Oh god! You only get one shot at life you gotta live it!
We're Chris and Morgan a British American couple on a mission to show our kids Jonah and Jude
that the best things in life happen outside of our comfort zones. We're renovating our fifth
wheel Bilbo to become our home on wheels as we hit the road full time on a quest to explore
50 states in 50 weeks where are we now? Hi Explorers! Greetings from my parent's driveway.
Why are we still here? Let's begin at the start of the week
Okay good morning this is our current situation with the tailgate.
It's really heavy and it bangs and makes a loud noise. I don't like it so I bought this
tailgate assist from Amazon that I'm going to try and install and it's supposed to just
make it nice and smooth and not be so hard on the truck.
Okay all installed let's give it a whirl!
We're finally getting the fifth wheel hitch installed today and I can't wait. I can't wait!
Dooda is giving me a ride today
it's in and it's ready i hope things were looking up a friend of ours gifted us a hitch
we cleaned it up we had it installed and we're all set to take bilbo on his first ride
how many times are you gonna take me to hook up the truck five and webbing
five and eleven um 100. yeah do it guys
thumbs up
oh god
before we backed it up we should have taken these feet off the back so we had to raise it to
this is not how it's supposed to look so this is what bent right here on both sides
it doesn't slow us down
oh you got it
so after that fiasco it's hooked up it might need to come down a little bit a little bit high
well if you want a perfect level that's what i'm saying your hitch might have to drop down
one notch okay see right there okay you could have those guys do it if you're going to take
this down and have how i can do that part myself can i sure you can i'll help you do it
okay so i'm probably want to like go a little wide when i come out right
yeah just cut the corners a little bit wider than normal
you can see how you're doing just jump look at your every mirror when you do turn it on
oh hit the tree gotta watch out for trees if wheel was just going down the road what do you
think about that yeah i'll let you know when it comes back yeah he was driving it wave say hi
fans are home on wheels you want to be in the vlog so here we are in my parents driveway
just hoping that this isn't a very long repair actually it was a blessing in disguise i think
because you were telling yourselves no i think it was a blessing because the the scissor jacks that
were on the back it was my fault probably for raising it without taking them down first but
they were like mounted on brackets underneath and so they weren't like the strongest and they kind
of collapsed in themselves so we're gonna get new ones they're gonna get welded to the actual frame
underneath the rv which will definitely be a lot more stronger and hopefully hopefully uh will be
good for the rv so so send prayers please we need them and in the meantime we will be daydreaming of
our route which we were already kind of working on but not solidified whatsoever so please let
us know down in the comments if you were us where in the country would you start and what
route would you take we would love your advice and your tips so please leave them down below
and join us next week to see if we can actually get it fixed and if we could actually get bilbo
on the road to take a test adventure like we had planned to do see you next week cheers
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