maybe it is time for a change like maybe it is time I have to admit I have never tried Well
looky there obstacle what is his name yeah hello obstacles don't give me any obstacles obstacle
all right so this is the one RV it's pretty famous do you heat
metal up in that fire yeah this is porch pull forward right here no here is a little tip
we're just arriving to our Campground here in Elkhart Indiana
this is literally the first time that this has ever happened to us pulling into a campground
like this is you don't have to remember this before
never ever have we had to wait in a line at what time is it six o'clock at night like I've seen
before where like people that go to Thousand Trails Orlando right at the time that you could
check in and everything like that there's a line but it's six o'clock at night yeah you're not like
kind of thought Elkhart Indiana was going to be like a sleepy little town
I don't know what we're getting ourselves into here
it's gonna be an interesting next couple of days
our first place to check out in Elkhart is the RV Museum and Hall of Fame this is also
a harvest host location where you can park overnight for free if you're a harvest host
member these elk statues are all over town and the entire Elkhart County area which
covers 482 square miles this area is referred to by locals as the RV capital of the world
and it is known for its sizable Amish in Old world Mennonite population foreign
RV pretty famous pretty famous coming up here so many old like vintage travel trailers and
campers and motorhomes is so fun but I have to admit it kind of smells like your really
old Grandma's house no it's just weird it smells vintage we'll call it vintage foreign
yeah I wouldn't test it but don't but it's allowed I think it's a loud horn
pretty cool isn't it acrylic
oh two Victron multi pluses this is four battleborn game changers I cannot believe
that they actually like drove in this down the road like first of all I'm sure that it was not
the most quiet ride ever but the other thing is it's just with everything being so vintage like
man but probably a little bit spoiled but it's just crazy to think like this was actually in use
like what last year or whatever that it was it's I don't know it's cool it's vintage it's vintage
I think I would prefer in a museum not like on the road but it's fun I think Dakota
what you doing silly boy are you Gary
was that you that big loud noise I heard over there what'd you do
I was walking down and I can't I tripped and I think I took and you
fell yeah I felt I think I twisted my ankle right here you know what this is
there a cassette tape it's not a cassette tape a an eight track that's what they had
before cassettes so you'd have like you know Juice Newton on here huh
really artists I know it's juice World Juice Newton so yeah you put it right in there and
then play just like it's kind of like a cassette charity what was the story behind this one here
the black one yeah so go ahead so these two people basically found it by a dumpster
and I had like animals and all sorts of stuff wrong with it
and then they um renovated it and they spent close to a half a million dollars renovating it wow
hard sided pop-up when I was a kid my family borrowed this pop-up from some friends and we
had like the best time in that thing and I think like when you're a kid and maybe you tent camp or
whatever where that's fun and then you like have this little upgraded experience where you're in
like a camper and then you just you feel like you're on top of the world it's so much fun
like it really makes me wonder if the season of life that we're in and like where the kids are
with the RV and everything like that like maybe it is time for a change like maybe it is time
I don't know for just something different something new something exciting something
fresh like it yeah like you're thinking maybe you need to do some more thinking on that yeah that
says lazy days house car oh lazy days d-a-z-e you could fit like three people on that seat
you could like lay down on it take a nap like no like lay down the other way even
I'm too long that's crazy so this is a 1985 Fleetwood founder
and the thing that's interesting about this you get a door that comes in here but then there's
a door assumed to the back we're gonna go find out in just a second but it's crazy
so what do you think except for beds what the heck you're not down you're kind of awkward wouldn't it
be it's kind of like a Leave it to Beaver sort of thing you would have had to keep me warm at
night right a blanket now why Elkhart might be the RV capital of the world one thing that
has never ceased to amaze us is that with all of the technology put into RVs one thing that they
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their continued support of our Channel now back to the video because I can't wait to show you
some of the amazing things that we found in Indiana of all places we wrapped up at the
motorhome Hall of Fame and dropped Ben off back at the RV now the motorhome Hall of Fame I have
mixed feelings there's some really cool vintage campers and of course the bluebird that kyd did
their Route 66 thing in that was definitely cool to see so some cool stuff but overall
definitely don't need a ton of time let's just put it that way our couple hours you're good
that's all you need the county fair happens to be going on for Elkhart County now we've been
told this thing is like the third largest county fair that happens in the U.S and we're sitting in
traffic right now and I would say probably yeah probably this is like the third largest because
it's a crap ton of traffic lots of cars so it should be pretty fun so the kids and I are gonna
go see what sort of Mischief we can find like does it live up to the hype we're about to find out
like a big huge tractor Harvester you think
it's pretty so they got big muscles guys here here's one you could pet
you wanted a giant corn dog nothing's Giant Giants good
I have to admit I have never tried an elephant earlier they have them behind me let us know if
you've had elephant ears elephant ears classic food for fairs yes no let us know we're gonna
let you know we think here in just a minute we're gonna go try one I'm the magician I'm
the moo guy in town this is the famous color changing red handkerchief it's red it goes
into my empty hand this young lady is going to tell me a color I should change it into blue uh
pink is beautiful okay he goes in red she said pink did you say pink doesn't matter
I don't have a handkerchief anyway oh look at that look at that fantastic day thank you
okay all right let's do awesome let's go find a spot to go take this and sit down and eat
so what do you think of the elephant ear fried butter on a steak
wow good tasty yeah you gotta dip it in the frosting do you heat metal up in that fire yeah
it's a goat coat who's here okay go get him
here is a little tip we had a little issue in Sandusky where my microphone
put in my fanny pack that was supposed to be waterproof before we went on this
little water ride well I didn't zip the pocket and a bunch of water got into the
fanny pack and it ruined one of the mics we just ordered one here in Elkhart and
had it sent to an Amazon Locker that's at a 7-Eleven so we're gonna go and get this mic
so well looky there Amazon
obstacle what is his name dad just had another obstacles don't give me any obstacles obstacle
okay so so we got to we what do we do you enter in a code so I've got the code here
we're gonna scan it down here code accepted oh oh what did it do it opened it up all right
here it is that's cool anything else there it worked you're hilarious
you'll have to check out last week's episode right up here where we had a
little let's say poopsie as we were pulling into our Campground and then
tune in next week as we take on our biggest boondocking challenge yet