hello story chasers this is amber and i have scott and sasha behind me
i met them at the bryce canyon national park just a couple of days ago and we
really hit it off and i wanted to give you guys a tour of
their rig it's a truck camper and if you saw one of my last videos
you'll know i'm kind of looking at truck campers again
and i might change my rig so with that said let's go ahead and introduce them
and we'll get a rig tour of their camper
my name is sasha and i'm scott we started our travels about
seven months ago and we decided to hit the road because we were stuck around
jobs we really loved our jobs but we knew that there is something
something else out there and basically our our goal is to travel
the world but we decided to start with north america
we head off from new hampshire in cold november um it was snowing it
was really cold and we went to florida really fast and
now we ended up in utah and we chose a truck camper because
of the flexibility we can go anywhere we can go off-road
we can park in normal parking spots and we can also take the camper off
to take the truck as just a normal normal vehicle to drive around in
so it's very flexible it's a little bit tight on space compared to say a fifth
wheel but we've made it work pretty well this
is our rig it's a 2019 new camp cirrus 920 and
we put that on a 2018 ram 3500 dually diesel
welcome to our home on wheels come on in so we chose this particular camper
because of the look so many campers they were super
functional very nice but they were pretty hideous
and we looked into so many that we realized if we want to live here full
time we need to love it and serious stood out
and that's why we purchased this particular one
we really like the modern styling the color scheme
and some of the features the led lighting which most campers have but we
found this to be a little bit more elegant
we really like the cast iron cooktop and the
nice backsplash that they gave us and we kind of skipped the
oven because it gave us this gigantic drawer
and the oven really wasn't needed because because we have this nice
microwave that that actually has the convection oven
built in so we can cook whatever we want i really love this pantry um
it's pretty spacious you can put a lot of different things in there like
you can see we have all of our spices there like
salt and pepper our vitamins our supplements
and it's really really really useful
this fridge was pretty different from all the other ones that we saw
it's very narrow it's tall and the freezer is in the top
it's a little frosty right now the thing that we really like that was very useful
was the bottom drawer is for tall items large items so we can
get this gigantic bottle in here this
it really really helps fit things that wouldn't normally fit
we buy boxes of lettuce and it sits right in here because there's plenty of
clearance to close it that was really really useful so also
part of why we got this particular camper was the skylight
it's really beautiful and it's actually located in this perfect spot
most campers have it right here which is not very useful because you can't really
like lay down and look at the stars and with
this one we really like that we can lay here
during a lightning storm and see the rain
the stars at night are really spectacular and a lot of the other
campers as sasha said the skylight is here which
means to do that you kind of have to to lay like this which isn't very
natural so this was a big selling point for us
yeah um one more thing for me um i can't sleep
when it's loud and it's pretty hard to boondock
um in like cracker barrels and walmarts when it's really loud
and what we really liked about this camper was the windows
they're pretty well insulated and they're very quiet
they lock down really tight you can't really feel a lot of noise
as you can see has these little little guys and
you can close it like that and it also completely blocks the light
which is really nice uh when you boondock someplace but it's really
bright it gets really dark in here and no one
else can see us from the other side which is which is also
really cool so there are two of us living here and
storage becomes an issue sometimes but we we realize that we can
store our clothing in here we don't have a ton of stuff but it's
what we need basically um it's all about t-shirts all of our
uh stuff that we use daily and uh if we need something that we don't really use
every day we usually put it in the truck or sometimes in
one of these compartments i know it's a little messy but
this is what we have here and same thing for me i have uh
they call it a hamper but it's really just a clothing storage area
we store our clothes in here leftover stuff winter clothing we put up here
another feature we really liked was the enclosed uh what do they call that it's
a nightstand nightstand i guess yeah and
we don't have to worry about stuff falling out while we're driving we can
put everything in there and another nice touch was this somewhat
secret compartment up here where we store like like dress clothing
dvds yeah we don't really use it a lot but
like in case we need it in case we want to go out and do something fun it's
right there so as you guys know living in a track
camper means that we don't have a ton of storage uh so we figured out
that we can put a lot of stuff in here it's right right underneath our dinette
uh this is our basically dry food store dry foods it's
it's all the box stuff all the cans and that means whenever we eat
this is a really nice lagoon table that moves so we can shift it
whatever whatever we want like if we cook if someone cooks
we can put this really close and make sure
we got everything all together great thing about the lagoon table is you can
adjust the height uh you just loosen it up a little bit
and then you can raise and lower it doesn't really go
smoothly just like that you can lower it down
and bring it back up to wherever you need it and then you just lock it we
also we realized that we can't really sit over there so we put this nice box
with more storage and we just keep our random junk in
there so one of the other big selling points
for the camper besides the uh skylight was this gigantic bay window if
you want to call it that we really like it whenever we park the
camper we try to angle the window towards the prettiest
scenery and that way when we're eating dinner or whatever we really get to see
out and see where we're parked so we use this
storage for we have all of our electronics for wi-fi
and cellular kind of a charging station this seems to
be our miscellaneous items and we keep our
towels over here and it's this is the stuff that we don't
really need to use very often and it's plenty of space up there you
can tell we have lots of extra space as we mentioned earlier we have this
enormous drawer which is very nice but we also have this drawer down here
which is nice and wide we have a pizza pan in there we keep
large bags of rice we have just your standard drawers we really like the
fact that they click closed and then they won't open
that's amazing we have all of our under sink storage like probably most
campers do the airplane buttons that keep
everything nice and closed we really like these they pop open they
stay open and a lot of the times when we're parked
we'll just leave them open for easy access because
our heads won't hit these this closet we mostly use for
our clothing we have our shoe collection here we also have more shoes in here
and we use all of our coats our sweatshirts
uh we just put them in here it's it's kind of not a lot of room but
we we don't really need that much and we also have more miscellaneous stuff in
here like toilet paper paper towels socket sheets you actually have toilet
paper we do of course we ordered um so yeah and we
we also added these nice boxes with like batteries command hooks
command strips of course um and it's been working very well
actually um do you feel like you have enough
storage yes well um both of us work online on the
road so i feel like we have probably a little bit
more uh than what an average camper would have so so i feel like for
working on the road we might use a little bit more storage
but i feel like for just traveling full-time we have plenty of storage for
two people you said you work online yes for them um so what do you do online
that you need storage so i teach um esl uh and i teach
little kids so basically i need my props uh my toys my white board my
markers uh it it's not a lot of stuff but it all
accumulates and i need to find storage for it so that became an
issue and basically that's why we got this box it's mostly my props and my
storage like you you can see there's a little monkey guy
use them all the time and where do you actually um do your teaching from
oh i do it on the bed surprisingly and it's been an ordeal
so i teach vipkid it's a pretty well-known platform
i really like it they provided great flexibility and i normally teach on my
bed that's my my office so if you guys are interested
about learning more about my workspace for vipkid um there'll be a
link over here on how we do it every morning so this is
our bathroom uh we use it every day we shower in it
it works pretty well the the space is a little a little tight
but we've made it work uh it's a standard
toilet it's just a regular rv toy that goes into the black tank
we also have this nice fold down sink we don't use it very often but it's nice
if we're in a rush and we want to both wash our hands or brush our teeth
we can both have a sink to use the shower head here is adjustable for
different heights slides up and down and we really like
the fact that it has a hose it makes it easier to wash the shower
i did swap the bathroom fan out the one that came with it didn't really
move a lot of air so we just swapped it with a
standard fan works pretty well we shower every day in here
with our 38 gallon fresh tank we can usually go about four days
with showering dishes hand washing tooth tooth brushing
brushing teeth so another thing that we really liked about our bed
is the size it's a full queen bed and we also love this frolly system
so the purpose of the frolic system is not only to provide
a great back support but also to keep the the moisture out because basically
the mattress sits on top of them and it provides
the airflow and it's really nice our mattress hasn't been baldy which is very
good so this is kind of the command center
we have all of our water pump control all of our different lighting
and this gives us our tank levels and our
battery level and then up here we have the
control for the aldi system which is another
huge selling point it takes a second to boot
so you can set your internal temperature for the for the camper
you can run it off of electricity so 1000 watts 2000 watts
which we don't have right now and then this is to turn the gas off and on
and then there's tons of of settings this will actually tell you all of your
water temperatures whether the fan is on it's a fairly advanced system
the aldi system is forced hot water instead of forced hot air
which is really nice it's completely silent it uses almost no electricity i
think it uses about one amp and the heating coils are all on
the sides of the camper which creates convection
so your walls are always warm and we stay toasty warm even down at like
negative 20 degrees uh we have the factory installed solar
it's about 180 watts split across two panels so i think it's
290 watt panels and we have still just the factory dual
six volt agm batteries which gives us enough most of the time
unless we're running the laptops a lot for our needs we found that the
the batteries in here are not enough for our power usage
we have a 2000 watt inverter we'd like to be able to run the microwave more
often and i need to run my laptop basically 24
hours a day so this summer i'm going to be upgrading
the batteries to two 300 amp hour batteries as well as
upgrading the solar to a 600 watt system and uh
alternator charging so we'll be charging from the truck when we're driving
we calculated that we have enough real estate for 600 watts of solar up top
that'll still give me enough room to walk around and do maintenance
but we couldn't get much more up there the new camp series 920 does have a
generator option which we skipped because we wanted to be
able to install our own generator we put a honda generator in
and by doing that it allows us to remove it from the camper
so that if we're boondocking long term we don't have to listen to the generator
in the camper so we've shown you the inside now let's
go look at the outside
so of course one of the great features of a truck camper is you can remove
the camper from the truck and we found that if we're going to be camping
someplace for more than say five or seven days we'll take the camper
off the truck which lets us take it around town go get
groceries and explore more the process itself um is actually not
too bad time wise uh right now it takes us about
maybe 20 minutes all together to take the camper off
i think in the past it was maybe like 30 minutes but we learned how to make it
really quick half of that time though is actually
just disassembling the bike rack because we can't take the camper off
without removing the bike rack first the new camp cirrus 920 is a hard side
camper and we actually chose that on purpose
because we didn't want slides it's a little bit lighter that way you
don't have to worry about potential water
leakage issues it's completely livable without having to
put any slides out it's also a little bit narrower
which has created one particular issue for us which is
because we have a dually we've got the factory dually brackets
we actually had to add an extra plate on to clear because the
the ram fenders are much wider than fact than most other trucks
many other truck campers are about six or eight inches wider than this camper
and you wouldn't really need this so that's one consideration for this is the
wider extension brackets so our refrigerator is a three-way
fridge it runs on propane 110 or 120 volt and 12 volt
these are the vents for it and this is actually the connection for the 12 volt
system that connects to the battery on the truck so whenever we're
driving we can power the refrigerator from
the truck's alternator this is your standard
water connection you have your gravity fill and then your your city connection
and this is our 30 amp plug many campers have the cord that goes
inside but this actually you just plug in and twist it it's a twist lock of
some type uh this is the generator compartment
this is all custom this is where the factory generator would go but
like we said before we wanted to kind of put our own in i converted it to propane
the factory connection already had propane lines and the electrical
connection so it made it pretty easy i just had to come up with an exhaust
system and connect the uh the propane lines we had to add this
this is a cooling fan to exhaust the heat out when it's
running so we can run it inside fully enclosed and locked
this is just storage we keep our water hoses in here
and also the the brain for the ricoh titan jacks is in there
it's a wireless system that we can control with a little remote control
so this is a really nice new camp touch they put most of your external
connections here you have your gray water drain your
black water drain this is the hot water bypass for the
aldi system this allows you to drain your fresh tank
and also purge your hot and cold lines they also have a
outdoor shower so we also added this big storage box it fit perfectly in here
this is where we keep a lot of our very dusty hoses
electrical connections kind of the stuff we need for setup
we also removed the lower section of the ladder because the box
interfered with it and we mostly mount our chairs to it
this is the exhaust for the aldi system i put a bug screen over it just so we
didn't get any mud wasps or anything in there and then
we also have another storage compartment where we keep cleaners and extension
cords and you know just your miscellaneous items
we have an outdoor outlet so when we're hooked up to
either shore power or if we're running the inverter we have outdoor
power which is great for powering laptops
this we love it's the black tank flush that many campers come with but a lot of
them don't especially truck campers and it allows us to really clean out the
black tanks when we're when we're dumping we also have
dual 20-pound propane tanks on a slide-out tray
which is really nice it's fantastic it lets us easily swap them out and they're
out of the way it actually stays heated in there so the
controls for the ricoh titan jacks also operate our outdoor awning here takes a
second to come out and once it's fully extended
there's some legs that lock in right here
to help prevent it from blowing around in the wind so we also decided that we
needed some more space and we removed the rear seat of the
truck and built a bit of a storage system we built this
wooden rack and originally it had legs on it but
that was interfering with storage so now we suspend it with these strings
it's 550 paracord and it gives us much more space we can cram things under
there we put all of our less used items in the
middle so we have a 38 gallon fresh water tank
which is plenty for most most of the time but
we'd like to go on extended trips and we added an additional 24 gallons
of water storage by using these six gallon jugs guys thank you so much for
inviting me into your home i love all of the little touches that
you have this is also going to help me decide on what kind of a truck camper i
want to go with maybe next year thank you for visiting
and we were really excited to show you our home and so if people
want to follow you on the internet where can they find you
well they can find us on our website which is stoneyboot.com
and also stony boot on most social media instagram
facebook and youtube perfect thank you guys thank you
thank you
and if you guys are interested amber will
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amber would amber would send a link share a link um amber would
share a link about our video uh right here now let me do it again so
we've shown you the inside so let's go outside and
now and it's completely livable even if the slides
uh it's completely livable without having to remove
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totally putting that on there