’t need all the things that keeping up with the Jones has taught us through commercialism! A simple life well lived!! I am in the process of downsizing my home to be more minimalist. It’s so freeing.
Thank you so very much Jan for introducing us to such an inspiring woman! Safe travels and enjoy your journey.
Thank you, Rita. 💙🦋💙
Great lady and such a cozy setup! Very impressed by her fitness too! Inspiring to me at 73 after 2 brain surgeries I am not so brave as i use to be once upon a time. I go out for day trips but thats it. Bless this lovely lady❤happy days to her! Being kind is a great way to live too!❤
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Sally, You’ve found an expression of exploration that brings you heart joy- good for you! 💝
Take care of yourself. I hope that your health is better now🤞🙏🏻🇨🇦
I have been contemplating living in a small RV or even my car. Watching her gives me a little hope. I am more hopeful watching her videos. She is such an inspiration!
We have a Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. We have women only meetups and caravans. I hope you can join us. There are a few membership questions. 💙🦋💙
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She’s so organized! Amazing woman!
I love your story, it's so inspiring for other senior women. You go girl!!❤🎉😊
What a role model! Thank you both
Our pleasure! 💙🦋💙
She gives me hope that one day I will have my van and live off grid ❤
She is so cute! 78 years young and so vibrant! Love it. ❤
Love her setup she has everything she needs ❤️ 😊
I need to be as minimalist as she is! 😊
I love how practical she is. Wonderful.
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oh wow, how sweet is this lady! I enjoyed the hearing her talk about her home on wheels :D
As a woman it is hard not to be able to live single. It's crazy how this is how we finally find some freedom to belong to this earth. Best wishes. N
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This is one of the most clever set ups I've seen. So clean and organized and just nifty!
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What a great lady; seems so interesting and I am sure she's had a lot of things to share about life on this planet for 77 years!
She has got a nice set-up.
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Im not close to retirement, but this is how I plan to spend my golden years.
This lady is so youthful, agile, organized and cognitive of her surroundings. She hcas made this van a home, not a storage unit on wheels. I admire her resourcefulness. I want to be like her when I grow up. I'd like to nominate her for POTUS❣
Love it! 💙🦋💙
What a beautiful little lady. Great job on her no build. Jan is an encouraging wealth of knowledge.
Thank you so much! 💙🦋💙
I can’t believe this woman is 78 yrs old. She’s on top of Everything. I’m so impressed. I just Luv her 💜
What an inspiring lovely soul!!! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. This beautiful lady isn’t home watching TV, she is savouring this world. Just inspiring!!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Yes she is! 💙🦋💙
Beautiful, independent , courageous, positive woman. Safe travels my girl❤️
Thank you so much! 💙🦋💙
I love everything about her van and she is lovely! ❤
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She's sweet, with a cool, convenient build. God bless her, wishing her wellness and safe travels. 💐❤️🙏
Yes, thank you. 😊
I just bought a 2020 Dodge Grand Caravan to live in! I am a single female, 57. God bless you! It's just evil that many cannot afford an apartment or a house. After working in the system for 30+ years, many have nothing.
You are an inspiration. I love the idea of rocking in the chairs after breakfast at Cracker Barrel to walking along the shore soaking in the sunset sounds divine . Safe travels
Evelyn you did a beautiful job building your home!
Evelyn, thank you so much for allowing us to peer into your joyous world. I too might possibly be going in this direction into the future. It says a lot about your determination to be creative to free yourself to be who you really are. I am impressed and inspired of your space and life! Can you or anyone else offer the simplest way to keep Josie (your grandmother must have been an undaunted, free spirit too), warm for lengthy periods for those extra chilly situations. Thank you kindly everyone!
The best way to stay warm is to go to a warmer climate. However, even the south has some cold weather. Sleeping bag, small heater, window covers for insulation. 🙂👍
Her set-up is awsome and efficient. Glad she's happy, safe and enjoying her life!
I'm so impressed with this lady on how you can live and be happy with little things in life and be able to see the country. Hope she has a safe and enjoyable journey.
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What a beautiful and precious lady! I want to tag along and camp with her. I was in love even before she said the name of her van. That sealed the deal. My grandmother was Josie for Josephine. A fav name of mine. My other grandmother was Anne. So you see where Joanne came from.
Fabulous build. If Evelyn does a you tube, please let us know. Thank you for sharing.
I'll encourage her! 💙🦋💙
Nice setup and great tour. Thank you Jan for the product links, very useful.
Glad it was helpful! 💙🦋💙
YOU. are an inspiration with all the vigor, life, and joy that does cartwheels around women three times younger than yourself. Thank you for sharing this. Much love and happiness.
Evelyn is an inspiration. 💙🦋💙
Age is just a number, your positive attitude in life impacts everything about ageing. I loved how well-organised and clean she was. I always thought maintaining your mani/pedicure with van life doesn't mix, well she proves me wrong... What a joy to watch!! . 💗💚💓💯
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I love Evelyn Gagnon. She is sweet, brave, and strong.
I just love your setup it looks so homey& very comfortable&I love your decor&colors&you have everything that you need&its just very inspiring to me to see senior women stepping out&just being free&e enjoying the golden years as I call them so gracefully&on your on terms if I must say&I just love personality so sweet😊!🙏Prayers&Blessings On Your New Journey&Stay Safe😊
Thank you, Janet. 💙🦋💙
❤❤❤ she is the coolest grandmother i have ever seen
My heart and prayers go out to you and your mini-Van. I bought a 22 year old Class B+RV last year & turned out to need a heck of a lot of work that didn't show up until after I drove her 550 miles home in the dead of winter. OF COURSE. However she's going to be a great companion for me once I get her self esteem restored with restoration projects. I just finished 9 of the 12 upholstering of new cushions. Have the three back of the jack knife sofa to go. I was planning to finish today but due to heavy rain did not want to get foam and fabrics wet going out to the RV for fittings. I redesigned the sofa and have put velcro on the wraps around the springs and supports & so need to mate the cushions with the velcro to make sure they stay secure once set up. Meantime that added an extra 5 inches in width to the single twin when not made into a wider double or a small King bed if put up to the dinette. I am wishing now I had gone with a B Van but had looked for 2 years and just decided this would be fine. I worried about the wind in one I almost bought earlier. Living in NW MT will we have winding roads and WIND too. I've been tent camping as a solo female more than 50 years. My husband of 52 years despite meeting him through caving turns out not to like to camp. I've been lucky and he's fine with my traveling on my own. But the cute thing is with the RV he's now showing interest. Will the spoiled fella? He's 86 so I'm just teasing. But he loves to take the train back to his relatives in MN, IA and WI and so I offered to send him by train from our tiny town Amtrak actually stops not far from our rural home and he could get on 2 days after I've left to drive back to pick him up when he arrives in St. Paul. But he said NO WAY I want to travel with you in the RV. So I debated for about 6 years to go with a tiny camper, remake a van like you have done (I knew Lizzy from AR who did just this and she was driving up to MT every summer into her 80's where she loved to camp in 1-2 of my favorite campsites too and she also attended a religion retreat camp just not sure which one. I always said almost every time I was out camping I ran into other solo females or just 2 ladies out camping without men too. I'm hoping to have my Miss Mini-Mo on the road by mid summer if not earlier. Finishing the upholstery work pretty much restores her interior. And now friends are visiting next week who have owned campers for over 20 years to help me figure out how all the plumbing and electrics and gas lines function. I'm closing off the range top and will use like you a small single burner stove. I have been doing the solar charge and car charging batteries now for over 15 years. I started out with deep cell batteries and as soon as they came out I went with lithiums. I've got smaller ones too. Even made my very first 100 watt light weight solar portable charger myself. Then when I went to lithium I needed to rewire them and my husband stepped into help with that. Changing the plugs and providing a 30 foot extension so I can keep my cooler/freezer in the shade while putting the charge panels in the sun. A lot of my tent glamping days can be repurposed in the camper. So funny but some of my gal friends who wouldn't join me tent camping are all ready to go when Miss Mini-Mo is ready. Love it. Love to hear you are not afraid to stay over night at a cracker barrel too. I tried to stay at a costco or even stop at a dentists parking lot behind and out of site from main roads where the dentist is a personal friend but the gal friend with me her husband and another friend of her's got her all worried about someone trying to steel things off her car or the RV. I know such nonsense happens in larger cities but not out here. Not that it couldn't but I'm usually aware of my surroundings and can pretty much take care of any nonsense. Anyway maybe we'll catch you on the road one of these days. If ever near Libby MT...you are more than welcome to stay a night or two at our acreage and take advantage of our showers. We are 120 miles to Glacier Park but there is a lot of near by drives and short hikes or long ones too right around here. Look up Ross Creek Cedars and Libby MT for that feeling of what we retired too 20 years ago. PS I've had strangers park their RV when stopped and asked where they could stay around here. We have one free RV sewer dumpsite and another for 2 dollar donation. in town. Free lovely campsites without electric and sewer up the river and around the Koocanusa lake area. I even would lend one of my sea inflatable sea kayaks if you wanted to paddle around on a mountain lake. We had a friend a retired English Professor from Fort Collins Co visit us in 2004 in her 80's who stayed 9 days and brought her own sea kayak we took her out for her maiden voyage. Fran was a hoot for sure as we lost sight of her into the fog for about an hour. She finally came back into view and was thrilled with her adventure on Loon Lake. She was camping on her way here and back to CO in a small station wagon so a lot smaller than a mini-van. I just love knowing there are other people especially ladies who love the outdoors as much as I do. And by the way many of the gals I run across do have fellas at home much like mine. We all agree how lucky to have ones that are fine with us and supportive of us enjoying nature while they prefer to stay home and keep the pets fed and the garden and yard taken care of. Here's wishing you the most amazing joy and fun on all your marvelous adventures. Looks like you have thought of almost everything. Stay safe of course but enjoy your paths..
What a great setup!!
Simple is beautiful! 🦋
She did a great job.I love that she set it up the way she wanted and is living the way she wants
I have a small round cooler with spout, I've used at picnics for washing hands, has soap and paper towels attached to it. And walmart has great wash towels, like hospitals use.
Im 70 and I’ll love that
Is sound like freedom ❤️God bless her
Congratulations! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻It’s great to see a courageous and happy woman, full of energy at 78 years old! Wow! What an example for young and older people.
I wish her all the best and lots of fun on the road and nature ! 🚙 🌲🌳🌴
Thank you so much!! 💙🦋💙
What a lovely lady! Love her van not only is it well organized it’s aesthetically pleasing ❤
It really is! 💙🦋💙
Her smile is infectious.
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I LOVE the ending- looking to mileage after mileage- and not day to day or year to year! THIS is what I have dreamed of for almost 15 years! SO happy I found the vid and this channel!!
We have a Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. We have women only meetups and caravans. I hope you can join us. 💙🦋💙
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❤ She's got 10x the personality I have. I need my fixed home base. Would love to travel like this in the summer though.
Good for you girl!! Are you ever afraid being alone and sleeping at night?? Be safe, have fun. Does it ever seem too close to live in?? Your wonderful...
Hi Carla. Evelyn usually camps with our women's group. We have a Facebook group for women only that is very supportive and full of information. We have women only meetups and caravans. I hope you can join us. 💙🦋💙
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This is fantastic! So happy to see an older person out there exploring. She's a great role model! ❤❤❤
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The LADY 😊 is and INSPIRATION !!! ❤.. I'm 70 years , and LOOKIN al VAN'S , specially TOYOTA SIENNA !!! because of there RELIABILITY , ...THANKS for SHEARING !!! 🎉 ....
Thanks for watching. 💙🦋💙
I once spent the night camping alone in a van- just to see if I could. I found out that I could if I had to or wanted to. But I also figured out that for now I don't want to. Much respect and encouragement for those who do!
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This lady's going to live into her 90's with that spirit!
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Another inspiring senior woman and another great van set up!
Thank you! 😊
Dear Lady you be safe out there. Take care! 🍀😀👍
I absolutely love this
Omg I love her!! Her van is so cute I love her cabinet. Thanks for sharing!!
You are so welcome! 💙🦋💙
What a great setup for her minivan. I love seeing how other ladies set up their vans. 😁😁
God bless this woman
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Love how she has everything she need. Without all the building . This is my favorite video on van setup.
Thank you. I'll see her again in Florida for a follow-up. 🙂👍
She keeps it so neat and tidy.
She inspires me! 💙🦋💙
I am so amazed.
I have a grand Dutch caravan.
2014 and I wanted to seat school down so I have a flat Floor to do what she is doing.
Because I wanna go camping too?
Absolutely love what she did.❤
We have a Facebook group for women who are interested in traveling and camping. It's for women only and I hope you can join us. A safe place to exchange information about nomad adventures, caravans and meetups.
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