Is This The Good Life?
Despite all the ups and downs, hard days and never-ending indecision...most of the time I just can't get over how stupid beautiful this life can be ♡ Hope you're all doing well out there, much love
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Hey :) I’m Christian Schaffer, and I’ve lived on the road full-time since May 2018. This journey began in 2013 when I left the corporate world to build my career as an outdoor adventure & travel photographer. As a semi-minimalist, I eventually decided to donate/sell most of my belongings and move into my 4x4 Nissan Xterra. After 14 months of SUV living and falling madly in love with the open road - I bought a van and hired a team to build it out. Van life enables me to experience and document the beauty of our natural world on a whole new level, all while having my home and office nearby. My hope is that by sharing my own personal highs and lows along this (sometimes) wild journey, you might be inspired to hit the road or spend more time outdoors. Maybe one day I'll see you out on that open road 🚐
*My van is a 2019 Ram ProMaster 1500 High Roof, 136" WB with 51K miles*
#solofemale #vanlife #offgrid
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I am so glad the filmmaker followed her heart. The sound and vision tell your epic story like the best. You make our hearts happy. Can't say better than that.
thank you Barney 🥲🙏🏻
Hey Christian. Another great vid. I commented recently on my love for a river/creek and a beautiful sunset , outweighing my need to be with people. The hermit in me. This video, you gave me all that. The little river, that waterfall wall, that entire park, with all the Autumn colours, was a zone I would be at complete peace in. And those sunsets. Bliss. Thank you for once again,showing me such a beautiful world we live in. Cheers, Rob,Tasmania, Australia
VERY KOOL!! I can assure that is your watch one of Christians videos you will be hooked for as long as she van life’s!!! Hope your doing well young lady ? Around Bend Oregon out!!
Well said 🙏
@@ChristianSchafferIn what ways do you feel like you're being held back "professionally?"
Christian Schaffer always takes KZhead to a different level, the cinematography, she's just on a different level than the average KZheadr.
Yes, I have to agree! I see clips of other places in the world and think wow, that's nice seeing that...and now I don't have to go there; however, seeing her media, now I want to go there!
Absolutely 👏👏👏👏
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All that and she didn't even heart your comment.
It's all filler shots.
Oh my! This is one of the best videos you have made. You know how to capture beauty! This is stunning! I'm a big big fan of yours and your lifestyle. I'm saving up for a van. Van companies should sponsor you.
It's good to know there's a Christian Schaffer wandering this beautiful country, and showing us that it still exists.
so many places to see ☺️
I really have just run out of words to describe how beautiful your videos are and how they make me feel. And Christian... they just keep getting better. I'm just going to sit and watch and enjoy. My jaw was dropped and I just quietly absorbed the whole time this time. Na~ma~ste
I appreciate you 😌
Patrick Knight, I felt exactly the same way. I assume we’re not the only ones.
I am working on a new painting and as I progress I take pics for reference and perspective. Every video you make is filled with perspective, color, and shade. I will say it again, you are a true artist. ❤
Thank you Margo 🥲🤍
I've been doing the film / tv thing for 28 years, working with all kinds of directors on all kinds of "stuff". I have to say, you're shot selection, choice of music, edits, the ability to hold on a shot and actually let it breath along with your storytelling... It's pretty amazing, no lie. You've definitely got the touch, and I'm sure you've heard it said a million times, but make it a million one. Beautiful work!
Your photography is absolutely stunning!! No matter what my day is like, if you have a new video out, it ends in peace & bliss... 😊🙏🌿
that makes me so happy 🥲
That scenery is absolutely awe inspiring. It left me speechless. The only thing I can say is I don’t think you’ll ever regret spending more time in places like this, especially when you’re older and moving a bit slower :) But I understand that struggle of balancing your work and being in places you love on the road. Thank you for sharing all sides of it!
I like to think you’re right about that 🙂 I guess only time will tell 🤍
Yes exactly, I love these landscapes, especially the ones with clouds, they make you think that lots of magical fantastic things could develop there. Lots of great stories could be written about these places.
Zion is a beautiful beautiful place. It’s been about 10 years for me. You captured some Epic serenity. Once you’ve done it without the crowds, it’s hard to do it any other way. Have a beautiful week! ☀️🦋
I think I’ll always aim for the off-season now 🤓
I love your perspective in life. nothing like the option of able to take your house wherever you want to be at, it’s freedom.
You are free, like an EAGLE with wheels. More power to you!!
You capture the incredible beauty of nature in a way that always leaves me in awe ♡
thank you 🥲
This video is absolutely stunning. The way you take foggy conditions and make such drab weather look so magical and beautiful combined with your selections of music, is mind blowing. Rewatching the fog and the rocks and the music.. your artistry is so moving, this old man is tearing up. You are a special talent. Keep doing what you are doing.
That last shot in this video! How did you do that with the clouds and sun moving and then stopping?!! You are such a gifted filmmaker. I was crying at the beauty of your panoramas and mountain shots. Thank you for sharing your home with us. ✌🏼 & ♥️
Thank you! I used speed ramping in post 🙌🏻
I sit in my cozy home knowing I will probably never see Zion Park as you have presented it here with my own eyes. So I am very appreciative of all you have surrendered to bring it to us on KZhead. Your artistry is exceptional. I thank you for living your dharma which brings so much joy and beauty to others.🙏🏻🌞
Thank you for staying…and filming…and working to get this film to us. You have re-inspired me, after a long illness, to get back on the road!! I don’t think I would ever have taken the leap in the first place if it weren’t for you and Mariah. I may be at the other end of the age-spectrum from you…but the beauty is there for us all to behold if we are willing to make the effort. Thanks again! ❤
I miss Mariah. Hope she comes back soon. It's been a while ..
From being a professional model to van life cinematography, I salute you.
The guitar modes are what I call the keys to the universe. Still tricky to even find a full fretboard image with the mode shapes, but once I could pick up a guitar and play the modes up and down the neck with close to no mistakes in whatever progression then the purposefulness that comes through even with experimental tones is encouraging.
This one is on another level. SPECTACULAR! The way you capture the scenery, serenity, mesmerizing footage and music. MAGICAL!!! How do you keep your van so clean and clutter free, inside and out? Christian you are AMAZING!!!
Beautiful! There is no other word to describe the landscapes and your way of filming. Thank you for this adventure. I'm on the other side of the Earth, but I felt like I was there, exploring, enjoying the wilderness and the natural beauty.
Glad you liked it ☺️
Gorgeous views as always 😅 This is what really draws me to your channel, the lifestyle and simplicity.
thanks Alan 🥲🙏🏻
“Happiness is only real when shared”. I've been alone in those beautiful national parks and wilderness for some time, and that's so true. It's hard to by happy when you are alone by yourself, no matter how beautiful the nature around you
I can tell you put in extra effort here. It's so good. Cinematographers around the world would be proud of this. It was like watching a Ansel Adams video.
The impression I get from watching your videos is that you are exactly where you need to be, at the right time in the right places. So much synergy is felt between you, your van, all those magnificent places you've been. It is so easy to see and feel that you are meant to be who you are and do what you do. I haven't seen any other vanlifers as inspiring as you!🙌💜
Thank you Tom 🥹🙏🏻
Every time I see one of your videos, I feel such a deep desire to travel and see nature. Sometimes I really think leaving it all behind for a simpler life is one of the biggest keys to happiness here on this earth.
i’m glad it inspires you to see nature - that’s my ultimate goal with these videos
Epic moon shot! It is the good life. As someone who's starting their 29th year working in the same place, something unheard of these days, I can't wait to join the ranks when I finish at 30 years. Just following tradition at this point but 30 years is a long time to do anything!
congrats on thirty years, that’s huge 🙌🏻
I like watching your vlogs so much, you show such amazing places and these incredibly beautiful mountains that make me jealous from the Sudeten foothills (Poland) that I am not there, but with yours I can see these beautiful places. I am captivated by your calmness, but it is probably isolation from other people, when you can calm down from the daily race and be only with your thoughts. Great shots of nature. I'm waiting for each next episode. Good luck🍀
It feels like you've been visiting another planet, the beauty of this place is just beyond. Thank you for sharing!
The difference of most of us is to seek the nature outside of our house is when we going out of the house and you is surround the nature within your house . This is another Amazing video and art work you have done ! I specially appreciated to watch the morning sunlight change around the clouds ! Thank you 🙏
Thanks Amanda 🥲🤍
Your videos are so beautifully shot and edited. Watching them is like taking a nature bath. Thank you for sharing your incredible vision of our amazing world.
Thank you for the pace of your videos. The pace of your edits and relativlely long takes is almost like being in nature with you.
Something so magical about these red-rock formations. And your creative use of the fog to make such a beautiful, mystical landscape was awesome ❤. Enjoy this while you can and cherish the memories forever.😊
A magical place for sure ☺️
That was a blessing for me for sure! Thank you for sharing a view I can only dream about. I'm glad I'm grounded in one spot with my animals, but being able to be in my happy place and still enjoy yours is exhilarating!
Stunning scenery incredibly captured and presented. These videos are a great documentary series on van life and traveling across part of this great country. Thank you for sharing with these productions. They are a treasure.
Don’t ever say you’re embarrassed by anything that you do. I think you would be successful at anything you chose to do. Thank you for adding to the light that makes our world bright!
I think you absolutely do the best work, and really appreciate you bringing us along as you go. I have yet to watch one your videos and not find myself smiling, and enjoying the journey. Stay safe out there and keep it coming!
So nice of you Darrell 🥲🙏🏻
Your journey through life is pretty incredible. Thank you for sharing your talent and thoughts on it. Wish you the best. 😊
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Great video! You were filming in my backyard. I have walked just about every place in ZNP and still go there every year. Roll on! 😎
No where else do I have the experience of how stunning life is except on your channel. The mundane juxtaposed with the majestic. You take a walk; there is water and light; caves and stone; you make a meal; sky, clouds and mist; mountains, fog, water, and the road; Christian you are a revelation. I never get tired of seeing the world through your eyes. Wet, red, sky.
A simple life is its own reward..Thanks for all u do christian..Cheers 🍻🧡
Cheers ☺️🙌🏻
Every time i see a new video up from you, I always watch it without saying "I'll watch it later". I love the way you capture the moment and your editing skills are so DAMN GOOD!. It's so real and its so inspiring it makes me want to go out and explore. Loved your content and you speak through your heart. Keep up the AMAZING work, you're by far my Fave Solo traveller out there.
I love hearing that it makes you want to go out and explore ☺️
Absolutely loved your filming of this incredible place! Interesting fact about the people who've made a home in the sewer tunnels of Vegas....NYC also has abandoned underground tunnels that formerly homeless people live in, there's a documentary about it. Amazing how hardy humans can be, and adaptable. But what a hard life. Thanks for bringing your beautiful art to us all
You definitely won't see the parks nearly as much once you have a stationary home. We all fall into habits commensurate with our environment. However, you'll do stationary home life in a way that suits you, and there are many benefits to that dynamic you'll appreciate. And if you ever have the bug to hit the road, you can always venture out again (unless you have kids).
I love you're vlogs you stay in the most beautiful places in nature always relaxing like watching a mini movie on the wilderness. ❤
Thanks Lisa 🤍🥲
Loved this one so much! All of them, actually😉... I hope you will never stop filming💗☺. Thank you, Christian! 🌹
Thank you Katerina 🤍
Details, Details and more Details! I love the close up details, the picturesque views and the stories you add to your videos, thank you. Hello from NYC.
Stunning desert vistas, the colors and mist drifting across the mountains was beautiful. Always thought the desert was under appreciated for it's rugged landscape and quiet solitude. Thanks for featuring Zion when the crowds are absent.
It’s such a magical place ☺️
Loved this video. I completely understand that feeling of being in those special moments like that. While we didn’t live the van lifestyle we lived in a very small house and traveled frequently with our kids since we homeschooled and we were able to do so with my husbands job. But somewhere along the way my kids craved stability and land and animals so we settled down into a completely new area. However, our lifestyle now does not afford those same travel options but we live in the mountains so we have outdoor access at our fingers tips. Which I am extremely great for. But I miss traveling like we used too. Being able to stay somewhere longer if we wanted leave if we wanted to as well. And then come home to my bed and my kitchen. I think I was born a bit of a gypsy myself. All of this to say that it’s entirely possible to have a home and still travel depending on your lifestyle and I plan to do it again once we are out of this phase of life!!
I’m excited to have that kind of balance someday. Just waiting for these home prices to (hopefully) drop 🙃
Inspirational, beautiful, and just overall majestic. I absolutely love your cinematography. I think you and Drew Simms are my 2 favorite KZheadrs who live this wild, and peaceful lifestyle, and capture it in a way that seems so unreal.
He’s one of my favorite youtubers, too 🙏🏻☺️
@@ChristianSchafferwhat time of year was this? Snow in summer? Love your work!!
@@margaretrosin7853 it’s from winter, I don’t post in real time 🤓
An exceptional video, one worthy of watching multiple times. You capture the essence of why people like us live and travel full-time in Vans setup for off-road and off-grid living. I really appreciate your hard work and exceptional talent creating bteathtaking videos. Probably because l'm fortunate enough to be a VanLifer roaming around the same gorgeous areas you feature in your videos. I love that you focus on the beauty of the venues you visit and the enjoyment in this VanLife style. Thank you for NOT spending a lot of time on what we all know .. that there's the never-ending vehicle maintenance and repairs, and the laundromat and grocery stores runs, and the task of getting in and around the cities and down long roads to eventually get to those gorgeous destinations. Thanks for the focus and storytelling on the pretty stuff. Its what makes us watch over and over. Thanks again for another stunning video. I watch your videos over and over because they are so good !!
thank you David 🥲🙏🏻
I’m 34 and living with my parents , seeing this video in my comfortable chamber but I wish I could have such Van instead and feel independable and working on my work that need to be done wich is by an ND given to me wich is : to entertain and learn the people spiritual insights. And I’m not living the dream so… Keep on doing your path and maybe we meet each other one miracle day :)
1000 times thank you Christian! I was there for my first time about 50 years ago in early Spring and it’s wonderful to see you enjoying it now and being able to find a time of solitude and peace there. I’m glad you mentioned the unforgettable aroma of this place. We take pictures, but our sense of smell is deep and instinctual, so a whiff of something good from our past experiences can take us back there in a heartbeat. Even if we don’t get to revisit, the memory and associated feelings stay with us. 😌 Your willingness to share, and your excellent talents at doing so are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
The smell of fresh or incoming rain is so powerful. One of my favorite things in the world ☺️
The quality of your videophotographing is just amazing Christian ! I live in Norway, and I share the exact same passion. Well done !
I’ll be there in July! So excited, I’ve always wanted to explore Norway
@@ChristianSchaffer Thats amazing, I live in Bergen, the city portal to the fjords. All the most beautiful mountains. Can't wait to see what you will do with videophotography from Norway ! My gear is from 2009, and I need to upgrade it to modern standards :( keep it coming !
@@ChristianSchaffer DUUUUDE!!!! You are going to LOVE Norway. Here's my early prediction: Norway in July... a month or so to wade through the 1.8TB of footage you'll collect... sometime in late August, your video title will be along the lines of, "Guys, I'm moving to Norway!"
@@MartiMatulis prescient .... or so it seems from the video released today....
@@fionameredith8787 Viking crystal ball.
Nothing I can say that hasn't been said. Simply Stunning Scenery and Fantastic Cinematography 👍🙏 I used to keep a Dreamcatcher on my rearview mirror too!👍 N Yes! You have a Very Good Life. Stay Safe.
I am soooooo glad you made the choice you made, Christian! Like you said, near the end, "It made my heart happy!" BINGO! That truly IS what life is all about. Thank you so much for sharing this glorious footage! You have the Master's touch! I can't count how many times I got goosebumps. This was absolutely wonderful! I feel so grateful and blessed to live in this great state of Utah! All of southern Utah's red rock country, including the wonders of Lake Powell, are breathtaking. There, and The Yellowstone National Park country are my go-to sanctuaries. Thank you again, Christian, for all you do! Safe travels and Happy Trails! ☺❤
Oh btw, is Mariah still alive?!
As a fellow lover of western landscape...thanks for the continuing inspiration.
You are so welcome ☺️
Breathtaking, again Christian . . . literally. Your videography and story telling stirs the wanderlust in me in a profound way. I feel it in my chest, my breathing becomes deep, I feel such a sense of peace. Thank you . . . once again.
So happy you like it ☺️🙏🏻
Your videos... getting even more artistic than ever. Truly beautiful. I pray I can be nearly as good some day (in about 10 years). Take care PS And Indecision is the best decision. Firm commitment is a commitment to stop thinking. ❤
I'm just in awe of what you captured in Zion with the imagery and angles. I need to add this area to my list of "gotta visit and see this." And if you ever want it, there is a future in music gigs for you. That is no beginner level you shared. Us musicians are always striving to achieve that next level of proficiency. Keep it up.
You captured the essence of the park so well!
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Truly magical. Thank you!!
It's the ephemeral and the seemingly immortal and monumental. The unique fleeting moments that can never be repeated against the backdrop of something that only morphs slowly over millenia. Such beautiful contrast. Pressures of tedium pale into insignifigance, we'll have no regrets on our deathbeds for neglecting them whenever we can. It's these moments.
Thank you!
If you’re a beginning guitar player, you just blew me away! Keep playing and you’ll be able to use your guitar work in your soundtracks with beautiful nature. 🎸🎸. Ah nature!, great video!
Thank you for sharing! 🥰
How you capture all angles so beautifully is amazing ❤
So beautiful. Thank you
you and your art make my heart happy!!
Wow. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing.
Truly inspired. Such coherent and organic work in one of the prettiest places on the planet. And your opening and closing shots? Oh my!
Yet another gem! Thank you for making them.
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You chose well! Thanks for taking us along!
Beautiful!!
Oh the compositions in your shots are just lovely! Thanks Christian!
Incredible!!
thank you for making this
Thanks again! Beautiful video!
These views are mesmerizing ❤
I have been following you for some years now as well as a few others, but you are head and shoulders above all others for beautiful content every time, I get so much pleasure when I see your posts pop up with new films, I’m sure you must realise the pleasure you bring to your audience by sharing your amazing experiences, thank you, and thank you again 😊
Soooo beautiful ! Thanks for sharing !
Thank you.
Thank YOU Christian! : )
Living life under your own terms, doing what you love doing and being good at it, no big distractors, what could be better.
Your footage is simply amazing
Simply beautiful
Amazing, your vlogs just keep getting better & better! 🥾🏔🇨🇦❤️
You captured some epic scenery Christian! It's what brought me here in the first place!
It is so beautiful!
You are such inspiration. I love your videos!
Thank you beautiful video
I used to mountain bike in those tunnels back in the early 90s. I miss the moods and colors of the terrain there. Every time you look it changes. But every year you come back it’s a familiar friend
I love there. Soo beautiful!! You captured it very well!
Gorgeous scenery!
I love your compositions, just perfect.
Thank you for your videos. They are very soothing and have a lovely atmosphere.
Thank you for the footage of beautiful scenery! !
I’m so glad I found your channel! Unbelievable videos!