Hey there maximalistas! I'm catching up on my editing.
So the video I'm going to show you today,
I actually shot back in January and yeah, I know that was a long time ago,
but it's timeless.
It is a tour of my friendTom's cute little Scamp trailer. Here goes.
Hi, my name is Tom and this is my home on wheels.
it's a 13 foot Scamp. I pull it with my Jeep Cherokee,
and we go down the road just fine.
I was driving truck, long haul, all over the country.
I worked for carrier out of - two different ones, one out of Sioux falls,
South Dakota, another one up in Fargo.
I retired at 65 and then I kept working for another year and then they call me
back a year later and then they called me back after that and then they called
me back and I worked for a couple months and then re-retired again.
I did that three times. I had a big camper, my wife and I,
and we sold our house in 2017.
What made you and your wife go on the road in the first place?
Something we wanted to do. We just decided.
And I was trying to sell our house with a realtor,
for not quite a year and we had some interested people,
but nothing ever came of it. Finally, my realtor said,
I got somebody wants to buy your house.
So Cheryl and I talked about it and, let's do it. If we're going to do it,
we're going to do it now. So we did it.
Uh, she passed away and it was just way too much for me.
So I really, really downsized.
I was going to live in my Jeep. And then my cousin called me and said,
I found a Scamp for you. So now I got a Scamp and a Jeep.
It's a small space, obviously, and I'm going to be making some changes.
Um, I don't like the way my bed is, so I'm going to reconfigure that.
Getting used to not having a whole kitchen, a
whole bathroom, and a whole living room.
But this is my living room right out here where I'm sitting.
I can go anywhere I want to.
I changed the drapes because the drapes in there were horrible.
So I got some material. I picked out this stuff cause it was kind of cute.
This is all where we camped, my wife and I.
I've been up here but not camping..
And this is an awning?
That's an awning.
Did that come with it or you put that on there?
That came with it. I got this from an estate.
Did the solar come with it or did you say -
What is this?
Right here, that's for the sewer hose , believe it or not.
And of course I got my solar out, my propane gas.
And you use a suitcase panels for your solar?
Correct. Renogy suitcase.
And how much?
A hundred Watts.
And then what do you have for battery?
That's it right behind there. One Battery.
Actually it's two batteries but they're small and they're really powerful.
And up in my Jeep, I have or more.
Set up just like that.
Two battery holders and then I can,
I can connect them all together, or two separately or three separately.
And this, you mostly do your cooking out here?
50-50.
Let's check it out. Now are we both gonna fit in here?
Of course we will.
Now I'm guessing these cabinets did not come in red and blue?
No, I painted these just to get some color. They were some ugly wood color.
I'm normally a very wood kind of guy,
but that was not good. It was worse than this.
And you told me that you don't actually use the bathroom as a bathroom, right?
You just use it as a closet, right?
Right. Refrigerator, stove, two burners.
Sink is under here. There's no countertop.
So I made this just to have a countertop. That's the furnace,
and more cabinet space down there.
And how is your furnace - it's propane?
Yes. It'll drive you out of here.
You added a little art touch over here. .
That was painted by my granddaughter, just for me.
And here's my bed.
There's a, I've got a memory foam mattress.
It's a single but the bed is actually wider than that. Yeah,
this is normally a table with benches on either side but I decided I didn't want
that. But now I'm going to go back to it because I'm not happy with this.
I have no place to sit.
What are you going to do instead?
Put the table back the way it was and then it'll just pull down at night time
and I can roll out my sleeping bag.
Yep. That's my closet under there, my clothes.
But underneath here is actually the table that you're going to -
Yeah. Right.
I always like to show that people have their bases covered with alarms and
stuff. Cause so many people forget about that.
It's got new batteries too.
So this is kinda neat. Your little storage over there.
I needed some place for small stuff.
This was normally a closet.
There's a rod up here, but I use it for that.
Put these in there so I can have more storage down there.
And who's this guy?
That is Bucky. He has been with me for years and years and years.
He was my traveling buddy when I drove truck.
Did
you make this step, Tom?
Yeah, because believe it or not, that's it's a short distance, but
when you're coming down out of there, like in the dark, it's kind of hard.
So I made that step. As you get older,
things work better if you don't have to jump.
I'm with you there.
I was in the service, and then this is another group I belong to.
They get together for meetings and do a caravan,
not dissimilar to what we do here. They travel.
You've done some traveling with caravans? And how do you like it?
Uh, it's okay as long as they're not too big. I like small stuff.
Uh, hence the scamp.
It has stands. They just kind of swing up. It adds stability to the back end.
It doesn't bounce all over the floor.
[inaudible] what do Scamps go for? Like how,
what would it cost somebody to get into a Scamp? A new one?
There's a year wait just to buy one from the factory.
And that's the only place you can buy them. To my knowledge,
you have to buy them straight from the factory unless they've changed. But uh,
after that, uh, this was, like I said, I got from an estate. It was an estate,
estate settlement, and uh,
they're kind of rare to find one 'cause they go really,
really fast. They're in high demand, especially up in the Midwest.
That's where they're made. They're made in Minnesota, in Backus, Minnesota. So,
and normally something like this I think would go for like 12 grand or
something. I paid 6,800 bucks. That's a good price.
So I think I've got a really, and I will not lose money on it.
I'll be able to sell it for at least what I paid for.
I'm traveling all over. We can see you sometime. You never know.
I'm always open to say hi.