- Yeah I might be a little nauseous right now.
I don't know why. We did the hardest
stuff yesterday. We took out the regulator,
we had to switch stuff, I had to take off my mask.
- She took off her mask yeah.
- Which I didn't want to.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- So it can't be any harder today than it was
yesterday so I don't know why I'm so nervous.
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- In case you haven't heard we've been filming
for a new TV show on the Discovery Channel.
- Yeah, it's called RVing in the USA.
And one of the segments they wanted
to do was to film us scuba diving
in Lake Mead here in Las Vegas.
- That did inspire us to check off
another item on the bucket list which is to
finally get certified as scuba divers.
So we were lucky enough on that trip to meet Bill
who is a certified scuba instructor.
And instantly we knew he was the one for us.
- Yeah he was very patient. I mean his demeanor,
he was just calm. He knew we knew
nothing about scuba diving. He knew
we didn't know what we didn't know.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
His company is Desert Dog Diving it's here in Las Vegas.
A couple of things to think about
if you decide to get your certification
which we're super excited that we're doing.
- Yup.
- There are several international certification
companies so make sure you research your
instructor to find out where they're certified.
Next find out if you have to buy gear before your class.
What I really love about working with Bill
is he's not gonna make us buy anything.
He has all the equipment for us
to use at no extra charge while
we're doing the certification.
Which is cool because if this doesn't work out,
if I drown underwater I don't want
to fork out the dough ahead of time.
- And if we decide hey, this isn't for us.
And in talking with Bill there have been
people that have done just that.
Hour one in the water they were
like "Nope not for me. I'm done.".
- Also find out where they're gonna be doing
all the segments of the instruction.
So as far as the classroom time and
the water time where are you gonna
get your water, your dives in?
So check on all that before you
hand over your hard earned cash
'cause this is not a cheap venture.
- Some instructors will start you off in a pool.
Some will start you off in a lake.
It just depends on their location,
what they have available to them,
so it's good to know that ahead of time.
- And you also want to find an instructor
who doesn't just want to check the box
and kick you out of the class.
You want to find an instructor that
wants to make sure when you leave
the course you are ready to go.
Not ready as in know everything and
be perfect but you know ready and safe to set out
on your own so you can get more experience.
First thing we have to do as you
can see here we have our books.
And Bill said this is gonna take us
about four to six hours to get
through all this material on our own.
- Yeah, we had homework again.
(soft laughing)
- That's right I stuck Phil in another class.
So after that we will do classroom time and
the classroom time reviews all of our homework
and then we have to take a big fat 75 question test.
- See my hands are sweating already.
I have to go take a test.
(laughing)
Because we're in unchartered waters.
See what I did there.
- Oh ba, dum, bum.
- So again this is going to give us
the basic information so we understand it.
And then when we go to the classroom portion
hopefully there'll be a ton of review
before the test to go over what we just learned.
- And then after that we'll spend a day
with Bill going through all the equipment.
He's going to teach us how to put
it together and take it apart.
And then we have two days in the water.
Oh my gosh I can't even believe it.
- I'm looking forward to that because
when we did our little filming dive, if you will,
I had so much fun doing it I didn't even
know what I was doing. Didn't know
you know really the depth of water that I was in
but I really enjoyed being in the water.
- We're excited to get certified and
we're really excited as to where this will take us.
It's going to give us a lot more
activities to do while we're traveling.
So I guess we really just we need to get to work.
- Yeah we gotta jump into it.
- We gotta get through the book!
♪ What a perfect way to spend the day ♪
♪ Just dreamin' ♪
♪ Way to spend the day ♪
♪ This honeydew, sugar boo, love me, love me ♪
♪ Way to spend the day ♪
♪ Just hold me if you feel the same ♪
(hollow thudding)
(water splashing)
- Step, not hop, step.
(water splashing)
(water bubbling)
(ethereal orchestral music)
(water bubbling)
(loud bubbling)
(faint hissing)
(faint beeping)
(hollow thudding)
- Definitely, that is so awesome.
- Did it, I made it up!
- Bison I forgot to help you.
- No, I was trying to do it.
(grunting)
(cheering)
Okay.
(soft thudding)
(soft clanging)
Day one in the water has finished.
(chuckling)
Oh my gosh.
- We just spent six hours playing in and out
of the water. I shouldn't say playing.
Learning how to properly scuba dive.
- And thank goodness our instructor
is awesome because I got pretty scared.
A couple of times I came this close to panicking.
Couple of times had to calm it down.
But the skill that got me the most
is having to take off my mask and pull it away.
And then breathe and then put it back on.
Because I've been having trouble with
my mask anyway. I've had water go up
through and bubbles push through.
So I'm so scared I'm going to breathe
through my nose with my mask off.
Because when I jump in the water,
when I swim, if I jump in I hold my nose.
So I feel like I need to hold my nose.
So, but I did it.
- Big weirdo.
(soft laughing)
- But she did it.
- I didn't want to. I said no at first, but then I did it.
- Yeah I looked up at her and she's
shaking her head no in the water.
So we had to do a lot of underwater skills.
We had to prove some things underwater.
You know how to read the computer,
how to do the diver out of air swapping
the air and giving them our air.
Using our secondary air, things like that.
So buoyancy control is still something
we have to work on. We're getting
a little bit better at it but being able
to hover in one spot and stay at
one depth was kind of rough.
- Yeah and be neutral so we don't
fall down lower or we don't go deeper.
We don't rise up out of the water.
- Yeah.
- Yes we're having difficulties with that.
- So those of you that dive already
you know what we're talking about.
- Yeah.
- We're probably not using the
right terminology but we'll get there.
- Neutral, it's neutral.
- We will get there.
- We just got here for day two of our diving
certification course and I am very nervous.
- Yeah right now the boat has just
pulled up behind us at the dock here.
So we're excited, nervous. We want to get it done
but we want to pass with flying colors.
- Yeah I might be a little nauseous right now.
I don't know why. We did the hardest stuff yesterday.
We took out the regulator, we had to switch stuff.
- She took off her mask.
- I had to take of my mask.
- Yeah.
- Which I didn't want to.
(chuckling)
- Yeah.
So it can't be any harder today than it was
yesterday so I don't know why I'm so nervous.
- Yeah let's see if she doesn't tell
our instructor no when he has us do
a skill underwater, because she did.
(nervous laughing)
- I did say no once.
(laughing)
- So I'm going to bend at the knees right?
And I'm going to roll, ready?
(water splashing)
- He made it look so easy.
- I know.
- [Bill] Bend at the knees and roll.
- [Phil] Hold your mask and regulator.
Hold your mask and regulator. It's the same hand.
- I'm very nervous.
- [Phil] Same hand.
Mask and regulator, same hand.
- Yes I'm on it!
- [Bill] You got this, you got this.
- I'm okay.
- [Bill] You got this just roll,
bend your knees and just roll, loose roll.
(water splashing)
(chuckling)
- [Phil] Nice!
- [Bill] Okay, bend at your knees and roll.
(water splashing)
♪ Countin' every second till the sun goes down ♪
♪ Heart beats buzzin' to the neon sound ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Ripped jeans and tee's never felt so free ♪
♪ You could be anywhere but you're here with me ♪
♪ Let's go, go ♪
♪ We're always dreamin', technicolor love ♪
♪ Like dancing in the deep end ♪
♪ Let's just soak it up ♪
♪ C'mon, c'mon, dive in ♪
♪ Let go, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ C'mon, c'mon, dive in ♪
- [Phil] Feel all the water running down.
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ C'mon, c'mon, dive in ♪
(strained grunting)
- Okay, made it!
We survived day two!
- That we did and man let me tell you
it was more fun today then it was yesterday.
- And guess what?
- We certified.
- Bill's going to sign our books.
So we are official.
- Yeah we got to work on those
skills that we've been working on.
Stacy didn't tell the instructor no this time
she actually listened and did all the
skills that she was supposed to do.
- Well, I did all of them yesterday.
I just had to do a couple in between.
- She was hesitant.
- I had to be prepped to be ready.
(chuckling)
- He had to coach me.
- I'm telling you this has been
the best experience we could have
had jumping into this endeavor.
I mean we went from probably a week to two weeks
ago not even realizing that we could do it.
To actually accomplishing it and
knocking it out of the water, oh.
- Ba, dum, bum.
- And now that Tara and Chad say "No.".
Just about everybody we've asked
so far has said "No." except Al and Angie.
So maybe we can get Al and Angie to come back
here and meet Bill and get them certified.
- Yeah, so if any of you run into
Al and Angie on the road or come
across them on Life Beyond the Burbs on Facebook,
tell them they need to do it and
tell them they need to do it with us.
- And if y'all are thinking about doing it
this is a perfect place to come.
I'll put the link down below for Desert Dog Diving.
Checking off something else on our
bucket list is the coolest thing ever.
So let us know down in the comments,
which side you're on or maybe you're somebody
who says "No way. Never going to do it.
Let us know.
♪ C'mon, c'mon, dive in ♪
♪ Let go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ C'mon, c'mon, dive in. ♪
- Wait, wait, wait, don't go anywhere.
We have some exciting updates for you.
- That's right and let's start with Albuquerque.
Who is going to the Balloon Fiesta?
We will definitely be there and
we are dying to know who else is coming with us.
- Yeah this is our first time going so we're super excited.
- So drop down in the comments below.
Let us know if you're coming because
we have some awesome events planned.
- Yeah, let me see, go-ahead dropdown in the comments.
Oh all right I think they are.
- [Stacy] All right our first event is
a silent auction for Homes For Our Troops.
So we have some awesome stuff
that has been donated. Everything from
- [Phil] a Viair air compressor,
we have On The Go Water Softener.
We have a Solo Stove, we have an electric e-bike.
- Memberships from Harvest Hosts and Boondockers Welcome.
And we also have some home studies from NRVTA.
So that's the class that Phil took.
- Yup.
- When he went to learn how to be an RV technician.
So they are throwing in some things for us too.
- And there's many more. So go to the website,
check out all of the items that
are listed there so that you can start
formulating your game plan and
how much you want to bid. What your high
is going to be, never your low.
But what's your high is going to be
because remember it's all going to the veterans.
- We will put the link down below.
- Right?
- So you can click on it and head
straight to the website. Next up is the TV show.
- [Phil] RVing In The USA. We are featured in it, somewhat.
- A sprinkling.
- Yeah they are having their big premiere
tonight at eight o'clock eastern.
That's on the other coast eight o'clock.
- And that would be on YouTube.
- Yeah, sorry.
- So if you want to watch it it's already
aired on many TV stations across the country.
- Right.
- But if you weren't able to watch it
they are putting it up on YouTube.
So the link for that will be below as well.
- Yeah, I forgot YouTube.
(laughing)
How could I?
- And finally the last thing is Full-Time Freedom Week.
- Yep.
- It is a virtual summit where you can learn
soup to nuts everything you can think of about RVing.
- She stole my line I was going to say soup to nuts.
(laughing)
- But again, it's jam-packed with
a lot of different sessions.
- [Stacy] So they have over 30 speakers talking about
all kinds of different topics and it is free
to sign up and free to watch the videos.
So I will put the link down below for that as well.
- And you might see us in a video in that one as well.
- Oh most definitely. We will be there.
We're talking about Army Corps of Engineer Parks.
- That's right so if you're not up to
speed on the Army Corps of Engineers Parks
around the country, tune in.
- All right guys thanks for watching.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
And hopefully one day we'll see you.
- [Both] On the road!
♪ We got a beautiful story ♪
♪ Every moment on and on ♪
♪ We got a beautiful story ♪
♪ And we've only just begun ♪
♪ The best is yet to come ♪