Okay, your job in this video is to try not to laugh.
And if you've seen some of our previous videos, you know that is not going to be easy at all.
So we're feeling a little bit sentimental.
In the next couple of weeks, our life as a family of two living in the Airstream is going
to come to an end, and we're basically going back to the beginning of now having to figure
out how to live RV life as a family of three.
Coming soon.
But as we've been reminiscing, we've been having such a blast laughing at ourselves
about all the last year and a half has brung, so we figured y'all should get to enjoy that,
too.
This crazy wind reminds me of something particular that we've experienced.
So here are some of our favorite moments from our crazy cross-country adventure over the
last year and a half in the Airstream.
Again, just try not to laugh.
Good luck.
It's not exactly simple.
We're in trouble.
Backed into the spot.
Now we just need to get it unhitched from the truck, and I'm sure we missed one of the
500 steps.
[inaudible 00:01:42].
So in all honesty, I have absolutely no idea what's happening right now, but we've moved
the Airstream to where we're going to park it and pack it.
But now that we've done that, we can't get it off the hitch.
That's all I got.
It gets very technical from there, something about power and connectivity, and I have no
idea, but Daniel is on the phone with the Airstream team and they're awesome, so they
are going to help us figure it out.
If you ever heard of a three-point turn, mine was probably a 300-point turn.
Just watch this inside.
They got you on that side.
You want to get it...
Once you [inaudible 00:02:15]...
Okay, sorry.
Move this back end around once you've cleared it.
Pull forward a little bit.
Good.
[inaudible 00:02:24].
Keep going.
Hang on.
There's a tree back there, man.
[inaudible 00:02:28].
Okay, wait a second, Daniel.
Did you get it parked into position?
I got it partially.
Yeah, you got to turn the wheel the other way.
You got to [inaudible 00:02:41].
You're good.
You're on the path.
Just watch your [inaudible 00:02:43].
Okay, so on the maybe 30th attempt I got it part of the way in, and then some guy offered
to just do it.
And I started two hours ago.
Technically you didn't actually complete your first parking [inaudible 00:02:57].
If this were basketball, I would call it an assist, which is so valuable.
Daniel let me know that apparently I'd used the gray water tank to about 75%.
He's not happy about this because what that means is for the first time ever, he has to
empty the tanks.
Well, so one of us decided to take an hour long shower, and what that means is that all
the tanks fill up.
So I was putting this off until I could get some rubber gloves, but I've just got these
kind of like squishy gloves for some of the other things.
But unfortunately I can't wait to get the rubber gloves because literally the tanks
are filled.
I'm not going to call anybody out on that, but it's not me.
So process of elimination, I'll let you use your imagination.
So here we are with this rubber shit hose, and there's something here.
I don't really remember all the instructions.
I just remember there's a cap and hopefully it doesn't explode in my face because that
will be a bad day.
Okay.
This should go...
This is not fun.
Let's just pretend that's [inaudible 00:04:31].
Put that here to hold it for now.
Okay.
On a scale of one to 10, how confident are you feeling like this is going to work?
I feel like it's a 50/50 shot at this point.
Well, that's this tank flush.
I think I need another hose.
But there's only one spigot, though.
So what do I do if there's only one spigot and I need to run a second hose?This hose
and then connect...
So I disconnected the fresh water hose from the main line, the spigot, and then I connected
this black tank hose.
My assumption is that there's a valve there to release the [inaudible 00:05:16] ends.
So I'm assuming when I turn on the water, I can open the valves and it should start
to flush everything through that red pipe down there.
We got to meet Fiona, the world's most famous preemie hippo.
And please excuse the squealing because I honestly love her more than I could cope with.
Hi.
Hi, sweetheart.
I know.
You wish I-
[inaudible 00:05:42].
Most people all wonder how come they get to be [inaudible 00:05:44].
Hi.
Oh my goodness.
Hi, sweetheart.
You getting a good...
Get a picture.
There you go.
Oh my God.
Oh my goodness.
Get a picture of Lauren with [inaudible 00:05:53].
Put your hand on her.
So this is Fiona, and she is the most famous hippo maybe in the world.
And obviously she's crazy cute.
But when she was born, she was a preemie.
And now, as you can see thanks to the Cincinnati Zoo, she's doing wonderful.
Hello.
Oh!
She did like you, though.
Normally without food she [inaudible 00:06:26].
Wow, that is amazing.
I like you a lot, too.
And this is her mom, Bibi.
They're hungry and they think that we should feed them, but we didn't do a good job in
bringing them snacks.
We just [inaudible 00:06:36] on a really cool and crazy about alpacas.
I already knew that their poop came out like pellets, but what's even weirder is that it
doesn't smell like anything.
They've got one of the best digestive systems in the entire animal kingdom.
And yes, I'm touching poop.
Can you smell that one more time?
I just got to get that on camera.
Oh wait, hold on.
It wasn't recording.
Do that one more time.
Wait, hold on.
I got to [inaudible 00:07:00].
I know you're messing with me.
Oh my gosh, you're so cute.
She's so pretty.
They don't like to have their heads touched, but they're okay with their necks.
Hello.
Is that yummy?
She's so soft.
See, they're vegetarians, too.
You're vegetarian, too.
I get it.
[inaudible 00:07:55].
First things first.
Oh!
No, [inaudible 00:07:57] the camera.
You're not doing that.
[inaudible 00:07:58].
[inaudible 00:07:58] some good footage.
I mean, that's [inaudible 00:08:03].
Oh, oh.
That part not so much.
Excuse me, this belongs to me.
For years I have been challenging Lauren to do something called the One Chip Challenge.
I don't know if you seen me spit, but...
I mean, my mouth feels like a dragon-
Oh, boy.
... for sure.
You okay?
Yeah.
I can feel my ears ringing right now.
This might be my favorite challenge we've ever done.
I'm sorry, I got to put some like...
My hat is my...
I feel like my hair follicles...
like my hair follicles are sweating.
I'm not going to drink or anything but, oh, that feels so good.
It was my hat.
My hat was too hot.
If you're just tuning in I'm about 30 minutes into this challenge and crushing it.
Crushing it.
I think you are, at least, past the 10 minute point.
Yeah.
I was going long periods of time about swallowing, because when you swallow you also taste the
heat.
If you're watching this, you're probably like-
Team Lauren.
... that guy cannot handle hot anything.
He should just go back to salt and pepper, and I would have to agree with you.
Not at all what we expected from this trip.
I'm going to give you a little taste of what it feels like outside.
I'm going to put on a mask because there are a lot of dust particles in the air and I want
to take care of my lungs.
It's so windy out here.
Well that is not fun.
So, what are you going to do?
Honestly, I'm thinking that today is a good day to kick up the...
Because it's vegan and Oreo.
What?
That's good.
It tastes just like a regular Oreo.
Awesome.
Way above average Oreo donut.
We are off to the next donut trail.
Daniel's trying to run, but his knees are killing him.
Amazing.
That's not true.
A little stiff.
We're having a moment because Daniel's feeling a little bit like he might get sick.
Oh, boy.
You okay?
Oh, I don't know what to...
Donuts and marathons don't go together.
I feel like I'm going to puke.
I just got a notification from the London Marathon that we are mile 22.
Okay, this stopped being a marathon a long time ago when we were going off-road, and
getting lost and having to use navigation.
This is officially [inaudible 00:11:59] race.
[inaudible 00:12:02].
Welcome to our a tour of Hoover Dam.
I still can't believe we just drove over this thing with our Airstream.
It's a "dam" good time.
Since we're finally headed to California this morning, we figured we'd bring you along for
a "dam" good time.
Super, super excited.
I'm "dam" excited.
I'm not going to lie.
I'm a little bit nervous.
I watched another YouTube video of somebody else going over the dam with their RV and
it looked kind of tight.
We're about to take a "dam" walk.
And that's mostly because we can't take the "dam" tour.
Sadly, thanks to COVID, it's been closed for a really long time, but thankfully you can
still walk around and check out a lot of the different spaces here, so we figure it's a
great way to make this a travel day.
And not to mention there's some pretty "dam" good deals around here.
Get used to it, y'all.
So what'd you think of the dam?
I thought it was pretty "dam" cool.
How about you?
It's humongous.
It's really hard to capture how big this thing is, and I think that's the part that I'm in
the most awe of.
If you watched our winter prepping video, you know that it's very important to get the
water out of these hoses.
And since we're in Texas, there are varying techniques.
I'm going to show you my latest technique for emptying the water from these hoses.
You ready?
Like I've said many other videos, we can show you how not to do things.
If you want the proper techniques, you probably need to go to places like Airstream.com.
You're not going to get that from us, but it still works.
There's no water in the hose, so it's worth something, right?
He was not a bartender in another life, obviously, y'all.
Right.
This has been a project that has been approximately six months in the making, turning this amazing
mane into something spectacular.
Do you get a lot of requests for mullets?
Not really.
No?
So I'm going with some inspiration here from the good old Googles.
Mr. Craig Engels here rocking the amazing do.
It's officially awesome, that's what it is.
Race Day.
It's official, wave number five is up and moving.
Honestly, the energy here is electric.
You can feel it, and it motivates you to put your best effort forth, because people here
everywhere are cheering for you.
It feels amazing.
I mean, I don't know if you can tell how tall it is in video, but it's really tall.
Now because this particular tiny home is stationary, they've built a deck around the exterior with
this umbrella, same umbrella that just tried to kill us.
Got it from Morocco.
All right, let's check out the interior.
Boom, you walk in, you've got this nice seating area.
And the first thing you'll notice when you walk into a tiny home is, again, how tall
the ceilings are.
They are really, really tall.
I'm not going to lie, it is still cold AF, and what better to warm the soul than some
hot soup, and that's what Lauren and I are going to make right now.
The thing about living on the road is that even though we have our very famous black
beans soup recipe, we're going to have to work with the ingredients that we have left
in the camper, which is always a crap shoot, so we are literally just making up this soup
as we go.
I guess you could say it's like everything but the kitchen sink, because we're just going
to add some random ingredients and it is what it is.
I'm sure it'll still be good.
Got some chili powder in there, got some cumin.
I'm going to grab my measuring spoon, which is my finger right now.
That looks about...
Oh, that's great.
There we go.
As I learned from the Dalai Lama, one of his famous quotes is cook with reckless abandon,
and that is exactly what I'm doing right now.
If you buy any ingredient for the road, buy this, Maldon Sea Salt.
It's like a flaky salt, but it adds the most amazing flavor.
It's good on everything from salads to soups.
So good.
Lauren and I like it a little bit spicy, so I'll just add a dash of this.
Perfect.
You know that's going to work better if you actually [inaudible 00:17:23].
Yep.
Holy crap, that scared me.
Okay, ready?
Ready?
You have to hold it in.
There we go.
I know.
It caught me off guard.
I was holding the gas down way too long before I actually ignited it.
Don't do that, that's [inaudible 00:17:50].
There you have it folks, our favorite experiences and crazy happenings from the last year and
a half of travel in the Airstream.
Of course there's going to be more fun to come, especially with Baby Wander making their
appearance in the next couple weeks.
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