hey there welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of unique homes and showcase stories
of people living alternatively in today's video we're gonna meet a family of four that have chosen
to live full time inside of their jeep and while that may not sound like a very glamorous lifestyle
trust me by the end of this video you're gonna think that this is the ultimate camping
setup well thought out doesn't even begin to explain this diy over landing glamper they have
everything from a kitchen bathroom and bedroom all packed neatly into a vehicle trailer combo
that has the ability to go anywhere i'm pretty sure this full-time nomadic family
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hi we're stringless theory and we're excited to show you our mobile tree house
we started out going on weekends to national forest state parks where we could do dispersed
camping that was kind of our evolution was a lot of short camping trips once we had kids we
saw how much they loved the freedom of being in the outdoors so we started thinking about how
can we do that more and more in places where we had cell phone service i would work online
from the campsite and those turned from weekend trips to week-long trips to month-long trips
and we realized we were happier in our jeep on the road than we were in the house stepping into
a nomadic lifestyle where we can go anywhere at any time it just felt very natural for us
we spent about four months rebuilding the jeep the jeep was about thirty thousand dollars
we added another fifteen thousand dollars to turn it into an rv
the trailer all in built was about eight thousand dollars
it was a diy project we built everything we could ourselves and we had an awesome time building it
i had this dream always of going on a major vehicle-based expedition we discovered the
transamerica trail it outlines a network of dirt roads that goes coast to coast through the deep
parts of the national forest it's an adventure and sometimes it's scary you get stranded someplace
you have to figure out how to get out on your own that's part of the adventure that's part of the
learning experience we make sure that the kids are part of that they help us fix the jeep with
supervision and they're really proud of it the things that they learn so much of it just problem
solving and being out of their comfort zone as a parent it's a little scary you don't ever want
your child to be cold or hungry or tired when all of a sudden you find yourself in those situations
you realize that you have the ability to problem-solve through it and you actually
feel gratified that you were able to come out of it i remember and realized the
growth on that is occurring because we are faced with our triggers and our challenges
we are meeting those triggers head-on the kids have really increased their confidence
in themselves and just felt accomplished in the things that they've made it through
welcome to our home this is spirit and our trailer's opportunity
we name these after the mars rovers that inspired the world with their ability to explore
and discover over very long periods of time total length in our build is about 25 feet the jeep is
about 6 500 pounds and the trailer is 1500 pounds and we run 35-inch tires on the jeep this gives
us an ability to be light and agile and get to places that most full-time rigs can't get to
and we love it one of our major goals was to have a lot of storage and be very well organized and
we found patriot fastbacks they make these hard tops that are five and a half inches taller than a
normal jeep top once we had the hard top on there we knew we had storage on the top for solar panels
transit case right now we're standing on a front runner roof rack and we have here the max tracks
and two solar panels which are 100 watts each a starling terminal which stores inside this box
those roads and trails are rough and two things that we do to make it comfortable are we air down
and pull off our sway bar linkages to do that we installed an arb dual compressor here this
is a high output compressor and we have air hose that we run around and we can air up
all six tires trailer and vehicle from this air compressor we use a tire deflator to go down
if you're on a lot of gravel roads that are really washboarded you can make those roads
a lot smoother by disconnecting your sway bars the spray bars they just make the washboard roads
buttery smooth we have the 3.6 liter engine on the pavement we get about 14 miles per gallon
on trail we're getting about 10 and a half miles per gallon
one of our other goals was to have situational awareness around the vehicle all the time we
installed cameras around the corners we have one on each fender we have one on the front and one
in the back and those feed into our screen in the center of the jeep this is an aftermarket
head unit and we really love it it has a lot of capabilities the biggest thing is maps we run gaia
maps we use it every single day we don't really use turn-by-turn navigation and it's been a great
learning experience for the kids because they sit in the back seat they can both see this clearly
and as we're figuring out where we're gonna go when we get lost they're right there with us
figuring out where we're gonna go next and that's super fun to do as a family this is also our tv
and we plugged a google chromecast smart tv into this we also use it for video conferencing there's
a web camera here we talk to our families the camera can see all four of us and the sound
comes out the speakers so it's a really convenient way to reconnect with family when we're traveling
for long periods of time and all of this works over our starling terminal so we pull into a wild
campsite someplace we threw up starlink and we're immediately online able to communicate with people
it's been really convenient for us to travel in remote areas and still stay in touch one of the
most unique things about our build is how we're using all this extra head space that this hardtop
gives us we worked with a fab shop in north carolina they helped us build these steel panels
that allows you to attach pouches bags whatever to and the entire inside of this jeep roof is covered
in it and we have pouches hanging everywhere and they have zippers and they're like shelves
you can just unzip and grab out the thing that you need it's been really convenient i keep all
of my foul weather gear above my head so if it's raining i can just pop it on without getting out
we have all sorts of things hanging up there that we can just unclip and grab when we need
it we have around 50 pouches in our jeep right now there's a bag up here right now which has
a small first aid kit in it it's pretty easy just to pull down
and it's like that everywhere the bags don't fall down but the contents do sometimes
you'll be opening a thing here and bouncing down the road and you'll get a face full of stuff
that's just the nature of it and it's totally worth it to have the organization
this is where oliver and freddie spend a lot of time the back of each seat has their blanket here
in the top they have their own backpacks that unclip that they can take with them
fishing rods binoculars all of their personal stuff they can organize in their bags however
they want but this is a great kit for them to just go off and have adventures
we have a little center console here with things that they keep in there some
hats and gloves and legos are usually in there too lego's usually everywhere back here to be honest
in the back of the cabin we have mounted all of our first aid gear typical first aid is stabilize
a patient and wait for first responders and because of the places that we go we had to
have a more comprehensive approach to first aid we took some online training and we have a bleed kit
we have a cpr kit we have an epipen a defibrillator these are all the urgent medical
issue type things where they're on velcro you grab them you run to stabilize somebody and then back
in the trailer we have a more comprehensive medical kit to sustain us long duration as we
explore our remote areas let's go to the back of the rig and see what we have going on there
we designed a shelf we prototyped it out of cardboard took it to the fab shop and
they made it out of aluminum and powder coated it and did a really awesome job this holds all
of our clothing up here we have these bags hanging from the bottom of the shelf here
and this acts as kind of a almost a drawer you can reach your hand in and this has books in it
for the kids and then moving down we get into the kitchen area our refrigerator is on a slide here
and opens from the top and i kept hitting my head on the fridge going in here and dropping it so i
put a clip on the window that holds it open we have a water system on the left here and a power
system on the right the water system is based on a one and a half gallon per minute water pump
there's a five gallon water tank in the bumper and we have 21 gallons in the trailer there's an
ultraviolet water filter and what that allows us to do is to pump water out of streams pump
it through the filter and fill all of our tanks we in total carry about 30 gallons of water at a time
and that 30 gallons of water will last the four of us about a week we designed our power system
around a goal zero yeti 500 x it is a 500 watt hour lithium ion battery with a built-in solar
charge controller and 300 watt inverter we hard mounted that to the top of this cabinet in the
back here and we can see how many watts we're generating from solar how many watts we're using
what are the percentage of the battery is we power our cell phone booster our starlink terminal
our water pump the water filtration system the refrigerator and our lighting all off that battery
we can also charge the battery off of the engine so when we're driving we can choose to use the
alternator to charge this battery and charges in about four hours our kitchen exists between
the jeep and the trailer this is on a drawer system that pulls out and we have a prep surface
a stove and on the trailer side we have the tongue box which provides another surface for
us to work on and then our dining room table and our chairs that live under this wonderful awning
we have protection from the sun from the rain and we live outside full time and we love it
just like a traditional kitchen this portion of our rig is the heart prior to being on this
journey we loved cooking meals together in a kitchen and it's no different here
what i love about this setup is that everything flows really well we've
given a lot of thought to where everything is positioned so that we don't need to reach too
far or dig too deep for anything that we're looking for when we're cooking
this is a coleman two burner dual fuel stove it can run on propane or gasoline we choose to
use gasoline because it simplifies fueling up we only have to worry about one type of fuel
this is where we keep everything that we need to quickly access while we're cooking
we did include a power strip here for our 110 power for when we want to power small appliances
we wanted to have a lot of the same capabilities that we had in a traditional home kitchen for us
that meant a large work surface our countertop surface is food grade stainless steel
food and kids is challenging no matter what your situation
one thing that's been super helpful for us traveling is bringing the kids into
the grocery store with us and letting them be involved they feel like they had a choice
in what we're preparing and their palettes have expanded so much on this trip
opportunity is a 1966 m416 military trailer we bought this on craigslist we started off
with a spring over axle lift on it to give us more ground clearance we lengthened the tongue
and we welded a hitch receiver onto the back to hold our spare tire on a spare tire carrier
we built a water system into opportunity around a 21 gallon rv water tank and then we have a hose
that we can use just to spray you know the kids off if they are sandy or muddy which happens all
the time or we transfer water forward into spirit to organize all of our equipment we standardized
around these south african ammo cases and everything is secured with logistics rail
to the tub of the trailer you can lift them out they're like legos and our top three here are food
supplies we open the lids off of them and reach in and get our food out our dried foods we also have
a microscope music equipment a whole one of these dedicated to legos and then bathroom supplies the
tent is on a platform that raises and lowers with electric linear actuators these are actuators from
progressive automations they're waterproof and each one can lift around 400 pounds when we park
we open up the tongue box flip the switches and this raises all the way up to as high as 9 feet
welcome to detent one thing you want to know about this is the lights these something that's
connected with batteries one thing i like about the tent is these holes in the tip if you're
wondering what they are is there are skylights now how they look is you just lay down right here this
is my spot and look at the stars now if you can up you can open these and if you open it then
you can look at sky
these are bars here that's what's holding up the tin because if these
bars disappeared then this tint would fall down because these bars are holding it up
we built our bathroom into the passenger side of the trailer we have a shower tent here which
opens up and gives you a booth that you can get inside and then for the actual shower we built
our own out of a pesticide sprayer we take the pump off and we put it on our stove we heat the
water up and then this valve here you squeeze it for water you let go it turns off so you can kind
of you know wet down and then you can lock it on and soak it's two and a half gallons it gets
really hot that's plenty of water for an adult and we can wash both of the kids in one of these
when we're camping when we're not staying at a koa or a state park and don't have access to bathrooms
this is what we use what we love about it is that it's very compact so there are two ways that you
can use this seat you can either use it with a cat hole in accordance with leave no trace principles
the other way and sometimes we need to do this depending on the environment we're in we carry out
i don't have plans anymore i have goals that's so freeing
we've really embraced that being stringless is not about just
floating with no attachments to anything it's just about reconnecting intentionally we are open to
the possibilities that life brings us we feel like an explorer going on a major
expedition to go the whole way from virginia to the coast of oregon was a big deal for us
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