-This is it. Are you ready for it? -I guess as ready as I'll ever be.
-We don't have any answers as to when we're ever gonna get back into our home.
This is it, guys. This is reality. Right here is our home and everything we own.
And we had to pack it into this thing right here.
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-It's like stressful. It sucks.
And I do miss our home. I mean for sure.
-The tread pattern has like worn down together. It is completely smooth here.
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-It's crunch time here in the Hanks household.
We have less than a week left until our home on wheels is going in for service.
And um yeah, there's a lot that needs to be done.
Aside from Carl doing so much editing. And thinking about our home being away from us.
Like, where? First of all, we still don't know where we're gonna stay. We'll figure it out. But...
Hey, calm down.
Calm down. Just relax a second, okay?
Let's do one thing at a time here. What I'm gonna do today is clean the fridge.
Each day we're gonna go little by little and kind of clear the RV out.
Because in order for them to work on the RV, they're gonna need stuff out of it.
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-I'm definitely taking full advantage of being in Michigan.
Hanging out with friends that know what they're talking about when it comes to technical findings.
So we're on top of the roof here. And we are noticing even more damage than what we initially found.
It looks like the coils on the backside here are all bent. The whole framing of the AC is bent.
There's metal making contact with the rubber roofing underneath.
Also a couple more things that we noticed is that the roof itself...
is actually having increased flexing and buckling while walking on it.
This thing could still be totaled.
I totally don't know though.
Another thing we noticed is on this kitchen slide where the actual... most of the damage occurred.
The screw heads on top of the slide are wearing through the actual tape.
So there's increased wear, concerns for alignment and other things when sliding in and out.
Add it to the list of things that are potentially wrong. I tell you what.
It's just one thing after another.
I would recommend if you're ever in this situation take full advantage.
If you have friends that are more inept with understanding how things work.
Design, engineering, electricity. Whatever it may be. Get some extra set of eyes on it.
And really take a walkthrough and break down things piece by piece.
While you're doing so make sure you take lots of pictures.
And write out like a word document or on a piece of paper your findings as well.
Dude those pancakes are looking banging. -Oh yeah. And it's only lunch time so it's fine.
-What do you guys call lunch in the North?
Is it brunch, lunch, supper, or dinner?
Throw your comments below. -It depends on the time of the day. -Yeah that's true.
-Correct me in the comments if I'm wrong.
Like always.
In the South dinner is supper and lunch is dinner. Am I right or am I right?
-Uh I don't know. You don't have to yell at us.
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A couple episodes back Dee got her tires changed. She got some fresh kicks.
And I figured today I wanna take full advantage of being settle down at a spot.
And utilizing some resources that I don't have while living full-time on the road.
Simple tools like an oil pan.
Yeah it sounds silly but it's so nice to be able to change your own oil while out on the road.
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If you guys are also full-time on the road or even part-time.
How do you guys manage changing out oil and doing routine maintenance on your tow vehicles?
Kinda one of those people that like to just take it to the dealership and get it all done at one time?
Paying for that convenience? Hey, I can't blame you for that.
Or do you like to sit at home, kinda get your hands dirty and...
take advantage of just crawling under and being at one with the... One with the machine?
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Just gotta a little left in here. Top her off the rest of the way and then...
I think I can call it a night with Dee. I mean seriously, she's been kinda needy lately so...
So glad you're here. Thank you for all your love and support.
Honestly, without you guys... HappilyEverHanks would not exist.
No word of a lie.
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-We are at the Grand Design factory here and...
they have hooked us up or anyone that owns Grand Design...
they offer all these full hookup sites.
So you can just come in, swing in here, even on a weekend. Today is a Sunday.
Our appointment is eight o clock in the morning tomorrow, Monday morning.
We are here because a tree fell on our RV two months ago. We finally made it here.
All of you sitting out there saying yeah this is exactly what I’m worried about with buying an RV.
You should be because this is the way the life works.
Ya gotta dust the dirt off the pants and you gotta get back out on the road.
-It’s like stressful. This sucks.
-But we’re a good team. We’re the Hanks family.
-I know. -And we got a kid to take care of.
Dex Man is our child and he needs us right now. So we gotta stay strong. -I know.
-Roll with the punches and dust the dirt off.
You know what? I want you to stop right now. Don’t even move.
Now I want you to look down. Seriously look down.
What does your shirt say?
Practice what you preach. That’s what I’m saying. So you say choose to be happy.
And you’re telling everyone that all the stress comes. You know what?
-Positive vibes. -Bring those positive vibes.
Cause you’re Ney Ney and you’re always happy.
Do what Renee’s shirt says. And just choose to be happy.
She’s feeling down. I’m feeling energized because…
Listen we’re here, we made it. No additional damage has happened.
There was no blowouts along the way. There was no salt in the wounds.
So I’m gonna do my best to uplift her and make sure we take off some of that stress.
And that’s exactly how a team works.
You always always help uplift one another. And that’s what we wanna do for you guys.
We believe in you and we love you guys.
Let’s get this sucker unhooked. I say let’s get some din-din on the grill.
And then we’ll come up with a game plan and we’ll get this puppy unloaded, and we’ll take on tomorrow.
-Okay, let’s do it. -Let’s do it, sista. Love it.
I love you babe. And I love you guys.
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-Dude I think you’re getting a little heavy for that. What happened out here?
-I went to lift the cage up to take him inside and it just…
(laughing)
-You’re kidding me? I just got done saying we had no bumps in the road but here ya go.
RV life at its best. I’m telling you what. At least this didn’t happen down the road.
All of a sudden she’s like diving out for Dexter like holding on for him for dear life.
-He was free. -I know he was like…
-I was like, if you run around and get lost at Grand Design.
-Oh my goodness. -And become their new mascot.
-He was like reaching for the door cause he knows we’re home and he’s like Fancy Feast.
You were just like total mom move you’re like…
Do you have anything to say for yourself? He just don’t even care.
-Who’s this in the truck for hours?
(imitating Dexter's meow)
-This family is messed up. I’m telling you what.
You know how much I love you? So much.
So glad you guys are here. I broke Ney Ney’s ankle.
Oh stop it. Now she’s putting on a show cause she’s like…
-I hope as we lay here that somebody has picked up after their dog.
(laughing)
-I hope everyone’s using those doggie bags. I mean so far you look good.
But I don’t know about me.
I feel like Grand Design’s gonna kick us off. They’re gonna be like, uh get out of here.
-Yeah, why are you laying in the grass? -You crazy hooligans.
Hashtag RV life.
Look somebody just parked their camper right in the middle of the road here. Who’s does this?
Let me ask you. What do you think we’re gonna have to unload actually in the RV.
Like packed up and out of there? -Like that whole back wall and the…
-The rear cabinets? -And the kitchen slide area.
-Okay. Like all the dishes and everything? -Yes.
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-While I have you guys here I did want to mention that I found at the truck stop today.
And I’m really glad I did walk around.
A lot of you guys have been asking, do you guys have tire pressure monitoring system on the RV?
And no we do not.
We check em everyday before we go and a lot of you have been giving us really good feedback.
And saying, well it doesn’t matter when you’re out on the road, things happen quickly and fast.
And those TPMS systems really help to give you awareness of when things go downhill.
And you can see right here that the tread pattern has like worn down together.
It is completely smooth here.
It got me thinking. Maybe, maybe, maybe there is a loss of camber in the actual axel that these are on.
I’m gonna have Grand Design take a look at it while we’re here as well to address it. Because...
I don’t wanna go taking off another tire...
putting a brand new one on and then running into the exact same problem.
I wanna address before we get back out on the road and buy new tires. So...
I’m glad we made it here safely.
How many of you get sick of doing this? Where you’re just like walking around like this.
This is like the walk of the RV life. It’s just like, did you check tire pressures?
Did you hook up the water? Like this is the story of my life right here.
Probably a good few people wondering like what is wrong with this guy?
Let’s get back inside before people start being like get them out of here.
All right, what’s going on? You’re already digging into the chocolates.
Honey, we gotta get some work done here.
-Look at it. -Where’d all this come… Oh this was from the meet-up yesterday?
Oh my… Okay. Is it good? (laughing)
I feel like your shirt should say choose wine.
You’re a wine head you know that?
-But isn’t that the same thing? Choose wine, choose happy? Isn't that...
-It goes hand in hand.
Tell me what you’re feeling right now? Is this like super stressful or what?
-I’m actually having fun. -No you’re not. We just got done…
When we got out of the truck you were like, uh this sucks.
Now you’re like, oh I’m having so much fun. Oh tongue in cheek, huh?
Story of my life tongue in cheek.
(chuckels)
I love you. I love you!
Can’t have anything nice in this family.
-Oh I forgot to put pillow cases on these. -We don’t even use those pillows hardly.
-Guys back me up on this. Even though you have your pillows, you gotta have spare pillows.
What if you have guests and what if you just need extra pillows?
-Guys, back me up on this.
How many times do we keep extra pillows just to not throw pillow cases on them.
And we just everywhere with pillows?
-You wanna do this right now? Hold on, let me just mute the audio really quick.
-Okay. Ahh!
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I think if you’re ever in this situation where you need to pack up and you need to pack up fast.
And there’s just so much to do. Eat an elephant one bite at a time.
And what we mean by that is just take it into small bites.
Don’t think of the whole picture just think of one thing at a time.
And then once you accomplish that go onto the next thing.
It’s super simple but it really helps lower those stress levels if you know what I mean.
It’s stressful right now. And this sucks moving out of our home.
But we’re moving into the Airbnb. Gotta count those small wins.
At least we’re gonna have amenities and Dexter’s gonna have a roof over his head.
It’s gonna be okay. We’re gonna…
Eat an elephant one bite at a time. Eat an elephant one bite at a time.
So yes, it is stressful. It sucks.
Tomorrow morning’s gonna be a wake-up call. We’re gonna have to wake up early.
We have no idea what to expect but guess what?
We’re gonna get through it together and we are so glad you guys are here.
If you have ever had to move out of your camper for an extended period of time.
Like you got some work done on the camper and they’re like, hey hit the road and leave the camper here.
Throw it in the comments below. Help us feel a little bit better about our lives right now.
We need to hear from you guys. I can’t hear you right now.
And the only way I can hear from you is in the comments. So I’ll be looking out for you.
You better be there.
Oh okay. I see you know. We’re all good.
So glad you guys are here. (laughing)
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A lot more peaceful out here now, huh?
Yeah, I’ll grab the beers, meet me over here. Starting a fire at seven.
Oh you locked your wife in the pass through as well?
(laughing) Classic.
She’s sturdy.
-Are you ready to tackle the inside? Come on.
-Dude! This is where you’ve been the whole time? Thanks for the help man.
Okay, you’re just trying to play the cute card right now.
Okay. Oh yeah. Everyone’s just eating it up there Dexter just keep it going bro.
It’s not working for dad. No I know what your true colors are.
I know what your true colors are.
-All the extra space I have down here. -Yeah?
-Like we should just put like these plants and all this that are chewed on.
-Wait, they’re chewed on? Let me see. What? Oh that butt head.
Hashtag sticky butt. -Hashtag children.
-Hashtag lots of hashtags going on.
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I’m happy we went from there to there.
Wow we are just killing it tonight Ney Ney. -Yeah, you wanna know Ney Ney’s guilty pleasure?
(laughing) Puzzles. And Disney puzzles at that.
What’s the game plan? -So what I’m thinking with…
Important stuff that we don’t wanna break here. And whatever up there.
-You’re not planning on putting stuff up there are you? -Oh good idea.
No the whole roof’s probably gonna come off. So we can’t do that.
So let’s go. Pass me the dishes.
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-Gotcha.
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(vacuum running)
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-Oh my gosh. Almost done.
-We’re making progress. -What are ya drinking cause that’s surely not water is it? -No.
-It’s not water. It’s White Claw.
Need I say more?
-Hey you ready to say goodbye to our home?
We gotta say goodbye.
(inaudible yawning)
Want me to just pick you up in a couple weeks.
You enjoy it babe. Stay strong.
It’s an absolute mess in here.
And we’re just trying to keep our heads about us right now cause...
We don’t know what we’re taking. What needs to be packed up.
I mean we got all those cabinets cleared out but we don’t know...
how much junk we gotta get out of here for these technicians to get in here and get the job done. So...
I think our goal is to actually walk to the customer service station.
Talk to them a little bit and get more of an idea.
But it’s sweet being here with the full hookups and everything...
cause it’s just right over across the road. So it’s perfect.
It’s not even a road it’s like just like a little…
I’m gonna miss it here. Man you just…
You never know what you have until it’s gone right?
Maybe it’ll be a reprieve to move out and just live like a normal person for once.
Who are we kidding? We’re the normal people right?
No. I know. We’re not normal.
I’m following you. Are you ready to move out?
-No.
-Sounds like a war zone out here. There are just uh…
Golf carts. There are forklifts going. Everything’s like…
There’s like… It sounds like stuff is getting done. So I’m thinking we’re in the right place.
This place is huge. And we have no idea where we’re going.
-No idea. -Welcome to hanging with the Hanks.
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So we just got an awesome surprise.
So what we just found out is all that packing up we did last night… Unnecessary.
-No but here’s the thing. She said as long as they don’t have to take the whole roof off.
I think they’re gonna have to take the whole roof off. There’s a lot of damage to the roof.
-What we’re mainly getting at is that whole slide comes out as one piece.
Everything in it just stays in it.
So moving all those pots and pans everywhere and all that jazz was just unnecessary.
But it was exciting and it made for good time hanging out with you guys.
So reality, step number one is yes, we just did a ton of unnecessary work last night.
When we could of been relaxing and trying to get packed up for our real stuff that we’re taking to Airbnb.
No harm no foul. But if you ever do need to come take your rig in for some service work.
Just contact them and make sure they don’t need it.
But I don’t think they do cause they just take that whole little sucker right off the side and call it good.
-And it’s not raining right now so let’s take advantage of moving stuff in and out.
-And we’re working with drill sergeant here. So here we go. Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.
You ready to go on an adventure?
Come on buddy. Dad will show you the way.
This is life. Remember what we talked about?
Life is so much fun.
No it doesn’t suck.
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This is it, guys. This is reality. Right here is our home and everything we own.
And we had to pack it into this thing right here.
-It’s an adventure though. -It’s adventure.
And you just gotta laugh about it and just keep on going right? -Yeah.
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Bye!
I’m gonna miss you.