- Looking for ways to shake up your RV travel?
Are you worried RV life will become dull and boring?
Have we got the perfect deal for you.
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So gather your friends and get ready.
We're about to show you how to shake it up.
This video is all about RVing with a purpose,
expanding your RV community,
and really just doing a little something
that makes you feel really good.
So let's jump right in.
- Day one, Picacho Peak State Park,
volunteer with A Year to Volunteer.
- We're headed to the morning meeting
where we'll get our assignments
and then we have to put our butts to work.
- (laughs) Yeah.
- We are gonna continue with the painting
at the Quail Group Area.
We don't need as many people there
because there's only two that still need
to have the finished painting done.
Two teams can be over at Jackrabbit.
We'll have a prep team, which basically is sanding,
wire brushing, wiping 'em down.
Another team can tarp, water, and prime.
And then another team can come behind and paint.
- The main goal of the project here at this state park
is to sand, prime, and paint all 32 of their pavilions.
And then once that's done, of course,
they have a long list of other items
they would like us to hit if we have time.
This is our fourth project with them,
but of course they've done way more than that.
- They've done four, we've done 19. (laughs)
- Okay, and what is your total man hours to date?
- Our total man hours to date is 22,255.
- And do you have a dollar compensation for that or no?
- So the last time I did the math was like,
four or five projects ago
and it was over $2 million that we have saved
for parks and other places. - Dang.
- Yeah. - That is fantastic.
So one of the things they say is to travel with a purpose.
- Yes. - So you're looking
for a purpose and you want to volunteer,
I'll have links below.
So they started yesterday on the project.
We actually pulled in yesterday,
so today is our first day getting our hands dirty.
Every time we've been here,
we've really enjoyed it
and had a good time even though we worked hard
and got dirty.
So when you come to A Year to Volunteer project,
it's not all work and no play.
- Exactly.
- And you will get fed well,
especially if this guy comes along.
- So if you want to join us, you might get lucky.
And if I'm at it, you might get some of that.
- Oh my gosh. So this is Chef Juan.
If you don't, if you don't know him, pop over to,
- Hungary Cuban Adventures.
- I wanna say Cuban Travels.
- The Hungry Cuban Adventuls, Adventures.
Now he was, a past life, actually a chef.
And had his own catering restaurant.
- Yeah, catering company.
- So the guy knows what he's doing.
So, I'm gonna not only my portion
but I'm eating Phil's portion too.
- Because Phil won't eat shrimp.
- That's right.
- [Attendee] Brownies anyone?
- Not only did Juan feed me for dinner today,
but he's gonna be feeding me tomorrow, too,
so Phil's on his own.
- Yeah, I gotta go scrounge up some extra leftover brisket
from somewhere.
Do you know anybody that's got any?
- No, no I don't.
- Yeah, so Al and I are S.O.L.
- So after days and days of painting,
we are switching gears.
So now we are going to tear down a bridge
that apparently has been washed away
and looks pretty crappy.
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♪ I got to go ♪
♪ I'm gonna tell you all about it ♪
♪ Watch me now ♪
♪ I'm ready to go ♪
♪ Ready to go ♪
♪ Look out below ♪
- Today we are tackling one of the major residences.
So we are going to sand and repaint this deck for her.
So, hopefully it'll give it new life
and it'll last a while.
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- Well, there's a few spots on here, I'm trying to get them.
- Looks like we're all done and now we go have lunch.
So we'll pop back in, give it a double check
to make sure we didn't miss any spots.
Make sure there's no touch-ups that be needed.
That be needed?
That will be needed after lunch.
And then we can check this one off the list.
Every time we do a project with A Year to Volunteer,
we get a ton of questions about volunteering
and camp hosting.
Phil and Shari have done quite a few volunteer projects,
and they've learned a lot along the way.
And they realized there's a big need
for people looking for these kinds of projects,
as well as camp hosts positions.
So, they put their heads together
and they came up with something new called Camper Gigs.
If you've been looking for volunteer opportunities,
while in your RV or camp host positions,
then head over to campergigs.com
because they are getting ready
to put all of this together for you to make it easy
to find the opportunities that you're looking for.
- I hope you know what difference you've made.
We all felt like, you know, what, what hit us?
Like there's all these elves everywhere.
(people laughing)
- Everywhere you go,
there was some little group doing something, you know,
and then I drove through the park and it's,
it was like a freakish experience at times
because have you ever felt like you were in your own like,
time-lapse movie?
(people laughing)
You know, like, you drive by and whoop.
- We painted 36 canopies.
We painted the main gate.
Repaired stucco.
Painted a rangers deck.
We demoed the bridge.
Painted three water towers.
Lots of landscaping.
We painted 87 pedestals and 242 posts.
(hands clapping)
- We're getting ready to leave.
- Yeah, it's been a fun two weeks
and we accomplished a lot on this project.
- And this isn't our first project
- No. - with A Year to Volunteer.
This is our fourth
in case you guys haven't seen our previous videos,
our first time with them
was actually their very first project
and that was at Florida Caverns
and they were, their campground was completely wiped out
by Hurricane Michael.
So we went in and actually rebuilt the campground.
- Our second project was in Rockport, where we went
and helped destroy a, well, it was already destroyed.
We helped tear it down, I should say.
A youth center at a church in Rockport, Texas.
And let me tell you, there's nothing like demo
where you don't have to save anything.
It was a ton of fun.
- [Stacy] Yeah, that was fun.
And that church had been affected by Hurricane,
- [Phil] Right. - [Stacy] Michael.
- [Phil] Right. - No, Harvey.
- Oh yeah, Harvey. Harvey, yep.
- And then our third project was
at Steven C. Foster State Park on the Okefenokee Swamp.
- [Phil] Say that three times fast.
- [Stacy] I know.
And we did some major repairs for this state park
that they said they probably never would have been able
to do because they lack the people and the resources.
- [Phil] Yeah, so we came in there like a wrecking ball
or a hurricane,
- [Stacy] How ever you want to say it.
- [Phil] Whichever one.
- So, every project is different.
If you're interested in volunteering with A Year
to Volunteer, not only will I put the link
to A Year to Volunteer down below,
I will also put links to all of our past videos,
so you can kind of get an idea of what we were doing.
- Yeah, and you don't have to,
if they have a two week project
and you only can spare a week, they'll take you.
If it's two days, they'll take you. Trust me.
And you'll be thankful that you were able to join them
and contribute some in some way.
- Yeah, so you definitely will get more out of it
than what you put into it.
It always feels good when you give of yourself.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- All right, so we are headed out of here and we are going,
well, we know the general direction we're going.
I don't know exactly where we're staying tonight yet.
I don't have reservations,
but we'll work that out on the road.
But I can tell you,
I am headed to, or Phil is headed to another school.
- Yeah, more learning.
I thought I was done with learning.
- Heck no. We are lifelong learners.
So if you want to know what school Phil's going to next,
you're just gonna have to keep watching
and wait for a next video.
- Yeah, let's hope Phil passes.
- We'll see you in couple of weeks.
- [Stacy] Yeah.
- Well, this is gonna be bad acting.
- We'll see ya.
- See, we're,
(women laughing)
- We screwed up the handshake.
- Yeah, yeah we did.
♪ You got a beautiful story ♪
♪ And we've only just begun ♪
♪ The best is yet to come ♪