BOONDOCKING NEAR ORLANDO😮 / Big Rig Travel Days / Florida Camping / RV Life / RVFulltime

Oh, that was pretty loud. That was good. That was excellent. So we're doing a test. We're here at the, um, here we are. Oh, my last phone, it lasted like 20 or 30 drops and even in poop. So. That's right. Yeah. So you, that was not a crappy phone. And this place just really cleared out. It is. Got that lone swamp buggy. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the channel. Big truck, big travels. We're in our big truck and we are traveling. Yes, we are. So we just finished, uh, boondocking and a really nice wildlife management. As we winter here in Florida for three months, the weather is nice and warm. See, I have short sleeve shirts on. Um, so where are we going to next? Yeah. So another boondocking spot, another wildlife management area. This one's a little closer to Orlando, so it's not a very far drive for us today. So that'd be nice. I like those kinds of days. Yeah. So it'd be there about eight days. And then we'll start more of our sort of full hookups. That'll be good too. Yeah. It's been nice boondocking because you kind of, if you want, just settle in and relax and just hang out. So I feel like when we're on full hookup, I've got chores to do. It's like, okay, I should clean and do other stuff. But when we're boondocking, I really feel like we're camping more. Yeah. So you can kind of goof off. I can. I like goofing off. So let's go. Let's do it. I'm sure it's not soft soft, but flashbacks to Port Aransas. Oh, this is fancy. It has pit toilets. So our boondocking campsite, there's a few things that we do during the day. I've got these landscape solar lights. That one's kind of in the shade, but it's been getting solar. So I've got, they're charging regularly. These are in the shade during a portion of the day, a good portion of the day. So I'd move them up here to the truck to get charged. Sort of my solar farm, because as you can see, I've got them right around the rug right there. And that's in complete shade right now. So I move them around during the day. I mean, we're boondocking. What else am I going to do, right? I'm retired because all the sun is on this side, which is really what we want, because we have very few windows over here. So we like to position it that way. And then, as you can see, the solar panels getting some good sun. Now, obviously, that one's got a little bit of shade from that tree right there. So we're still getting good sun from the rest of them. And actually, I just noticed that shade on the panel. So no wonder it goes down a little bit. Hmm. I'm not going to move the trailer for that because we're in a good spot. The rest of the area around here, nice, quiet, really cool area. Still boondocking, but the chores continue. This is sort of a continuation of what we had back at Death Valley almost a year ago. We know now what's causing it, and this is on the battery side. One of the cells is a little low, number 15. I haven't cleaned it yet. I go back in there and do some cleanup, and I'm going to do that this afternoon. So when I do that, you will be without power. Got to get into here, my batteries, and clean a couple of contacts. I have got everything out of the way. And I'm going to go to this set down here, and this set here, this is the last set. And then I've got to get to this one up here and do some cleaning. Removing the boards so that I can clean them. This is the next one, and I just take it off and swab it. With a Q-tip, with a little bit of alcohol on it, clean the contacts. So even though we have no AC power whatsoever, our DC stuff is all independent. What we did when we were designing Orion is we wanted a lot of redundancy. So if a system failed, we weren't going to be just totally in the dark here. So we are running off of our AGM batteries, and that runs, again, all the DC house stuff. And why do you want me to turn on the camera? Because I finished cleaning the battery terminals downstairs, and it still amazes me the difference that it makes. So we had some cells that were low, and especially like 37 was low, 38 was low. And now they're all tight and right there where they are supposed to be. So good job. Out for a little hike into the wildlife management area, looking for woodpeckers. Yeah, she's getting desperate when looking for woodpeckers. Well, these are endangered species. Oh, that's true. That's true. As close as I feel. Or very remote. Yeah. But, you know, it's still, it's nice to get out and take a walk. Oh, yeah, nice hike, nice terrain out here. There's a big clock of, I don't know, bird things that flew up and scared the heck out of us. But... I think they were quail. Quail. Yeah. This was really just more of a recon, and I think tomorrow we're going to go ahead and do the six-mile loop to do, um, to, we're going to walk to the lake and take a lunch. So I think that's going to be, what? I think I see something. What? Do you see a bird or something? No. Something more important. What? I see a quarter. You've got to be kidding me. You found a quarter in the wilderness. Yeah. Oh, wow. I would say now we can call somebody, but there's no phone out here. Yeah, really. Yeah, a quarter. You and your quarters. That's pretty cool. That is. 18 more days of dry camping. So I came to my chart here. Unfortunately, I'd never planned on us staying dry camping for more than 21 days. So if I just use the 21 days and I go to day eight, we should be at 62% full. There it goes. So we should be at 62%. We have two tanks, or two 75-gallon tanks. So we're running a little bit behind, whoops, so 58% and 51%. So we're about 55% on water. I might as well just do a couple loads of laundry while we're here. So David's going to transfer water from the truck into the trailer. So we'll just have that extra water and I won't be panicking. So let's go outside and see what he's doing. Really nice. It is. I like it because it's in a case. Yes, everything's nice and neat for you, isn't it? It is. It's nice. Well, I like it once it's done and I have water. Well, we have water, you just want to be more water. We only have like 25%. So we'll have more after this, about 75% or 80%. Yeah, that'll be good. A little cloudy today, less sunny, and a little cooler. So we're going to take a hike. We're going to find Lake Jackson. We're told it's three miles down. We're going to see how accurate everyone is that's told us that. Should be a nice hike, nice cool day. Alright, about two and a half miles down the road, we've found the end of it. And it's around about a cul-de-sac. It's really pretty with all the Spanish moss and everything. Really cool in here. I think I'm allergic to Spanish moss, so we'll see. I brought plenty of tissues. So now we try and find the trail and find the lake. I do love live oaks. So you see a trail anywhere? Not really, but I'm kind of guessing that's... Oh, here we go. I see white sandy stuff. Oh yeah, and here's like an ATV trail. Here we go. Our view at the end of a three-mile hike. In the midst of the Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, we were rewarded the perfect picnic spot. This, around us, is Lake Jackson. Not much wildlife on this hike. Sondra's very desperate. At least I found some flowers. More than a campground, it's actually a little community. It's a lot of nice people. Very interesting. But a really nice place. Not close to anything, but it's not completely in the boondocks. We've enjoyed our stay. Getting ready to head out tomorrow. This is a beautiful send-off for us. Moving day, and there's always stuff to be done inside and out. So it's just a process that we go through. And... Oh my. You've got to see this. So it's always an experience when I walk in the door on moving day because I just never know what experiment or something new that Sondra's trying. What the heck is this? And I'm not that thirsty. Well, you know, we're boondocking. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to clean the tanks. I take some water and about a half a cup to a cup of Dawn and put it in there. And I have to stir it up real slow, obviously, because, you know, you don't want all the bubbles in the toilet because then you even use even more water trying to clean them out. So that's what I'm going to do. I've done this enough times that I know how much I need. So I stir it in. So now I've got a highly concentrated level of water and I'm just going to go dump it in the toilet and flush. And then this is going to slosh around really well and just clean the tank. So I'm cleaning today. So we're heading to Claremont for a couple weeks and there's just a few things I have to get done outside. Got to get the landscape lights, put them away and I've got to get Starlink. I put the rug away yesterday so that it would dry out because this morning's got some dew. More day in the life. No I'm not. I'm pointing it this way towards me. What did we want?