you know it's really dumb today's what May 23rd May 23rd
so we need to bring the RV home to our house so we can un winterize it and get it packed up with food
and clothes pretty much everything we're gonna need
for the summer since we will be in it for the next two months plus living full
time in our RV for the summer as we travel the U.S. so a lot of work to do
two days to get it done pretty sure we can get it done in two days do you only
have 72 hours that we can have apart in front of our house according to these
city code where we live so you cannot have a recreational vehicle such as a
camper 5th wheel or any of their cousins parked on the street in a
neighborhood for more than 72 hours so it's why we're bringing it today because
we leave in two ish days so for 72 hours obviously would be like a thought
mark so bringing a home now to be able to get all that done so we're
we haven't for storage is actually in a field and so which isn't a problem and
except for the fact that it is decided to be winter again so yesterday we had
snow and the day before that it rains pretty much for almost 24 hours straight
and so the problem is is that with it being in a field there's it's just mud
and dirt and some plant life and it's very heavy rig so we're hoping
we get out there that we don't have any problems getting it out so we're not
stuck in the mud
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so that was super close I'm really glad you got it out of there but take a look
at my shoes right now I'm gonna have to pull these off before I get in our
minivan but it's like I'm wearing mud slippers
so I'm super thankful he got that out of here I was really worried just take a
look at these ruts
these are some major deep ruts folks I am super thankful I thought we were
gonna have to call a tow truck there for a few minutes but wow look at my shoes
come look at my shoes look look at my shoes it's like I'm wearing it's like
I'm wearing mud slippers I can't believe I got out of it I was like doing that
like just give up we're gonna have to call a tow truck but Wow I made it
lesson learned maybe when there's rain in the forecast we pull this thing out
of here a few days early even if that means violating the city code I'm gonna
have to take off my shoes before I climb back into my minivan so we got her home
finally cleaned off the tires a little bit now it's time to get it loaded up so
we're going to load up our food load up our clothes and some of the things
that we are gonna want to take with us since we are gone for the whole summer
and we are still working so we have a portable printer we want to make sure we
don't forget our chargers the great thing about RVing in the U.S. is that if
we do forget something it's a good chance we can just stop by a Walmart and
grab whatever we forgot but the goal is to not forget anything so we're gonna
start the load up process now
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so one thing that I will never leave home without is all of my essential oils
so I have a nice big wooden box from Aroma Outfitters that I carry all of my
oils in so these are pretty much my whole oil collection and I want to make
sure that I have these with us so the wonderful thing that I absolutely love
about this particular just kind of chest style box is that when I'm at home it
just sits on our counter but when we go RVing I can just close the lid and grab
the handles and let's go put it in the RV
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trying to get this rig ready to hit the road just turn it on the fridge and make it sure
we don't have a problem where we go to pull out and then we don't have
a cold fridge cuz that would be like a minor disaster and then running all the
sinks you can see the lovely pink water so get this cleaned out and then I
haven't done the shower yet so stand by for some shower love.... No, okay shower love
the shower is disgusting my only question is the washer and dryer
like what do we need to do with that to un-winterize it because it's got like
the antifreeze and the lines right yeah so I don't want that on our clothes so
we run a load yeah we fill it up run a cycle let it fill up the tank and we
have to do hot water cool I think we have a working washer and dryer
run all the water from out of the sinks we've got the water running out of the
washer and dryer and shower is done toilets done so now we just need to turn
on the hot water heater and run the yes hot water we don't want to like find out
that there's no problem with the hot water heater like the other day in and
we're not where our normal RV guy is one of the first things you should do when
you buy an RV is find a good RV guy yup have a guy have a guy we have a guy
we're so glad we have a guy you need a guy or gal if it's a girl you know I'm
not like gender bias there I like your gloves by the way you like
these orange gloves so there's a water filter thing but I think it's supposed to be
I hope it doesn't drip but there's not a filter underneath there it's switched up
to the water lines but I don't think we'd drink water out of here anyway
I think I'm just gonna like get bottled water like distilled gallon water or
whatever like that and we'll just keep that on board for coffee and drinking
and things like that just cuz I mean I'm sure that there's probably some good
water at the RV parks but I don't know what do you think yeah the the biggest
problem is that for months it's taste like potable antifreeze even after you
get it flushed out it still it does not taste right yeah yeah yes we won't worry
about that we'll just think the bottled water be interesting to know what some
of you guys do so you should tell us in the comments how you guys do your
drinking water when you guys are RVing if you have some sort of filtration
system or like when you un-winterize if that's a thing for you where you live
how that you get rid of the antifreeze taste
so this is our first year that we are flat towing a vehicle behind our
motorhome in years previous we had a just a four-door sedan that we put on a
car dolly and then we put our car dolly behind our motorhome and so why that
work then it served its purpose and everything like that we really just
wanted a way where we could quickly disconnect our tow vehicle and not have
to worry about putting a car dolly somewhere when we had a campsite that
was it back in so we purchased a used Jeep Wrangler that we got to tow behind
our motorhome so I'm just gonna kind of show you our setup the first thing that
you need to do a setup where you're gonna flat tow a vehicle is you need some
type of a tow bar so it'll go in to the hitch on the motorhome so this is a Blue
Ox tow bar and you need a tow bar to connect your
vehicle to your motorhome so that is what connects that there and pulls it
along the second thing that you need is you need to be able to hook up the
lights so that way when the turn signals come on on the RV the turn signals come
on on your tow vehicle when you hit your brake lights the brake lights come on so
that is the second piece that you need the third piece that you need is an
auxilary braking system so we decided to go with the Patriot 3 braking system and
we'll put a link for that on below the video but we decided to go with that
system just because this Jeep is our first Jeep
it is a Jeep that we are absolutely in love with but it is something where we
might want to replace it with a different vehicle sometime in the future
not a hundred percent positive that we want to keep this Jeep forever
and the Patriot 3 braking system is something that can be taken out and put
into another vehicle in the future if that's something that we choose to do
so that's the braking system that we went with you do need an auxilary braking
system in then that braking system has what's called a breakaway so meaning if
the vehicle were to break away from the motorhome it automatically applies the
brakes so that it stops it's not rolling down the road or rolling into somebody
else but it stops the vehicle where that it is so that's kind of a setup that you
need and that's the setup that we have and so if you're looking to flat tow
versus kind of car dolly would highly recommend it again we've
done both now and it's just so much easier having the you know Jeep the
vehicles that flat tows to be able to just quickly undo it in park our motorhome
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