so our travel video this week is a stationary video there is no travel this week
sometimes it happens when we wake
hear the birds and see the sun call us
even in the hard times
so as you can see the last two last couple weeks we've been stuck here in indiana that's where we
are now we were leaving out west and coming all the way to indiana it's been miserable weather
don't misunderstand we really like indiana just maybe not this time of year it's been
i think yesterday we had 50 mile an hour winds and somebody says hurry up hurry up put the slide
in put the slide in that was that was your night last night i'm so tired it was so windy i thought
we were gonna roll over roll over no jokes i've never heard wind like that before i'm gonna need
a nap today a nap when the wind stops it's not stopping today it's 50 miles an hour all day today
well then i'm gonna need some good sleep tonight because we're gonna blow over the slide toppers
were blowing up like extending completely and blowing up and i didn't want them to blow up
and something gets sprung so we just pulled the slides in so that um that didn't happen
so why is it sliding this morning because it was way way too windy last night so you brought
the slide in well the spot topper was talking it wasn't talking it was screaming last night
that thing was flapping and flapping and flapping it's funny because people that don't like side
toppers we love slide toppers and we still love slide top but people that don't like
them complain because they flap so much in the wind right well that wasn't what bothered me
the wind even even without the slide topper the wind was so loud last night blowing against the
camper and the camper was shaking that the slide toppers were the least of my worries
we just brought that in so that it wouldn't stretch the slide topper or cause damage to it
it was not a fun night
the good thing is it made it easier for us to warm the camper up because we were sitting in
front of the fireplace literally all of our slides are in the camper gets smaller so
um but anyway the reason we've been up here for the last couple weeks is we we have a lot
of big news coming soon uh we've been we've been we planned wait a minute let's back up
we did plan to be in indiana for about a week and a half maybe two weeks but the plan
was to be home for easter well guess what it's the grandbabies first easter so we were
planning to be there for that and i know that i have said and you have said we've discussed in
videos previously that rving is all about planning planning planning planning and don't forget plan
b and plan c and so as of now we're on plan e i think right now always be prepared have a plan
and then back up and be flexible when the plans don't always work out so we had a plan
we were going to be here a week and a half two weeks at the max we had meetings all scheduled
around spring break so make sure that you are subscribed to their channel right now because
all these meetings we had here went very very good and got some big things big news coming up that i
think you guys gonna really really be excited to see and here and we're really excited about it and
the meetings went well and we're super excited to let you all in as soon as we have everything
in place but let's talk about it's taking longer now than we planned again let's talk about plan
e because plan e was well wait plan a was to be here we had meetings and we had a couple little
warranty things to get fixed um while we were in town and then head south for easter warranty
things are fixed let me just say that's that's done uh but coming through coming through no aspen
colorado 12 000 feet in the air two foot of snow on the ground the chevy decided it was unhappy
but everybody knows i'm a chevy girl so i'm going to say my big hipped beauty got us here
1800 miles we had a baby we were in pulling 20 000. we had an appointment with the dealership
all ready to have a fuel filter installed or replaced and the what we thought was an exhaust
leak earlier but nobody could find because they couldn't hear it yeah we took it to the we took
the two dealerships of course everybody's busy right now and nobody has any help so we took it in
to get an oil change and said can you find what's making this tick tick tick tick tick noise didn't
really hear it unless we were towing that's the problem and they basically said i can't find it
our our chevy or our diesel guy is a month behind we didn't have time to stay and wait but on the
way here or before we even got here i called and made an appointment at the local chevy dealer and
for the fuel filter to be replaced and then between there and here she decided to let everyone
know where the exhaust leak is so no worries when we got to our appointment there was no question
about where it was apparently it was a little difficult to get to well i'm also tell you that
exhaust leak by the manifold area i know it's not a manifold because it's a diesel but
up near that area when it's 20 degrees outside and it's filling the cab up with exhaust fumes smells
very bad rolling the windows down going 70 miles an hour at 20 degrees outside it's kind of cold
somebody was you know she's always she's always always cold oh it's cold so what is wrong with you
i'm cold i don't like it when it's cold outside so we're we got the heated seat on the heat on
the windows down oh we got here just playing the music having a good old time coming
through the mountains my girl got us here we made it and we got her to the shop and
come to find out where the leak is they have to drop the transmission to get to the bolts
what so gm if you're listening to this why in the world do we have to drop a transmission
to get to a flex pipe but that's okay because then they had a little snafu and that process
and a bolt was broken off so then they had to remove the turbo to get too far this is what
we're told we have to get the bolts out then put that back together fix the exhaust leak
after the part comes in transmission back up hopefully fingers crossed hopefully
um next week next weekend we'll be done and we can be back on our way but it you know it is what it
is it's not what we had planned so how many people how many of you guys have had issues on the road
and you're kind of worried about getting back and whether or not you can get back we were
14 15 1600 miles away that was it it was like please just listen to indiana like
and baby and something going up twelve thousand feet in the air and coming down
twelve thousand feet in the air pulling all that weight it's hard to baby it when you're
when you when you don't think you're gonna make it back up the other side but we made it
but before we made it let me just put a plug in for two couples that we had only met
on through instagram youtube never in person but we had talked to them um
one was in indiana and one was even in ohio and can i tell you that both of them said to us
if you don't make it if the truck stops if you need help we will come and help you so listen
to rv community just awesome i mean can i just tell you what that means to me because we have
since met these people in person and we still love them and they would still come help us
wait a minute hold on for them to have never met us only online and that we
were feller because we're cooler online it's so much cooler definitely definitely
but just the rv community school guys they they love each other and they help each other out and
it really means a lot and it says a lot about something from ohio to colorado or indiana to
colorado is a long ride but we had two people that were willing to come and help us if if we needed
and we think two couples and and that's not to say there aren't others of you out there but just
the two that we spoke to during this time both offered to come and help us out which is amazing
we're here so we're here so we're here we're spending easter weekend
in a parking lot in indiana um thankfully keystone has an area that you can park at so we're parked
there for the weekend and one of the couples did invite us uh they actually live in michigan they
were here having some warranty work done on their rig they have since gone home and they've invited
us to ride up to their house for easter sunday so that's still a possibility but it is a couple
hour drive so yeah the good thing i think what we're going to do this weekend is renovations
we're going to start on stock start on renovations we're going to start working on the back the back
garage where you guys seen we're turning that into our master suite so somebody's already been to
lowe's the silver lining to the cloud to the dark clouds so is that i can do renault this weekend so
if you want to see what we run out and you want to see what we do make sure you're following us
along because there's going to be some big things done i don't know how much we're going to get done
because now all of a sudden it's supposed to get cold because we can call for snow again sunday or
monday there's a couple little pieces that i can get started on so that eventually we'll have the
big before and after reveal back there so yeah so cross your fingers for us guys that our truck gets
out of the shop this wednesday sooner than later we can hit the road we uh we do have our meet up
coming in endless caverns and new markets that's the race because we need to get home in time to
pick up all the goodies that that people have sent us to give away at our meet up so if you have a
couple of weeks away and if you haven't signed up and you want a reserve we'll put the info
below but it's at endless caverns in newmarket virginia the weekend of may 12th through the 15th
you don't have to do anything you can see the cool people that aren't online anymore it's just us um
and make a reservation tell them you're with finest camping we have 40 more sites right now
available that gets you the group discount and if you decide you want to stay longer
like say you want to stay longer or you want to come in earlier to make it longer than a weekend
stay you would get the group discounted rate for that entire period so just put a little plug in so
we'd like to see more and more of you guys there we want to meet you guys we're talking to you
every day online we want to meet you guys that you know that wishing us luck to get back on the road
people that all that stuff we want to meet you all to meet one another because at the end of the day
we're all in it together and there's nothing more fun than getting together with a group of people
who have the commonality of rving in you know that they have that common bond whether you're
full-time or part-time it doesn't matter um every year at our meet-up we have people from
both you know we have weekend warriors we have full-timers we have people that go for a month
we have people to come in tents so yeah everything from a tent to a super mac daddy class a
everybody comes together they all meet each other and it's funny how they kind of you end up meeting
if you're the guy that likes to hang by the campfire you end up meeting the same people
and then people meet up together later on in other places and camp together which is super
cool because for us that's what it's all about the people and the places and the places so if
you haven't signed up yet i will link everything down below um i know they're having some issues
this video is gonna come out sunday i know they're having some issues with their booking right now so
wednesday is when they want you to call in there but if you have any issues getting in
let us know hit us up on one of the social medias email us whatever you need to do and let us know
and when you do call you want to speak to either lisa not me not this one but the other lisa
or faye they're the ones that are like in charge of group representatives don't talk to anybody
else call and speak with one of them and still if you have any problems just just hit us up and
we can get in touch with them and have them call you so we'd love to see you guys there so if you
can make it make it like i said cross your fingers we can get out of here on time we need to get home
for a couple first case we'll at least get home to get the prizes and all the giveaways and then
we'll make it to the meetup and we hope to see all of you that's not realistic but we hope to
see a lot of you there because how fun would that be that's it so until you guys see us on the road
again or you see us at the meetup which that's why we want to see you guys safe travels y'all