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a Canadian Aussie couple that spent the last 18 months traveling as digital Nomads through
southeast Asia and Mexico now we're in North America having a crack at full-time RV life
for the past couple months we've kind of just been wandering around North America without
any plan or sense of direction and to be honest most of the time has been spent trying to learn
how to balance everything work where to sleep bad weather and unsuspecting things going wrong
in the last episode we drove from Big Sky Montana towards Yellowstone and although we had permission
to film in the National Park things didn't go exactly according to plan ready to go buddy
all right we just woke up we went through Yellowstone National Park yesterday and we
got some epic content but um we don't know if we're gonna be able to share it with you guys
there's a bit of a gray area even though we did get permission the weather's not looking great for
the next few days RV parks are really expensive for 130 for a full hookup site and there's really
not much else available we're going to check out Jackson and then we're going to keep heading south
to Utah because we've got a package coming there finally gonna have Wi-Fi and a modem we've been
using Starbucks Wi-Fi for like the last two months nearly but yeah things just haven't really been
going as smoothly as we would have liked we've found we've spent like most of our time just
figuring out where to stay and how to get internet so it's made it pretty difficult to get much
filming and content done but we'll explain all of that uh later we're gonna have a sit down and just
explain what's going on yeah so anyway we're gonna head to Utah keep going south and then hopefully
we'll get some better weather and uh we'll get our internet sorted and we can keep moving
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I looked over and I thought oh [ __ ] there's a bear
where's your accent where are you from Australia Australia
smells Australian people they like Australia
they're saltier I guess or something sweeter I don't know driving down the road just past
Grand Teton National Park and there's a grizzly bear on the side of right here
yourself
that was so cool a real bad that's a real beer [Music]
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[Music] so when we started our digital Nomad Journey back in 2021 [Music]
got a row to ourselves [Music]
we left with the intention that we were going to be finding our forever home but
if you've been watching our Channel you will know that that did not exactly happen
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when we first started we thought we're going to move to Bali you know it would
have been nice it just didn't seem like the right fit especially because of our dog bear
back in here
hey buddy okay
so we moved into our RV as a way to make us feel a little bit more stable have a bit more of a
home base because we kind of have decided that we're just Nomads we don't really want to have
a completely set home but we do need something that we can come back to to give us that sense of
stability because that's been one of the biggest challenges in full-time travel not having some at
least somewhere to come back to to keep our things or even yeah to be able to live in with our dog we
also needed something that we could keep traveling in obviously this is our job unfortunately a lot
of things have not gone to plan for us number one we thought it was going to be a lot easier than
it is yeah I'm not gonna lie yeah it's been harder than I thought for a few reasons like
um I mean we've had some stuff go wrong like our awning breaking
our furnace not working and it kind of feels like we're always just on the edge of like some
catastrophe happening that's going to stop us from doing what we're doing I think it comes down to
the fact that these things aren't designed to be lived in full time but we're getting
better at it like things are starting to get a little bit easier like the weather's been good
we've got some things to make our life easier believe it or not we haven't had Wi-Fi in this
thing for the last two months yeah that's been a huge struggle yeah and I mean our work is all
online so we've only been able to work when we go somewhere with Wi-Fi like a Starbucks or something
there yeah some other things like you know getting good campsites we feel like we're spending most of
our time figuring out where we're going to stay yeah and like making sure we don't run out of
water and food and stuff like that it's been a lot more demanding than living in hotels which
we which we knew that would be the case there's been a lot more for us to sort of like maintain
and focus on that's kind of taken away from being able to solely focus on our Channel which is our
main focus at the time don't get a strong work it's not it's not hard to live in an RV but when
you're trying to juggle um work on top of it and like you're trying to find places to go to where
you have service so that you can work or like us like you had to go places with Wi-Fi that makes
it a lot harder so we're kind of in this weird position right now because this is like actually
been really enjoyable if you take the worksite out of it like just going to all these state parks
like being outdoors and being in the US and Canada like take the work part out of it it's been so
peaceful like we've been able to have that opposite like the chaos and these busy countries
that we've been living in now we get to be more alone and have that quiet reconnect with nature
and it's definitely been what we what we've needed to like reboot ourselves after moving so quickly
having said that it's not easy to make really great content because like we're moving pretty
slowly and we're we're going to like nice places but there's only so much of like a state park
or whatever scenery that we can film and share with you guys yeah and I know like we can keep
telling our story and keep doing Vlogs and stuff like that but when we're not like super excited
about the content it's hard to create yeah good content yeah the biggest problem if you watched
our last Vlog you would have seen that we had just arrived at Yellowstone we had been given
written permission to say that we are allowed to film there we just couldn't be monetizing off of
it we knew that there was a rule about filming in National Parks but when we looked it up a
while ago there's kind of this gray area like technically you're allowed to film in National
Parks or take photos but you're not allowed how to do it for commercial purposes but you can do
it for commercial purposes as long as you get a permit and the permit doesn't cost anything but it
takes a long time to get and we underestimated how difficult that was actually going to be because as
we said we went to Yellowstone and we emailed them and we said look this is what we're doing do we
need a permit they said you do not need a permit so long as you're not monetizing the content and
so we said okay we can still make a good video and just not monetize that but put it on our
Channel but after having a little bit of think about it and a look online I think there's still
a gray area where like we could get an email or a phone call from like I don't know the authorities
saying that you put it on your YouTube channel because you make money off your YouTube channel
even though there's no sponsor or no ads in that video you're just sharing it for free we didn't
want to risk like getting banned or having us look like we're doing something illegal yeah a
big Hefty fine sort of ruin our plans a little bit because we had um sort of earmarked a few
places to go to which were national parks and now we're thinking it's probably not worth going there
because we can't film it or we don't want to risk getting into any trouble yeah like for ourselves
we've really enjoyed the national parks we do not regret going it's definitely something you want
to experience but as far as for us for our work we need places we can film obviously yeah to be
honest like we've we've been given awesome job that we started a year and a half ago we didn't
think would turn into a job really yeah and now we have an opportunity where we can like travel and
make really good content we're not really doing that at the moment we're kind of having a little
bit of downtime I guess we're still putting out content but it's not as fast-paced and it's not as
maybe exciting as what we normally like to do yeah yeah so we have loved this chapter of us slowing
down figuring out how to live in an RV we have something for the first time that's physically
ours as well like Lloyd and I have always rented we've never really owned anything ourselves so we
feel pretty proud that we have something that we can call home even though it's just an RV but we
love it it's just an RV but when you're parked at some of these Parks like you've got all this
space around you and you've got like an outdoor area it kind of is like a home yeah it's it's
been great like would not change it and we don't regret doing it at all but as far as for our work
we've decided we're we're ready to hit the road again obviously we're not going to go right now
um we're still in the middle of this summer road trip so we're going to finish off that
road trip that we had planned through America but after that we're going to park this thing
up and we're going to leave bear with a good friend of Mandy's who owns a pet resort yep
and he can be running around with other dogs and other people and not have to sit in the
front seat while we're driving around which he hates and and he he I think he thrives the best
in North America so far I don't want to pull him away from here now he loves the Lakes he
loves the climate he's doing his best he's his healthiest and like slimmest he's ever been so
we don't really want to pull him out of it to take him traveling again so he's going to be with one
of my close friends he'll be well looked after so don't worry about him I'm gonna try not to as well
we are going on an epic group trip to Vietnam it was one of our favorite places to travel to
last time we went to Asia anyone is welcome to join us early bird tickets for the trip will go
on sale on June 10th at 5 PM Pacific Standard time yeah so obviously we started our channel
in Southeast Asia but we want to experience a bit more of Asia so do we tell them where
we're going yeah at this stage we're planning on visiting India Sri Lanka Cambodia and then
I think we're gonna yeah we're gonna go back to Vietnam yeah Andy quick stop off in Thailand
maybe on the way yeah and also like this could change but at the moment that's the plan we
feel like we kind of have unfinished business in Asia like it was my first time really traveling
or backpacking and we got way too burnt out and I just didn't really know what I was doing or
how to stay healthy but I feel like we're in a much better place now we're a little bit more
experienced Travelers and I think it's going to be an epic adventure I'm so excited to start off
in India yeah and we were visiting right at the tail end of covert yeah and it still affected
a lot of things we tried to do over there yeah so I'm hoping this time um it might be a little
bit easier to move around so for the next two months you'll still see us in the RV and then
after that it is back to Lloyd and Mandy catching flights again if you guys had questions feel free
to fire them down into the comments or if you have any suggestions maybe you're a tour guide
in one of these countries we'd love to hear from you we'd love to collaborate with you
let us know all right thank you guys so much for watching we're really excited about this future
Adventure we hope you guys will join us on it and we will see you guys in the next video bye [Music]
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