hey everyone katherine here and welcome to my new tiny home on wheels it is a keystone
springdale mini 1750rd a 2022. it's brand new i'm the first person to live in it or to use it
and i'm super excited to show it to you if you're new to the channel i have been living in a lance
light 825 truck camper a 2000 landslide 825 truck camper for the last three years and it is now sold
if you're wondering i did sell it just moved out of it and into this unit the first part of
this video will be kind of a just a mini tour not an official tour more of a walk around
and a reveal just showing you the new digs and the second half of this video i will share with you my
thought processes and my decision making processes behind making the decision to
purchase a travel trailer so yeah let's get to it let me show you around i'm really excited
we'll start here on the outside it has lots of outside storage i have a pretty large compartment
here where right now i'm keeping my shoes and then on this side this is a complete pass-through so it
passes through from this side to the other side it's a huge area for storage which i'm really
stoked about right now i don't think i have everything in their permanent spots but i will
find a spot for everything i plenty of space to do it now you might notice a solar panel on the roof
above me it came with 200 watts of solar equipped already and two batteries up front which i'm
really happy about i will probably be beefing that up however and check this out this is really cool
i see a lot of outdoor grilling and chilling happening out here it's going to be a nice
extension of my living space it's got a bar of led lighting it's going to light it up
very nicely in the evening i am stoked on this up front here i have my two battery packs i've
got a propane tank and i think i will probably upgrade this to two propane tanks at some point
and i purchased a really heavy duty hitch it is a anti-sway hitch it's a little
more complicated to hitch and unhitch which i've done a couple of times now
but it's worth it i think especially towing something like this and it's something i'm gonna
have to get used to i have a little bit more peace of mind with a really strong heavy duty hitch
and on this side of the trailer which is the driver's side i have another identical storage
space as i do to the passenger side and then that is the other side of the pass-through
goes all the way through i'm like i said super stoked on that storage
if you're like me i don't get very excited about seeing the outside tours of these trailers i watch
so many and i just can't wait till they get to the inside so let's get to the inside okay
let's head on inside and i will be saving the best for last we enter in into my bedroom area
it's got a closet there on the right and i purchased all those baskets from home
depot which are contain all the rest of my clothing which worked out really well
i sleep with my head there by the window no more climbing in and out of bed guys i cannot tell you
what a relief that is it's been so nice so many times in the truck camper i would climb up into
bed and realize i had left a light on have to climb back down and do it all over again
so that is awesome the mattress that it was provided with is pretty cheap and firm so i will
be replacing that it does have usb ports built in so all the modern amenities which is awesome
moving along right next to the bedroom is the bathroom it is a dry bath so i have a shower
a separate shower not a wet bath anymore it's much larger i have much more storage
an awesome medicine cabinet it holds a lot of stuff so super super excited about this as well
and directly across from the bathroom is my beautiful kitchen
look at all this counter space i'm so excited about it so excited to cook a lot of wonderful
meals on this counter and in this kitchen in the trek camper i had no counter space
i actually already have cooked one meal here i had a meal with i had my sister and my brother-in-law
over for dinner and it was just awesome we had plenty of room to move around it was fantastic the
refrigerator is the exact same size as the truck camper which is fine for me uh just one person
and i have a two burner stove top which is similar to the truck camper it does come with a microwave
i'm not a big fan of microwaves i haven't owned one in over 10 years so i might get rid of that it
still does not have an oven so i'll still be using my coleman camp oven as an oven but that's fine
that's not really a deal breaker for me because i just loved the layout and everything else so
much about this this little travel trailer and as i mentioned i was saving the best
for last this is what sold me on this unit these panoramic windows this panoramic view
it's absolutely beautiful it brings the outdoors in i already woke up to one morning of snow and
had my coffee as i looked out on the snow-covered trees and ground out here in front of me and i
just knew it was going to be incredible to create new memories around this space i cannot wait
well that is going to do it for the reveal and the walk around portion of this video i hope that
you guys love my new little home on wheels as much as i do i'd like to tell you now why i decided to
move out of the truck camper and into the travel trailer my decision making processes before i
do that however i'd like to thank the sponsor of today's video athletic greens needless to say this
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today's video first i want to thank everyone who hazarded a guess as to what i was going to get in
the last video i asked you if you wanted to take a guess as to what i was replacing the truck camper
with and some of you are dead on however some of you obviously think i am rolling in the dough
there were earth roamers listed a couple of times not sure if you guys know how
expensive those are sprinters are very expensive they are way out of my price range
um a lot of the vehicles that were guests are out of my price range some people thought maybe
a manufacturer might have reached out to me and was supplying me with a rig
unfortunately that is not the case so in determining what type of um vehicle
trailer was going to replace the truck camper i definitely had to stay within a budget when i
purchased the truck camper and the truck and i initially hit the road full time
i had no idea how any of this was going to work so i wanted to pay cash because i didn't know that i
would be able to afford any kind of a payment for a new vehicle so that's what i did unfortunately
i went used and paid cash and the truck has been causing me a lot of financial heartache
i should say it has definitely become a money pit and i'm to the point that i just do not want to
put any more money into it i am embarrassed to tell you guys how much i spent on it last year
it's it's too much so for the time being i still have the truck i just recently sunk a bunch of
money into it so i will probably continue to drive it until it won't drive any longer
uh at which point i will get a new tow vehicle for the trailer once i started having all these issues
with the truck i started trying to figure out what i was going to do for my future and to make
sure that i could continue a life on the road the first thing i did was started shopping new trucks
i was looking for a truck that was comparable to the truck i have now which is a chevy silverado
2500 hd duramax diesel it's a really heavy duty vehicle and i need something very robust to carry
the truck camper i did not want to go used again so in shopping new trucks i realized that they are
very very very expensive so i started thinking of a plan b i thought well maybe i can tow something
i started looking at little towable trailers like our pods and teardrops and things like that
and those were very expensive and i was feeling very gutted and disheartened and i just decided
kind of just to drop it for now and just hope that my truck was going to hold out for a little longer
i came after i visited capitol reef i came to visit my sister and her husband my brother-in-law
at their property in utah and my sister happened to come across this cute little travel trailer
she showed it to me and when i saw it i just my eyes lit up i got super excited because not only
was it within my price range it was a layout that i really really liked i just first of all
fell in love with the windows and i just thought it was super cute uh she found a used one locally
and when i called the gentleman he unfortunately had already sold so i then began to look to see if
there were any in the area and i found a brand new 2022 within a two and a half hour drive
and i decided that the next day i was going to go ahead and take a look at it that night i decided
to go ahead and jot down a list of pros and cons these are the pros these are the cons because
i knew i'd walk in there and get really excited and probably want to just buy it but i wanted to
make sure that in doing so i was making the right decision so the pros far outweighed the cons and
i walked into the trailer and i knew that i wanted it right away i don't have a lot of cash
lying around so i knew that i was going to need to finance it and that is what i needed to do
when all of these issues were happening with the truck i actually added up and totaled
the amount of money that i spent on it last year i divided it by 12 and i knew at that point that
i could afford a payment for not only a trailer but a tow vehicle when the time comes one of the
big reasons that i wanted a towable trailer is because the variety of vehicles that you can
purchase to tow it far exceeds what i would need in order to continue to live in the truck camper
and i know that i need something with a pretty robust transmission because
i'll be towing a lot of weight that gave me a lot more options it is intimidating i
have never towed a vehicle however i did hitch it up from the dealership and tow it back here
i back here at my sister's property as i await packages and just visit with them and
i was able to back it into the space that it's currently in with the help of and guidance of
my brother-in-law i did order a backup camera i know that won't help me park but it'll just make
sure that i don't hit anything as i'm backing up so that's going to take getting used to
i was very intimidated when i started out in the truck and chart camper and now i'm as comfortable
as can be so i know that i can do it and i know in time it's going to get a lot easier
financially it made sense i knew i could get a brand new trailer 2022 and a brand new tow
vehicle for the price of one truck that would tow my old 22 year old trek camper it is definitely
bittersweet saying goodbye to my tiny little truck camper and some little home that has served me so
loyally for the last three years i was definitely at home in it and definitely attached to it so it
doesn't it's not easy just to say goodbye and hello to this one but change is good
and you know i've always felt that way when i've even moved from one home to the
to the other and then eventually that home is my new home so it was just time for a new chapter and
i think now that you have seen it i think i'll be a lot more comfortable here it offers me
more space more room one of the things i'm really excited about is i have room to work out in here
uh i couldn't do that in the truck camper and oftentimes i don't want to go outside
because you never know who's watching you so that's a plus as as well as many other pluses
and pros to getting this vehicle i'm super excited about the prospect of setting up camp
dropping off the trailer and having my tow vehicle to roam free in the fact of the
matter is i never took the camper off the truck it just was too daunting to me i had hand crank
jacks i had happy jack happy jack turnbuckles which are just a pain and i just never did it
i never really took it down the crazy remote roads that i thought i would when i initially bought it
and i was i babied it it was rv sitting on top of my truck so i was careful about the roads that i
went down i don't think that there's anywhere that i took the truck camper that i won't take this
trailer there might be one or two places and i see myself definitely and hitching and taking off
i'm already thinking about the prospects of where i can take the tow vehicle
that i wouldn't take the truck with the camper on it so that is super exciting to me and
it's definitely one of the big big pros of getting this set up i will be taking it out on its maiden
adventure this coming week my sister and her husband will be joining me in their trailer
it will be nice for on the first outing to have their company and help
uh since it'll be my first time taking this baby out so i'm super excited about that and that is
the next video that you will see i hope that you guys are all excited for uh the new adventures
in the new home and i can't wait to cook in here for you and just a whole new slew of adventures
that is going to do it for this video it's all very exciting i'm still pretty overwhelmed
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