so we're at the Jack Sizemore RV museum and this is an Amarillo Texas
it was a place we wanted to check out because if you've seen the movie RV
supposedly they have the gornike bus inside so let's go check it out
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so what did you like about this place? Um it's actually kind of silly because come
here if he saw the movie RV and that lady was turning down the window was it that
window or that window you're correct it was this window
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mom can I have a dime
so probably one of my favorite pieces they have here is this
Airstream Argosy or it was just Argosy but it was made by airstream this
particular one was from 1976 so you can know how old that was they repainted it
but other than that everything on the inside is original so it's very cool so
this was definitely a fun place to visit I am definitely glad that we stopped
here a couple of things that you need to know if you're interested in coming here
during your journeys one there is none RV parking we had to park about a
block and a half away on the other side of the block and then walk around
because there's nowhere to park our RV if you're driving a just a vehicle or your
tow vehicle you'll be fine but if you're driving your rig there's none RV
parking here the other thing is is that we're here just during the week not on a
weekend it's not busy at all I don't know how it would be on a weekend I
imagine probably busier but during the week seems to be a great time to hit
this up and not have any crowds hey honey you ready to hit the road you feel
like a graffiti artist... I am...
in the history of Cadillac Ranch this was put together by some people from
California that were part of the arts community and wanted to put together
some sort of display of art that was just really kind of off the cuff so this
is what they did however they were funded by a silent partner who was a
billionaire that was a local billionaire in the Amarillo area so he was kind of a
silent partner in the whole deal to put this together
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a couple of things to know when we were out here they probably had rain super super
muddy so there's really only one car that you could get to the even paint
which you know was fun but super fun we actually didn't even bring our own
painting we just found paint in a dumpster so plenty of paint in it in
fact there's plenty of pain in this can I'm just gonna go put it back into town
surfer to the next person that wants to go tag atop a huge stick and under sixty
minutes and if you don't eat it you have get paid $70 dollars per out finally
conviction to come to the United States and his thing was okay we got to go to
Texas you're going to Vegas in an RV okay from South Carolina and I wanted to
show him as much of the United States as possible and here's one thing he wanted
to do was come to the Big Texan I eat one meal a day as part of my diet
basically so these meals can be pretty big so you like you a lot so wants to
try this
a few tips if you're going to eat at the Big Texan in Amarillo Texas don't let
them see you at the table right in front of the stage I got a very nice view of
butts all night long the other thing is it is an experience meaning plan for two
hours if you plan on coming here for dinner getting in getting out it's not
gonna happen it is an experience in and of itself it's not a quick turnaround on
the food it's more about the experience and the ambience and just having fun so
make sure that you've got a couple of hours that you've got to be able to come
enjoy a dinner and then the last thing is if you can have seating upstairs
you'll have a much better view than if you're sitting downstairs so you're in
Amarillo make sure you eat at the big Texas okay one thing I need to say
something did you know there's a live snake in the gift shop a live
rattlesnake yeah we're gonna go downtown to the reunion tower and we're gonna
head up to the observation deck yes to a 360 of downtown Dallas
definitely a lot of fun definitely windier than I thought in
next time if I come again I will bring a jacket a little bit chilly and a tank
top weather cooled off quite a bit when they
were class so today I'm super excited we are going to finally get some windows
repaired on our motorhome when we bought the Motorhome the majority of the
windows had like a fog in between the glass panes which just made it very hard
to see but probably the worst was the driver's window which actually was more
of a safety issue not being able to see out of that window when going to make a
turn so we did some research to replace these windows are pretty expensive they
can run up to about 900 dollars a piece but we found a company here in the
Dallas area that will actually separate the window glass clean up that fog
reseal it so we don't have the same problem and put it back together and
they do it for a much much lower cost than it would cost to have all of the
windows replaced so super excited to be able to be in the area so we can take
advantage of their service why we're here and then get back on the road in a
couple of days and the process basically what we do is that we take the entire
frame out of the RV we take all of the windows out the glass out of the frames
and then we clean and treat them and then we seal them just like the
manufacturers do but then on top of that we put a 700 degree seal and that holds
out anything that's going to get it back into that glass then our guys put
everything back into it put all of the valances and pretty things up and you're
on your roads just clean and look like brand new so sometimes they're calcified
if that happens we can also get glass or if you break your glass so awesome yep
and we're family on an operator been in business for 45 years ya know take
everything out then we take it back into our room we have a moisture controlled
room of course that's what we're trying to get rid of so take it back there we
disassembled everything completely then we we have a couple different techniques
we use to clean the windows sometimes it's really easy sometimes you're gonna
spend a lot but like this window right here you got
two sides so it's one two three four actually no these are singles so one two
three four so we take everything apart clean it put two seals back on it
including the another really hot seal on the outside which no burns today that's
cool and then put everything back together throw it back in doesn't take
that long okay but it all depends on the glass you want to get it'd be like right
here is good but if you allow them to get any worse once they start getting
their calcification on them yeah that's whenever you get to the point where
sometimes it doesn't cleaning away okay it's it's better to do before it happens
because we can always order new glass but then that's ten days or so right
yeah so but I mean we do it all the time but it's pretty much just up to you guys
I know that time is always of the of the essence there we just arrived at Great
Wolf Lodge and I just parked the Jeep kids are super excited to go swimming
we're getting the RV repaired we can't stay in it cuz it's gonna have all the
windows out and we just can't be in it so we decided we would put a couple of
nights here at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine Texas and hang out here for a
few days and have some fun
we are up at the hotel room and we are gonna go get a bite to eat for breakfast
and so I've heard the food around here isn't the best so we'll see we'll let
you know let you know what we think huh but charity's gonna hang out at the
hotel or Starbucks and get a little bit work done and my day to work the one
thing that you learn really fast owning your own businesses and also traveling
or even just when kids are out of school in the summer even if we weren't
traveling it's it really just pays off to switch off so yesterday was my day to
go play and today it's gonna be fencing to go play so I can get some stuff done
so a few final thoughts we are checking out of the Great Wolf Lodge today and a
camper rig so a few things that if you want to stay here I want to make you
aware of number one the food is good but it's super expensive it's also very easy
to rack up a huge bill because they give you a little wristband where you just
charge anything that you want to purchase on the property to your room so
it's very easy to have a really large bill that you just started thinking
about because it's just so easy to make a purchase so kudos to Great Wolf for
taking the friction out of the buying process however it can get really
expensive really fast so a few things that we did to save some money and make
our experience here a great one but not an overly expensive one one is we had
one breakfast that they gave us as part of our stay so we utilize that other
than that there is a microwave and a mini-fridge in the rooms so we just went
to the grocery store got some food to put in the fridge utilize the microwave
for things like easy max for the kids also we made our own breakfast we used a
little egg cooker that I got on Amazon and we'll put the link to that below
this video so and then I picked up an $8 toaster at Walmart again an $8 toaster
even though we're not bringing it with us saved us a ton of money in breakfasts
so we just did a bagel egg and ham sandwich so I use the egg cooker to cook
an egg in the microwave and then put that on a bagel with a piece of round
breakfast ham in toast of the bagel in the toaster so it made a very quick
simple breakfast very inexpensive that way and very filling so it basically
helped us last throughout the day there are other restaurants in the areas such
as chick-fil-a other options so we grabbed a few meals of some of those to
save on some money instead of eating here at the lodge so overall we had a
great experience here and we loved it but we're definitely
ready to get back on that it's really fun I really enjoyed this day here but
when you think there's corn dogs at breakfast
it is not born dogs it's pancakes wraparound sausage all I know is that it
was real it was fun but it's time to get out of Texas