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Hello everybody thank you so much for coming back to our channel my name is
Charity and today I just wanted to kind of give you a overview of everything
that we bring with us when we RV full time in the summer
so we have a 2004 Fleetwood discovery it does have a diesel engine so therefore it is what is
considered a diesel pusher we had a gas engine for our first rig that was also a
class a Motorhome this is much more our style much more comfortable to drive
down the road yes I do also drive it and it's not as scary as you might think but
it's much more comfortable to drive than our older one was which was a pace arrow
gas engine so I just want to walk you through our setup a little bit about
what we need and a few things that maybe we don't need but we like to have with
us so the first thing I want to talk about is our tow vehicle so we have a
Jeep Wrangler that we flat tow flat tow means all of the four wheels are on the
ground as we tow this behind us and the equipment that we have is a Blue Ox
tow bar a blue ox base plate and then also a Blue Ox Patriot three auxiliary
braking system and we'll put the links to all of those in the comments below
this video so the other thing that we like to bring with us is our bikes what
we found out very quickly is putting bikes on the back of the Jeep didn't
work so well it was very hard to get in and out of the back of the Jeep we have
a double hitch that allows us to put a bike rack on as well as the connections
for our tow vehicle and then we also have a ladder rack that we purchased on
Amazon that will also hold two bikes we'll put the link for that in the
comments below - and this set up has worked great it enables us to be able to
carry the bikes we don't have to take them on an awful lot our previous set up
with not so great this has been an absolute dream so this is how we bring
our bikes with us so that we can bike to different places and just enjoy some fun
on the bicycles as well so I'm going to start to walk you through some of the
stuff that we keep in our basement so in RV
basement is the compartments that go underneath so if you have a Class A you
have pretty large basement storage in class C's and fifth wheels and travel
trailers it's not as much storage in the basement but in a Class A there's quite
a bit of basement storage so let's take a look at what we keep in here so a few
things that we keep in here is this a cover that will put over the bikes
I'm gonna have just to take this out and put that on the bikes
and the thing that we keep in here is these are covers that we will put on the tires if
we're going to be someplace for an extended period of time so if we're
gonna be there for you know week then we want to cover up the tires just to keep
the sun off of the tires an extra blanket I won't tell you the story about
why this is in here the next thing we bring with us is our black stone griller
so that is in this compartment down here we really enjoy using that versus a
traditional grill makes cooking out just a little bit easier than your
traditional grill so this compartment is where we just keep miscellaneous kind of
automotive related things so we have an extra hitch extension we have a bunch of
just auto supplies and extra use jumper cables just different miscellaneous
baits also just some extra tools so you always with you so just make any sort of
minor repairs that you may need to make the other thing that we have is we have
these blocks if we need to use these blocks to put under our levelers if
we're in a very uneven spot and we can even up a little bit better if we have
that type of blocks thankfully most of the places we go have like a cement pad
or it's a pretty even spot but we have had to use those a few times so we
always carry those with us so these are also more automotive related supplies
cleaning fluids extra oils and things like that so that is what is in this tub
one tip that I will say is to get a your tub so you can see what is in it so
that's helpful a label is helpful to you but also if you just get a clear tub you
can see exactly what's in it so we also have this portable air compressor that
way if we need to air up one of our tires we can do that and just your
regular small compressors are not going to do it but a larger compressor will do
you can see this goes up to 33 inch tires our tires are only about 22 and a
half inches so this works perfect if we get in a pinch and need to air up our
tires so this particular basement compartment is a basement department
that stretches all the way through it is on the passenger side and so this is a
lot of our stuff that we use more often when we're traveling so we have our camp
chairs I have a beach tent that is in here the kids sand toy stuff
that is in here there's a beach umbrella down here and then over here I have the
patio rug which we put this out if we have a grassy area that we're in my
softball bag...we got some of our all-natural firestarters we have a link for those below
some sport balls. a lantern. Just some shop towels extra we always
use this in our fuel so this goes in our fuel when we fuel up so that always
stays in here so and then an extra extension cord too it's always nice to
have an extra extension cord because you never know when you might want that
there's just a camp shovel it's in there too we like to keep an extra fan this comes
in great especially when you want to be outside but the humidity is just maybe a
little bit on the high side some air flow and some breeze moving just really
makes it more comfortable to still be outside so you're not cooped up in the
RV but just being able to enjoy the outdoors even though it might be a
little bit warmer or even humid so we also carry
a marshmallow roasting sticks so our grateful glamper marshmallow roasting sticks work
great to do s'mores around the campfire hot dogs those types of things there
the best part I think is that with the metal kind you have kids running around
with hot metal not a good idea to have kids running around with hot metal
pointed sticks so these don't get hot because they're not metal they're in all
natural bamboo and they are 100% biodegradable you can pitch them in the
fire or throw them away and know that you're not making an environmental
impact we'll have a link in the description to those as well so the
other thing I like to carry with us is just a soft sided cooler this comes in
great if we are going to be just venturing out for the day I do try to
pack a lot of our own drinks some of our own lunches just to save on cost you do
have a family of four and it gets very expensive to eat out all of the time so
I like to carry a soft-sided cooler but ice packs in it our lunches our drinks
there are a couple of extra just small side tables, bike helmet.. basketball
those types of things there
and then in this clear tub I keep all of our like
tabletop mosquito repellent there's a hammock in there as well extra paper
towels just not a lot of extra storage room for a big huge thing of paper
towels inside the RV's here and then bring them into the RV as needed
And then our swim fins so when we hit the ocean whatever swim fins there so that
is what is on this side so this is all over the bike stuff so we have the bike
helmets this also is just some extra RV little things so some extra holders for
lights on the awning just miscellaneous stuff that kind of goes in the RV we
have an extra bike tube a bike pump so it's just kind of the bike stuff goes
into this compartment right here so in this compartment we
the kids boogie boards we also have a ladder one thing I like about this
compartment again it is kind of three doors but it's all one big huge long
compartment so plenty of storage here so a ladder is something you always want to
keep with you because you never know when you might need to get up and fix
something around a window or an awning or something like that more tools so we
carry quite a bit of tools with us we are not mechanics by any means but
having some tools in case that you do encounter something on the road because
thank God for YouTube and for Google and for Facebook groups we've been able to
figure out how to do a lot of simple fixes on our own but that would never
happen if we didn't carry some tools with us so we have a couple of bags here
of tools Gorilla Tape guys this is a must-have carry some gorilla tape you
can do anything with it so I have this foam mattress but just folds out into
like a single mattress this I got on Amazon I will put the link in the
comments we carry this with us because I always wanted to have something in case
one of our kiddos just didn't feel comfortable sleeping on the couches that
they sleep on or if we have guests so this works perfect to be able to put
somebody on the floor and this is actually almost more comfortable than
our bed so super comfortable but it folds up into three different pieces and
it stores very easily the other thing that we have is this type of flexible
hose so this particular flexible type hose is something that is
must-have for any RVer it's very very long however it folds up very very
easily it's not like a traditional garden hose that you struggle with to
coil back up so we like to keep one of these especially if for some reason the
hookups are further away but also to be able to hook up two hoses at once to
just spray anything off if we need to we put all of our water hoses for fresh
drinking water in this particular compartment we also put them in a
plastic bin so that if there's any water left in them they're in this bin they're
not getting anything else in this compartment wet and then we just leave
the lid off to allow that water to just dry out and evaporate so nothing's
getting moldy or stinky or anything like that
and this one we actually keep a separate hose this is the flush hose and we use a
separate hose for the black water flush and I also keep a pair of black rhino
gloves another thing we do is carry the coax cable for the cable TV in a bag
just so it doesn't get wet so we keep this right in here we've got this some
Rhino hose which is really amazing and we had two hoses... so it allows you actually hook the two hoses
together so you can go really far so that's come in handy a couple of times
we don't use it very often but I would have two hoses in there and the nice
thing about these hoses they move apart or closer together so you can extend
them and make them as long or short as you want
so these basement compartments are basically the compartments where the
batteries are and then also where the inverter is now one thing that I am
really enjoying about having a diesel pusher is an inverter it enables us to
be able to charge phones and just run electronics we can even run the
microwave if we want when we're driving down the road with the inverter so it's
nice to be able to have that also takes a lot of battery power and so there are
a total of six batteries there's two for the engine four for the chassis or the
coach-house part itself and so those are all located in this
my compartment as well as just some access to some of the engine things so
that is just a walkthrough of some of the things that we carry with us in our
basement compartments which again if you are driving a Class A the basement
compartments for the ones that are underneath so those are some of the
things we carry with us we would love to hear what you guys carry with you and if
you think that we've missed anything we would love to hear that so drop us a
comment and let us know what you carry and if we're missing anything