H: Shane?
S: Over here
S: Haha! H: [laughs]
S: Hello, Shane Burcaw here H: Oh boy
S: And I am not in my new wheelchair yet
We've gotten lots of messages saying "What happened to the new chair?"
"Is the new chair not gonna be a thing?"
"Did you really lie about your new wheelchair?"
H: Oh boy, you're a liar
S: It's not ready for me yet, my butt goes numb, there's issues with the joystick positioning
And we don't have time to get all the appointments
Cause I have to make an appointment with a specialist for each of those issues
And that's assuming...
H: That's a months long process S: Yeah, I called to make an appointment
And they were booked weeks out, so we're leaving for LA today, right now
H: Right now S: Right now
H: We are packed, we are ready S: We are not bringing the new wheelchair
So in all of our LA videos, you will not see the new wheelchair
H: Yeah S: We're working on it
Oh, the other thing is that every time I have to make an appointment
To fix an issue, I get billed like a thousand dollars
H: Uh huh S: That's not a joke or exaggeration
H: Nope, literally a thousands dollars
S: So I just don't feel particularly in a rush to do that
H: Yeah, you're not excited to spend thousands and thousands more dollars?
S: No
H: How much did this cost again? I don't think we ever talked about that
S: $120,000 H: Uh huh
S: Thankfully I only had to pay out of pocket 5 and a half, 6?
H: Thousand S: Thousand, yeah
S: Which was, you know, annoying, but yeah, there's issues
And I know they're gonna be very difficult to solve
H: Yeah, and you already tried to solve the butt problem and it didn't work
S: Yeah (laughs)
S: It's gonna be multiple appointments H: We're a little bit at a loss
H: It is not a choice that Shane is making to ignore the new chair
He really wishes he was using it
S: That's what happened, that's why I'm not bringing it to LA
S: Okay, we're now late H: We're so late
S: Alright, let's leave
(intro song) Hello, hello, welcome to the show, welcome to the show
Welcome to the show, it's time to talk about our lives (Chloe bark)
S: Chloe's raised up thing or no? H: No, a different one
S: Oh, alright H: You excited Chloe?
H: Oh boy, so this is our pile and somehow we're supposed to get all of it
H: Into the car
S: Oh, and a refrigerator (laughs) H: Yeah, the fridge isn't here yet
H: It's still plugged in
S: Oh man H: Good luck
G: (laughs) S: Oh no, it's not gonna fit
H: What do we do, Chloe?
S: Well, we got everything to fit
H: Uh huh S: Just barely
H: It's hard to see cause it's just kind of a pile, it actually looks pretty good
S: There's stuff down in front of me here H: I mean, Shane can't move
S: There's a lot in the back H: And Chloe's ready for her roadtrip
H: She's laying down, she's like "let's go"
S: You know, after this experience, I would vote that we just drive straight through
S: And don't stop five times on the way
H: I know, it is Thursday right now, we are not supposed to arrive
Until Friday of next week
S: Which means a lot of unpacking and repacking the van
H: I know, yeah, horrible S: (laughs)
H: And we're leaving a day early because there's a huge snowstorm
Which we're still gonna hit a little bit of, it's just this trip, I don't know
S: It's never just a smooth easy exit H: Never simple, yeah
H: But we'll see S: Part of the fun
H: Off we go, our first drive is 7 hours
As we're leaving it is 1.20 so we will not arrive until probably 9
S: Don't say that, I didn't want my mom to hear that
H: (laughs) Your poor mom's like, "You left at 1?"
(soft guitar and singing)
H: We're at our first Airbnb S: We made it
H: We made it and it is so nice S: So cute
H: It's so cute, it's an old school house built in like the 1860s or 70s
S: Hannah learned a lot
H: There's a book here that this school house is mentioned in, I just read all about it
It was rebuilt two times so I need to reread the chapter before I'm clear on the history
S: It involves someone riding a cow
H: We can tell you that story in the morning, and we'll do a tour
But it's super dark now, what time is it? Like nine? Nine thirty?
S: Nine thirty H: So we're just gonna go to bed soon
H: And then we'll do a tour in the morning, it is really really pretty and cool
S: Yeah, we had a fantastic little dinner H: Yes we did
H: We brought our food from home this time, I had a tuna fish sandwich
And Shane had a microwaveable cup of rice, it was really good
S: It had garlic and olive oil H: Yeah, with the rice
S: It was surprisingly good H: It was really good
S: Anyway, yeah, now we're hanging out, getting ready for bed
H: Chloe's wandering around, Chloe doesn't like the glass doors
But otherwise she's having a good time
(soft guitar and singing)
H: Good morning
S: Good morning H: Oh my god
S: We had our heat off overnight, or turned down
H: Yeah S: Cause we like to sleep in the cold
S: And it was really cold when we got up, so I'm warming up
H: Uh huh, why somebody's wrapped in his blankie
H: And under here is a heating pad that we brought
H: That's how you know both of us are always cold
S: This is why we're going to a warm weather location
H: (laughing) Literally S: Can't handle cold
H: Nope S: Glad that we bought a house in Minnesota
H: I know, I know
(guitar music)
S: Welcome to Airbnb number one, Kansas City edition
Today we'll be bringing you on a tour of where we've been staying
For the last...
H: Twelve hours S: Twelve hours
H: Like we said, this is an old schoolhouse that was restored
So we were really surprised that it was as accessible as it is
There is a step to get in the front door but it's a small step
And we have a one step ramp, so it worked perfectly for us
The inside is pretty spacious, the owner was really accommodating
She moved some things around to make it more spacious
S: Alright, let's begin the tour H: What do you think, Chloe?
Chloe's gonna start by warning you about the creepy car parked outside
It's actually our car but she doesn't remember that
(gentle instrumental music)
H: Any thoughts on the kitchen, Shane?
S: The owner left us cookies H: Yep
S: That were delicious H: Yes, so good
S: There's something so special about an Airbnb that pays attention
To the little touches like that, like they have 90 different kinds of tea
H: Yeah S: We should show them
S: And all the things you would expect if this was your home
H: Yep S: And a tea maker
That's a big deal for you
H: Yeah, there's very rarely a designated tea water boiler
Which is just so much easier than a pot, you can just pour it into the cup
I love it
S: And they often expect you to use the coffee Keurig
H: Oh yeah, that tastes like coffee
H: Every hotel is like "you can just use this pot in the coffee maker" like oh my god
H: It's horrible
S: "Oh, the one that coffee's been run through ninety times in the last week?"
H: (laughs) Yep
H: There's Chloe's food bowls, that's her most important part of the tour
And here's the living room, this place is so bright and airy with so many windows
S: I know, it's so cool
H: And outside here, you can kind of see right there ish
There is a mowed path that goes all around
And it's a really pretty nature trail, so we walked that this morning
(music)
H: Here's the bedroom
(instrumental music)
H: And the bathroom
H: And there's little historical information things and photos all around about..
S: Tell them about the cow, tell them about the cow
H: (laughs) How about I just read the passage from the book so I don't mess it up?
S: I'd like if you do it from memory H: No, it's a good passage
H: Okay S: I do not think you're supposed to sit in that
H: Why? I think it's fine
H: Welcome, I'm Miss Hannah S: Oh, I'm into this
H: I am going to read to you a small passage about Yarnold District number 40
S: What book is that?
H: The school is believed to have its origin in a log cabin erected in 1864
S: Oh, is it Harry Potter? H: No
H: Rural schools and schoolhouses of Douglas County Kansas by Goldie Piper Daniels
S: Aw
H: And this book is so old it does not have a publication page or anything
H: I don't know when it was published
H: Here we go, okay, so Thomas Yarnold came from England with his wife in 1857
And built a stone house of six rooms a short distance east of the school site
So over there
His daughter Anna was born here, and when the little girl was old enough to attend school
She sometimes rode to school on a cow
Which when released dutifully returned alone to home pastures
S: That sounds so fake H: Yep
She would just hop off her cow and it would go home
S: I didn't know you could ride cows H: I guess you can ride anything
S: You're probably not supposed to H: Anything that's big enough...
H: I mean she was like five S: True
H: A small child can probably ride a cow pretty easily
S: I could probably ride Chloe
H: And then it just talks about... like in 1898 Ella Stone at a salary of $30 per month
Taught the 26 pupils
S: Wow H: I know
H: And they had a debate team here, they held different debates
One was that the United States should aid the 2 republics in South Africa
In their struggle for freedom
But then the next week it was that the cow is more useful than the horse
S: Especially if you ride it H: So there were fun ones
H: And for that one, it was so not important
That they let two women participate in the debate
S: Aw, geez
H: Not in the important one, but in the cow one
There were two women who were allowed, so
S: Oh, everyone, history, lovely H: History
H: I love stuff like that though, I didn't realize I was so excited
H: That this school is in this book S: Alright, time for your lessons
H: I should get out of the little mini school desk, it's kinda small
S: So we're actually hanging out in this apartment or house
S: Sorry, school house H: (laughs)
S: All day today, because we had to come a day early to get ahead of the snow storm
But we can't move on yet because the Airbnbs along the way
Are all booked for very specific days
H: Uh huh S: Did you understand?
H: Yeah S: So we have to stay on schedule
S: There's a snowstorm coming here tonight
That might complicate getting out and on our way to Oklahoma tomorrow
H: But we're gonna risk it because otherwise we have nowhere to go in Oklahoma
S: Yeah, we could leave today but then we'd be in Oklahoma a day early
H: With nowhere to go
S: And we can't get that Airbnb, it's a whole big deal
So we'd end up being in a hotel in Oklahoma for a night
And then moving to the Airbnb, it would just be annoying
H: Such a pain
S: But it might be more of a pain if we get so much snow that we're stranded here
H: Yep S: So we have enough flares
H: (laughs) S: We'll send one up if we need assistance
And hopefully one of you... H: One of you in Kansas, yeah
S: Lives in Kansas and might be on the lookout
If you see a flare, that's us in the schoolhouse without food
H: (laughs) Oh my god S: Like we're out of food at that point
H: We brought so much food
S: Yeah, we do, we have enough food for like two weeks
H: Yeah, we're good, no flares
S: I don't know if there's other people coming to stay here
H: Probably S: But we're friendly, we'll share the bed
S: So we'll keep you updated on how all that goes
S: We're filming this whole trip so come along with us
Struggle through the snow
H: Oh wow S: The scheduling
H: (laughs) S: Alright bye