Welcome morning adventures. We are back in Clementine,
but there's a minor problem them. Her engine is missing.
Well, shoot. I know we were having a weight issues,
but this was not the way I thought we would solve that problem.
She is much lighter now though. Much lighter.
If you all remember, a little over a year ago,
we got the engine replaced in Clementine or rebuilt actually.
And since then, it has kind of been nothing but troubles.
We managed to make it to a few states in this ‘ol gal before she finally just
overheated to the point where she just would not start
or drive or do anything.
And so we brought her right back up here
or towed her right back up here to Chicago to get an actual new engine put in this time.
Y'all, we are done with the rebuilding and trying to make the old stuff work.
We are just going new and modern. Yeah.
It's still gonna be a rebuilt engine, but it's gonna be much more modern and have much more power.
But I think it is about time to go ahead and install the new one.
Yeah. Shouldn't really take that long. Right? I don't think so.
Yeah. And just like that,
new engine installed. See that was so quick and easy.
That's super easy. Just kidding y'all.
It has been many, many weeks, maybe even months.
But you guys have been wondering, we've been wondering what's going on with in time.
So that's what we're doing. We're gonna give you an update and talk you through all this stuff,
coming up on the endless adventure. Nice job.
Yeah. You did it. Yeah. Big time. I did it big time.
Well, you guys were back in’ol Ruby Suzuki Woo hoo. she’s the cutest little car in the entire world.
Yeah, man. We've missed her so much. She's so freaking quirky.
So fun to drive, and of course, very, very loud.
So sorry about all the background. Nothing you can do about it.
But at least now that it's cold out, we can drive with the windows up and not die.
That's good. Last time you guys saw us, we were over in Maine,
and we took a little VW van out, which we had a blast.
If you guys missed that, make sure you go check out those videos.
It was fun, but as you know, so cold Yeah.
And then just after that, it was a Thanksgiving holiday,
so we decided to head back to Missouri, see our family check-in on Little Ruby.
It's been really freaking having Ruby here.
So when we come back to Missouri to see our family, we can just zip all around the
state and go anywhere we need to -- Yep.
-- and have a blast while we're doing it.
So the truck and trailer are still in Maine.
We have to go back there now that Thanksgiving is over.
But we figured we're so close to Chicago.
We're gonna make a sneaky little trip up there and see Clementine.
Yeah. They have been making quite a bit of progress,
but we're really not entirely sure what state she's in or how close she is to being done.
As you guys might already know, we've got our Durango Doug down in Austin to sitting in storage.
Of course, we have Ruby usually here in Missouri.
We've got the RV up in Chicago, and then, of course,
the truck and trailer over in Maine. We're juggling a lot of vehicles right now.
And we didn't wanna leave anymore in any more garages or try to set anything like that up.
So we're gonna get a rental. Yep. So that's where we're heading right now.
We're gonna grab ourselves a little Mistubishi. We're gonna ahead of the Chicago
and check in on Clementine.
Maybe I'm gonna pay attention because as you know,
I have to shift io this vehicle.
Alright. Yo. We're trading this tiny little vehicle.
For this tiny little vehicle. It might be just as big as Ruby.
Yeah. But you he assured us we're gonna get wonderful gas mileage on this.
Maybe forty to fifty miles per gallon.
Alright. We gotta take little ruby sue back to Eric's dads,
load this up, and then get on the road. So what was that?
Easy peasy. Okay. Bye.
Alright. See you there. I guess I'm driving this right now.
Yeah. Thank you.
that wind. This car might be a small Whoa.
Might be a small of this is Suzuki. It's a lot suckier.
Is it? Yeah. It's so low to the ground and the wheels are so tight.
I just feel like I'm like on the road driving.
Are you trying to sing Christina Aguilera? Getting into the Christmas spirit.
Somehow.
Alright. We are back. Once again, in Chicago,
we're always so surprised by how big the city actually is.
It's crazy. Yeah. There are just
so many buildings and it's nighttime and they're just lights as far as the eye can see.
Yeah. One thing we're never surprised by though is the traffic,
and we are right in it. Although it doesn't look too bad,
bad yet. Now it's funny because I love being in Chicago when we're,
like, in our Airbnb and we're out and exploring,
but I hate getting to Chicago.
Y'all it’s so cold out here. Holy cow.
Get me in here. The radio said it's twenty five.
Holy cow, it's cold today, you guys. This is just above freezing.
Just the way I like it. But we have arrived in the mechanics.
Clementine is just around that block right there.
But they're actually here working on it today,
so we're gonna head over. We're gonna get a little update from them.
We're gonna see all the new stuff that they put on it. Most importantly,
I wanted to winterize this thing. This is the main reason we want to stop up here.
We need to put some antifreeze in the lines before it gets too
cold because frozen water in your pex water lines That's not good.
We're hoping there's not already damage because it's been sitting for a good while in the cold.
Yeah. The lines are completely drained though,
but that's no assurance something bad isn't gonna happen,
so antifreeze to the rescue. So a lot of you,
especially recently, since we've been traveling in the trailer for so long,
have been wondering what the heck's going on with Clementine,
where is she when are we gonna be back in her?
Are we full time in the new trailer?
We don't quite have answers
for all that stuff, but we're hoping today gives you a little bit of
clarity into what's happening with Clementine.
And no, that no, we have not abandoned her. She's still getting worked on.
It's just taking a very very,
very, very, very long time. But to be,
it's up front as we can. We did not wanna keep traveling in the trailer.
That's not our intention. But, Clementine, we wanna give them
as much time as possible to work on this thing.
It's really hard to estimate how long this stuff's gonna take
because they get in there and they have to modify stuff.
They have to make changes, all that stuff. They actually should be pretty close.
So let's go find out. While we're back in the RV,
so it's just like we left her, I guess. She got a little dirty.
She does get dirtier every time. Dirtier and dustier.
Yeah. The wheels are dirtier. There's a nice film of dust off over the whole thing.
Oh, boy. She's the best. So cute.
Yeah. I just love her. I love her so much.
One day. One day will actually get to use her.
Okay. We walked through all the work that's been done.
We got ourselves a nice little update. We chatted through what still needs to be done.
All that good stuff. But in we're pretty freaking excited.
I mean, look at this. Like, what's what they've done here?
So this is a newer Chevy engine that is from like a two thousand two,
two thousand six truck. And has much more power,
much more sophisticated, all kinds of stuff. The first thing
you'll notice is it has this epic belt system.
All this stuff is brand new. It has brand new. Compressor down here that they're gonna hook up.
He's gonna rebuild all the AC lines. You guys know we didn't have AC in the summer
and it was brutal driving this thing around.
No more, baby. Although we don't need AC right now and for the foreseeable future.
But our future selves are gonna thank us. They were also able to put a new automatic
transmission inside this thing that's four speed with an overdrive.
So that means it's gonna run much slower RPMs on the highway,
and this baby has basically double the horsepower and double the torque.
So it's gonna be getting up speed much much faster.
It's gonna pull Ruby back there with no problems at all,
and we should be cruising a good sixty five seventy on the highway.
Should we so desire? So this will give an idea of how it fits in here.
It actually almost takes up less space than the previous Chevy engine.
And then the trans, he said, fit right in like a glove.
He really didn’t have to modify anything. It was almost the exact same size dimensions everything.
Transmission is this big honking thing. In case you didn't know.
She’s got a lot of junk in the trunk. I was about to say this.
Really solid. Yeah. But the coolest thing is that everything on here is updated and electronic.
So all this stuff reads into various sensors here,
has little connectors that plug into the computer port that
we're gonna have mounted right over here.
That's an OBD two port. It's the same port that you're gonna
find in any modern car You can plug into it.
You can read codes. You can add accessories to it.
All kinds of stuff. So no more having a problem in here and not knowing what the heck's going on.
You don't even have to crack into the thing.
Just plug the code reader in. It'll tell you if you have a bad sensor,
if you have a misfire in the cylinder.
So there should be a lot lot less that can go wrong with this engine.
If there is a God, please. Don't let it So that is a famous last word.
Whatever could possibly go wrong, even it's one in a billion,
we'll find it. This has just been the weirdest project
as you guys know if you've been following along on it.
I mean, we have all this work that we did inside.
We're so proud of it. You guys know we've lived in it for a while and it was just so livable.
We thought it was a good idea to restore the old engine,
but you guys know also that just came with nothing but problems.
And I think, you know, typically, the average person out there
would just scrap this project at this point.
We're not freaking doing that, you know. We put too much blood sweat and tears into this thing.
There's like two years of our life in here. Yeah. And plus,
you know, we wanna show you guys that we're gonna make thing work.
Okay. No matter what. Horrible idea against all odds,
against all better judgment. Yeah. Bieller never quit or maybe they never learn.
No. It's a Bieller always sees it through from Christmas chronicles.
So we're not quite sure what the future is with Clementine.
We were quoted about ten more days to finish the install,
but then they need to keep it
for quite a while. They're \ hoping that they put at least five hundred miles on it
so it gets to its first oil change in their hands
so they can kinda work out all the kinks that's gonna get it
back to us right in the middle of winter.
We really wanna travel in this,
but we also don't wanna immediately go flying off of a mountain some snow or something like that.
So I don't know. Our plan was never to travel in our truck and trailer.
Like, that wasn't even an option when when we started this whole thing.
So we would love to only do that for a little bit longer and be back in this in some capacity.
But since we don't know when it'll be done, we don't know where we'll be on the road,
We don't know what the future is. Maybe this will be our Christmas present.
Do ourselves. Let me time
and Ruby back together as flying down the road at six sixty five miles an hour potentially.
Oh my gosh. It'll be we'll finally be living our dream life.
We just hopped in the back of the RV just to see how it is.
We always love to come in and remember how much work.
We did in here how beautiful it is. And I was like,
oh, no. This must have fallen down on the floor and gotten really dirty,
and it's all over this. And then I noticed, I don't know if you could tell,
little footprints. Y'all I think some creature cat raccoon.
I don't know what the heck was living here,
like sleeping in here. Yeah.
That sucks. It doesn't smell bad.
I don't think they were like going to the restroom in here,
but It's tough because that's all open all the time.
Because they're always working on it and it's just an open chasm.
So, you know, kinda any creature can get in here.
It was a very dirty, dirty creature.
It was definitely sleeping on this or something.
Oh my god. Great. I just noticed this is is all dirty too.
Oh, man. This thing was just wallowing in right here.
Oh, god. Hopefully, it hoped it survived the winter.
It's probably gonna be back here tonight. I mean,
if it's adorable, I'm not so so mad, but this seems like a nasty,
gnarly thing. We'll
I
don't wanna leave her again. I hate having to come
and see her and get all excited and then lock her up and leave her.
That's where to go. Next time we come up here, we're leaving with this beast.
She's gonna be back in our possession. I don't believe it.
Never gonna happen.
Guys, we were just working in this coffee shop over there.
Look what we came out to. Friendly little nudge.
Yeah. Dude, you gotta have some some balls to do that and just leave it.
They're touching. … He couldn't get it. Oh, come on.
Alright. City people can be jerks sometime. Brick in Chicago.
I don't know if I'm happier that it's a rental or unhappier.
Because he'd smooshed us. We'd be in trouble.
Oh, I'd be more pissed if it was one of our cars,
but it's not. It's just this little thing.
Alright. Since have one night in Chicago. We are using it to go to our
favorite ramen place outside of Japan in all of the US.
It's just the Good as Japan. Alright? So good.
And last time we were in the city, we missed it because we were here on,
like, the one night that it's closed. We're not this time.
It's open. Looks like there's some tables available and my tummy is empty and ready for noodles.
This
is why we come to this place. The pork ramen baby,
holy cow. It is the most flavorful ramen I've ever had in USA.
It's a gigantic a portion. It's full of so many goodies.
They put an egg in there. They put little bamboo shoots.
These giant chunks of pork are so freaking delicious.
But this is the key to the whole thing. This is the spice umami.
It's basically a flavor bomb. Oh,
yeah. That's what makes it taste good. I got what's called the hakada red,
which is a spicy ramen. You can see the red in there.
It's some chili paste. I still have big old hunks of pork y'all.
I mean, look at this. You usually get little thin strips.
So this is perfectly barbecued pork in there.
Oh my god. That looks. It looks and smells amazing.
I mean, and it's just like pulls apart.
Look at that. Oh my gosh. This is gonna make us so happy after the RV was a bit of a fail,
but this is not. We got warm sake too as usual.
Sake. Sake cheers. Alright. Things are looking up.
We're big fans of Chicago. I don't know if you guys know that,
but We kinda like it. Yeah.
We are in the middle of our final battle with Chicago traffic.
You know? Just had to get one last standstill in the parallel.
That we did. Yeah. But we have noticed that everybody's
bumpers around us have all these little nicks
and dings on them,
presumably from the same thing that happened to us last night,
where that person parked us in. But hopefully,
you guys have a better idea of what the heck's going on with the RV.
It's very close to being done, but it's kinda just stuck in Chicago until it's ready.
Which we're really kind of thinking that maybe by the first of January should be more or less ready.
What do you think? Yes. We'll see if that comes to fruition,
but That's the plan. Some of you love our new truck and trailers.
Some of you hate it. Although, to be fair, some of you hate clementines.
Oh, yeah. You know? Basically, we can't please all of you,
so we're gonna please ourselves instead. That's my favorite thing to do anyway.
Jesus. Alright. This is over.
inaudible
The local time is three thirty three.
We just landed back in Portland, Maine, y'all,
and we finally found our moose. It's so majestic.
It has to be stuffed. I can't believe We drove all across the northeast
and didn't see a single moose until we saw this dead stuffed one in an airport.
Apparently, these kinds of creatures are too.
I don't know exactly what it is, but that would be sick to see in the wild.
Yeah. But this will do for now.
It's a Did you lose your train of thought there?
I thought you were putting the camera down,
so I stopped talking. I couldn't put anything down for that.
Alright. Chuck the truck just as we left him.
Man, I really wish we would have given him a bath before we left.
It's pretty dirty. A new starter baby at what time?
Man, I honestly feel like I'm back home.
Probably because everything we own is in here now.
Alright. Well, we literally just five minutes ago booked a hotel room,
so we're just gonna go there and figure out what we're gonna do between now and Christmas.
We literally have zero clue. Other than we're supposed to go pick up the trailer tomorrow,
we don't have a campsite book, we don't know what's happening opening,
so I guess you'll have to stay tuned to see what the heck happens.
It's also obviously gotten very cold up here it's properly winter now.
So we're trying to decide how much time we're gonna spend up here.
We might be booking a deck out here you guys.
I don't know. Plus, our travel trailer is winterized right now,
and we really un winterize it because the temperatures are falling below zero or below freezing,
so we'll see what happens. I feel like we had a lot of fun in Maine and we saw a lot I mean,
obviously, there's a lot more to see,
but we'll have to come back in this summer time to do more fun exploring.
So I guess, I mean, definitely we'll be headed south.
But to where, who can Alright.
Goodbye ventures. We'll see you on the road.