18,000 Miles Later - We'Re Back in Arizona (EP 36 RV Living Vlog)

winter camping fail turned around let me tell you what i did and just just for the record all right this is personally embarrassing are you even joking me we live here and i look at i look at that and i'm like blown away is that not incredible we've been across the entire country to think and back up and down and to think that we come back to our own hometown our own home state and then look at these rocks and still look at them with like such awe is is awesome but i will say even right before we left in may when i was doing some mountain biking and i was looking around i was like oh my gosh we are so lucky to live here arizona is a really cool place and did i mention another bonehead rv newbie mistake the last few nights i've been kind of i left the water just kind of dripping and that's because it was such a fresh reminder that it was so cold in the rv because you know we were we didn't we didn't have electrical hookups once we're hooked up we had the furnace going it was so warm we all took hot showers everything was great and it just completely slipped my mind i was working on the video last night it slipped my mind before i went to bed just cracked the water just so it would drip out and and keep some keep some lines moving because the black and now and now we're all frozen up i always have said that this channel should remain transparent through our mistakes because what's the point of doing it if people aren't able to learn through my mistakes basically i got a hair dryer and i put the hair dryer on this little connector right there and fortunately because all of these hoses inside here are inside this box and it's warm inside there the freezing basically stopped right there at that point i thawed the little coupler right here and so i got that flowing again the water filter as you can see there's ice inside there this thing's probably frozen solid but i've got many of these i put the hair dryer on the tip of this hose right there and then i turned the water pressure on the hose and just a little tiny bit of water was coming out so then i put the hair dryer on the rest of the hose and it took just maybe about a minute or two and then water was gushing out so i i think we dodged a bullet here and on top of it it was a good lesson learned to not forget things like that i by the way i don't ever repeat the same mistake twice i repeat it seven or eight times just to make sure i've got it we are on the i-10 west headed from tucson to phoenix and it just occurred to me this is the that i used to drive twice a week 20 years ago when i met trish like i've made up any reason to go to phoenix when i was going to u of a i mean any reason at all i mean like oh you can't reach the top shelf hold on i'll be right there yeah i know this road very very well but i never in my wildest dreams would i ever thought 20 years later we were going to be on the same road with uh with three gingers six months is a fair amount of time because we are back now in our hometown and we are looking at buildings that were not here when we left starbucks have like moved into developments that like previously weren't developed on we're passing people that we know we're getting text messages from people that are like hey i see so uh kind of weird kind of weird to be back trish what do you think society baby the drive the passenger side is low that is not a problem because i have my own air tank how's the car otherwise the car's fine we just need to get an oil change and it says service i don't know all right let me take a look at the tire oh yeah that's low hello how are you all right let's see the sunset whoa that's an arizona sunset well we had no idea i mean no idea that we were going to get to arizona we're going to get to carefree that we would find this rv park look at this sunset let me just let my phone adjust hold on let me hit the let me hit this button right here wow and now let me touch my face and i'm we just had no we had no idea that we were going to find this rv park and it's 30 a night i think this probably probably be a little bit cheaper if we stay longer it's just in wide open preserve and carefree north of scottsdale arizona it's quiet it's peaceful so i think what we're going to do is we're going to stay here for at least a few nights and kind of get an idea as to what we want to do here in arizona but let's look at this sunset one more time wow arizona is really a special place all right good morning we just had a wonderful night's sleep here at this oh look at this dog look at this dog she loves that ear rubbing we just had a wonderful night's sleep in this carefree preserve look at this site i mean look at this look at look at this look at all the space in this site but i have ass asphalt asphalt pad a large dirt lot you can hardly even see the other of our beers here there's just so much space with these absolutely gorgeous sunsets but anyway we are so busy because at this point we're gonna we have to make a decision on snow or mexico and basically that last video we did is like up to over 300 comments with so much great feedback as to what you guys want to see because now we're at the process where we need to figure out what's going to season two what's going in storage what do we bring that we didn't need we're getting laundry done the kids are meeting up with friends maddie's got busy busy plans anyway all right this is embarrassing but i have to show you i have to show you this mess i mean it looks like it looks like we're about ready to do a yard sale all right trish what are you doing here i don't even know i'm in a cloud of confusion all right so we've got i mean who would have thought that an rv could even store this much stuff looks like ginger exploded and tori how was it you being back with some of your friends okay answer me honestly honest answer even though i'm recording you i don't know if you're gonna like my honest answer because it's fun to be back with your friends but was it like even more fun because you were away like absence makes the heart grow fonder maybe just a little bit okay scratch that question let's move on to the next question um now that you've kind of reconnected with your friends and you're out and hugging and driving around and whatnot does it kind of make you look forward to like season two okay we're done here anyhow there you have it straight from tori's mouth okay this is so much fun we are going through like all the stuff underneath the cushions and underneath the beds and whatnot we probably went underneath the dinette cushions all of three times the entire trip that we would keep things under there like backup oatmeal stuff that would never go bad that we just didn't you know we wanted to stock up while we could um but here's the first bin right here we've got this fan that's kind of essential because there are some times where you're hooked up to electrical and you just need to move the air around printer and printer paper used it once that's a tough one very useful thing to have very infrequently used i suppose i could get a smaller one let me show you my scanner this is my scanner that's it that's the scanner i figure if we ever had to scan a document or something like this i could just pull that out it plugs into a usb right into my computer done so i think i should get another one of these because if i ever have to print it's probably just printing one or two pages not like i'm gonna go print some brief or something like this so i said brief like i knew like i don't know why they can't apples to apples cash flow for kids scrabble things clue we played a board game one time in madison wisconsin there's an rv myth that you're gonna have all the time in the world like bring books bring board games keep bring things that keep you occupied i've talked to other full-time rvers and they say the same thing there's no time i don't think this stuff is gonna come on season two no games hurricane matthew that is a time we could play games yeah but we didn't here's a conversion or an upgrade that i was just reminded of that i'd love to do and if you have you guys have any insight on this that would be great so this light right here uh is missing a led bulb but we never use this light and it's already hooked up for electrical outlet i think this would be a perfect place for a fan mount that bad boy right there a little button turn it around be perfect right we're off to go to a party with our friends yay so excited ma meatloaf ma meatloaf now hey what's up how are you when he's filming us yeah of course i am man i bet you guys are here in the flesh i know this is my welder this is the guy that's responsible for the bike racks right here you're a regular okay it's monday morning back to take ginger into orange wood rv i'm gonna get everything flushed out nice and clean and get on the road and hopefully they can get this awning done before we take off in less than a month we have a little whiteboard that we keep right on our door it's a great thing to have for like grocery lists or items and stuff like this i also use it to keep track of q a videos so in the comments when someone says hey i'd like to see a video for this that's where i put it and then i just take a picture of that whiteboard when i'm ready to go but now that the trailer is going into service i changed it to all the things it needs the slide leaks i need a new fender part the wheel wheel the wheels need to be packed with grease awning needs to be replaced there's a floor and the floor in the kitchen is starting to kind of like bow down a little bit i don't know if that's dry rot in the wood or what uh new locks we're looking to go to those digital keypad locks tori's the cargo door kind of leaks just a little bit the gray tank leaks just a little bit so when it gets really super full like when we're boondocking um it will pick up water gray water in the we've enclosed trailer underneath it'll start to pick up water so there's some sort of leak in there rotate the tires changing that that little light right there changing that to a fan would be kind of nice uh port forward you can tell i'm a boater port forward light is missing its cover and the forward stabilizer button isn't retracting so six months of full-time travel and that is the list to be honest leaving ginger here is like dropping caleb off at kindergarten at the first day of school i'm like all right bye bye