Good afternoon guys, from Nova Scotia Canada! We are a little South of a town
called Walton on a little beach spot that we found on iOverlander.
Today's video is just gonna be a little bit of a discussion about: "How necessary
is it to have four-wheel drive when your RVing?" And to us, obviously we bought the
expedition truck. It was pretty important but it's not needed! But there's a lot of
factors to consider and it's very personal!
The first thing to think about are your intentions. When you go RVing, do you like
to go to the ski resorts in Colorado and never want to be hindered or limited by
the weather or the roads you might encounter? Or do you plan on parking your
rig in some beautiful location where it's warm and sunny all the time and
staying in one place for the year? It's something that you have to think about
and decide this is the way I want to spend my time in the RV and so I do or
don't need these specific capabilities. It's just like choosing things that are
on the inside of your rig! Do you like to watch television? Do you need three TVs
or would one do you just fine?..... So I also want you to think about it as an
insurance policy for those what ifs and just in case! And here is a perfect
example! We pull down to this little area here, we come to swing into our spot and we don't even like get down to the beach.But we are just on this middle section.
We started digging our tires in. So simple enough, lock the hubs, push the
button, four-wheel drive, we got ourselves unstuck! And that right there is valuable!
Even though four-wheel drive does come at a price! You know, it's gonna mean a
little more expensive vehicle. I guess you could consider it also more that
could potentially break. It will also hinder your fuel economy, so I personally,
we really like having four-wheel drive now as an insurance policy!.... Another
factor that played a role for us in choosing four-wheel-drive is that
sometimes we play the role of Snowbird. Maybe you do to!
We still maintain a home in Alaska. Sometimes we like to go home for summers,
sometimes we don't like to leave by the end of September to get to the lower 48.
Or maybe we want to come home before the end of April and in a regular RV we were
never able to do that! We were locked into a certain date and time frame for
departure and return. If you still maintain a home somewhere in the north
where it's cold and wintry, then it just opens your options. Maybe you want to
stay home for the holidays and then in January leave and go somewhere warm and
sunny for a few months. If you have four-wheel drive you don't have to worry
about what the road conditions are like!... Four-wheel drive and RVing comes in
many different forms.Probably one of the easier, more common ones would be a
four-wheel drive pickup truck towing a fifth wheel or a bumper pull trailer. But
you can also, you know if you want to have a little bit more of an adventure
sight, take advantage of a slide in camper! Those Lance, Bigfoot, they're very
four season, winter capable. And some of them even have like three slides down and
you know have a heck of a lot of real estate! So.... A full-size, you know one-ton
truck, with four wheel drive and a sliding campers is a very good option!
Sprinter vans, they have four-wheel drive as well....ahhh...Like way back in the 90s, the
Ford Econoline was a very popular choice for sports mobile and they would add
and have like a four-wheel-drive conversion for those! I do know that that
same conversion for like a sports mobile van could also be done on a lot of Class
C Motorhomes. Now whether it's worth spending the money on the conversion to
you know fix up a Class C Motorhome, that's all up in the air! I do know that
a Freightliner, if you go like to a big Super steel. There are some companies out
there that will do that as well. But we opted for the Mitsubishi Fuso chassis
and it's been great for us!.... Hopefully this helps you in your decision making
process. We've given you a little bit of food for thought and of course this will
probably cause you to think of other things you hadn't thought of before.....
I just kind of thought of one more.... How much do you like humans?... Huh!
Me personally, I don't know if I like humans all that much even though I am
one!...Select few....And yeah!... But four-wheel drive gives us the option of getting further away
from humans and getting you know, a little bit more at one with nature while
we're over landing in this vehicle!..... Mm-hmm..... Well if you haven't already, be
sure to hit that SUBSCRIBE button because in the next few videos, we are
going to make our way around Nova Scotia!...And it will be fun!...It will be! We're having a great time here. If you
haven't been to the Maritimes before, this is absolutely a must on your bucket
list!.... Yeah! It's a lot different than the East Coast..... It really is! And we've talked
about the fact that...Obviously it's Canada...Yeah, well yeah!...Okay... But some of these
places weren't really even on our radar prior to coming here and
we've enjoyed it immensely!... And the free camping opportunities like this
one here! So.... Alright guys, that's a wrap! Hit that SUBSCRIBE button, we'll see you
on the next video. Bye....Bye!