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It's my dream bus, says Grayson. Let's find out. Non-shiny floors. Non-shiny floors! Look at that! Non-striped walls. Oh my gosh, we have two Vanna Whites in here. Non-striped walls. Well, I said, can we please have a wardrobe? Can we please have a wardrobe? Please? Please? Please? Kids, we are here. Now, there's a lot of RVs that we're going to go see today. And I want you guys' opinion. So, if you see something in one of them that you just absolutely love, please let me know. Also, side note, these are their vehicles. They are not ours. So, we are going to have the utmost respect when we walk in, okay? Don't jump around on furniture. Don't climb inside the bunks. Don't turn on any faucets. Like, please, just hands to ourselves and let's go find our new house. Mom, it's your dream bus. It's my dream bus, says Grayson. Let's find out. Everything feels just so meaty. Like, I love it. Wait, why would they ever put a TV in the tub? So that mom can come relax with a couple candles and some bubbles. While y'all are asleep. And a glass of, no, not wine anymore. A glass of tequila and a show while you're asleep. And then dad's got to deal with all the yelling. I like those shelves back there. No, no, no, no, no, no. And the cabinets are nice and big and deep, which is great. I love the fact that this thing's been baking out in the sun. And it's still like a good 70 degrees in here. It's, yeah, it's quite cool. Wow. Those steps don't move when you step on them. They don't. Look at that. Okay, test one. Let's see if all the Kramers fit at the table. That's why it's one of my number one concerns. Bless America. A TV at the table. Okay, so my big issue that I have right now. This is my biggest issue is that I have to leave Texas pretty much in May. And I cannot come back to Texas until like October because it's so hot. Because of the heat, yeah. And I cannot keep it cool enough. In the coach? In the coach. Your coach? It gets up to like 90. Yeah, so you need a better insulated coach. That's all right. I always tell customers this. There's a lot of things I can show you. There's a lot of things I can talk about. And I can say in chambers this and that. But it's construction. One way I can tell construction. We're right here by the highway. And we're going to do this with other products. So we'll close this door. Do you hear that highway? Okay. Again, these are whisper quiets. Okay. So instead of having that duct in the ceiling. Yeah. Like yours probably does. It's not beating yours up. No, no, no. I sold Charleston. Beat it up all day long. That's fine. Hi, Ezra. Hi. Did you find your bed? Yeah. Ezra's cleaning a bed. He's like, I'm not sleeping. You don't want to sleep on the floor anymore? I cleaned this. No floor for you? You want a bed with a window and a TV? No, I did not clean this bed. I cleaned that one. You like it or what? Tell me. Hi. That would be Ezra. Hi. You can't open this one. We've come to a couple conclusions. Like one, we don't like the dark interiors. I mean, I would have to gut it. You know that. I mean, just like shave all this terrible freaking 80s, whatever. Look, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There's some people that like love this beautiful. Mommy, there's a bed. Mommy, look. We're either going to have to paint it or we're going to have to find something with the light interiors. And two, we've kind of discovered that nothing is going to accommodate our family in the class A category. So there's going to have to be some manipulation, you know, with the layout inside. Yep. Here we go. The Medusa's head. Y'all ever been to Longhorn? Yeah, they have. My mom used to go all the time. Here we go. In, baby's in. Thank you. I am so freaking exhausted. I know. It's been a long week. It's so tiring. It's going to take us a while to get caught up. Yeah, I know. We're going to need to like go hide out in the mountains for like a month and not like do anything. I feel jet lagged. We just finished. What did we finish? I'm so tired. I can't even remember. We're at Longhorn. That's what we're at. We're eating dinner at Longhorn with the kids. We are about to eat dinner with the kids at Longhorn. But we're at Longhorn. We just finished doing a tour. I felt like it was a speed tour because we didn't have, you know, a ton of time. We got there about an hour and a half before they closed. But we got to see quite a few rigs and at least we're starting to narrow it down, I think. The hard part is I think that what we want doesn't exist. I'm looking for a unicorn. I don't know. I feel like I'm looking for a unicorn. Well, I think with Sarah, anything that we get is going to have to be customized to a degree. It's just finding the right one that we can customize to her liking. Wait, let me try it. What is that? Okay, I'll get you. I'm going to put some on a plate for you. Okay? I mean, I don't know where you're leaning on this at all because, you know, you don't like anything, but... It's not that I don't like anything. The problem is, like, they all require some type of conversion. And we have four kids. Like, a triple bunk was great when we only had three kids. Now we have four. We can't do a quad bunk. That's fine. At least our bedroom is free of kids at that point. What am I supposed to do? Nah. So, yeah. Technically this is my fault because while we were loading this up, we were like, okay, I was putting things away above the stove and I accidentally, apparently I leaned on the, I leaned on the stove and I turned on the gas and a few minutes later I started smelling something really foul and I was like, oh god, I thought, oh my gosh, there's a dead rat in here. But the smell kept getting worse. So I called Chad and I'm like, Chad, come out here, like there's something dead or something's wrong. And he came running out and I met him halfway and I'm like, there's something terribly wrong. It smells so bad. I think there's a dead rat in one of the cabinets. Like, I was opening the cabinets to put the stuff in and he walked in and he was like, Sarah, that's gas. You turn the gas on. I'm like, oops. So, last night when he went to take a shower, the propane had been completely drained. I did not mean to do that. Sorry about all that, Chad. So he had to take a cold shower and he was a little miffed about that trick. Anyway, so here we are at U-Haul filling up the propane because... What's that? I did not tell her why we're empty. This is empty. That's a big tank. I've been cruising for 20... I leaned against the stove while I was putting stuff away up top and apparently I let her rip and then I thought there was a dead rat in the cabinet. I couldn't place the smell. I didn't know the smell. And Chad walked in immediately. He was like, oh, yeah, you let the gas loose. Don't light a match. All right, load it back up. Thank you. Oh, there's a Freightliner right there. My goodness, I should have just gone over there. I'm sending out prayers. Oh, no. That sucks. I know all too well what broken down RVs feel like. Oh my gosh, there's a lot of RVs over there. Line them up. I got off the freight to get dinner for the kids and our drive off and the auto level buttons all started going crazy like a freaking Christmas tree. And so Chad stopped. He brought the, you know, tried to retract all. There was nothing to retract. Couldn't figure out what was going on. He stopped the bus, put him down, tried to take the feet back up. Still beeping like crazy. So it finally stopped randomly. He got out and went to go throw away a trash can and noticed there was a huge leak coming from the back of the bus. Mind you, we just got the whole overheating issue taken care of because we had a broken whatever was going on. Now we have a busted, I don't know. Now we have a busted hydraulic hose and we're not really sure why. But there's about 4,000 gallons of hydraulic river underneath the bus. It's all hydraulic fluid. All the way to the front of the bus. Hydraulic lines are busted. Like multiple hydraulic lines? They run through the frame. Careful because the hydraulic fluid is like dripping out from like all right here. Okay, I'll figure it out. How far can I drive it without fluid? Except for the leveling system. Right. Which means that it could technically drop. Like at any time? Right. Is that what happened? I used to love this bus. I honestly think this is all happening because I was so in love with this bus that I didn't want to get rid of this bus. Chad kept telling me it's time that we get a new bus. And I'm like, no, we've done so much customizing to this bus. I don't want to get rid of this bus. Like, more bad news. We fixed the two hydraulic lines that blew out and we blew another one whenever we went to test it out. So we're going to Freightliner to see if they can fix it. If not, we're going to Camping World. There is our hydraulic fluid. Looks like we murdered somebody down here. Oh my gosh. It's hard for me to open up and talk about things that are dressing me out or bothering me and talking to Sarah today. As a man, it's my job to provide. It's my job to be the strong one and essentially the security blanket for the rest of my family. When things like this happen, it's like one thing after another after another. It's hard not to feel like you're failing at your job as providing for your family. It's just starting to wear on us, especially me. We're setting out to do this adventure and to live this life. I feel like I'm letting everybody down. I feel like I'm adding more strain. Hopefully we can get things squared away. We can get back on the road and continue on soon and start to enjoy all these places that we're going to. I just hope that we're making all the right decisions and doing the best we can for our kids. It's tough to know what that is. We're about to head out to the City Museum in St. Louis, which I'm kind of excited about because we've been cat in the hat again for a couple days. We've had just about everything go wrong in the RV that could. Chad, I feel like, is taking all of this really hard because he feels like he keeps apologizing. It's his fault the RV keeps breaking down and I'm like, it's not your fault. The hydraulic lines burst. It's not your fault. It's overheating. It's not your fault. The actuator went out. It's not your fault. He just keeps saying, I'm so sorry. This is not the life I envisioned. I'm so sorry. This isn't how we were supposed to start our adventure. I'm so sorry. He is such a good dad. He's such a good husband and always goes along with my crazy ideas. He's internalizing a lot of this and letting it stress him out. I keep trying to remind him there's people that are in a lot worse situations than we are right now. We still have each other and we were so lucky where others weren't. In comparison, this is just, it's no big deal. We're going to go check out the St. Louis City Museum today and it's going to be great. Hey, what is that going on up here? It's like a powwow? Yes. Here's my new talent. Look how high we are. In the clouds. Do you see him? Yeah, I do. Awe. Dumbo. To the big, big truck. That is six foot four. That is a big truck. Whoa. Yeah, you like a big truck? What do you think about this big truck, Ezra? Wanna ride in it? Yeah. I know, I don't know who's the driver. It's a big one though, for sure. Where should we go? North? Let's take a vote. North? South? No, not south. I vote against south. North, east, or west? North. Grayson says north. North. Freya says north. Sloan says north. I wanna go ice skating. Might as well go north. We had big plans of exploring Wisconsin Dells. However, there is also apparently a bunch of fires in Canada right now causing quite a problem with the air quality. And because me and Freya both kind of have asthma, that's posing a problem for our outdoor activities. So, we are taking our lemons and making lemonade and we're headed to Minneapolis to check out the Ball of Americas. I'm extremely excited about this because we booked a hotel that has three bedrooms. That means all the kids get to peacefully sleep in their own room and we can listen to our TV really loud. That's what you do at night. There's a couch. Those of you that don't live in an RV full time, you will not understand how much having a separate room is a bonus. We have our own bed. So, we can watch TV. We can watch TV until late at night without disturbing everybody else. And this is where the kids get to sleep. Peacefully go to sleep. Anyways, we're here to check out the largest mall in America and I'm super excited because I love to shop. And he's super excited because apparently... The Lego store is the size of a hotel. Hotel Lego store. And Freya, why are you excited about the Mall of America? Because there's a giant rollercoaster. There's apparently a really big rollercoaster inside the mall. I don't know if there is or not. We're going to find out. Chad, are you excited? I'm about to spend all your money. Yay! Hey Grayson, your taxes are showing. Thank you. My turn. Oh, your Spidey powers? No. Oh gosh, that's a big smile. That's an expensive smile. In more ways than anybody knows. I see it. That's impressive. This place is nuts. Insane. Guys, seriously. I have thoughts. This far exceeds it. This is amazing. This is so funny. Freya, look, look, look. They didn't have big enough rooms? No. I think hotels should be required to have at least a certain number of rooms that fit larger families. There's our hotel. We are not lost. Yeah, we are. Our house is that way by the... Not lost. I might get hit by a car. We're not lost. That's not our truck. We are checking out Wisconsin Dells today. We left the other day because the air quality was so bad. There was fires in Canada making it literally miserable here. I made for some really cool sunsets but couldn't breathe to be outside to watch them. So we decided to check out the Mall of Americas and that was absolutely amazing. I spent a lot of money. Yes, you did. And the kids rode a lot of rides. And ate a lot of sugar. And I was exhausted. It was so fun though. It was a really good little side trip. But now we're really excited because we're back in the Dells and today we're going to go on some boat tours. So they have these really cool, what are they called? Duck boats? Duck boats. And they're old World War II amphibious vehicles. You start on land and then apparently they drive into the water and take you on a tour. Let's go see what the Dells has for us today. Let's do it. Just me, as I get older, I am more sensitive to the heat. When I was young, I didn't care. No, you rolled your windows down and you just drove, right? I didn't care if I sweat. I didn't feel itchy when my hair sweat and my skin feels all... Now it gets to 85 and I'm like, no, don't let them know. I remember when we used to celebrate 85 because in Texas, 85 is like a cool day in the summer. We drove as far north as we possibly could. I mean, we're in Wisconsin. I mean, no, there's still some more north to go. Well, okay. But we have a big surprise that we're going to pick up. We're going to take you back to Texas. In Texas. Gotta go back.