-Good morning. Oh my gosh. Can you tell that it's morning here. My...
I'm just a mess right now. My eyes have sleepies in them. My hair is a mess but...
it is what it is. We're starting our journey to Florida today.
I'm super stoked to be back on the road.
Yeah, it's exciting but also a bummer at the same time because I just
said bye to my dad and it's kind of hard. It's hard saying bye to
your loved ones and everything and hitting the road.
Today is also exciting because we're on to new adventures.
We're gonna go meet new people, make new friends, and make new memories.
For all those out there getting ready to meet the Hanks family.
Well guess what? We're coming for you so get ready.
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-Happy New Year, guys.
I know it's not that date as you're watching this
but I just thought I'd say Happy New Year to you guys because we love you all.
It is day one of our trek from Northern California to Tampa, Florida.
We are hoping to get there in less than two weeks.
That is so we can stop and get some editing done along the way
and release videos for you guys because that's important too.
It is almost time to check out here officially. I think we're running a little bit behind.
I think we have 10 minutes and the slides are still out.
The Hanks are running behind, you know the typical.
-We are in Northern California right now just below Redding and uh...
we're gonna head south. We're heading towards I-10.
Maybe we can make it to Palm Springs. Will we make it there? We have no idea.
Hopefully, we don't hit any bad weather along the way either because
we heard some storms are coming in so we're gonna find out very shortly.
-We're gonna just play it by ear. We have no reservations for tonight.
We don't know whether we're gonna end up at an RV park or a Walmart.
The reason we are not doing a Boondockers Welcome or Harvest Hosts
is because you usually have to get to those locations at a earlier time of day.
You know, they don't really want you checking in at like 9, 10 o'clock at night.
So, that's where Walmart comes in clutch because we can just show up at Walmart whenever.
So, we'll see where we end up tonight. We'll see if we even leave here on time.
-Well, you ready to say goodbye to California?
-On the road again. -To Florida, are you excited?
-I'm excited but I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of exhausted from like so much traveling.
I mean, we literally just went from Pennsylvania... Hold up.
When we picked the RV up from Grand Design, we went from Indiana to Pennsylvania,
all the way to California, and now we're about to go
three thousand more miles to Tampa, Florida so.
-We've been bouncing around like crazy. -Yes. -People.
How do you do with like leaving your family? -I guess you know that you'll be back.
You know, goodbyes are hard but... -Yeah.
-But then when you see them again after not seeing them for a while, it's so exciting.
-That's true. Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
-I'm hoping that the um, the underbelly that we replaced doesn't drop as we're driving.
-Yeah and if it does, I have someone to blame right here.
Question, are you ready to join the RV life,
and come hit the road with us? -Oh, next week we're going. For sure.
You guys have just painted a great picture here.
It's wonderful. -Dude, it's been horrible since we started. -It's been wonderful.
-Dropped the underbelly. We got leaks behind the underpass.
It's been a horrible adventure. -I know far more than I know, than I knew when I started this.
So, it's it's great. -All right, I'm going to miss you. -All right. -Yeah. -See you, man.
-All right, buddy. -Take care. -Florida, here we come.
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-Woo! We are officially on the road.
All I know is we're in California and then we'll be in California
and then we'll be in California and then...
-We'll finally be... -In California. -Yeah.
-I think we'll be good to not hit bad weather
but I can't guarantee we won't hit freezing weather.
Some people when they drive across country they want to do like kind of a leisure...
you know, they want to stop every so many miles and see something.
When you have a trip like that planned and you're only going about 100, 200 miles a day...
Those moments, it's okay for you to plan your stops.
This is a trip where we need to get somewhere
far away and we need to get there kind of quick.
There's a lot of people that travel that way as well.
Maybe they have a quota they need to meet.
Maybe they need to get to their family's house for the holidays like we just did.
In those instances, I would not plan every single day,
where you're gonna stop for the night and the reason I say that is most people
think they're going to get farther than they do.
Our concern today is that we just wanna drive, drive, drive
and just pull into like a Walmart parking lot and go to bed.
But where we're headed it might drop to freezing temperatures
or below freezing temperatures at night.
No big deal, run your furnace right to keep your tanks from freezing, your pipes from freezing.
Well we don't have a generator, we don't have solar, we don't have extra batteries.
So if we were to run our furnace and our refrigerator on propane all night,
our battery would kind of deplete by morning.
You don't have to feel like you have a place booked before you like,
you leave for the day or the day before. It's okay to figure it out as you go.
Hey, Walmart's always there for you to pull into at night.
Help us.
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We made it to our first stop and we've been on the road for 20 minutes. Woo!
Are we there yet?
So looking at the map we are headed towards I-10, there's a couple ways we can go.
I think we are gonna avoid the Grapevine and just go Tehachapi. Which is highway 58.
Are we in the mood to just drive, drive, drive and pull over for bed later
or do we want to like play it safe and go to an RV park early?
We'll see what happens.
I'm gonna drive though so Carl can edit.
(laughing)
Are we ready for a ride?
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Palm trees.
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-So we stopped off at a truck stop here real quick just to top off on some fuel.
As you can see, we're losing daylight quickly
and it's only gonna get worse as we head east towards Florida.
You know, it's just kind of one of those things, exciting adventures yet
we're going away from the sun. I'm like someone that loves chasing the sun but
nonetheless we're looking for some warmer weather than what Cali has been able
to provide us with on our visit here.
Ney Ney is exhausted though. She kicked butt.
Don't tell her I said that because I always give her a hard time on her driving skills. No.
But she did amazing driving today. She drove most of the day.
I sat around answering some comments, catching up on some emails,
you know, hanging out with my peeps, you guys. So, you guys know how it goes.
Hoping to make it to Southern Cali tonight.
I don't know where though. I have no idea where we're going.
It's hard when your navigator is driving.
You might be asking, well, Carl, why don't you learn how to read a map?
Maybe, maybe I will. Maybe I should.
Dang, I... I really should. I gotta get on my map, my navigating skills.
Are you rocking the Red Bull? -I'm tired.
-Are these the vibes that are going down tonight? -I'm... I'm, I'm tired.
Woo. It's barely been four hours and I'm already exhausted.
I swear a couple hours ago, I was just telling you guys, we're gonna go go go.
I don't know about that. We still haven't had dinner yet.
And maybe once we all have dinner and I'm talking all of us.
We got someone in the backseat who's salty.
Once we all have some dinner, I think we'll get our second wind and be able to just go.
Because right now we're outside of Turlock, California.
We're on 99 like I said, we wanted to try something different, so far it's fine.
I don't see the point in pulling over early tonight.
You know, the sun's down and it feels late no matter what time it is so if...
we're just going to sit inside the camper and cook dinner and then
sit around waiting to go to bed we might as well be sitting around and driving.
The suspense continues. Stay tuned.
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-We made it to Walmart parking lot and it's busy.
-Walmart number one because Walmart number two is the overnight stop but this is just dinner.
-This is dinner stop then overnight stop. -Yeah.
-Currently the time is 1845 and for all those that don't know what military time is.
That's okay. I didn't know half my life either. 6:45 so it's 6:45 right now.
Wow. We got some driving to do yet.
Will we make it though? That's the question. -I don't know. I'm really starting to doubt it.
-I'm getting tired. -I mean, we gotta drive like at least four more hours.
Yeah. -Four more hours?
-And if we hit the road in like the next 10 minutes,
which I'm still cooking then that will put us at 11 o'clock.
-I'm going to slide the slide in and you're gonna still cook going down the road
and you could just like hop up front whenever you're ready.
-This is what I just dislike about traveling this time of year.
When it gets dark at five you feel like you're..
I don't know. It just feels so weird to be on the road still.
Like in the summertime, it's five o'clock and you're like oh could go strong
for a couple hours here before the sun sets.
Whenever you have somewhere to be, don't
plan to just arrive there at the time you're supposed to arrive there
because you run into some bumps in the road literally. -Yeah.
Din din tonight is something simple.
You guys are gonna laugh but me and my best friend, Steve O that you met earlier.
Steven, Steve O.
We did this challenge where we ate the spiciest top ramen noodles that
are manufactured or what we believe to be manufactured.
I drank it and I gave myself acute gastritis. I don't know.
It's not an official diagnosis but as nurses, you know, we just came up with this.
So, I'm trying to do a bland diet now cause the stomach was like...
Like it was bad. It was so bad.
One day at a time. I got some tums and I got some Nexium.
Yeah not sponsored. Although Nexium if you want to hit us up, you know, we'll just...
We'll just... Yeah. We'll do that.
-Carl, you can't eat spicy foods like you used to.
What happened when you turned 30? Like what am I going to do with you?
-She used to always make fun of me because growing up on the East Coast
they are like intolerant to spicy foods or at least your area.
And on the West Coast I'm all about very spicy, Mexican. -Yes. -Yum, yum, yum. -Which is good.
-I guess I hit my limit though. I'm get... I'm 30 and I'm getting to feel it.
I'm getting old.
-Well when you eat the spiciest, spiciest ramen they have and then drink the broth...
Your poor tummy. -It was like a wave all night. It was like...
-Call 9-1-1 is what I say. -Yeah call 9-1-1.
How's my rice coming along because...
Are you going to eat rice tonight? -I'll eat whatever's left over.
-Happy New Years, by the way, in case you didn't hear it from me,
you probably heard it from Ney Ney but the Carl's coming through
at the end of New Year's Day and I just want to say it's going to be a good year.
Where's Dex man? Is he already in the cat box?
Dexter is like so routine. He'll eat and then he immediately goes and takes a poop.
And that's just the way it is. He's a regular guy, a regular cat.
-If you're wondering what the Hanks are doing on New Year's Day.
You're looking at it. -What you see is what you get.
-Exactly. Eggsactly, with eggs.
-I actually know what you want. You want more of Dexter, don't you?
-Every time they do. -They tell me every single week in the comments.
I love you Carl and Ney Ney but I love Dexter more.
And you know how much that hurts my feelings?
(smoke alarm beeping)
Okay. See? This is what happens every time you cook.
Just start burning the camper... Give me that. -Walmart's gonna call the fire department.
-RV life. All good.
You guys aren't gonna wanna come live this RV life anymore after watching our channel, are you?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
We like to call that one the wild call of RVers
like when you're in an RV park and you hear someone else's
smoke detector going off and you're like, been there, done that.
Have you guys ever had this happen to you? If you have not had this happen to you,
make sure you definitely comment below and let us know
because you're like the golden goose of the RV industry.
It would honestly be on like Good Morning America or something
if this has never happened to you.
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Still don't believe me it's cold in California?
-Honey, you just ate hot food. -I know but you know? Need I say more?
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-Okay. We're at the Flying J,
so we could use the Good Sam card and the TSD fuel card. Double savings.
-Oh, I like that. That sounds...
How, how much longer of a drive do we have tonight? -Two hours.
-And then it's gonna drop to a temperature of ding ding ding ding. 28°
-It says it's gonna get down to 28 so we're going to have to freeze our butts off
and run the furnace somehow without killing the battery.
-You're sleeping in the underpass storage tonight. Dexter and I are taking the bed tonight.
Just, it's done. I already talked to Dexter and we're just going with it.
Oh, can I get those cards?
-Bellies are full. We're back on the road.
Dexter ate dinner and he is now quiet because for the first
three to four hours of driving, he was just spouting off all the reasons why we shouldn't be driving.
-What? (Dexter meowing)
-He was singing the song of his people. I swear.
He is so quiet now. I even like lifted up his blanket over his cage to make sure he's like alive
because he's really quiet and he just looked at me like, yes mom?
Need to update you because we forgot about Harvest Hosts.
And they have a place in Yermo, California, kind of near Barstow
It's called Peggy Sue's 50s diner and I guess it's like along Route 66 and it worked out.
It said that they take same day requests.
And they have a huge lot that they accommodate like truckers and RVers.
So, I'm really excited. This is our first Harvest Hosts location. It's a diner.
And I'm not gonna lie. I'm really just, really jealous of everyone's pictures of milkshakes.
I was like looking through the pictures to see what the parking situation looks like
and it's just like milkshake and milkshake and milkshake and I'm like
ugh, they're going to be closed when we get there.
We're in it. We're doing it guys. Remember I told you like we'll just see how we feel.
Sometimes you just gotta go with the flow.
Our flow tonight is we got food in our bellies and we're just going for it.
Well, this Red Bull might also be in my system so that's why I'm like... -We can tell.
-Oh, really quick. You know, we're arriving at this place
and we're not really sure where the dirt parking lot is or what it looks like.
Guys, Google satellite maps.
The pilot is driving. The copilot could be looking at the maps,
zooming in and so that way when you get there, it's easy, like you just know exactly where to go.
It's been a long driving day. The great part is it's 35° here.
We made it though. How about it?
It's like we've done this before, it's like. -Yeah, well, we still suck at it too
because we left at twelve like, what is wrong with us?
-Let's get ready for bed.
Okay, this time Carl isn't hungry, he's sleepy.
It's brr. -It's really cold. -It's brr. -It's brr, alright.
-What do you think... what's gonna happen tonight?
Are we gonna...? -I'm gonna go bed. (laughing)
-Hashtag RV life.
Sir. Are you warm enough? Are you gonna survive?
Are you gonna make it? Sir. Is that... he's like why is this bed so hard?
This thing is hard as a rock.
We're sleeping on a rock tonight.
Come on. -Wow, this thing is hard. I thought this was a Tempur-Pedic.
-Please send your warm love and hot cocoa.
-All right. Awesome. Come here.
-Wow, he really wants to say hi to y'all. -Yeah.
All right, we'll see you guys in the morning. Love you guys. -See you guys tomorrow.
-Ugh. Wow, this bed is cold. This thing is like an iceberg.
-The low right now in Pennsylvania is 40.
-I did not know that. -We're in Southern California. Are they laughing at us?
-About that car ride earlier today and that, you give me lip?
-Yeah. -What was that all about? -Listen.
Do you want me to drive or do you want me not to drive?
-No, you're driving. You're driving me insane. -Ugh. -Ney Ney.