come on baby come on baby oh came into shock
we got it we got it oh yeah baby
in case you missed my last video my uh life on the road as a traveling nomad is come to a short
hopefully temporary little pause here as we uh repair some damage the uh hit
and delayed run and everybody lost their mind saying he was not a hit and run
it was i mean he stopped gave me a fake name then went to get his insurance and took off
therefore it was a hit and run anyway i have some updates today moving in the right direction okay
yeah guys thanks for joining me i will be uploading this video
with some nomad internet link below in the video description
and
would you believe it if i told you that i drove straight to my shop here in east
alton illinois now so from los angeles california
to east alton illinois just on the other side of the river from st louis missouri because
well let's go inside and have a little chat here i know i'm doing everything wrong and you guys
know exactly how i should have done this the right way but i'm doing it my way that's because i don't
want to be stuck in los angeles i've had friends who had a seemingly you know simple insurance
claim turn into month and month and month after month ordeal and i don't want to sit in an rv with
my kitties and have to find a place to live in los angeles in california with prices of gas going
over six dollars a gallon so i came back to my shop that's i mean this is this is my shop this is
this is my livelihood this is my storage unit this is my we got we got black betty over there hang on
the boys at a modified auto gave her some bling i can change it to any color i want
with a complete underglow kit there and uh if it weren't raining i would be riding the bike more
so we had the inspection the claims adjusters showed up for the inspection
on the motorhome and they have their little estimate we're good to go
i here's the weird part maybe not weird but as someone who has not dealt with this before
um in order to expedite this process you see they actually they have not ruled in my favor yet on
this technically on paper they're still waiting for the police report to be finalized so therefore
even though there's geico is going to wait until it's official and we can just sit here and wait
until they decide to finish it or i can pay my 500 deductible up front and get this ball rolling
go pick a shop somewhere here in st louis which is what we're going to do in this in this video
and then once everything gets sorted i'll get my 500 back if it drags on for months or a year
whatever keep the 500 it's a little ridiculous i just need to get my rv fixed so uh at the end of
the video hopefully we'll be going to look at a shop in the meantime you notice all these boxes
here and a little bit different look here in the main shop area that's because this is the before
i'm going to set up my mickey mouse collection all right there which is all these boxes
all those boxes and a crap ton of stuff underneath the bed in my rv that's what we're doing in this
video so thanks for joining me guys i know this isn't my usual thing we'll try to get back to
normal here as soon as i can but thank you guys for being patient and understanding that i am
sharing my real life instead of some channels that might just disappear for months at a time
and not say anything i'm gonna you guys are gonna stay right here with me i hope you will and we'll
get back to traveling here soon hopefully before the start of the summer get back on pace okay
yeah got some work to do so much mickey stuff to go through all right so an hour later and we're
starting to see things form here in the shop so my ten shelves from uh you know base camp when i
set this up is a different arrangement obviously we're not in a little square room we have
a lot more space so i'm using this wall which is also where the loft is upstairs that's my line so
eight of them this way two over here but you can also see that i saved some paint when i did this
at the house by not painting everything so see black black legs there and you can see i must
have had these flipped around a different way because the front isn't even painted on here so
before we go to bed tonight i'm going to do some touch up thankfully thankfully i did save a little
bit of paint two full cans so uh i'll come up here and paint this now that i am confident this is the
way i'm going to uh display the 10 shelves and i do need to go back to the rv and grab my magnets
here's my massive magnet board back there that i got to bring out still with room for the other
ones i've collected on the road use proper ventilation don't do what i do blah blah blah
all right and just like that take one more step back did all my fixes
it ain't perfect but uh i'm really happy with that so i will let that dry turn the fan on
tonight overnight we'll get back to this in the morning setting up the collection yeah in case
you can't hear it's uh raining pretty good here in illinois uh why is that no surprise to me
all right well let's quickly hop over here to the shop real quick
so that i can show you some stuff here very very moist here okay i need to better light this whole
section up what i'm probably gonna do is put some we call those strip lights up here but man the
collection looks so much better in this space than it did in that tiny room of base camp so and going
all the way back to where this all started yeah many of you know this this mickey phone right here
started my mickey mouse collection from metropolis illinois right here the home of superman that
started all of this craziness got my thermos cups i got all my plastic and my tin lunchboxes
displayed everywhere these are all of my radios uh my race car collection my most prized mickey
collectible of all my mickey mouse club record player right there in better condition than the
one at the walt disney museum in marceline missouri mine's better mickey's jacks oh man
a lot of sentimental value in this collection this is my vintage shelf here everything in here is uh
very very old what a collection it has become it's crazy i got a ways to go a lady in katy
texas holds the guinness world record most mickey mouse stuff at over ten thousand because
uh she has six thousand individual little mickey pins so she has the biggest collection
no she has the most quantity of mickey mouse stuff i think i have the biggest collection the most
valuable collection the most variety of mickey mouse stuff and it does make me really happy to
see the collection years and years and so many miles put on also the motorcycle trailer i'm uh
well i'm thinking and thinking before we leave got one more last chance for the
summer do you want to take tater tot or black betty the harley so
no i'm not ready for that decision just yet all right well just finished my first stop
at an auto body shop that was a cross auto and truck repair here in uh edwardsville just got
done talking to him in there good news is no matter what they are willing to fix it
whether it's fiberglass repair but he looked at the pictures
and was wondering why they're not just gonna put an entire new cap on because a new cap if in stock
would take two days the fiberglass repair from the pictures is a week and a half
of multiple workers doing fiberglass repair alone and then color match so unfortunately
the big problem is his next appointment available here at cross auto is in july
and now we get to this part where it's like what's the point of insurance even like when i had
camping world you could have anything installed at camping world with the good sam's membership
but you know if your fridge goes out you know they're six to eight months out at camping
world and you live in your rv 2.2 million of us live in our rv and it's really stressful and
i understand this is this is a small this is a small like family-owned company here there are
some bigger companies but i don't think i'm going to have as good of luck as far as explaining that
i live in my rv and i'm on the road right now and this is just a stop on my travels i don't
know where i'm gonna am i really gonna stay here from that's four months from now got one more shop
i want to look at here and ask them as well but this place also told me that they can start it
uh simply with um my claim number and they need the estimate from my insurance even if
my insurance estimate is way lower than what they think it's going to be they still work all
that out and everything but anyway let's try one more all right i'm gonna try this other one stock
auto body i'm tired of the rain already but we'll go try this one that's a really nice lobby by the
way not waiting to talk to a technician nope they won't touch my rv they won't touch anything big
and just got a flat tire thanks for that and i don't have the compressor because
i'm not in the rv boy when it rains it pours here all right well can't get a tire here so
got david from modified auto helping me out we're gonna pull this tire off and go try to find a used
one here at least the rain has stopped just windy right now knocked the whole chunk off we just uh
stopped by his house to yeah there's there's the air leak right there that's the problem
gonna try to plug it just to see if that works first before uh
going to get that used tire since this is a brand new tire see that the plug holds
that looks like something more than one that's nice it's a big gash
yeah you don't want to do that especially driving 56
all right we got a tire it's got air we're here at uh cheapies all right the brain has stopped
at least today has just been a day of catching up everything i wanted to do didn't work out
i just finally got caught up with all the new stuff we got we got a used tire on here
conti pro contact okay um now knowing that there's a nationwide shortage of rubber for a smart car
when we were there i also asked him hey do you have any more what i really wanted was a spare
tire like an extra wheel spare tire but he said yeah actually we got all four of them they came
off of another smart car so i said give them to me 35 bucks a piece don't know the history or
anything of them um man can traveling on the road guys don't pay extra for some warranty
that you can't use when you leave it's we don't know why that tire exploded off off like that um
not sure not sure if i hit something that caused it or just cheap tires they didn't seem cheap
gosh i'm just not in a good mood opie dopey how are you doing i wish i was a kitty cat right now
i wouldn't have any problems i'd just be a kitty cat and i'd get butt scratches yeah we just get
all these butt scratches butt scratches butt scratches yes i did get some popcorn from chef's
shop in town best popcorn in the area tara bear hi honey you guys are probably ready for dinner
it's a half hour early but we can probably do dinner a little early yeah look uh today stressed
me out i woke up with a solid plan and didn't get anywhere and now i'm really worried that i
may have made a bad choice thinking that the it'd be better to be here at my shop you know and close
to friends with resources and and and st louis around the other side of the river 20 minutes away
and uh i i can't find anybody to just take the insurance money and fix it
i'm a little frustrated guys i expected a little bit better outcome being here
and especially just a better outcome today today thankfully the rain has stopped it's
not been my day and that's all i have to say about that i'm going to try again first thing
tomorrow get back on this and probably cross the river i don't know going to go to the other state
i don't know what to say i know lots of other people have been through this it's just
very very frustrating
anyways talk to you guys later bye guys
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