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Want to make caravan trips easier and less exhausting? As an AuDHD wheelchair user living with ME/CFS & PoTS, I'm sharing our low-energy setup! 👇
This weekend we're trying a different kind of caravan break. Having limited energy, and being AuDHD, I'm always looking for ways to make caravan trips easier and less exhausting.
So instead of towing the caravan and travelling further afield, we've chosen a low-energy micro adventure at Woodville Caravan Park in Ipplepen, Devon. Because we store our caravan on-site and the team can pitch it for us, all we had to do was turn up and settle in.
For anyone living with chronic illness, disability, limited energy, using a wheelchair, or simply looking for a gentler way to get away, small changes can make a big difference.
In this vlog we:
🚐 Share why staying close to home works so well for us
🚐 Talk about the storage and pitching service that saves us so much energy
🚐 Take a look around the campsite and its accessibility
🚐 Try a new single bed setup in the caravan
🚐 Show some simple organisation changes we're making inside the van
🚐 Reflect on what it means to create a break that's genuinely restful
Chapters
0:00 A caravan break with no towing
1:26 Why we love Woodville Caravan Park
2:26 Accessibility around the site
3:49 The single bed experiment!
6:06 Our simple weekend canopy setup
6:52 Making life easier in the caravan
10:16 A weekend dedicated to rest
11:46 Did the single beds work?
Sometimes adventure doesn't have to mean travelling further, doing more, or pushing harder. Sometimes it means making life a little easier and giving yourself permission to rest.
I'd love to know: what changes have you made to make travel, holidays or everyday life easier?
Thanks for watching and being part of the journey.
You can watch more of our camping and caravanning adventures, and how Ive adapted over the years in this playlist 👉https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-xdbMjLqelJlu7cZ5KkVw3ikKivi1_64&si=D61MNy0lftYBJ0qz
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