Good morning Adventures. That's right.
We traded in our dead silent, electric vehicle for a very not-so-silent 76 Beauty.
But the good news is Clementine lives again,
and she is once again, purring like a loud, grumpy old kitten.
So we'll take it. You all, we are this close to being road ready.
So let's pull her into the shop,
get to work.
We are back. We're back in the garage.
Our European escapade has come to a close.
It went too fast. It was so much fun.
But of course, we're excited to be back in the garage. We’ve actually went back for a week or two.
Just piddling around working on some small projects,
Believe It or not, by next week, our plan is to take this sucker on an overnight trip.
Our first overnight trip. Yeah,
we really want to do a trip just to test her out
and make sure that everything's working and see how comfortable it is for night,
because we've never done a trip in her yet.
So there are a lot of little loose ends we need to tie up on the inside.
As you guys know, if you've done any project like this, it's like the last 10%
takes 90 percent of the time. Is that what they say? Yeah,
that's true. All the tiny detail work.
It's just driving us, a little crazy.
The main objective though is to get this friggin bathroom done.
It is about 80% of the way there,
but there's a lot of little stuff that we still have to do to get it complete.
Wait a second. What are you guys looking at right now?
Is it our new shirt? That's not what I was looking at.
Bazingo!
To celebrate us finally, finishing this beast more or less,
we got some shirts, made you guys. How cool are these little Clementine on the road?
Like, she's about to be like she's meant to be.
You can own these awesome limited edition.
And this adventure Clementine On The Run shirts.
I just made that up. We've actually been planning this design for a long time.
We have it on a bunch of different shirts, right? I'm going to put it on some sweatshirts.
We've got mugs, you guys. You can actually pick up this awesome design
if you head to swag.theendlessadventure.com. If you enter in the code
“Clementine” the first 1,000 people to buy this
wwesome design are going to get 10% off.
That's right. Discount.
Is it tacky for us to wear our own shirts? I can never decide.
Do you think she's just Just speeding away to the mechanic because she broke down again?
Yeah. Yeah. She's overheating right now. Yeah. That's what's happening.
We got this awesome design
done on Fiverr and they are actually sponsoring today's video.
We have been using Fiverr since we started our channel.
We've gotten all sorts of creative work, done on Fiverr.
So when we needed a commemorative design to celebrate the end of this horrible,
horrible journey of ours, we knew exactly where to go.
It’s been kind of good, not horrible. It's had its moments you guys.
Two horribles, jeez. If you're not familiar with Fiverr,
they help connect businesses like ours with Freelancers that offer digital services.
Everything from accounting to graphic design.
You can typically find a freelancer
in under 5 minutes and they are super affordable and they even have a money back guarantee.
We'll have more information about Fiverr in the description below.
Also the link to swag.theendlessadventure.com
but I mean just to show you how awesome the quality is on Fiverr.
I mean, is this not incredible? We Just sent him a few examples
and kind of told him a general idea and he freakin nailed it.
Yeah. First try. I couldn't believe it. It's so cute
and cool. Little Clementine. And now we have to finish Clementine.
This is a big talk. Are we actually going to finish it now? Let’s see.
I dont know, we've been finishing her for a year now.
So yeah, but two weeks in two weeks,
it'll be good to go. Enough talking.
Let's get to work.
So, you guys saw that, I ended up hooking up the gray tank. I actually
had to do a bunch of patchwork on that thing,
but we used the old one because it actually fit perfectly into there and had a really high capacity,
but we haven't tested it yet. We are going to test it with the bathroom sink,
which we also have not tested yet. We just installed this.
So hopefully my shoddy plumbing work down here
holds up. I'm not a plumber by any means and to be honest,
this is my least favorite part of all this is doing the plumbing.
It's not fun. I'd say it's a 50/50 chance
whether it leaks or not at this point.
But we have our trusty bucket here for when it inevitably starts dripping.
All right, here goes nothing. Down the hatch, baby.
Oh it's leaking already. Oh, shoot.
It’s leaking right at the drain, though. All my stuff’s holding up.
It's just this gasket up here. Ohhh.
So overall, it's working. It's actually leaking right here,
which is this gasket system that goes to this extender.
This comes with the drain. So maybe we just didn't get that gasket tight enough,
or maybe we need to put some sealant in there or something.
But little bit of a leak there, but nothing else. Here is leaking.
I'm gonna call that successful day. I'm impressed that that was the only leak.
So, we’re realizing the issue is that this section is approaching this at an angle.
So you can't get this gasket sealed in there,
which is very annoying. It's so close,
but we notice it Menards they have an extender that is pliable so you can kind of maneuver it.
So we're going to get one of those
and hopefully, we can kind of snake it up in there and make a good connection.
So, halting on this now. Classic.
But we have obviously tons more to do in here.
We gotta make our door front. We gotta paint everything, stain everything.
We got our work cut out for us.
We ended up taking a little break from the garage. We
actually had to take the RV over to a tire shop,
just get the tires checked out. I haven't done that in a while.
The mechanic is very backed up today. So he's keeping it for many more hours than we anticipated.
So we're just out doing some shopping.
We have a very ambitious plan to make our own curtains.
You guys have we ever seen before in our lives?
Nope. Is this going to go wonderfully? Sure.
Yeah, but check this out. Here's our big plan. We have black out fabric right here.
That's very thin and very white
and very black out and then we have a whole row, a whole row? A whole roll of fabric
that was sent to us with our couch cushion material.
Or a whole…
Okay. I explained that very badly. We have a whole roll like this of
our couch cushion material that was left over.
So we're going to use that,
sew it together with this to make custom blackout curtains. Because every time we do custom things,
it never fails, right?
No never. We're really good at everything we try to do.
Oh god, oh jeez.
All right, we need many yards of this, maybe this whole thing.
So let's go have them cut it for us.
Well, said. Thanks.
What's going on? Oh, you know,
just sewing. This has actually been fairly difficult.
But look, what we've done. You guys check this out.
We basically read this cover to cover and had a lot of trial and error,
but we have made a proper stitch. This is the first time I've
ever stitched anything in my entire life.
This definitely took me back to Home Ec. I had to do it a lot in high school,
but I haven't really touched a sewing machine in years.
Check out these hems that we did back here. That's not so bad,
huh? Yeah. So this was just our tester piece.
So this is the idea. We have a blackout material back here.
Then we have our couch material right here, which we have a ton of this stuff left over.
We basically doubled these up and then fold them over and made these little gems here.
So that the back of this material now has blackout. And this stuff is proper blackout.
Woohoo check that out. I don't see a single bit of light coming through this.
I am beyond impressed at how well it works.
Oh, babe show ‘em the cup. Oh,
you mean this cup, check this out.
You can put coffee in here. You can put soda.
I put wine in mine. Which is the most dangerous liquid
you could ever have when messing with white fabric.
Yeah. We've actually been going back
and forth with our designer on Fiverr making revisions when he designed this,
our package comes with a certain amount of revisions.
So we've been making a bunch of little tweaks. We've been ordering samples
and I think we're getting it pretty much perfect.
Don't know if we mentioned in the beginning of the video,
but we have done so much stuff for the channel on Fiverr.
The intro that you guys know and love,
hopefully love, that animation
and the design for the logo both were done by two different artists on Fiverr.
Oh, yeah, and you all remember that time I fell in love with a ladder.
That's right, Allison. I'll always keep you safe.
We found someone to do that voiceover in a pinch on Fiverr.
How's that relationship been going by the way? It's going pretty
well. I guess you could say he's a step up from you.
Good one.
Well, howdy everybody. Good morning.
What am I doing? So last night we ended up working on the curtains.
Like we showed you guys. We actually ended up cutting all of the blackout stuff,
but we didn't, we ran out of time and we didn't actually cut the front fabric.
So we're gonna have to do that later, but we picked up the RV,
brought it back to the garage and we are back today is the day.
We are going to finish most of this friggin bathroom you guys.
I think that we fixed our issues with plumbing under the sink will show you that later.
Hopefully, it doesn't crash and burn. We also had to do some other prep stuff here.
So we ended up putting a nice bead of flexible waterproof caulk around the
edge just in case any water gets behind this trim,
we're going to put on, it doesn't have anywhere to go. But before we put this thing on,
we have to do this trim, we almost put the sink on before the trim.
Yeah, when I was like, wait a second week would never be able to staple this
and we would have been very sad.
Now we got to do the water test. The infamous water test,
but if it leaks right now, we're kind of screwed. So whatever hopefully it won’t.
Looking good, so far. All right. Who could know though?
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and I'm gonna say we're leak-free, baby.
Woo! We did something good for once.
Now for the faucet. I'm gonna apologize in advance to any professional plumbers who are watching,
just cringing because they're probably making all kinds of mistakes.
But the thing is, it doesn't leak. That's all that really matters,
right? Yeah, right. We're realizing now,
we were supposed to put this on before the sink went
in because now it's very inaccessible and very difficult.
That's what happens when you got two numbskulls trying to do plumbing.
We actually found a way to make this plumbing work without an extra piece.
First off, we just had to trim a bit here which was keeping this
whole pipe structure from going down a bit.
That's why this was angled earlier
and then we just screwed this metal piece on first
and then put it down into this little cinching piece.
All that together I think is going to be leak-free.
This is precisely why I don't like doing plumbing. Cuz just
when you think you have all the pieces you need, you don't. You got to run back to the Menards?
All this stuff, I’m trying to get in and a quarter going to inch
and a half and decide where I want to cut the pipes back,
trying to mess with this flexible tubing stuff.
See if that's gonna work. I'm just going to go on a spree to start getting.
All right, I'm done with this. All right y'all it's potty time and and party time. Potty party.
So this if you guys remember is the use Nature's Head
composting toilet that we bought from a gentleman on the internet.
You guys is this the weirdest thumbnail we ever took?
I thought you were taking a picture. I gotcha.
No big deal. Just a girl on a toilet in a CVS parking lot in the middle of Chicago.
This system has a vent coming off of it because it does a whole composting process back here.
You have to vent it. This in the cabinet here is actually the old
vent that went down into our black tank.
So it vented, kind of a similar way.
It vents all the gross stuff.
The poop. It vents to poop.
Right now, what we are trying to do and what you saw us doing at Menards,
is trying to find the right amount
or right configuration of pipes
and elbows and attachments to make this go in here and attach to this.
But we realized that we can make a nice clean connection.
Maybe they can go directly onto the wall like that.
Yeah, so. Yeah, but I think we have solved the problem and now we have to do the scary part,
which is putting a big hole in our brand new cabinet
and hope that we got all of our measurements and calculations right.
Let's do it. Yeah.
Moment of truth, y'all, he does it fit.
Yeah. So then this sits right on there.
That's going to attach to this pipe. And then we are going to have a vented toilet, y’all.
Woohoo! Yeah, it looks a lot cleaner than I ever thought it was going to.
This is going to work. Also, putting that back in on did a lot.
Yes. It looks real.
Oh shoot. Sorry. This is that time a girl,
get some privacy. Close the door.
The wind just close this. I know you're stuck with me.
Just testing out our new, almost finished bathroom
to see what it's gonna be. Like, look at this.
It's coming together. Oh my god.
So we ended up going with a nice little paint color in here called sun-baked.
I really wanted a terracotta like rusty kind of vibe to go with the southwestern vibe
and I think we freaking nailed.
It. Adds a nice little warmth in here.
I love it. Don't worry. We're not leaving this weird little light up here.
We have a fun custom fixture that we're working on,
but it's not quite there yet. So we just hook that up for now.
We have Idea. Yeah, we actually have a lot of fun stuff coming for the bathroom.
We already have the towels and shower curtain and stuff. We just are not installing it quite yet.
Have a really nice mirror that's gonna go over here. So this is all going to get filled out.
We did put a nice little cheeky plant here though. Yeah,
it does it feel homey if you put a succulent in here?
I think yes, we also have these custom faceplates.
We got these gold ones that we just put a hole in the middle,
and put these fancy little switches on them.
So this is kind of the vibe all throughout all the switches in the RV.
Well, except the one immediately below it.
Yeah. This one is a GFI, so it's a very big big plug.
So we had to bump it out from the wall. So ignore that.
We might change that in the future. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah,
it's coming along. We're pretty much there.
All right y'all our custom lights have been finally installed.
That's which there you go.
It remains to be seen whether
or not we like this or not. But we decided to make these kind of diamond shaped instead of square.
And then we realize each one puts two holes in the roof.
So now we can't make it square even if we want to because we got two big holes in the roof.
Hopefully, I'll like it. Hopefully we like,
yeah, we can decide if we even like it but that's the way it's gonna be you guys yall.
I must I forgot to show you something super cool that we did,
while the cameras weren't rolling. Look, what's behind this cabinet.
Now, we actually didn't plan ahead.
We didn't know where the heck we were going to put these. So we were racking our brains,
to figure out where to put all these little gauges and controls and things.
Did you come up with it or did I come up with? Uh, I'm pretty sure I came up with.
Well, one of us came up, the idea to put it right here in this box.
That actually houses our speakers down here. Over here.
We have this flush-mounted inverter control. This actually wires up
all the way over to here to the inverter over here.
But it gives you like this remote access so you can flick the inverter on just like that.
You can set your current limit. You can see if you have any errors.
You can check the charging stage, all kinds of stuff. Then this little
gauge in the middle connects to our battery bank
and tells us our battery percentage.
It also tells us how much power we’re drawing.
And then over here is the monitor for all of our tanks.
This awesome thing is called the sea level.
There's a whole bunch of hooking up that I have to do on this and I have yet to have time to do it,
but eventually this will work and it will show us how much fresh water we have.
It'll show us how full our grey is, it gives us switches for the water heater and the pump.
It is awesome. While Eric was busy
working on all the fun electronic stuff that I'm no good at, I was doing this.
That's right, y'all. I built us a really cool door.
Isn’t it so fun? I’m so so proud of her.
Doesn't this look amazing, you guys? Y’all, that came right out of my noodle. She came up with this idea
all on her own. We stayed in a bus recently,
an Airbnb, and they had this fun sun,
like wooden feature. And I was like, we need to do this in the RV.
I am gonna probably put mirror or some feature here. To make this,
I actually only sawed halfway through this top plank of wood.
Then I taped off each section and stained it individually.
Then poly’d the whole thing and then installed my hardware and put it up here.
And I didn't really mess up anywhere, which is awesome and very not characteristic of me.
I love that when you walk in her little door feature
there is the first thing that you see. It looks so fun.
I love it. It’s very striking. So I feel like we've kind of crammed a lot into this video.
So I think we're going to cut it off here. And I'm going to make this a bit of a two-parter.
Yes. So yeah, we're not obviously quite ready enough to take this on a camping trip,
but we will be hopefully in the next video.
Yeah, and we hope to start actually doing some of the proper interior decorating
and stuff and getting it more or less ready for our little tester trip.
That we're going to be going on. Yes. So exciting. So exciting.
Once again, we want to give a huge thank you to Fiverr.
We are so happy with how our shirts turned out.
Clementine was meant to be a star,
look at her. And actually, Fiverr is going to give you guys
discount. So if you head to F V R R,
.co / Endless Adventure,
you can check out the services that are available for you to use.
Yes. And if you use the code Endless Adventure, they're going to give you 10% off. All the info
about that discount is going to be in the description below
as well as the link to pick up your own copy of Clementine...
What was it? Clementine on the run? On the run, ya.
Yeah, shirt, sweater, mug.
Anything you want. We got it. With Clementine on it.
We need to do stickers too. Maybe we'll put stickers on there as well. And stickers.
This just in, breaking news.
Goodbye Adventures. We’ll see you on the road.