When were you guys going to tell us about this joke?
All this up here in the sky, the clouds.
And the rain that never goes away.
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I kind of feel like some of y'all are out there like yeah
Hanks you should have known about this. Now partly it's my
fault because I should have known being in California with
it being as wet of a season as it was while we were visiting
there, that it was going to be even more of a wet season
coming up here into Alaska. My bad on that one. Don't worry, I'm
not blaming you guys. We're currently in Kenai right now
and I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems like a town
where you go fishing a lot in but if you're not a fisherman
then there's really not much to do. Now I know what y'all are
saying I'm tired of hearing excuses Hanks. I want to see
some adventure and I want to see you guys having a good
time. You're in Alaska living your ultimate dream and I get
that. I feel that in so many ways. I think I'm just being
hard on myself right now because I had an expectation
coming up here that we're going to be able to see some
amazing mountains and views all the time but that's okay though
because none of these rainy day vibes are going to bring down
the energy especially with you guys here. You're always
kicking it up a notch for us and we appreciate that. Today,
we start our trek going to Anchor Point. I'm really
thankful that today, we only have an hour drive. Yes. Yes.
Yes. I said it. Only an hour drive.
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We initially visited Palmer, Alaska which was incredible
there. There were some amazing views. We are able to get
outdoors and do some golfing. I was able to catch up on a lot
of work which was really nice and needless to say, we
definitely needed some R and R after those long travel days.
However, just like anything else in life, it all needs to
be balanced out. So, I know we are going to start wanting to
plan some more excursions coming forth when we get to
Anchor Point. I'm hoping to maybe even do some fishing there
or shortly thereafter. Some other really exciting news is
we have a meetup planned here in Alaska. Nothing really big just
enough to get out and meet some of you folks that have been
waiting forever for us to get here. We want to take the
opportunity to spend some time with you guys because I'm
missing that connection with y'all. I mean, I'm loving the
time that we have here together but I need a little more
one-on-one in person if you know what I mean. Something I
was able to finish up with all of our free time and a little R
and R on the side is I was able to get the batteries finally hooked up.
Y'all have been super patient with us getting these
batteries figured out. It's a new learning curve for us
because we never dove into these avenues of wanting to
boondock more and have a system that will support that. What I
was able to do was I was able to parallel both batteries,
take those batteries and connect them to a bus bar and
then have everything run off that bus bar including the
inverter. Now, I'll show you guys some footage of that as we
go along because I want some opinions as we go forth on are
we meeting appropriate safety protocols out there. Uh do you
guys have any suggestions on how to make it look a little
more nice than what I have it laid out. I try to do my best
but listen, once again, this is all new to me. So, I'm trying
to just take it step by step and just get the system running
and then make adjustments as we go along. I'm excited to have
the batteries and do a little more boondocking. It gets us
off grid and a little more immersed in nature. I think you
guys could feel me on this one. It's nice to not have to pay so
many dues in the RV park realm. Did that make sense? Basically,
I just don't like paying for RV parks. It gets expensive as you
go down the road and constantly hopping from RV park to RV
park. Yeah, those prices add up quickly. Oh, I got some other
amazing news for you guys. Come here. Whoo. Yup, still raining.
Behind hidden compartment number one. Look at that bad
boy right there. Do you not see it? You don't see it, do you?
I finally got off my lazy butt and got this fixed. I ordered a
part off at E Trailer. com. It was like three or four hundred
dollars but I got a new replacement motor for our left
front jack. The one that's always been causing the error
codes. We hear you guys and we want to thank you for putting
amazing comments in the comment section below on previous
videos explaining what might be causing issue. When we got here
to this park here in Kenai, it crapped out on us again and I
was like, that's it. We're ordering it and we're replacing it.
I'm tired of dragging the feet. Carl is picking up the
slack and going forward. We haven't really used it since
installing this. So, we're going to be test trialing this
as we go forward and I'm glad you guys at least have a little
knowledge that it's here and it's working so that you can
help me pay attention as we go forward and knowing if that's
going to make the difference or not. Was it the motor? I don't know.
I'm hoping so. How was the install you might ask?
Well, luckily, you get to see it all for yourselves.
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Oh, really quick. If you guys have the same issue where
you're throwing errors and it's saying left front jack,
right front jack, whatever. Make sure you drop all your
jacks once you're hooked up to a vehicle and then hold the
retract all so that it resets all jacks. Otherwise, it's not
going to clear the code. You gotta make sure they're all
down. Reset all up. You follow what I'm saying?
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What's going on in here?
Laundry day. Need I say more.
I feel like no matter what, laundry is just always
stressful. Whether you're seated at a perfect place and
location and you have nothing else to do, you're still like
stressed out or it's like today where it's a travel day and
you're like, I don't want to do laundry before I get out on the
road. We've been talking about getting a washer and dryer
because it's been six years of doing this and that's enough.
Yeah, I agree with you on that one Ney Ney. I'm over it.
Can't change it right now so we might as well make the best of
what we got. I'll get the quarters and the bouncy sheets.
And laundry detergent. Ready. Yeah, I'll take that. Thank you.
You, you're doing a lot already. Did you see if anyone else went in
there to do laundry? Cuz that's the thing. You get it all ready
to go. You're mentally ready to do laundry and then they're all
in use and it's like, why? Well, no, honey. I have not
been over to check. You didn't let me know to do that.
Actually, I've been doing something much more important
hanging out with our peeps right now. So, I feel like I'm
a little bit off the hook, right? Because it's them.
You're off the hook.
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You look absolutely thrilled. The rain makes me so tired.
Ooh. Just another day in the life of the Hank's household.
Are you doing okay over there? You want me to carry something?
I got an extra hand. Okay. Reality folks. This is reality.
If this is your first time to our channel.
Welcome. It just, it's something else.
I don't want to get you too excited so please
don't freak out too much but if you look behind me, you might
see your first wildlife sighting since we've been in Alaska.
Which is really cool. Whoa, whoa. It's a really big Dexter.
So, laundry here is $3 for a wash and $1.75 for a dry.
Not too bad. Not too bad. I'm just reading to make sure I don't
break any rules because you know the Hanks break rules all the time.
Okay, probably too much but that's okay.
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Yeah, overall this RV resort has been pretty pretty cool.
It's called Diamond M Ranch. I mean, it's nice. It has like a
cool layout. It's like they got the western saloon theme when
pulling up and going in the office building. I really like
that. So far, however, I'm not very impressed with everyone
saying, you gotta have reservations coming up here.
Once again, I feel like we debunk that myth like no
tomorrow. Even the RV parks are like this is our last few sites
that we have, you gotta book now. We show up, guess what?
Open sites everywhere. Open sites galore. Are we upset at
that fact? No. We're enjoying that we have a place to stay
but the Hank's always like a little bit of a challenge and
we don't ever want to bring you wrong information. You know I'm
saying? Like so we don't lose our trust. What we have here,
this little connection with one another. Yeah, let's keep that
going. Okay, so we're here somewhere along this little
highway here like between Soldatna and Kenai and we're
going to Anchor Point. Big drive day. 60 miles.
I don't know if we can handle this.
You have to admit those farm animals are super cute
that are here, like and you can pay $5 to
get in there and pet them. You're in there. Because we're
on the outskirts trying to give em food and it's like you're
immersed but you're not 100% immersed but they do look like
once you're in there that they're like, oh.
She's going down.
So, they have these RV sites right here that are
like in a square. So, if you're with a group or you're part of
a tour group because we've been seeing a lot of fantasy RV
tours coming in. You can park in a big circle and when you
open your door, you can see your friend. Kinda like how we
parked when we were boondocking with our caravan crew in
Arizona at Hot Springs. We like did a little circle. Well, they
have sites just like that here. You're going to be expecting to
pay some money for RV sites when you come to Alaska and if
you're looking for hookups and you're looking for amenities,
you're going to be paying more. I, I'm going to say it was
around 70 or almost $80 a night here. So, for us to stay here
for over a week, I mean, it was, it's pricey.
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While I'm out and about, I gotta walk up to the front
office and tell them that I have a package coming in.
That's kind of been a struggle being up here in Alaska with
Alaska being so far away from everything. Planning on
packages arriving at certain locations. It's been a
challenge. Unfortunately, I ordered this package last week
and it still has not arrived and I don't like putting RV
parks in the situation where they got to deal with our
packages but my hands are tied right now. It should be here by
tonight or tomorrow. So, what the game plan is, is I'm
going to have them hold on to the package until we can come
pick up on our way back through from Anchor Point because we
have to come back this way. But like I said, Alaska RV Life.
What are you going to do? If you guys are also wondering how
else we deal with mail on the road or like domicile or healthcare.
How does our health insurance work? We made an
entire video on this and I feel like it got lost in all of our
older videos but it is such great content. If you guys want
more information on it, I'll link it up above. Go check that out.
Trust us. Your questions will be answered.
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Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. They're awesome. They were so
nice and accepting of that. They totally understand how it
is with the RV life that things just get late or delayed and
you need to make accommodations as you go. Very flexible people
and I really appreciate that. Alright, it's rainy day vibes.
Let's get out of this rain. Let's go hook up. Let's get
going. What's Anchor Point got for us? What's waiting for us?
We're going to find out together. That's a Hank's way
of life and we thank you guys for being here and a part of it.
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It's middle of July and I'm freezing. Did you see that?
I thought it was a person behind me and I jumped.
This is where the real adventure starts.
How you feeling? Get it. This is dinner.
Well, we just got a tsunami warning uh 11:00 at night.
I mean, do we follow everybody else
but the problem is if you go towards Kenai,
you're just following the coast like you're following the water.