Nomad Life Wiki maintains a list of YouTube channels about van life and nomadic living. YouTube is an excellent way to learn how to build out a van (or other vehicle) and make the most of your life on the road.
Don't skip the small channels!
YouTube is packed with helpful advice, but it's a good idea to watch a variety of channels including those that are less popular. Channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers sometimes focus on the best or most glamorous parts of this lifestyle (travel, beautiful scenery, luxury vans, and so on) and show very little of the typical daily experiences that most nomads have. Some channels gain popularity for other reasons, such as success with other types of content,
Find your new faves
This page lists channels by their popularity on YouTube. Some channels may be more popular on other platforms. At the bottom of this page, you can find links to channels grouped by featured person, by vehicle, or by location, as well as links to channels which no longer actively produce van life or nomadic living content.
Recommended by NomadLife.wiki
These channels are great for learning about van life and converting your own vehicles:
- Cheap RV Living - long-running presence in the nomad community (1,300+ videos since 2012) with many interviews and van tours
- Chuck Cassady - detailed school bus building with a "This Old House" vibe
- EXPLORIST life - building electrical systems
- Foresty Forest - general solo van life and exploration in remote areas
- Greg Virgoe - DIY Sprinter conversion
- Will Prowse - solar power focus
All YouTube Channels
In this list, the Popularity metric is our combination of a channel's subscriber count and video view count, compared with all other channels listed on Nomad Life Wiki, expressed as a number from 1 to 100 (least to most popular).
Channels by category
You can find channels listed on many other pages of this wiki. For example:
- By featured person: couples, families, seniors, solo female, solo male
- By vehicle. For example: Toyota Sienna, Ram ProMaster
- By location. For example: Arizona, United Kingdom
Discontinued channels
Some channels no longer produce content about nomadic living, which this wiki categorizes as Discontinued channels. The creators may have moved on to other things, such as settling down in a house or publishing other types of videos. When viewing these channels, you may need to browse or search older videos to find relevant content.
Next steps
After finding the van life videos that help you get started with van life, or try new things in your own nomadic journey that you haven't tried before, check out our other ways to learn from others, including blogs, podcasts, and web sites!