Last week we left the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta stopped at the General Patton
Memorial Museum and ended up in the mountains in Big Bear California for the Adventure Van Expo
this week brings us back to Riverside California why? because it's time to take back Mini Vinny
better known as the Grech Strada-Ion. so you're probably wondering now what are you gonna do?!
[music:] "Maybe our lives were not meant to collide from the start, but who could foresee the fall
maybe it's time to decide what to do" [end music] well we made it to Grech RV. we're
bringing back Mini Vinny. I can come inside and set you up real
quick because I know where all the cables go with your laptop and that.
pretty unit. a lot of them here. they've got a Terreno over here another Terreno.
will this work? Michelle's office for the day. Yeah! I'm like spoiled here! I really appreciate this by the way.
refrigerators cold, everything's ready to go so. thank you, appreciate it
anybody looking for a class B like this got some good news for you this is going to be for sale now
it's got just over 16,000 miles on it right now as we speak. so the new unit that we're going to
go into is the Strada-Ion as well but we've got some new and exciting things coming with this unit
that we'll be sharing with you in another episode. but again if you're looking for a Strada-Ion
a used one, with a little over 16,000 miles on it, it's a good buy. for any questions about it from our
aspect of living in it just reach out to us and we'd be more than happy to answer any questions
tool bag here all of our water hose and all of our accessories in this one and then some
cleaning supplies and a little miscellaneous in this one. Camco blocks we got some
space over in that area too we've got the power cord over there again in this model
you've got all this extra storage that really makes a big difference they have a couple USB
ports in here for like charging your phones or anything else and then on this side over here
it's the same thing but we use one of the USB ports for her phone and then we have our Alexa
oh she heard me cancel using a command strip we have her
her like it's a female so we just use the command strip to put the uh our Alexa up on the wall there
I figured right now it's kind of a perfect time to show you how much we actually get back here so
we've got three big containers here they're a 34 quart uh let's see 24 inches by almost 17 inches
and they're about six and a half inches tall so I can stack we can stack two of those on top of
each other this one has to stick out just a little bit because there's a little bump out back there
but uh and then this one we actually put this sideways we found it it actually makes more room
then we'll put our starlink here um we have some important files here that we keep this
way back in there there's actually a little storage even back in this little hole pocket
right there sometimes I put my camera bag on top like that these are osprey backpacks we
got them at REI we're not affiliated with REI two little containers here that we put in here
I'm back in this corner we put our backpacks in there
stack on top of those two containers stock up in there now we still got a bunch of storage back
in behind here now if you're not using this holder for the Lagun table you can unscrew these off and
it gives you more room without these getting in the way that's for the post for the Lagun table
when you're wanting to store it I took those off so that we can actually put stuff down through
there without these sticking up and we'll just save them in a nice place so they can put them
back when we're done with the unit but uh just thought of this I didn't do that before I left
them there but this will help getting things in there a little easier without these getting in
the road and not breaking them these are metal so you're not going to really break them you might
bend them put the table down first because we use the chairs more than we use the little table
goes back in there I could put them like sticking in here this way too if I wanted to but we have
some other stuff to go there so utilizing as much space as I can here Starlink goes in just like
that we have that up front obviously so that it's nice and handy when we need to use it and then
Michelle or her keyboard when she's done for the day here it slides right in here she puts
her calendar here she has a little catch-all that she sticks right here and then I stick some of my
stuff right here for the day for my laptop like the charger and that all this other stuff that
we have back here we hardly ever use so we just leave it in there be nice to get rid of it all
that ain't gonna happen all right some other things that we put in here a little portable
ironing board has a little legs here that we can use for ironing now the iron we stick
that up there in the closet in the back and we uh put a towel on it so that it doesn't move
around and scratch the woodwork the ironing board just slips right on top just like that
so it just stays right up there and then we have our helmets for their e-bikes
so I think you're getting the idea that you can put quite a bit in
here workout bands that we never use... gotta have it
and there's still room back here unless we can still put something back in there so
right here next to this back storage we have two of these um I don't know storage extenders
whatever we've got them kind of interlocked to make one long one so those go right here
we got everything else I know our little vacuum cleaner that we always put back in here Michelle's
curling iron the cord for the vacuum cleaner actually stick that in the back hair dryer some
more miscellaneous stuff that goes here on the side then mirror stick the mirror here in the
side containers we've talked about it before but we've got these at Target we like them because
they pretty much form to any space instead of something that's hard and you can that way you
can get them into different different size spaces they have these at Target for this light color a
light gray and a darker gray the next compartment of over here we have some more shelving extenders
that's what I'm going to call them I don't know if that's the correct word but it doesn't matter
we all know what they are our tubs very nice and handy have some mugs all right
we have our plates and some paper plates and a collapsible bowl that I've been wondering where
it was at and it has been sitting underneath those plates all this time we have some things
like an extra mug that you never use my advice is to try to get rid of those things that you don't
need it all adds up you're really not going to need it not going to use it try to eliminate it
then eliminate it as much as possible because then when you go to new places then you can buy things
to take with you and make it cramped again you watching Michelle right sweetie
more things that go in here this is uh our Essentials shaker for drinks hardly ever use
here there's lots of lots of stuff that we never use because you just never know
that's what I'm told I hope you guys know I'm just joking Michelle knows I am too because
there's things that I keep too that I keep telling myself why in the heck am I keeping this I haven't
been using it and we're always you know scrambling for more space this thing has a lot of space for
a class B so the moral to my story you don't need all that shall we go get some more stuff
I almost forgot we have a little catch-all bin also that I forgot that goes up in here
next compartment we have another shelving extender look at that there put our coffee grinder here
we have our blend jet this thing is really awesome we love this uh we talked about
this before and this is some friends of ours it's their son that is the founder
of the company and we really love it Blends things really good Blends ice really good
enough said about that you know we're not affiliates with them but maybe we should be we
ought to talk to them about that because they're really handy if you have limited space they're
great for a little blender you can use them to drink out of you can make they got all kinds of
recipes that they provide as well we stick our X paper towels up there usually when we're driving
when we're not driving sometimes we just stick them down here so that we can access them easier
so this goes up here this has got our like our coffee thermos and then our Kettle we just stick
right up in there some storage containers that we put there this is the heating plate for our kettle
that's how we heat our water for our coffee we had to get another French press and we ended up
getting this from Walmart it's all stainless steel and uh right now we just have some napkins extra
napkin sitting here at the bottom but we just stick that there um you ever come over our house
and you see this like oh my gosh one of them has falsies I knew they were eating too much pie must
be Michelle's no it's actually mine and a little history about myself I have sleep apnea severe
sleep apnea and I was never able to use a CPAP machine they tried different masks nose pillows
all these different things I know there's a new thing out there that's an implant kind of keep up
with all that stuff but a mouthpiece that pulls my jaw my bottom jaw forward is what helps the most
so nobody has falsies here this would be the last cabinet on the passenger side of the coach and
we've changed things around in this a couple times but currently we just put some extra food up here
foreign and that's all we have up there right now now we're starting in the back again on the
driver's side and this is where we put all our towels so we have another little ketchall here
I also have my clippers I have always cut my hair since I think I was 16 years old I've always cut
my own hair so always have that with us the extra mirror and that's pretty much everything that goes
in that compartment next compartment here you have storage but a little bit of storage other than
your DVD player your dual battery solar charger it's a zamp charger everything we keep up here is
all of our owner's manuals for all the components and everything with the coach down here in our
lower cabinets underneath the sink we use plastic containers we don't use the same soft containers
mainly for a couple reasons you got you know your sink if it ever got wet under here we carry
like you know oils and liquids and stuff that we put down here so we use these plastic containers
this get our coconut oil some lime juice some cooking oil
tequila all our food stuff down there we've got vitamins we've got our spices and everything we've
got all our cleaning products Reynolds Wrap down below we've got a bunch more cleaning supplies
I put our laundry detergent we buy the smaller laundry detergent put it down there we used to
buy the bigger but it doesn't really matter to us because we're we're always going to
the grocery store to get things anyway metal is down under there the dryer sheets smelly stuff
Extra TV all right now we're going to our silverware drawer the tents let's go in here
so we have the rest of our utensils over here on the side so this drawer has more things in
it we actually stack a few other things on top we don't get into this drawer quite as much
so it that doesn't really bother us too much foreign
the passenger side we've got storage got a little ketchall container up here we put quite a bit of
stuff in and then there's storage over here on the driver's side as well there is Storage over here
on the dash there's storage there and the dash and there's storage over there in the dash and we've
got storage right here in front of the passenger seat and storage on both sides of the door
foreign
it's just hard to get used to the dark gray you know when we were used to the lighter interior
but yeah it's still very pretty it is and I like some of the different features I'll open that up
we got all that stuff in there this is our closet all packed we've got let's see one two three
well you really can't use this as a shelf too much because our clothes hits it but
that's an extra shelf than we had before yeah already got some of our Command strips up
um we went through all the all the cabinets already
and we've got our bedding all set up we've got some stuff that we still need to put away
back here um but yeah there's a few things that are different we'll we'll talk about that in
another episode though we'll do a we'll do another tour right yeah yeah yeah I think we're due and
then we'll go over everything that this has that the other one didn't have and all right all right
all right time to head back to Palm Springs we better get back you want some coconut cream pie
from the Sherman's Deli like how many times can I eat there is there a limit apparently not I better
get my fill now because it may be a while before we ever get back to Palm Springs again very very
nice we like some of the uh extra things that they have done and again we'll talk about that later
sorry we gotta we gotta keep something secret until we can so that we can have another video
right right can't spill all the beans at once oh besides we're hungry we don't have time
sorry it is what after five yeah about four five forty four maybe we'll just go to um anchos here
homemade tortillas that are awesome it is very good and I think we need to turn right instead
of left here Steven Gin got us onto that one yes Stephen Gin from tuck and roll RV living
uh check out their Instagram page they used to live here and they told us about it and got us
hooked on it it's very very good all right we're gonna quit jabbering we're gonna go eat and we'll
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