good morning sweet love bugs you guys look awfully cuddly this morning you glad dad put
the pillow in the blanket out front for the snuggles that's right huh
that's right kitty kitties we think tara like our view i like that there's not too many
rvers out my front windshield it's pretty for a desert
good morning everyone from sunny beautiful little chile court site arizona thanks for
joining me guys i will be uploading this video with some nomad internet link below in the video
description i am loving quartzsite man i'm glad i came to arizona this year really loving it out
here in the desert and with the car to be able to scoot around that's really going to make things uh
comfortable out here that way i don't have to mess with the rv i can just do my own thing and
i'm going to be changing things up probably after christmas just to keep things fresh
but i am really really enjoying my time here with felix and kevin and david and you know we just got
a nice little quiet group here away from like the party zones which i also want to be a part of as
well but you know uh look at these two kitties i can always see opie really well because he's
got the lighter colors there man he's a handsome boy and tara's over there hanging out with the
mickey's felix got me two new mickey mouses there so oh yeah big stretches also as you know i've got
1280 watts of solar up on the roof of miranda here it is basically working pretty well except for the
fact that the solar stops right around 3 34 p.m out here and also the level where the sun's at
it's a lot lower in the summer than it is in the winter so that's why i'm not seeing anywhere near
my my normal solar output up there the highest i saw yesterday was 590 watts out of 1280 so
half getting half uh is the most i'm seeing so i am trying something new we're going to
go over this later but i just did just want to show you that i've got 600 watts of solar also
on the ground out here also locked up but we're going to go over this in a separate video because
i'm kind of testing everything out but i've got everything chained together and locked up with
the generator and and the inverter and everything there so essentially what i'm trying to do with
this system is have um a second source of power at night so i'm not drawing solely off my five
lithium batteries but instead and anyways i'm not going to talk about it right now because we're
dealing let's go into town i need to go stop in at my mailbox and pick up a package all right got my
mail i'll show you what i got it's a present for the kitties i'm going to give it to them a couple
days early when we get back to the rv i pulled into this lot for something specific but first
everything on court site is expensive it's just kind of a thing the prices are incredibly inflated
over the next couple months here in quartzsite however you can find anything you want or need
here there's a small chevy classy rv for sale a toyota truck if you're into that sort of thing
or a custom one-of-a-kind built box truck stealth camper that is one clean diesel v8 machine there
the specs 2002 ford f-450 rv they're solar it's got the 7.3 diesel six speed 111 000 miles they
are asking 75 000 and you're gonna have to contact this guy directly to find out what
is inside but look hot water heater there's your water fill station at least it's got a
mini split on the back a nice exterior door right there not too many windows but there is a window
and there's a big side door there possibly propane but uh that could be what someone's looking for i
have mentioned over and over the last couple months my intentions to one day
build my own custom rv and i have all but decided that i'm going to do that on a school bus chassis
therefore i've shown you quite a few buses that i've looked at and of course there's a bus
for sale here in court site which literally hits almost every single thing on my list it's a 2008
thomas diesel pusher bus yeah it's got a rear engine caterpillar diesel engine pushing this
beast which means it's not going to get too hot up front when you're driving also if i wanted to
vlog while driving the engine noise is in the rear so it might be a little quieter it's like this a
clean looking bus here 2008 i need to find out if it's got emissions with the diesel exhaust fluid
and stuff like that we're right there 2006 through eight is kind of when they switched over and light
to get a non-emissions bus but still worth a look if i can get a hold of the guy if we stand back
see that that's what you get when you buy a southern bus
air conditioning unit that is a monster ac unit that will run while you are driving um i'm gonna
i would definitely keep that mine as well uh it's definitely probably got cab ac but having
a monster air compressor ac for the inside of the bus while you're driving and also
one of the benefits of buying a bus in the south is and get in here not a speck of rust anywhere
that's what you get for your money and some people say it's not worth it to get up charged to pay
thousands of dollars more for a bus just because it doesn't have rust i say if you're building
your dream rv get one that has zero rust i mean start from something that's good right
so there's the specs don't steal this from me i might buy this guys 170 000 miles they
were asking nine grand they're asking eight grand right now and you know without seeing the inside
and hearing or running everything i don't know if that's a good deal or not it's within my budget
if it's solid but i am looking so i'm going to give him a buzz before i get out of here and
see if he's in the area i might have to make an appointment to see it later on down the road but
this could this could be the time guys i called and left the voicemail i also texted and asked him
if the bus has emissions def uh so i guess i have to wait to hear back i'm gonna head back to camp
all right that's the uh kitty's christmas toy in here let's get this guy set up
okay
oh man
merry christmas opie go try it out
there you go merry christmas tara go try it i'm gonna zip you guys in no fighting just plain
yay i got it set up in the shade right now but i bet they would also like the sun so i have another
one of these which is just the base part of this this is the new version on amazon with the little
you know cat circle around there who's gonna figure it out first who's gonna figure out
i can go in here come here opie there you go go boy good boy goku now make tara chase you
pretty cool and it came with stakes so you can stake it down so the wind doesn't blow
away your kitties well you guys thank merry christmas you crazy kitties we wiggle his butt
look he's wiggling it get him get a mopey also stopped and got most of the supplies
for my next propane project here they had almost everything in stock i just didn't want to buy
one hose because i wasn't sure what i would need and that is this hose right here this
is my three-way t splitter here i believe that's quarter inch actually that might be half inch but
the automatic switchover i got is what they use on trailers actually that's going to go in here
both of these tanks are going to hook up to it and then it will automatically switch to
the full tank when the empty tank goes empty without interruption i just need to find out
what other hose i need so let me get this one installed at least we'll go from there boxy lady
what's up girl that's a felix's puppy felix is over there working on his murata he's got a
2004 murata and miranda is a 2012 so that's just an earlier edition looks cool yeah we should race
we should definitely race i'm going to put the kitties away i need to go get supplies once more
again this is the piece that goes in there so i have to have that so this as you can see is not
going to fit into the automatic switchover so i need to get a different hose different adapter for
this man court site is such a cool place felix told me to go over to the pit stop in town and
they are a one stop shop i'll tell you what i got my other propane tank filled uh 280 a gallon
so instead of 22 to 25 propane swaps i just paid 10.75 for a refill much much better and
you know court sites weird there's no other place in the country where you can
like get this much stuff done continually like everything's in town it's a perfect place to
be and a perfect time to be i went in there with what i had i told them what i needed and i asked
them how to do it and they said oh no problem we will just make you a six foot hose they literally
make propane hoses so there i've got my quarter inch flared female and there's my half inch that
goes into my brand new switchover i think that was like 12 bucks so really really reasonable just
make me a propane hose how cool is that all right everything is installed kind of but it's
functional right now there's one more thing i need to do i need to get some c-clamps because this
came with no way to mount it i'm going to get some self-tapping self-drilling screws and just zip zip
that to the back wall because this has to face down but you can see the green light right there
in case you don't know how these work essentially this is going to make it so that if i run out of
propane in one of these overnight i won't run out of heat once this tank okay this one's activated
right now see it's pointing to this one so this one's activated but i also open this valve so that
when this tank gets empty this will turn red but automatically start drawing propane from this one
just like a like pull behind trailer system works then when i come out here and i see that it's red
you physically flip it back around that way and then you go change this when you have a chance
but that way you have under uninterrupted propane service throughout here and that way i won't get
cold in the middle of the night one thing i will remind you if you're doing this project or if
you have a trailer once you hook these up to your propane tank you must open this very very slowly
and listen and make sure it makes a small little s sound and the hose kind of changes shapes a little
bit if you open this normal speed or too fast for some reason it's just too sensitive it won't allow
any propane to come through so again this one's open and ready to go i will get those screws
tomorrow but for right now a few of us are gonna get together for a karaoke evening in courtside
there's a bar called the yacht club and uh randy's gonna head over there with a few other people so
i'm gonna take tater tot down there possibly do some singing tonight in the desert yeah oh
snowflakes start falling but not here torture that's when those blue
memories
really fun evening with friends a different side of court site that you wouldn't maybe normally
expect we played uh some billiards some pool i did okay for a bit and some other people did
a little better than me but it was just fun to hang out with people and do something a little
different than sitting in the middle of the desert and uh we we partied pretty hard and
uh enjoyed the food there and we were even invited back invited back for the they're gonna be doing
the same type of thing on new year's eve we haven't really made any plans or anything but um
we might try something new for new year's eve and christmas eve don't know yet but that was
an awesome blast this morning i did hear back from the gentleman selling the bus here in quartzsite
and it is uh pre-emissions no diesel exhaust fluid needed however
the rooftop ac unit that i was so excited about does not work don't know what's wrong with it
does not work um he gave me his bottom line you know price that it had to be and i said yeah
he'll only come down another 500 bucks and uh anyway i'm going to get a couple buddies together
and we're going to go test drive it later and at least see if it's as good as he says you know
i probably won't pull the trigger or anything like that until at least the beginning of the year yeah
let me go inside real quick i am happy to report i already got my arizona magnet got that one
when i first came in at the pilot there thought that might be the only one i get but turns out
i actually found one that's can you see it it says quartzite arizona
on the plaque there on the saguaro cactus that is a really neat looking magnet for quartzite but i'm
gonna do some chilling with the kitties here and we'll keep these videos coming guys thanks for
joining me a merry christmas to you safe travels if you are traveling this weekend to loved ones
be careful enjoy your time with them me and the kitties will see you in a couple days bye guys
you