25: Our RV Successes, Stories and Screw-ups!

This is our 2nd anniversary of fulltime RV life, and we're dishing on all our screw ups, crazy stories, and survival successes over the last 2 years! We also talk about the challenges of having a big rig camper and share an upcoming project that you can be part of! Email [e-mail] if you want more information about how we're building a database showing internet speeds from different providers at various campgrounds across the US!


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Episode Transcript

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In Salem. We were camping nextto somebody who they just sold their house
and they were building a new house, and we'd already told them that we
were from Texas and they're like,oh, yeah, yeah, we're building
a house in Dallas. And we'relike, oh cool, like our neck
of the wood, do we knowexactly where that is? And they're like
no, like twenty minutes away Dallas. Organ. Oh all right, you

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welcome to the Watering r V Show, your bi weekly source for our stories,
our screwups, and our success isliving the full time r V life.
I'm your host, Kara the Wanderingour VBD and this is my driver
Ryan. Oh, nachos. Thatmight be culturally insensitive high people. Sorry,
listen, we're from We're from Texas, Like this is our this is
our jam. But first, whereare we today, sweetheart? We are

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in Where are we were? We'rein the Okay State, the most Okay
state in the Union. Yes,it's the Okay State. It's not good,
it's not great, but it's notbad. It's not bad. No,
No, is it fine? No, it's just okay. It's okay.
It's the Okay State. But that'swhere we're at right now Guthrie,
Oklahoma, which, by the way, there's nothing in Guthrie, Oklahoma,

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which has kind of been nice.I mean, here's the thing. You
get into RV live to just kindof like chill and take a step back
and just be able to relax.And then sometimes you get caught up in
like the fomo of going places anddoing things and seeing all kinds of shit,
which is awesome, but at thesame time you kind of lose that

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just kind of sit and relax feeltoo. And Guthrie has been an amazing
place for us to just kind ofsit and relax. The campground that we're
at is gorgeous. They have nice, big sites and they're like all grass
sites, which sometimes it's kind ofhard to come buy something in this teenage.
So it's been really really nice tobeing here in Guthrie. And we
leave tomorrow, so there you go. But you know what else is here?

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What else is here? An RVpark with amazing internet. Oh my
god. Yeah, this is someof the best internet we've had in months.
And when I say like good internet, what I mean is like amazing
download speeds and amazing upload speeds acrossall of our internet sources. So like
Starlink is bonkers here, T Mobileis great here, Verizon is great here.

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I didn't check AT and T isat and T good here. I
checked it. I don't remember whatit was. I think it was good.
It was good. Yeah, Likewe never come across a place where
like everything works at the same time, and it works like super awesome.
So the most been great, themost Okay state with the best internet,
the most okay T Mobile when wedid the test when we first got here.

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I'm not kidding when I say thatthe T Mobile home gateway is better
than the internet was at our oldhouse. Oh it was. We're getting
a gigabit down and like I wantto say, like sixty to one hundred
up, yes, and megabit upnot dig a bit sixty minute one hundred
megabit up. And I had ourold home. I think I had like

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five hundred down and like maybe fortyup. So like it's legit here.
Yeah, we first got the results, so we check it whenever we get
in because like, one, weneed it for what we do for our
jobs Monday through Friday it's five.But also like it's a good idea for
us to just kind of check iton a regular basis, and when we

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first checked it, when we firstgot in, I was like, this
has to be a mistake. Wegot to recheck it again and sure enough
it came back with the same result. And the Internet has been amazing the
entire time. So for right now, I want to jump into what are
we talking about today? Our mainstory is last minute Camp CROWNDS Last minute

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Camp. Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, this is very timely.
This is very timely. So we'realso talking about the two years worth of
just stories and screw ups and successesthat we've had doing this full time RV
life. There's some doozys in there, guys, so just bear with us

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because it's going to be a funride. And then we have a fun
pick of the week as well.So why do we keep getting in this
situation where it we're coming up onholidays and we have to make last minute
reservations. So what happened was,here's the thing. Labor Day is the
biggest camping holiday of the year.As full time our VARs, we're constantly

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on the go. We're constantly makingreservations, sometimes really far in advance,
sometimes not so far in advance,and for some reason we can't get it
through our head that like Labor Dayis a day you need to like really
schedule out campground reservations, pretty foreignadvance, the biggest camping holiday of the
year. We have not done thatthe last two years, and last year

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was actually kind of fun. Itwas like a fun accident. We totally
forgot to plan out our reservations forthe year. That was super fun.
So we ended up at a campgroundin the middle of Iowa at a casino.
Yeah, we were on our wayback. I don't know when I
made the plan, but so wewere meeting some friends up in Wisconsin and

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I knew we were going to becoming back through heading back down to Texas
after that. Yeah, and sowe were literally just coming straight down thirty
five and I started like planning everythingout and lining everything up. And then
I realized, as we're leaving Wisconsin, we were coming up on Labor Day
and I hadn't gotten to campground yetand they were sold out, ever sold

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out. So I I like didmy usual thing where I like I kind
of like time out the trip wheredo I want to be okay, and
then's kind of spiral off from there, find the different campgrounds so the best.
Like, so I was looking atDes Moines apparently, so that was
where I was going to stop.And I just started spiraling out nothing in
the Moine available, to get fartherand farther, and finally I'm like,
oh, hey, there's a casinohere, completely available. Oh totally available.

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Like they still had spots all theway through the weekend. Yeah,
So we ended up stopping at thiscasino and hanging out for the whole week.
It was actually a lot of fun. It was they had full hookups,
which was amazing. Their prizes weresuper super reasonable. Did you spill
on your beard? He did?He spilled on his beard. Their prizes

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were super super reasonable, and uh, you know, we we broke even
playing a card game. Oh webroke even playing Mississippi Stunt Yea at the
casino, which was super fun.The other nice thing was that it had
a hotel, which they pretty muchall do because they want you to like
stay there and continue to gamble likeall through the day and night. But
they had like a hot tub anda pool at the hotel, and because

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we were camping on the same groundsof the hotel, we got full access
to the pool. And a hottub, and like all of the hotel
amenities. I think they even hadlike a Continental buffet breakfast or something like
that, which we did not getup in time for it at all,
but I mean that would have beenfree too, had we decided to get

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our button out of bed. Soit was actually a really cool thing.
And then we realized afterwards. Wekind of did a little research afterwards and
come to find out, lots ofcasinos actually have that availability. So if
for some reason you're ever in apinch you can't find a place to stay
and you need full hookups or youwould like full hookups, try a casino.
They might actually have something. There'sa lot of them out there that

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have it, and they're not Theydon't stay super busy, so you're there's
a lot of availability. They don'tmaintain the grounds super well. Necessarily some
of them do, but this onethey definitely this one didn't. It had
some cracks in the in the concretein places like that. It wasn't super
level, which is fine, likewe had leveling blocks and everything, but
to get through labor day, weekendand a week it's really not that bad.

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Yeah, But so on top ofthat, earlier this year, July
the fourth, we were planning tomeet family for July the fourth, and
I kind of built out our plan. We had to change some plans and
things like that, and we wereleading up to July fourth, and I'm
like, oh, I don't haveanywhere for us to stay the week before
July fourth, So we ended yail. So I luckily I found a campground

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that was just down the road fromthe one where we're going to stay to
see family, and it was agreat campground. But we basically got to
the same city. We're like fivemiles down the road. And we stayed
there for a week, and thenwe moved campgrounds and so we had to
like do that mid day, tryand get them to let us in early,
and go through that whole rigamarole.But it was it was really funny.
It was it was a great experience. I think Memorial Day ended up

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being easy this year. Memorial Daylast year, I think Guy messed up
Labor Day. Last year, Imessed up July fourth. Last year went
smoothly. This Labor Day. Weended up changing plans. Instead of going
down through California, we're heading backto Florida, and so we didn't have
any plans, and so this weekend, for Labor Day weekend, we're just
traveling every single day to get ourselvesdown to Florida. So that's how we're

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spending our Labor Day weekend. We'renot hanging out, we're not cooking out,
we're not enjoying the beautiful weather.It's just gonna be exhausting travel.
It's just another another few days oftravel. Yeah, So we like we
have this rule. We're not theones who came up with this rule,
by the way, but it's agood it's a good like rule of thumb
to go by, especially if youtravel constantly on the road. And it's

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a three three three rule, whichis, don't travel more than three days
in a row, don't travel morethan three hundred miles a day, and
don't arrive like plan to arrive bythree pm. And that's really just to
ensure that you're arriving during the daylightwhen office hours are open, when you
like, if you're having to pullinto a back inside or something, you're
not having to do that in themiddle of the dark. After during the

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summer, I've pushed our arrival timeback to five o'clock. Yeah, because
it's just well, no, it'sbecause it's so dang hot outside, and
so like it's nice to get tothe campside and let the sun go down
a little bit while the campers coolingoff after it's been warming up in the
heat all day. While driving downthe roads. I've actually like pushed our
arrival times back to like I'm tryingto get in like just before the office

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closes. Essentially. Yeah, yeah, But I say that because we've kind
of broken our rule the last severalweeks where we've done longer days. We've
certainly done more than three hundred milesa day, We've certainly arrived later,
We've done more than three days ina row, and guys, it is
exhausting to do that. That's whereyou get like that travel burnout where you

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just don't want to travel anymore.So we're gonna arrive in in Florida in
a few days. We're planning onbeing there for a couple of months.
And part of that is one sothat I can, you know, let
my footheel while we're just chilling onthe beach, which is why not.
But part of it too is thatwe're just we're kind of exhausted, and
we kind of are done traveling rightnow. So I will say at the

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three three three rule, it's agood rule of thumb to follow because it
helps you prevent that travel burnout.Absolutely. Well, onto our main topic.
Yeah, yeah, this is ourtwo year anniversary of full time rving.
What We've got a bunch of newfollowers we wanted to go through like
kind of just take the opportunity toshare some of our memorable highlights and stories.

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Our successes are screw ups and mostlyour screw ups, most yeah,
most pretty much mostly our So ifsomebody asked earlier this week, they were
like, hey, we want tolike I'm getting into our V life,
Like what are what are some ofthe screw ups that you you know,
did, or what are some ofthe mistakes that we should avoid. We're
gonna tell them right now. Well, starting off with you know, we

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gotta go with our biggest story forme was you know, this was our
first trip out of Texas with ourRV and we're we just left Texas,
we drove through Houston. We wereon I ten hend to Florida, uh,
and we're driving through and we getwe come around this kind of corner,
there's like a bunch of trees offto the left. There was an
exit that said, you know,last exit before the bridge. I didn't

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really think anything of it. Andwe come around this corner and right in
front of me, it just clicked. I know what you're gonna say,
is like this massively tall bridge thatI'm not even kidding. I sat there
and I looked at it at first, and I was like, wait,
is that thing even legal? There'snowhere gonna turn around, There's no like,

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all I have to do, Like, the only thing that you can
do is just keep going. Thisbridge was terrible. I don't even remember
the name of it, but Iknow that it is in Late Charles,
Louisiana. Yeah, it has aname. It does have a name.
I looked it up afterwards and likeit is one of the worst rated bridges
for like it's sturdy, like stability, Like there are literally businesses in the

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area that you're that do not allowtheir employees to drive company vehicles over this
bridge. The past two presidents,both Biden and Trump, that they can
agree on anything, have said thatthis bridge needs to be replaced. Yeah,
Like have have proposed that as abill to get this bridge replaced,
Like this thing is in worse shapethan some of the bridges that have already

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fallen. Yeah, yeah, andyou can tell. So as we're going
up this bridge that is like supersteep and super narrow, there is no
shoulder, there's no shoulder. There'sliterally nowhere for like an individual person to
even go up there and do maintenanceon it really without closing the whole bridge
down, which it's over I ten, so that's kind of not feasible at

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least not for any extended period oftime. And as we were going up,
it's like swaying, which some bridgesdo that it's designed to do that,
but it was swaying and the boltsare very clearly rusted, so sore.
So we're going up this this bridgewith our forty foot long fifth wheel
and we're like, are we gonnasurvive? We literally just got out of

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Texas. It's our first out ofstate trip, and we have this whole
like year long trip plan, andthe very first thing that we get to
when we get out of out ofTexas is it's maybe thirty minutes past the
border on I ten in Louisiana inlate Charles is this crazy scary bridge.
So we've since learned afterwards that therewas that last exit that I was talking

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about two ten goes around. It'sa longer bridge, but it's nowhere near
steep and it's much newer and betterbuilt. Yeah. I did the research
afterwards, and I mean the numberof people like Pete right now and in
the commons saying I've had to drivethat bridge. Yeah, it's terrifying.
Yeah it is. Yeah, it'sjust scared. Okay. I think there

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was another one in twenty twenty twothat was pretty memorable. At least last
year that was pretty memorable when itcame to driving. Oh yeah, yeah,
that was when you had to driveyour truck. Now, the trailer
was not in tow, so thankfullythat was that was not the case,
but he did have to drive hisone ton truck in the middle of New

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York City, like literally in themiddle of Manhattan. That was not the
intent at all, but we hada family emergency happen, and so you
got to drive in the middle ofNew York. Yeah. I mean we
planned on driving like we were goingin. We were gonna We're gonna drop
my truck off at at my sister'sapartment and then we were gonna go kind

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of go do some stuff, whichwas in Brooklyn, and Brooklyn's not bad.
It's not bad to drive in.It's really not bad to park in.
No, it really wasn't Manhattan.It's terrible. And so it ended
up my mother broke her arm andI had my truck right there. Were
literally was like as we were gettingout of the truck, yeah, And
rather than calling ninety one one andan ambulance, we were like, okay,

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well, we're just gonna take thetruck down to the closest hospital.
So we went to it. Weactually went to an urgent care first,
and they were like, no,no, no, you need to go
to the hospital. Don't go tothis one, go to this one.
And so I pulled it up onmy maps, I plugged it. I
plugged the address in all my maps, and it's like five miles away.
I'm like, cool, Okay,this won't be long. Forty five minutes
later, I'm dropping her off atthe hospital, like, oh my gosh.

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Like the traffic was horrible. Imean we're just crawling the whole way.
Five miles on the road takes fortyfive minutes sometimes just to get anywhere.
So I get her dropped off atthe hospital. We waited around.
I finally find a parking space nearthe hospital, so they're they're in there.
I come join them. We figureout what's wrong. We figure out
it's broken. She's like, okay, well, I mean it's not really

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gonna affect anything else, so let'slet's let's continue with our plans. So
yeah, she's a trooper, andso I was like, okay, well,
so I've got my truck here atthe hospital. You and my sister
are over at her apartment, andso like we're on the opposite sides and
we're like, okay, well,our next plans are in Manhattan. Yes,
and we just converged on man SoI drive my truck from South Brooklyn

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over into Manhattan, dropped my parentsoff, dropped to meet up with you
guys, and then I've just beenlike the next thirty minutes, just find
a parking space or something. Finallyfind a parking garage, not tall enough
for me whatsoever, but you know, for forty extra bucks, Yeah I
was. I was gonna say.He slipped the guy a little extra money.
Slipp the guy at looks for money. He found he found a like

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nice little area he could put mein right at the entrance so that way
he didn't have to drive it allthe way in, And oh my gosh,
like that was just such an experience. Like honestly, driving around New
York I was. I always honestlyexpecting worse. I really truly was.
But in the end, the thingwas everybody's going slow, and as long
as you go into it with thatmentality, no, it's not really that

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big of a deal. Yeah,like you gotta just keep moving. I
will say, we got honked atmore in Miami than we ever did in
brook like Manhattan or Brooklyn or likethe New York City area. Miami.
Who that is some crazy driving.Like if you can survive driving in Miami,
you like are a professional driver.You should just get that like sticker

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on your driver license here professional drivers, I survive. I survived driving in
Miami. But yeah, I thinkthat kind of brings us to twenty twenty
three. Like the craziest story butI can think of in terms of driving,
is the first time around that youhad to do four days in a
row of driving. Like I thinkby the end of this year, it's

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going to be like three or fourdifferent times of having to do that,
but the very first time in twentytwenty three, bam, blow attire.
Yeah, luckily it was funny.So you ended up flying back to Texas
because your jury to me, Andso my dad actually flew out to hang
out with me and drive back withme because we were actually going back for

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a family event anyway. So hecame out to you know, spend some
time with me while we're driving back, right, which actually ended up being
a blessing because in the situation wherea tired blue out you would be absolutely
useless. It was totally useless,whereas he was super super helpful and was
able to like assist me in gettingeverything done. Like I just had to
tell him, you know, whatthe next step was, and he could
start working on that while I'm stillfinishing up the previous one. So I'm

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taking taking the tire off and gettingeverything loose up. He's he's pulling stuff
out of the basement so we canget the spare out of the basement.
You know, for some stupid reasonin our RV, the spars inside the
basement. Someday we're gonna put it, like get one of those underbelly ones
or something so it's easier to getto. But for the moment, it's
in our basement. So I hadto pull a bunch of stuff out of
the basement, get that spare tirein. We get it switched out,

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toss the bad one, like withhis help, we lifted up, get
it into the truck bed so thatway it's still like we can get it
repaired immediately. We get back onthe road, get on the phone called
discount tire. We're getting a newtire, everything like that. So,
like he was, it was reallygreat having him because it was like boom
boom boom boom boom, Okay,we're done exactly, And it was really

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really convenient. Not that you wouldn'thave been helpful. You've been very helpful.
You've been making the calls I had. In the end, I was
technically one making the calls, butI would have been helpful in different ways.
She would have been out there withher cameras recording for social media,
but I totally would have been.It was funny because as soon as I
found out, like he blew attire, everybody's okay, the campers okay,
Like well being has been taking careof I was like, it didn't happen

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to get any funtage pictures? Didyou? It was like, oh no,
that was the last thing on mymind. That was the last thing
on my dad's. And I sorry. That's like we don't sorry. We're
not like your your generation where youknow that immediately we think, oh,
something's going on, I should pullmy phone out, Like I think something's
going on, and my first thoughtis, okay, what can I do
to make sure, like to takecare of this? Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, okay, So that's someof our stories. I think that brings
us onto our screw ups. SoI'm gonna some doozies. I'm ready.
I just read the doc and Ijust saw what you have. So I'm
gonna I'm gonna call out. I'mgonna I'm gonna give your screwups first,
oh okay, and then I'll letyou call out my screwups. All right,
all right, I'm ready. SoI'm ready. As with anything,

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your Scripps always seem to have aname for some reason. So they're the
Great Peanut Incident of two Oh okay, So yeah, that was a fun
one. This was a lesson inlike making sure that everything is really really
packed down when you go to travelin your RV. So it's probably the

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very like the second trip that weever took in our RV, and we
were still like we were figuring thingsout. We we were figuring out how
to like pack everything down, Wewere figuring out how to like manage everything
for travel. It. One thingto note about our particular RV model is
we of a rear kitchen the rearof your RV, especially if it is

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a towable RV, So a fifthwheel or a travel trailer is gonna get
the brunt of all of the bounciness. You remember when you were kids and
you would ride in the back ofyour parents minivan or in the back of
your grandparents like Cadillac, or theback of the school bus and your head
would hit the top because you werein the back. Same concept applies.

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I totally just aged myself there,but you get the point. So our
pantry is literally at the way back. It's on the back wall, and
I had the brilliant idea that wewould put all of our snacks at the
very very top of the pantry.We're kind of short people. I was
like, you know what, it'sgonna make us work for the snacks.
So it's a little bit of likea give and take there. We gotta

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work for our snacks, but they'regonna be right there at the top.
And I had this like, wait, that's what, Yeah, that was
that was the whole concept. That'swhy our snacks are at the top.
I never knew this. That's thewhole I've learned this something new live.
That is the whole reason you areYou're hiding snacks from us, Yes,
exactly, I'm making this work forour snacks. But I had this like

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air type container, like those xO XO containers where it's like the pop
top container to keep everything air type, and I had this whole thing of
peanuts in there, and they wereat the back. They were I mean,
there was a bungee cord and everythingthat was tied up. It was
good. Well, it was anespecially rough road. It was an especially
rough travel day. It was arough one for our second second ever travel

(23:33):
day. But it was just roughin general. And so we get to
our final destination. Final destination.This sounds scary. It was kind of
scary. This is very ominous.It was. It was very ominous.
Yes, it was death by peanuts. So we finally arrive at our destination
and all of a sudden, likewe open up the slides and I see

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just peanuts everywhere, and of rewear, so I go up to the pantry.
I opened the door and there's peanutsthat are falling from the top of
the shelves. It was crazy.Apparently it was bouncy enough that the peanuts
bounced enough they rolled out of theirspot. It hit the top of the

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can, it busted open, andof course as we're bouncing down the road,
there's like dancing peanuts everywhere. Sofor like the next several months,
because we had a slide that wasright next to the pantry door, somehow
some of the peanuts had gotten upin the slide and when you're when the
slide was fully extended, you couldn'tget to them because of the air gap.

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But then whenever they came in theywere loose. And so for probably
three months after that, we wouldhave a travel day. I learned my
lesson. I packed everything better.We did not have any more crazy big
things the peanuts anywhere, but wewould find just these random like two or
three peanuts that would fall down.For months, afterwards it's crazy. So

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that is the great peanut incident oftwenty twenty two. Okay, well I
gotta let you call out my bigscrip for twenty twenty two. First,
well, there is a camper onetiquette rule. It is a very important
camper on etiquette rule, and itis that if somebody is unhitching or hitching
up their rig, do not talkto them, do not go up it,

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don't go say hi to them,don't do anything. I know it
sounds really rude, and it soundsis kind of like counterintuitive, but generally
it's because they're really working on somethingand you want to make sure that you
don't like distract them so shit doesn'thappen. Well, this was a prime
case of our neighbor coming up whowas very very sweet by the way,

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talking to him while he was doinga black tank flush, which is where
we fill the black tank with waterto flush out all the gross stuff so
that he can then dump out allthe gross stuff and our black tank stays
clean. Black tank is where solidand waste goes from your body. So

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he got distracted, I know,let he take it away from there.
So we had moved into our RVwe were. We were still mostly stationary,
but we were We'd moved into ourRV and we were Me and my
dad actually had a trip planned.We were going to take his RV to
go down to Fredericksburg. And soI was in the process of flushing the

(26:32):
tank and so I could turn everythingoff before we left, so i'd actually
I was actually kind of going alittle ham on it. So I actually
flushed, was flushed three times,so I like filled the tank or nearly
very clean, nearly filled the tank, flush it, nearly flowed the tank,
flush it, and nearly filled thetank. Think got distracted, By
goodness, you had already flushed ittwice before this time. So our neighbor

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comes up. He knew that wewere I was heading out of town.
He was going to kind of keepan eye on things while we were gone,
and he was asking when we weregetting back. There was a rainstorm
that was about to start, sowe were trying to like talk through a
couple of things real quick, andso I got distracted. YadA, YadA,
yad. I got done, wentinside, grabbed all my stuff,
grabbed the dog, hopped in thetruck, drove down to my parents' house.
And as I'm like five miles frommy dad's house, which is at

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least thirty forty minutes away. Yeah, I pulled up to a stoplight.
I get off the highway, Ipull up to a stoplight, and I
just realized in the back of myhead, did I ever turn the water
off? No? No, toanswer that question is no, I did
not. I had somehow not somehow, I just got distracted, thought I

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was done with everything, left theflush running. So that's basically the water
coming into the tank with But Idid not have the valve up because the
kind of the processes, you youfill it up, you close the valve,
you fill it up, then yourip it, let her rip and
then and then like it cleans everythingout, everything that's pouring out real quickly.
It's really really good for cleaning yourblack tank, especially when you're more

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stationary, Like your black tank getsa little bit cleaner when you're more mobile,
because things slush around while you're drivingdown the road because you're we were
stationary at the time. Like itjust it stuff doesn't get flushed around as
well, and so when you dumpit doesn't get as clean as if if
you do something like this, SoAnyways, we drive back, it had

(28:27):
flooded our bathroom, spilled into intothe kind of the underbelly area, had
come out into the living room alittle bit. So my dad helped me
clean it up, get it kindof sopped up. We put some towels
out. Yeah, he's a great, great man, great man, my
father. I've helped him clean alot of his mistakes too. Okay,

(28:48):
let's be honest, not normally involvingpooh, but I do help. I
do help. There wasn't a lotof pooh because this was like the third
flight, and so, like I'veheard stories where like for some people like
ends up coming out the top throughtheir their vent ours. I guess it
is not. Our Our toilet obviouslyis not that well sealed. Actually,

(29:10):
it's really not because our toilet thiswas before we had the warranty work,
so our seal on our toilet actuallywas not very good at the time.
And so rather than going up backthrough the vent, it actually just came
up through the toilet. Yeah,and still pretty gross. I think I
would prefer to coming out the ventthat would have been at least then it
just kind of owl outside of theRV. Still gross, but I would

(29:30):
rather that than insight. So longstory short, we cleaned it up.
We went on our trip. Youwere out of town at the time.
You came back from your trip andyou were like, it's actually wasn't that
bad. And so you finished clean, you disinfected and got all that stuff
done, and then I came backhome and lets them learned well kind of.

(29:52):
So this leads great into your twentytwenty three screw up. What was
that baby? What was your twentytwenty three Your twenty twenty two screw up
was forgetting about the black tank flushand it overflowing. What was the twenty
twenty three screw up? So weget to Tampa and we're we pulled into

(30:18):
growing to unhitched. Were we pulledinto our site. We're getting unhitched.
The our neighbors they don't have anRV. They're in like a mobile home.
They're like permanent setup. They've neverRVD in their life. They're just
they just lived there. They're there. They super sweet, coupled, very
sweet, very friendly. They reallywanted to get to know us. Uh
it was they really sweet When Ihad to take you to the er first

(30:41):
time the first time, they likethey saw that we left, and they
were wondering because I had already toldthem that you weren't feeling well. That's
because they hadn't even really met you, get no, and so they were
worried about you, and so theywere checking up on you and everything.
So anyways, as after we getunhitched and I'm getting everything hooked up,
you know, I set my mymy water sets. So I have one
hose that comes from the faucet,goes into a Y adapter. One side

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goes to the filter and the pressurereducer and into the main system. The
other side goes into the black tank. And so I'm turning the water on.
I'm setting the Y adapter appropriately.This is back at the time I
didn't really have a system like now. Black tank's always on the right great
or fresh water is always on theleft. And so like I forgot they

(31:26):
were talking to me, and soI'm like getting everything switched and set up
to turn the water on, andwell I accidentally when I turned the fresh
water on on the Y adapter,Well I all so turned the black tank
flush on so on the Y adapter. So we didn't learn your lesson the

(31:52):
first time. Fifty minutes later itwas a different mistake this time. It's
the same result, just black tankflush. He forgot about the black tank
flush. About fifteen minutes later,we all of a sudden hear some weird
sounds coming from the bathroom and comelow and behold the same thing had happened

(32:12):
again. It was all coming upthrough the toilet. Thankfully, like we
caught it like really quick. Wecaught it really quickly. This wasn't that
bad of a deal, it was. I ran out real quickly turned it
off, like I knew exactly whathad happened. Actually, I think what
might have happened is I turned theblack tank on and I actually had the
freshwater off, and we just neitherone of us had gone to wash our
hands. Otherwise we would have noticedand I would have gone out there and

(32:36):
been like, oh oops, otherdirection on both switches. But unfortunately we
didn't, and so we were likewe were like sitting on our couch and
I heard something, and I waslike, what is what is going on?
And then I like walked into thebathroom because I was going to investigate
the sound. I keep hearing thislike kind of weird water of sound,

(32:57):
but I didn't know what it was. And then all of a sudden he
started seeing the toilet overflowing and Iwas like, oh shit, for real,
okit, And that's when we figuredit out. Well, let's go
back to your screw up for twentytwenty three. Oh yeah, that always
has a name, the Great SalsaIncident. Yeah. I didn't really learn
my lesson either. Well I kindof did. I just forgot so different

(33:22):
mistake, same result. Yeah,there's there's something going on here. There's
a pattern here, yes, forsure. So the Great Salsa Incident,
we were we were leaving Colorado Springsand we were heading towards Steamboat Springs actually,
so we were going up through Denverand we were going through the Eisenhower

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Tunnel on I seventy, which issuper cool and also really scary with our
V but it was fun. Itwas cool. Adventure a strong word.
So there is one gas station thatis like the gas station right before you
get to the Eisenhower Tunnel. Sowe stopped there to just kind of hop
off with diesel and make sure everythingwas good to go before we went through

(34:04):
the tunnel. And I was actuallyreally thankful for this. I went to
go use the restroom while he wasfilling up with gas. And normally there's
a reason for this, but normallyI will actually go to the truck stop
restroom. Well, in this particularcase, their restrooms were out of order,
so they literally had no public restroomsOnceoever, so I was like,
hey, babe, I'm gonna needto use our restroom. Don't move the

(34:28):
rig when you get done filling upbecause our stairs were going to be down.
So I went in. I'm youknow, I'm going I'm doing nothing,
and all of a sudden, Ihear this baby by. I was
like, what is this? Soundsfamiliar? Like what does that sound?
Maybe it's the microwave that came open, Like what is that? And then
you know, a few minutes later, it goes bababy, and all of

(34:50):
a sudden, it clicked. Thefridge was open. I forgot to lock
the fridge. There's an actual likescrew on lock that goes on our fridge
for travel day that keeps the fridgedoors closed during travel day, and I
forgot to put that on for somecrazy reason, like it's there, it's
provided for us. It's even onmy checklist. So I have a checklist

(35:12):
that I go through every single travelday. That's like my travel day checklist
of like did you do this,did you do that? Did you check
this? Did you check that?I just missed it entirely. I had
all of the precautions to not missit, and it missed it anyway.
So we get to a point hekind of pulls forward so that we're not
blocking the diesel the diesel pump foranybody else. Nobody was really behind us,

(35:37):
but just in case, and wewent in and pulled out all the
slides because we really couldn't get tothe fridge without pulling out all the slides,
So we pulled out all the slidesand we had filled up. So
we are kind of snobs when itcomes to ourselves, so we really like
a certain kind of salsa and wecan kind of only find it in the
South, and really can kind ofonly find it in Texas. So we

(35:58):
had filled up, kind of stockedup on salsa before we left Texas,
and Colorado was like our second orthird stop, so we still had a
ton of salsa and it was wehad room in the fridge, so we
just kept it all in the fridge, which is totally fine until you forget
to lock the fridge, and sothere was. Thankfully, we only lost

(36:21):
one full jar and like half ofa second jar. By half it was
one we had already opened, andit's not like yeah yeah yeah yeah,
like it was one we had alreadyopened. It was halfway gone. We
lost that one, but we lostalso a full other one as well,
and there was salsa and glass justeverywhere on the back, like over the
back of the campers. So wecleaned it up as much as we possibly

(36:45):
could, knowing that like we didn'thave a ton of time. We were
on a time constrate it was travelday whatever, so we got it as
clean as we could, went onabout our business. I did lock the
fridge at that point, and thenas soon as we got to our stop
for the day, we cleaned itup the rest of the way. But
poof that was. That was rough. Thankfully we didn't lose a ton of

(37:06):
salsa. But man lesson learned nowI double and triple check that that fridge
look is on there every travel dayand ever since then, every time we
get in the car we're about tenminutes down the road, he's like,
did you like the fridge? Hey, I can help, I'm helping I'm
just I'm just being a friendly reminder. Hey did you like the fridge?
Yeah? You know, So enoughdogging, Honest, we can't talk about

(37:29):
like some successes here. Oh we'vedone some good some good stuff, some
smart stuff, maybe by accident,but we have some done some smart stuff
during our RVY travels. So Ithink the smartest thing we ever did was
pulling over when we needed to pullWhat do you mean by that? So
we are driving from DFW to loveIt. This is actually the same trip

(37:52):
where the peanut is the peena.Isn't an episode like this was an eventful
trip? Yes, Okay, goahead. So we're driving down the road
and if you know anything about WestTexas, like it can get windy out
there. So we're driving down it'sgetting so windy it's getting like it's actually
causing a dust storm. We're havingsome visibility issues. We look at the
weather, like fifty miles an hour. I'm like, yeah, yeah,

(38:13):
I'm fighting that, not fifty milesan hours like thirty twenty or thirty miles
an hour with fifty mile an hourgusts, And like I'm like, yeah,
I can feel that I've been fightingthat, And like I can't hardly
see that. I'm like, weneed to pull over. My arms are
getting tired just from fighting the wind. I want to take a break,
so we pull over. I takea little nap, wait till the storm
dies down, and then we continueon our way. We come, we

(38:36):
get into town super super late becauseof it, but we have a pretty
uneventful drive the rest way. Sothen I do my research afterwards. So
they recommend or not recommend. Theytell you that the the tipping point for
fifth wheels at least is a lotof times around sixty mile per hour gust.

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So like when you start getting closeto fifty or close to thirty or
forty miles per hours sustained with thosefifty and sixty mile hour gusts, you
are at that point where you cantip over. They actually say nowadays that
like even eighteen weeks, you cantip over at sixty miles an hour,
And recently somebody said to us,they were like, really, honestly,
thirty five miles isn't is enough dependingon the situation. I'm like, yeah,

(39:21):
I'm really glad we pulled over becauseit was like thirty forty miles an
hour with gusts up to fifty.We traveled earlier this year. In I
traveled earlier this year, same tripfor the where the tire blue out actually
in forty mile an hour gusts theday before or forty it's just thirty five
miles an hour sustained. So Ikind of have like my cap is like

(39:45):
round thirty miles per hour sustained iswhere no, it's a no go.
I don't care what the predicted gustsare going to be because you just don't
know. And that's and it's reallyhard for them to predict what the actual
number is. It's even really hardfor them to report on what the actual
number is. And so about thirtymiles per hour is kind of my cutoff.
We traveled in thirty two miles anhour. It was fine, It

(40:07):
wasn't horrible, but it's definitely kindof at that top end. But there
weren't a lot of gusts. Thatwas the nice thing. It was mostly
sustained, and once we started headingwest, it was only really growing and
we were heading north. Once westarted heading west, it wasn't so bad.
It was bad because it was nowa head wind, but at least
it was not like pushing us offto the side. It was just lowering

(40:28):
my gas mileage and making the truckafter work hard, So that wasn't a
big deal. But that's all,and that's really informative and that's really useful.
I'm glad we pulled over. Thatwas kind of just a luck of
the draw. I was like,I'm just getting tired of fighting this wind.
I want to pull over, whenin reality, that could have been
the scenario that could have toppled usover if we kept on going. So
it's a really good success for usthat we kind of like took the time

(40:49):
to be like, you know what, this is not working for me right
now, let's take a break.Well, the other thing too, is
it was good for us to gothrough that then, because we took seven
and I eighty this year through Utahand through Colorado, which are known for
toppling over eighteen wheelers with the gustingwinds that go through the valleys from the
mountaintops. So we knew that goingin, and we were really really vigilant

(41:14):
to pay attention to the weather aheadof time to make sure that we had
alternate plans and in case we gotdelayed and we had to offset a travel
day because those roads are really reallyscary when it comes to the gusts that
could just like randomly hit you.And we knew it going in because we'd
gone through this experience. So yeah, like traveling during high winds, if

(41:36):
high winds are predicted for travel day, first of all, you need to
have multiple weather apps. You needto be looking at the weather through multiple
sources leading up to and on travelday. And if high winds are predicted,
like find another plan. Don't takethe risk. It's really really not
worth it. And if you're alreadyon the road and something happens like pull
off to the side, you're gonnasurvive if you pull off to the side.

(41:58):
But if you just try to likequote unquote power through, that may
not be the best plan. Thatbrings us to another success this year that
was last year. This year wetook our RV international. We did.
We went to Canada with our RV. We crossed the Canadian border with our
RV, and then we crossed backover. It was a success. Be

(42:19):
prepared. But also they may onlyask you one or two questions. You
never know or they might ask youtwenty questions, So just be prepared.
It was yeah, it was funny. So we did our research in advance,
and they had like there's a lotof restrictions going into Canada and there's
a lot of restrictions coming back outof Canada. So you just need to
be prepared. Go like look attheir government each government website on the border

(42:40):
crossings and that will help you prepare. But like right now, at least
at the time of filming, butCanada has restrictions and the US has restrictions
on what produce you can bring acrossthe border, as well as what meats
you can bring across the border,and what at least right now, what
poultry by products you can bring acrossthe border. So we had to kind

(43:00):
of purge our entire pantry and kitchenof anything that you know, could be
prohibited. And then of course theyhave restrictions on you know, other things
that you can bring across the borderas well. They're going to ask you
about it. You are very likelyto get searched if you're coming over with
like an RV or a bigger vehicle, just because of the shape and the

(43:22):
size and everything else. So wewere prepared for that. We'd built that
into our travel plans. If needbe. And honestly, we had like
the easiest experience at both borders.Both ways. It was kind of weird,
but we're not complaining by any stretchof the imagination. When we went
across the Canadian border, other thanlike what do you come in here for?

(43:44):
How long are you going to behere? Like were you headed?
Like basic questions, they literally onlyasked us one other question and it was
easy to get through, no bigdeal. And then coming back across,
everybody was like, oh no,it's gonna be way worse coming back across.
It was not. It was justas easy coming back across. They
asked us, well, groceries wewere bringing back across, and we told

(44:05):
them everything that was in our fridge, which was not a ton at the
time, and we had to getgroceries coming in and we had to get
groceries coming back out. And afterthat they were like, all right,
cool, you're good to go.That was it. So one of our
followers on TikTok Suko Beetro, I'mhoping Gooby scary, Okay, Well,

(44:29):
I know you, I know you, Scarby, You're good. This is
the driver Ryan. He like popsinto the pops into the channel every now
and then, but he doesn't knowyou like I know you. We know
each other. Scooby mentions an appcalled Weather the Trip. I've never used
it. He says that it's reallyuseful. Uh he says that I he
or she says that I pronounced itappropriately. Oh suco beetro. Oh all

(44:54):
right, you're gonna have to giveme lessons. So he says, for
example, if you know you aregoing through Memphis in three hours, it
shows you what the weather will be. Hey, oh that's cool. So
that's a cool app. Recommend fromone of our followers on TikTok. I'm
gonna have to download that and checkit out. It's that would be early

(45:14):
a great if. If we checkit out, we like it, we
might feature it here on on anepisode of the podcast coming up soon.
But that actually leads us really wellinto our pick of the week. This
is my opportunity to say, telleverybody I am building a database. Oh
yeah, this is a good yes, yes, yes, yes, tell
them I'm cool. I'm blaming databaseof campground cell service, WiFi, starlink

(45:37):
speeds and starlink like ophis obstructions exactly. So the plan right now is to
have about one hundred campgrounds by theend of the year. We're not releasing
anything. This is not going publicthis year. We are planning a tentative
possible beta for contributors only. It'sa maybe if and what day in twenty

(46:00):
twenty four. So what I'm doingpersonally, I've got all the services,
so I am testing AT and T, T Mobile, Verizon, Starlink,
and the campground Wi Fi getting theirspeeds and kind of averaging it out and
giving the best and then also givinga description of the obstruction areas of the

(46:22):
campground on a rating system from zeroto five, zero being like there's literally
nothing around. You could probably justset your starlink on the ground, and
a work rate five being Startlingk's notgonna work at any pretty much any site
from what we can tell. Sothe plan is to get some contributors to
start helping me with this project.I haven't I don't have a plan yet

(46:44):
on how that's gonna look or howthat's gonna work. But what I wanted
to put out today was an opportunityfor some people to join in. Yeah,
like, here's the thing. Ithas a really good benefit for both
use Casestner there's going to be ause case scenario where you're taking your RV
out, you still got to stayconnected due to like whatever circumstances that you're

(47:07):
in, but you really want tojust get away and know that you have
that peace of mind that if youneed to get hop onto the internet,
you need to hop on your computer, you need to hop on a zoom
call or a team's call or whateveryou can do it. There's also the
circumstances where you're like, to hellwith that, I don't want to be
connected to anything while I go out, and knowing that you're going to go

(47:28):
to a place where there's zero connectivityis also really helpful and also nice to
just know, like you know what, I'm kind of forced to disconnect.
So that's kind of the goal hereis we have been doing this for two
years full time, we've been doingit for a lot longer than that part
time, and what we've found isfor us because we definitely really need solid

(47:52):
internet almost everywhere we go, butwhen we actually do quote unquote vacation and
disconnect, we really don't want internet, and so we haven't found a place
where they actually truly will tell usspecifically what the download and upload speeds are
because anytime somebody says, oh,my Internet is really good, that's super

(48:12):
relative to their use case scenario isand it may not be your use case
scenario or our use case scenarios.So being able to share the actual data
points has been super helpful. Sothat's kind of what sparked the idea to
come up with this database. Soit's really just kind of a new thing
for us, but we thought wewould start to build it out and if
you're interested in the same kind ofthing, we would love to just partner

(48:35):
with you on it and kind ofhelp contribute to it and see where it
goes. If you could email mecontributor at rvspeedtest dot com. There's a
whole website. Wait a minute,there's no website yet. There's no website
an email, okay, cool,If you'll email contributor at rvspeedtest dot com,
give me what your phone like,current phone model is and what your

(48:58):
current carrier is, and let meknow if you're interested in being a contributor
to help with the database. I'mgoing to work on some procedures over the
next couple of months to see ifwe can make this semi crowdsourced, but
still very well controlled. So justas a foresight, there's going to be
some restrictions on everything on how wedo everything for the time being as we're

(49:22):
building this database of internets up.The plan is to have a beta release
four contributors only sometime in twenty twentyfour, with contributions being added sometime before
that. But this is just kindof an interest right now to see who
might be interested in being a partof this. I will have more details
in the coming months, but thebenefit of it is that eventually it's going

(49:45):
to be just a source where youcan go to, where you could search
for your campground that you want togo to, and you can find out
specifically what the data and internet connectionsare at that particular location, so you
know whether or not T mobile isgood. You know whether or not starlink
is gonna work. You know ifthere's too many tree obstructions or things like

(50:06):
that. You know if a teenT is gonna work, or Verizon or
whatever the case may be, andyou know to what degree that they're going
to work based on the download andupload speeds of what was captured by the
individuals who were there. So that'skind of the vision around it. And
last but not least, just aheads up. This is a pet project
right now. I don't know whereit's going, what's going to happen with

(50:27):
it, or how it's going todevelop. The idea is to have the
database and at some point have itpublicly available right now, and like I
said, I'm going to be workingMy first project is gonna be working on
a way to allow beta testers accessto it, as well as a way
for them to contribute data to it. Once that is all said and done,
the rest of the roadmap we'll figureout at that point. And so

(50:51):
as a forewarning to everybody, itmay start out free, it may not
start out for you. I haveno clue what this project is going to
look like long term, but ifthere is always a chance that I may
need to monetize this to maintain thedatabase. So this is just a heads
up that even if you get onboard right now as a contributor and you
get access to it for free,or you get access to it for free

(51:14):
next years, at some point itmay not stay free. I don't know.
I cannot predict where this project isgoing. This is a pet project.
I'm starting off and just seeing whereit goes and how it leads.
And for right now, my primaryjob is to collect the data and see
how I can allow other people tocontribute data to be a part of it.
I know there's other apps out there, I know there's other resources out

(51:36):
there, but none of them havehad the detail that I'm wanting to have
in all of this. So pleaseplease please email contributor at rvspeedtest dot com
that the plan is to just geta list of people who are interested in
contributing, so I know how muchinterests there is. Because if there's not
a lot of interest in contributing,then my focus is going to be on

(51:58):
maintaining and are not maintaining but buildingup the database. But if there's a
lot of interest in contributors, thenI want to work on that side of
it first, so that way wecan get more people contributing data, because
that's going to build the database fasterthan me trying to do it by myself.
So justin FYI, awesome, Ilove it. I think it's a
great idea, it's something that nobody'sdoing right now, and it's definitely something

(52:21):
that we've needed in the past,and so I think this would be a
really a really great opportunity. Butnow it's time for our fan question of
the week. This actually came inright before we started filming today, and
so I thought this was kind ofa cool fan question and seems like kind
of an innocuous fan question. I'mpretty simple one to answer, but there's

(52:42):
there's some implications there. So areyou ready for it? Yeah? How
big is your camper? Well,if we're talking about length, it's forty
one feet and some change. Yeah, if we're talking about width, it's
eight feet wide, and the slidesare pulled in and so it legally fits

(53:02):
down a road. It's about justshy of eleven feet when the slides are
fully out square footage wise. Soif you take eight feet by forty feet,
that comes out to such an engineereight times forty, So it's three

(53:24):
hundred and twenty square feet when theslides are in, and each of these
slides is three feet by six feet. Yeah, this is what I have
to deal with, six eighteen squarefeet, so eighteen eighteen eighteen, So
that's three hundred and fifty square feet, and then another couple of square feet

(53:45):
from the bedroom slide out. SoI would say about three hundred and fifty
five to three hundred and sixty squarefeet, so it's a fifth wheel.
It's about forty feet long, it'sabout thirteen and a half feet away.
Said that that is the reader's digestversion of the answer to that question.

(54:05):
I gave a very deep The questionwas how big is your camper? I
answered that question to the best ofmy ability. There are some implications with
the size of our campers. Soone of the implications with it is because
it is so long, we can'treally fit into a lot of Army corps
of engineer sits. We can't fitinto a lot of state parks or national

(54:28):
parks, so we do have toWe tend to go to the private campgrounds
because that's where there's big rig placesto fit. The other thing that we
have to kind of keep in mind, which is why we really really love
our garment RV GPS, is wehave to be aware of bridge heights.
There are some bridges on some roadsthat are shorter than our RV, meaning

(54:51):
we cannot take those roads otherwise we'regoing to take off the top of our
RV or take off an AC unitor something like that. The other thing
and we have to keep in mindis how much our RV ways, because
there are some roads that cannot handlemore than a certain tonnage of weight.
Oh yeah, I forget you mentionedweight we're about with the truck. With

(55:13):
the truck, Yeah, we're abouttwelve tons or twenty four thousand pounds or
whatever that comes out to in thoseEuropean units, those metric things. Yeah,
so twenty four thousand pounds they're about. Yeah, yeah, they're abouts
so yeah. So if there's aroad that says no more than ten tons,
well we're too big for that wherewe can't go on that road.

(55:35):
The nice thing about the garment RVGPS is we can put it in all
of our dimensions, including our weight, and it will for sure take us
on roads that it knows for surewe can actually go on that we can
fit on and we're not going todamage our RV or damage the road or
anything like that, which is reallynice. Oh that's the other one I
forgot is the length when we're hitchedup. It was either fifty four or
fifty six feet. I forget.I need to do I think it's yeah,

(56:00):
I think it's close to fifty six. I think it was fifty six
feet is our total length from backto the from the back of the RV
to the front of the truck whenwe are fully hitched up. Yeah,
So I say all that to saythis, if you are thinking about getting
an RV to go camping, youneed to also think about what kind of
camping you want to do, becauseif you want to go hit a bunch

(56:21):
of state parks and national parks andArmy Corps of Engineers and boondocking places and
things like that, the smaller RVyou have, the more maneuverable it's going
to be, and the more likelyyou are to fit into some of those
places. The bigger RV you have, the more spacious it's going to be,
the more you're going to be ableto carry all of your stuff with
you, especially if you're full timing. It's kind of nice to have a

(56:43):
bigger RV, but you may notbe able to fit everywhere. So you
just have to keep that in mind. So Suco brings up this is a
good point. There are some statesthat have some laws regarding kingpin to axle
length. Oh yeah, I believeCalifornia is one of them, and there
might be others. I don't know. He asked if the garment allows for

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that. I don't know if thatwas programmable in the garment. If it
was, I didn't do it becauseI didn't know the length at the time,
and I actually still kind of don'tknow the link. So I need
to measure that at some point beforewe truly get out into one of those
states. But yes, there arestates that actually have a length requirement from
where the kingpin sits, i e. Your rear axle of your truck to

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the front axle or the rear axleof the track. I don't remember what
it was. It's something hat davvingto do with that length from there to
the axle of the trailer. Sothat is also another law that you have
to keep in mind. I don'tknow what it is. I don't know
what the rules are. I don'teven know what the length is for ours.
Yeah, I do know. Likethe RV garment, though, has
never steered us wrong. Sometimes it'staken us if we know the areas.

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Sometimes it's taken us on a longerroute than we needed to go, just
because it didn't know for sure ifall of the back roads could accommodate us,
which is fine. I'd rather besafe than sorry. I'd rather be
safe than sorry. It is neversteered us wrong. And the nice thing
about the garment GPS, you knowthe garment RV specifically that is different than
like a trucker GPS because we usethat beforehand. Is the truck or gps

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is are geared towards commercial vehicles.There are certain roads that prohibit commercial vehicles.
A lot of those roads are theroads that lead to your actual campground,
and so the garment RV accounts forall of that, and it will
still ensure that you get to yourfinal destination that came up twice this episode.
But it will ensure that you getto the campground that you need to

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go to on the roads that areappropriate for your vehicle and for your camper,
and doesn't like steer you in awrong direction because it's trying to avoid
any roads that a commercial vehicle can'tgo on. So that's a call out
to the garment r V. Butyeah, we have a forty foot fifth
wheels. That's the answer to thatquestion. Hey friends, thanks for listening
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Bye. All right, what's Sean'squestions? Do you guys eat out often
or cook in the RV? Oh? We cook all the time in the
RV all the time. We actuallygot our RV specifically because of the kitchen,

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so we love to cook. We'veloved to cook since before we started
full timing, and so that waskind of that was actually really important for
us when we were looking at rv's and we were looking at the different
floor plans. So r RV.The model number of RRV is the thirty
nine BARK. It's a sand Piperthirty nine bark. It's a Forest River

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brand. The BARK stands for bigass for a kitchen. No joke,
it's kind of a joke.