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of Planes Trains and hotel rooms what if you could actually take your home with you wherever you went
well in today's episode we're meeting a family who does exactly that they're going to show us around
their expedition vehicle and explain how they've optimized their rig for both worldwide adventure
and raising kids full-time on the road but before we jump right in and take a tour if you like
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home hi I'm Michael this is given I'm Flur and this is our daughter
Julie and this is our tiny home on Wheels [Music]
menred we are from the Netherlands we're driving in this expedition truck it's a Mercedes it's a
4x4 v6 diesel engine with 220 horsepower [Music] I always liked the idea of uh having a truck but
then I actually got to know these Expedition trucks and I was like wow that's something I
could do like uh long term I always say the life is too short to dream then we decided yes let's
go for it. I was searching on internet and there we found um this Mercedes and I work for one year on
the truck uh I convert a lot of things and then we found an company who build on the living units it
took us a long time to decide how we do it I think we changed the layout like a 10 times or something
we didn't know what it was like to live tiny with kids so we actually put like tape on the
floor in the shed and like oh what if we do the bats here and the cupboards there but yeah we're
still happy with the end result so it took us from 2017 till end of 2019 to uh the whole building
process we started traveling full-time our truck in 2020 right before Covid [Music] hit this is our
Overland rig it's a mercedesbenz it's a 7022 means 70 tons 220 [Music] [Applause] horsepower we run
around when we drive on the highway uh 100 kilm on 25 L so it's pretty uh expensive unfortunately
I I did a lot of conversions on the truck itself when we bought it I worked for one year on it we
put a roof rack on it's it's all custom made a friend of mine welded it so it was before a plow
truck what we bought in Germany uh after one year working on it by myself we found a company
who can build the living unit that was Twiga Travel cars in Holland. together
we designed the whole box the whole structure the whole design inside the box is built uh on
the chassis and between the box and the chassis there's in torsi free subframe so with offroad
driving the chassis of the truck can torque like this and the box is still stiff the box is made
out of 6 cm isolation material what they use also in the the semi-trailer industry our living
unit is inside side 5 m 20 long by 2 m 30 by 2 m high so we have four solar panels on top
of manfred, each of 300 Watts so we have four AGM batteries they kind of charge by
the Sun and when we are driving. Inside we have 350 L fresh water two gray water tanks over here
we have our outside shower open it like this put the hose in with the shower head and you have a
nice warm shower over here we have two big boxes one box with all the outdoor kitchen equipment lot
box with the tables the chairs we extended the wheelbase with 60 cm so the wheelbase is at the
moment 4 M over here we have the windows those are real glass windows from the brand outbound we
have the mosquito Nets with are really handy and when you do it the other way it's a blind
so now we became on the back of the truck here are the spare tires it's pretty easy
to take them off we have an arm what you put in the squares over there and with ropes you
pull it off it's pretty nice to see it over here we have the bumper what can flip up with
off-road driving it's pretty easy that you don't drag a lot of sand with
you over here are the sand ladders. we use them when we are stuck in the
in the mud or in the sand we've been using them already many times you can see it it's
all [Music] bent now you've seen the outside let's come in and I'll show you the inside.
all right so this is uh where the kids sleep they have bunk beds. Given sleeps here
and this is Julie's bed the kids have little cupboards where they're where they sto their
toys and uh they have little doors because when we first went away with manfred
they were only like one and two years old so we didn't want them to fall out so they
had like little cages they don't really need it anymore now but they just like
it there's a lot of storage here it's like our junk food and uh this is like school books for
the kids and bread and herbs uh this is the the bathroom we have a little 3 kilo washing
machine which we use very often we have a separate toilet which we're very happy about
it's new we have it since a year but it's uh pretty ideal and we have a shower in the
corner so we each have one closet for our clothes this is mine I'll show you
it's messy but yeah it's enough really it's all we get which makes life [Music]
easy so this is our kitchen we cook on LPG we have a big tank underneath the
truck we don't have a microwave or an oven because we think we don't really
need it we have a lot of storage space here and this is where we
store our plates and we keep everything in the same place now so things don't get
lost more storage [Music] here we have quite a big sink when the kids are little we actually
wash them in here that doesn't really fit anymore but that's why we picked like a
really big sink they really loved it they had like their little little bad and stuff
yeah so it's good memories all right that's all for the kitchen let's move to our living
area we have a big rounded seat here this is where we eat where we do school work or
also where we hang out and watch movies it's really nice to have a big table because we
can fit all our books on there and a computer if needed so we're really happy with this big
living space underneath the table is the water tank it's inside so it the water can get Frozen
and we have a lot of storage underneath all of these benches so this is where we have
shoes and Michael stores his tools there and that's all the way around they're pretty deep
so can store a lot of stuff in there too so we have a pass through there um which
just gives us a a safe feeling in case there are bears around or weird people it actually
never happened but it just feels nice to have it we can open it and then hook it
onto that thing there we only used it once when there was a snowstorm it was nice but
yeah feel it it gives us a nice feeling to have it this is our fridge very important we
picked quite a big one for us Europeans but it's just nice to have lot of storage this is our
freezer this is our control panel which tells us how many power we have how much
water and all that kind of stuff there's all the electricity in
it this is our uh uh our rooftop window which is very nice it gets a lot of um like light in
and and air and air flow when it's warm we have like mosquito Nets too and blinds you can make
it totally dark so which is great when you're are in areas where the Midnight Sun is this is
where we sleep we can move the pillows down and we can lower the table and then the bed
will end right underneath the windows we can lower the beds electrically so we can move it
all the way down and this is really ideal because we don't have to make our bed every day so we're
happy with it and we just have to go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same [Music]
time it's pretty funny like the Americans are really like outgoing which is so sometimes
there like wow this thing is godamn sexy and everyone should have one what is it
it looks like you can go to war with this and yeah stuff like that we get positive
reactions people drive by like this yeah yeah that's really funny thanks for watching this
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