good morning everybody we have left Quartzsite Arizona just made a pit stop
here spent the night here overnight in Parker Arizona at the blue water casino
very welcoming to RVs and parked near us close to us is a 1999 coachmen mirada
it's got South Dakota plates yeah they've been making these Marauders for
a while lots and lots of people still camping in Arizona in April look at
these views out here with the mountains and palm trees and little ducks coming
out to see us in case you're wondering so yes the solar project is completely
wrapped up and last night it was really our first boondocking experience with
solar and I am happy to report I think I don't know if I'll ever run my generator
again for any needed use we ran the air conditioner for six hours and only
brought the batteries down to 98% yeah and this morning I brewed coffee and it
never left 100% infinite battery available actually I'm gonna make a
video here really soon and kind of talk about the entire solar finished product
just because I feel like that needs to get done after all this but you know
it's just been a lot of other stuff going on so we're gonna go up a little
bit farther north and enjoy more of this beautiful nature that is here in Arizona
right now and I will do my absolute best to stay out of California but yeah let's
see the water looks really inviting down there oh yeah we get we got to get back
on the road here soon so solar video wrap up coming soon guys
nice scenic little Drive and we got here to Lake Havasu City with the London
Bridge over there I've been here before so but I did finally get a chance to
film my my solar video here so that will be my next video when I get that updated
we got trapped in here which happens a lot to RVs but this place in particular
if you come to this little park here no matter what kind of vehicle you're in um
they want all the RVs to park in the gravel lot with one way in and one way
out only and it's that little driveway right there and we were sitting here and
I watched that big white f150 pull into the driveway and stop right behind that
other white try like literally pulled into the driveway and part and blocked
the dry the randomest thing yeah you kind of gotta know where your your exits
are in an RV because you can't drive over curbs and over branches and stuff
like that so we're gonna go look for some camping now and I'm gonna do some
editing Chelsea
look at this place we are just north of craggy wash which I heard some bad
stories about so we avoided that one and came out here to lone Hill lone Hill BLM
camping and again other 14-day max stay and I gotta be honest with you it's
pretty nice out here boondocking in nature this one has cell
phone reception where other people were saying cranky wash can be kind of spotty
now we're like four miles from the Verizon and AT&T tower so and still a
lot of people out here and guess what I'm boondocking in the Class A which for
some reason everybody says was never gonna happen not granted some of the
roads in here are not fantastic for driving any kind of an RV you just got
to be careful you got to be slow but it's keep surprising me how when I when
I got the Class A going from the Class C that most of my viewers are like well
kiss boondocking goodbye Erik's just gonna be at RV parks for now on I think
know what does eight feet longer and six inches taller have to do with unable to
boondock anymore as I love it I am loving I'm going to continue to love it
and in the RV right now we are surprisingly getting lots and lots of
solar I'm still at a hundred percent here kind of on an overcast hot and
muggy day here in Arizona and I know if you can hear it but I got my top AC fan
going throughout the RV with the windows open that seems to draw you know enough
am said it's just kind of unlimited whereas running the air conditioner even
on a bright sunny day I still feel like there's gonna be a limit whatever that
limit is you got ten hours before we got to turn it off or or whatever
now I'm really enjoying the whole boondocking aspect of it you know
Angela's still getting over the loss of her fur
baby and you know these things are things are tough
still on both of us but we got each other and we got jacks and well we got
the desert that could be worse we won't be in Arizona very long though when I
first pulled in pushed the automatic leveler buttons and to get us level it
actually raised the front tires some seven or eight inches off the ground and
I'm just not comfortable with that so when we pulled around I made it so that
the bottom half of the RV was on level and then what happened is it has the
front ones first and as you can see there actually popped back up so in
order to get level those just had to come up we're on the front two tires and
then the rear Jack's are down to get us level so that's probably better in a
Class A or any any RV that has Levellers if you have to be front to back on level
try to make it so that the back needs to be raised more than the front so that's
the way the jack the leveling system likes it yeah and we're boondocking with
with the slides out because it's comfortable and we're gonna be here a
couple nights no biggie I did pick up a $20.00 bicycle this blue
Schwinn back here so I need to get a new inner tube for the front the valve is
broken but with a rubber meet where the valve meets the rubber so I need to get
a new inner tube for that Angela needs and don't need a new one too but I don't
want to say water problem is solved but we didn't lose any water on this
particular trip up here and that's because I took some of the advice of
some people that we're saying just put shutoff valves and open and close as you
need it now do not do what I'm doing please because I'm not saying this is a
good idea but right now it's working so you can see one of the shut-off valves
that was just an easy cut an inch out and then put the sharkbite valve in
there and while we're traveling I'm keeping it closed so that we don't
lose the water and then when we park I have to come out here and I have to open
at least one of them I should I should probably open the other one on the other
side but I'll show you what happens when I open it because the tank is a little
compressed right now because it had no pressure so by doing this you hear it
gurgling it's bringing air into the tank because it was a little collapsed if I
ever forget to do that what's gonna happen as I go to try to turn on the
water pump but it's not gonna be able to pump fluidly correctly until you give it
some air to also suck through that line to fix the problem so it'll be pretty
obvious when I first forget but for right now until I've jerry-rigged this
system in the back with the loop up higher
this um this seems to be kind of working so thanks guys for that and yeah we got
our TVs that are not smart well we made the front one a temporary smart TV in a
sense by adding a chromecast to it so now we can stream Netflix on YouTube
from our phones although we are just kind of sitting on the couch
turning our heads like that right now so something something in that area will
change in the future obviously not a big huge concern of ours just yet you guys
will see Jax I want to show you Jax Jax man
hey buddy there you are hey yo little guy little tiny guy yeah oh you're gonna
roll around on the dusty rag alright buddy yeah right
ain't wrong either chillin alright man so gonna relax here and I'll check back
in later guys kind of a quiet peaceful time out here except for the occasional
semi truck out there we're about a half mile from the highway but other than
that it means ok you're right yeah that's nice
we've had worse and this is really only our second night with the solar and that
is working really well it's fun exciting night knocking hey
feelin I'm good I just I really want to say thank you to everyone who has given
us a lot of love and support over the last few days it really means a lot we
sincerely appreciate your kindness no we do I do we're gonna relax a little bit
more and then probably be heading north here soon so we'll be back with you soon
guys think tight ok
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