time
goes by way too fast
believe it or not
choo choo
[music] time goes by and you and i are running out
don't spit don't spit
did you just order this is a cinnamon roll
my goodness that we are sharing with four
to wash away the pain
there's a new day
get washed out by the rain
got to keep holding on through the night cause i promise you this
if you try to get some sleep if you give up the fight if
there's a new day to leave behind your troubles
there's a new day to get you through your
strokes i will always think of you and me
darling you've got to keep holding on through the night cause i promise you this
if you try to get some sleep
there's a new day
i can't believe it's been two months already and we're leaving iowa's went fast it's like a
double-edged sword though ready to get out of here to start traveling again
it's hard to sit still because we're so used to moving and seeing new scenery yeah but
it's sad to leave family again for a while we're not quite done though we're gonna go
see michelle's mom so we're gonna make one more stop in northwest iowa to see michelle's mom
before we start heading over to south dakota first
i find that i'm always having to make amends for sure
hi mom we're actually still in des moines we're on the west side and uh we're gonna stop and
eat there real quick and then get on the road so we probably won't get up there until about five
i do believe
there's almost
the times it's all out of
it's reach to learn
got a bad storm coming
i just got in here just in time
hi i just want to let you know we uh we might be moving um to where you think we're going
to go i should be getting the worst out of supposed to be some large hail in this storm
so we drove over here we got out of underneath the tree at the campgrounds and came over here
to casey's underneath the awnings as is a few other people sitting here not fueling up
but using the awnings for the uh to shield them from the hail michelle's mom's house had big trees
over there too luckily the worst of the storm didn't hit us here we just got some heavy rain and
that was pretty much it no hail no real high winds and it went through pretty quick thankfully so we
left casey's over there and came over here it's about five o'clock now uh we're going to finish
up working a little bit here and have a little bit of time to make up michelle does anyway and
uh we came over to michelle's moms here sitting outside thankfully it passed us we got lucky da
my
i think we've been here now three days yeah this is uh thursday i think we're
gonna leave either friday night or saturday morning remember when you come to these small
towns don't forget to check the city parks for uh camping spots it's only 15
a night 20 30 or 50 amp service full hookups you got your water you got your sewer they even
have a dump station also the highway is close here but it's coming through town so the speed
limit is kind of lower so you don't really get a lot of road noise unless you are parking over
in the other area of the campgrounds i'll show you around here we used to camp the other area of this
campgrounds but we decided to start coming over here this year because our rig is a lot smaller
with this van there's a fifth wheel over here a little envelope here you fill out your information
date in date out it's got your site number and your amount paid
so 15 per day times however many nights you want to stay and stick it right in here or the city uh
office is just a couple streets over you can also go in there to pay we've done that as well
we have a walking trail here that goes around the park they have a frisbee golf here i don't know
if you remember from a couple years ago when michelle and i played some frisbee golf here
that was interesting i'm going to take you over here and show you this other area
where you can camp we walked from clear over here and it's a little more secluded really
there's only like i think there's four or so sites over there this area here is right by
the road so it can get a little noisy again the speed limit is kind of low i think it's
either 35 or 45. got your little area here doggy bags and i think on thursday nights
i believe it is so that would be tonight there's a little farmer's market that's
back over where we're at there's a few picnic tables it's just a little farmer's market but
a little perk to stay in here so we just walk from over here where the other sites are at and if you
follow the sidewalk around here there are some restrooms but there are no shower houses in this
area so um but again we got some nice playground equipment you know it's not just for kids trust me
should i
what did i do
i was not expecting that and if you're here in the summer time they got a really
nice pool area here too within walking distance right here in the park and we're camped right
over there so again don't forget those city parks sometimes you can find a really good value and
a lot of times it's about the best value you can find is at a city park
well michelle and i had just a few small tips that we wanted to share just a few things that's helped
us since we've been living full-time in this van we think it probably could help some of you
okay sometimes you get level but yet these doors want to swing open still just want to slowly start
closing well it's kind of a pain to put a like a shoe in front of the door it's got kind of a high
space underneath it just tips the shoe right over or takes away from our walkway also when you put
something like michelle's put her purse in front of it sometimes because it's heavy enough to keep
the door open well we found something that works really well the little uh command strip hook that
we use for our squeegee on the back of the door here so i got thinking that hook you know goes
up and down like that if i turned it upside down and then got these other command strip little uh
little clips there like a key holder and use one of those and put it sideways
then that hook will actually go right down on top of that
and keep the door shut and now when we're driving like we want to keep this door sometimes open
even while we're driving and the biggest reason is because the bathroom gets really hot in there it's
nice having that little window inside the bathroom but it also brings in a lot of heat it's amazing
how much heat that window brings in so in order to keep the whole thing cooled evenly because we hate
leaving the door shut and then we go in there to use the restroom it's like oh plus the timberline
heater is actually under the sink inside inside the wall and that contributes to some of the heat
too but the the window itself is the biggest heat contributor but we like it uh to be open
also it makes it feel more open too need all the space you can get when you're living in a van
but that worked really well that little hook it's uh it's kind of out of the way it's very subtle
and uh the part that goes on the wall here is clear and and the base of this hook is clear
and it's uh the hook's thin so it's just really subtle and it works really well pretty ingenious a
while back we had mentioned that it would be nice to have kind of like an inset mirror on this door
gretchen heard that and they uh sent us a mirror we didn't mean for them to send us a mirror but
they they sent us one yeah they just ordered one from amazon and sent it to us and it's a it's a
stick-on acrylic mirror but still it kind of has a little bit of distortion but it does work great
for when you're getting ready because now you can see yeah more of yourself at least down to here
versus this much and that mirror in the bathroom is really tiny yeah so thank you
for that yeah also for michelle to get ready in the morning she uh she usually uses that mirror
in it you know in the bathroom and you can turn it around and it magnifies i know she likes to have
good lighting when she's you know doing her makeup and everything so i got on to amazon and i was
just curious to see if they had some like makeup lights that we could put on each side of this
mirror and then she'd have more room out here to get ready well we found you want to show us them
they're magnetic yeah and so they come with these strips here and then you can just
slap them on here and it has an on and it also has a motion detector so
we turn these on now you can't drive with these on here because they will slip off as you can see
they're pretty bright and they work good when you get up closer especially to each side you can
really see the detail you can stick them to your refrigerator
you can put it on motion detection and so if you want them as a night light and you get up
in the middle of night as soon as you walk by they should turn on they should turn on
so i might want to skip that part no it's probably just because daylight out yeah sometimes she uses
them and sometimes she doesn't just depends on how much of a hurry i guess yeah or if if you're
needing to be in this area you know i don't want to be here doing this as well so yeah
then i'll be in the bathroom but otherwise they do work great for uh makeup yeah like
this morning i was working here and so she knew i wasn't gonna be moving around so she used them
here and set all of her stuff on the counter here where she had it all accessible and used
it but yeah that's another tip and speaking of the working part a lot of times i'll go between
sitting and working and standing and so even in this van we have some options and one thing that
i found that works really well for standing and working is this little pop-up table here and i'll
grab the little fold up footstool and i'll set it on this table now it's kind of even across here
now there's two ways that i can work here i can just use it like that for my laptop if i
just want something quick and easy but the majority of the time i use a lap desk set it
on here and it goes straight across with this footstool and the countertop here
and i set it here and it gives me a little bit more table space i can use this countertop too if
i wanted to i can put the top on the sink and have more counter space if i wanted to but i never do
and a lot of times it i kind of get tired when i'm standing in one place all day long so i'll sit
here and work and i'll be doing little squats and kind of back and forth like this as i'm working
and it just gives me a little bit more exercise while i'm working because time flies when you're
sitting still and michelle should know that because she sits constantly and she really
needs to get up you know tell her she needs to get up more but my employer does do a office
wide stretch and flex in the morning which office wide even includes us remote people and for just
five to ten minutes every morning we all stop our work and get up and do a few stretches together
even on zoom so at least i get that portion of the day okay you're off the hook all right so
the next thing may not be a tip for everybody with an rv because it depends on if you have a starlink
satellite if you have a starlink satellite we highly suggest that you use some of the packaging
that they give you when they send it to you i just use the this out of the box when you get the box
some people do this and they'll put it in like a container and stick it you know wherever they
have but in the van if you have a really tight space the container takes up even more room
the router and everything's in here in this one thing here so that's nice and i can just stick
it right up in here and we still have room i'm still surprised how much room we have up here
all that we can get up in here i know it's a lot yeah we did have the other starlink satellite
when they were when we put out that last video of ours about starlink they just after that had
put out the portability and then less than a week later they did the starlink for rvs well they made
us send our unit back just to get the starling for rvs even though it's the same unit we used
to take the starlink and kind of cover it up and slide it back in here now this is um this takes up
maybe a little bit more room doing it this way but it keeps everything nice and tidy and it keeps the
unit from getting scratched up and you don't have to try to cover it up or anything like that so
anything else you want to add well i'm just amazed at how much actually fits in that compartment and
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