good morning everybody Eric here from nomadic fanatic I hope you guys are doing well I will
be uploading this video with some Nomad internet link below in the video description as I come to
you from a beautiful backdrop here in Florida but guys I have some very special news something I'm
very excited to show you I ran into my old van Vanna White The Coachman van and Vanna White's
new owner Deborah we're going to talk to her in just a minute see how she's liking the van
see how things are going the things she's changed and just kind of reunite back with
Vanna White thanks for joining me guys let's get right to it foreign [Music] [Applause]
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yeah guys Eric here coming to you from a beautiful Park here this is a special day for me as a nomad
who's gone through my share of RVs and vehicles I've been in uh four different uh E-150 Cargo
Vans uh and then I've sold those and moved on it's very rare that we get to run into our old
vehicles on the road so this is an extra special time for me and I'm really excited because I I
connected back up with Deborah to see how she's been enjoying Vanna White and using Vanna White
and customizing Vanna White to her needs so we're going to talk to her get to meet her right now and
go check out my old Coachman camper van Vanna White all right here we go Deborah has offered
to be on camera here how are you hon great I love my Vanna White the van looks great you've
had it for about how long now it's it's a year in September last September so and what do you
think is it yours yeah you keeping it yeah you're not gonna sell it back to me little costume well
why don't you show me and tell me what you've done outside that you've changed okay on the outside um
not much has changed I did get the um speaker like uh Eric had yeah he had to order it from Australia
Oh weird yeah and um I don't have to go in here anymore because we rerouted the electricity to
the inside so I don't have to hook up you know do that so what are you using for power now
um right now I'm using the jackery okay um just when I travel to and from and then I hook up to
shore power because I mostly stay in state parks or run the generator if you absolutely
have to all we've done here is just clean things up a little bit because I see the cameras have a
much nicer look to them yeah it is Eric Eric is really good on picking good equipment but he's
beyond that I don't finish all my projects why [Music] inside
I have tried to uh deep turquoise it as much as possible
um so I've kind of switched to like Navy and again different Blues but um that chair too where Eric's
sitting right now is is always turned around that way for my dog I see so we have the turquoise and
then it starts to get a little lighter here on the couch and then it goes to a normal
blue right there I like that yeah and I have my my I hide my weighted blanket too so oh okay
and in here all I did was just added a little light oh nice and same thing in here I couldn't
see the inside of the refrigerator so I just added a light here oh that's a
smart idea my light doesn't work in my RV I might have to add one of those yeah there's
there are four of them you get four of them in the pack um nothing new with the speaker
here these are new now Outlets yes oh yes I got USB Outlets here here and here okay
oh you got my old mug a cup of coffee and you got the t-shirt on too yeah love it and then when you
come back here um I just have everything I need you know Post-it notes paper clips just little
stuff you know um one of my favorite things if you can see it I don't know if you can see it is
my freezer I like that and the freezer I I take giant king cubes so I have for my cocktail or my
ice water ice cream um Frozen stuff like and that stays right there while you're driving perfect or
I can put it on the on the floor I think that's where I had the old litter box right yeah they've
repurposed it that's full of um everything for the outdoor Blackstone gotcha for The Griddle okay um
stuff up here
but other than that you've also got one of my old car car magnets that I use signed by nomadic
Fanatics yes yes a couple years ago I did upgrade the TV I like it again it's bigger yeah it's it's
not too big though I think it's the right size um I've only bumped my head on at an average of four
or five times per trip okay and the other monitor right there that's for the security camera system
yeah yeah so Deborah has the the same system as I have which they just used for trying to
locate the people who took my e-bike this was the this was the television that was up there
okay and now now it's in the back and nice and secure great and there's tater tot out there so
I can see it all around here and uh I just love it you know it fits you this is a perfect fit
for your little getaways and perfect yeah and it fits in my driveway which is really great
um I have a couple bricks in the driveway to keep me from going too far because otherwise I
take out the air conditioner oh okay so so this van is a specific good size fit okay perfect
you know and I love the fact that I'm doing little stuff everything's little mine ketchup
and mustard oh neat that's very cool you got to maximize all the space right you know just
please I love it I'm just gonna flip around here and show the the bed couch there area
able to and then these yeah these so there's The Coachman turquoise color there up front here's
the seat she leaves like this and then a little uh end table there for driving and for parking
yeah it's perfect for like when I'm watching TV at night and having a cocktail or something just
sit there and I also just want to point out you know this overhead storage area yeah you
almost don't get these with the newer Camper vans they close that off well you know you know and I
didn't realize because you left me those bins I didn't realize how handy they would be because
oh yeah I just have an awful lot of stuff that I did you know just in case just in case just
in case you know that kind of and that way you don't have to look at it yeah and I don't really
you know I was gonna clean it all up no it's good this is this is the living condition here
this is the way this is real life oh you got a new faucet here too I just noticed oh yeah
that's right I like that yeah I absolutely love having a decent faucet and I really really hate it
one of the first things I did and my brother-in-law has been extremely helpful
he did all the wiring he put all the um all the wires that were showing he took all of this off
and and hid the wires behind everything wow yeah I had to come talk to him next time yeah because
he's kind of he's crazy about wires and having things straight and everything the way I am so
that was really a good thing to do but um oh and when I when I bought this I bought it in
Illinois and it I took five days to get home okay and and the very first day it's pouring down rain
and one of the windshield wipers now I haven't driven a van since the 70s and I'm driving down
the freeway with one one oh my gosh so the first thing I did is I called my brother-in-law what
do I do what do I do he said find uh you know AutoZone yeah yeah I just drove in and said
funny that you were greeted by rain as soon as you leave Illinois
but I'm glad you got a chance to see what Vanna's doing now thank you thank you for showing us this
means a lot to me it's it's a it's an emotional experience being back and I'm really glad to see
you happy in it thank you for making this happen nice to meet you Deborah I do kind of miss that
van just so you know it's just I didn't like the idea of storing the van and not using the van
while I'm out in the big RV at the time that was my thinking uh had things been different
yeah now I basically traded this van for Black Betty which also sits in a shed unused and I'm
like really Eric so anyway we are here in the uh Zephyr Hills area so um Deborah and I are gonna
go out and grab a bite to eat oh it's so nice sunny warm beautiful uh we're gonna go grab a
bite to eat here at uh Village Inn here in Zephyr Hills and go try some stuff I just noticed also
on the back window look at this she's still got my old Mickey decals with me and the two kitties
yeah that was uh Jax and Tara when we had this van there oh look at this guys I got turkey and
taters for lunch and a biscuit and Deborah got a chicken pot pie there all right eat them up all
right uh just picked up something um something I did not share with you last week is that this is
gonna be a real shocker I had another blowout in tater tot and make that number six yes guys
so the last week I haven't even had a spare that wheel was bad so just picked up a brand new wheel
rim on Amazon also a brand new tire uh this is a front rim front tire but in a pinch it'll work on
the back if I have another flat but I was really worried that I might have a flat last week again
um I don't know what the but what the real issue is guys it's just
I feel like I just got to make it to like the end of March April when we
do the lift kit and put normal tires on here but in the meantime probably
not a good idea to not have a spare with me considering my track record six flat tires
so we're gonna go take this over to the tire shop drop it off let them Mount and balance it put a
valve on it and uh then we'll have a spare again so before I got to the tire shop here I just took
a call here in the car with my calm service Bluetooth there and it was another detective
from a different Precinct here in Florida same county but a different investigation going on
and she shared a lot more information about the e-bike theft ring going on that is now
leaked past her jurisdiction into this one so she actually stopped by my RV here earlier left a card
wanted to get a little bit of information look I don't want to jump the gun or anything guys but
um she says they're really close apparently they are uh they are zoning in on a place and getting
ready to serve a warrant where they think that they are going to find dozens of stolen e-bikes
just sitting in somewhere and I probably already said too much so she doesn't say that I couldn't
say this on my YouTube channel but anyway it looks like they are I've never seen anybody go
after bike themes this hard but uh Pasco County Sheriffs are not messing around they do not want
this kind of crime to happen and they don't want to make people feel uncomfortable I think that's
good they're at the office right now collecting a little bit more video surveillance from the office
because they have some stuff around the pool and other places so and somebody who works there is
working with the Sheriff's Office on another they're using my video to um to the Vans shoes
that he was wearing and the Swiss a black backpack that he was wearing that you could only see in my
video that's going to be key evidence when they do the search it's so exciting you know I don't
know I'm probably getting too excited too quickly here but there may be an update on my e-bike soon
we'll see all right now I feel better got a brand new loaded balanced spare ready to go I mean brand
spanking new and again even though when I do the lift I'll have no trouble getting rid of all five
of these tires when I need to after I upgrade yeah I'm gonna go ahead and close this one out guys I'm
gonna take a shower real quick got a friend coming by we're gonna we're gonna go do some things
got some uh interesting updates coming on the channel guys stay tuned be well bye guys [Music]