welcome to trying something new our travels recently took us to Miami where we happened
to be in the same RV park as traveling family and fellow Youtubers trying something new
we had so much fun connecting with their family and our kids became instant buddies they agreed
to let us film a tour of their renovated RV and we jumped at the chance to be able to show you their
unique style and share a little bit of their story so oh my gosh I'm super excited to be able to make
this video for you guys because we found out that this other RV family that we found on youtube
trying something new is here in the same RV park that we are at yeah we've been following them for
a while and watching their youtube videos and you guys message each other right yep so message each
other on instagram we're gonna be able to connect today I am super excited because I have seen their
RV tour video on youtube I've not seen it yet in person but this is an RV like none other so we're
gonna be able to take you guys on a tour because they agreed to let us come look at their RV
in person this is like nothing that you've ever seen before so make sure that you stay tuned watch
to the end because you're about to get an RV tour like you've never seen let's go say hey hey guys
what's up come on in come on in you're welcome oh my gosh thank you to the bright fun and airy bust
I love it you know I mean I've seen it on youtube but like this is so cool thank you oh my gosh I
love it you guys are world travelers like yeah so envious of that so tell us a little bit about it
well you know we started out rving full-time five years ago we decided we had to give it all up the
rat race the daily grind and just really start living life for us you know we were chasing that
American dream and that just wasn't our dream you know we had the houses the rental properties the
cars everything and we're like this is not making us happy our kids were in school and you know so
we just pulled the kids out of school got the rv sold the house all the stuff have a 5x10 storage
unit now and yeah we hit the road we did that for a couple of years and then we started going
international and so we really really love traveling internationally exploring the world
and so we just put the RV in storage get on a plane go wherever and when we come back to the
states we just pulled rb out of storage and then we started traveling again in the us yeah that's
awesome so how many countries have you guys been to 20 some countries I think yeah I don't know
yeah or less count but I think the kids the kids are trying to keep track yeah yeah so we
just love world schooling and exploring the world yeah so tell us about your RV and show us around
the RV well we bought an old RV and so we wanted to have low overhead so we figured just buy an rv
cash we paid what 19 000 for this and we knew that we were gonna want to remodel it because
the RV style it just wasn't for us you know the brown walls and all that so we got an old RV and
just pretty much revamped the entire thing to just be colorful light bright airy and kid-friendly
when kids feel like it's home it's fun I love it so did you guys do all of this yourself or
did you hire part of it out wait what did you do a bunch ourselves we had everything reupholstered so
we obviously had somebody do that we had someone come and do the flooring just wouldn't have the
headache of the slide out like you said yeah yeah and then yeah we had the counter tops replaced and
then everything else we did we painted everything put the sticker backsplash what really started the
entire remodel was the bathroom it was delaminated and had mold and so that started the process and
then since we did the bathroom we're like well now we have to do the entire thing like right now and
so that sparked the whole remodel like right off the bat yeah yeah yeah awesome well let's start
at the front and kind of show us like I love what you've got going on here with like the yeah so we
have rush stuff chalkboard paint okay and then we we thought we were gonna do like the chalkboard
markers but you know like that kind will just have it just stay the same and so we had an airbrush
artist come in and just do love love life that's my license plate and so we're like let's put love
and life up there and then he did a little scene over here a whole tropical scene so love that we
had him do a little things throughout the entire RV all right so for the past 11 years we've had
a professional video company where we go and make videos for other people to highlight their brand
or their company or whatever and when we had a house I had this huge mega suite of three monitors
super computers all the speakers everything that went along with that and I never thought that I
could bring myself to edit on a laptop and here we are five years later and I wouldn't have it
any other way we create all of our videos here all the magic happens this is where the magic happens
not necessarily back there but maybe up here so we create all our videos here in this little tiny
passenger seat I got a pull out desk and this is where I spend a lot of my time alright so also
moving into an RV we went from a 3,000 square foot house to a 300 foot square foot RV and
each one of these bins represents the kid's bedroom so Nixon's bedroom Skyler's bedroom
ride his bedroom so there had to be some major sacrifices that happened along the way to figure
out what we're going to take with us in the RV because you can't bring it all and another
luxury item that we'd like to have here and everybody freaks out about is we make our own ice
in this RV we don't have to go to the store and buy it we put filtered water in here and that way
we get filled our ice cubes which is an amazing thing to have yeah all right so something that we
love to do is have like get a little memento from all the places that we travel and so this is our
memory wall where say there's stickers or little surfboards or something just so when we look at it
we're like oh remember that the kids absolutely love it so they know every time we go somewhere
we have to get something to represent that place and those memories and then around the corner here
is where we have actual photo pictures of our travels and so this is when the kids were little
this is when we renewed our vows in Mexico and then here's all of our international
travels like the Philippines Thailand there's all these cool places so tell me like did you
chalkboard paint the fridge then or what's going on here all right so we did the chalkboard paint
and then we got those like neon chalk markers right yeah and for our first maiden voyage
we went up to Washington and so we had each kid everybody knew a little something about
the adventure and we're like when we get home or when we get back to Vegas we'll
wash it all off and then we'll do for every adventure well these don't wash
all right off stay in there forever and so yeah we kind of I touch it up here and there
because you know from touching it smudges a little don't use the chalk markers because
they don't wash they don't wash off not like no yeah we actually did the same thing over here too
um where it was like our tag wall like people could sign it yeah yeah I love that
and so we you know it's like a guest book yeah it's on the wall yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah love
it show us the packaging sure come on back so we have an interesting sleeping arrangement
where you know of course we wanted to sleep on this amazing mattress oh my gosh but the kids
oh yeah please it's comfy right it's a residential mattress
huge it is and so what we did it was a queen bed and so we ripped it out because obviously that's
not going to work for us family five and jimmy made bunk beds and then like this other little
it could be like day seating and then turn into a bed but the kids never slept on the top bunk
and they were always wanted to sleep by us and it would just became this like what did
we do like this is not working so we ripped all of that out and then decided to just do a king
sized platform with the king mattress and then had custom-made foam on the sides so it's literally a
wall-to-wall bed so yeah so this is this is like like almost reminds me of like if you're on a boat
like you know yeah yeah yeah seats or whatever yeah like the foam in the boat seats so instead of
kids falling off and down there we figured let's make usable space like you mentioned right every
inch is is important in an RV yes and so yeah each kid they all crash back here they each have
their own spot and me and jimmy sleep out on the jackknife couch in the front okay which works out
really really good we didn't even think about it because when the kids go to sleep we still
have the whole run of the RV we have lights on tv talk right so we just close this accordion door
and we can still have our life after whatever time they go to bed right yeah that's awesome I love
that kind of just like degree of separation to be able oh yeah it's amazing you over there yeah yeah
yeah and then so we got IKEA dressers let's fill the space because you know IKEA is amazing for a
small space love IKEA for small living we were like what the heck are we going to put here we
needed places for their clothes and so once IKEA measured the space I'm like it is so perfect
it fits it looks like it was made for it yeah it totally looks like this was a custom
i know we didn't even think about that when we had the platform bed made
that what we were going to put here and so we're like oh but IKEA of course came through
and we have everybody who has their space on each side that's perfect they each get two drawers
these walls oh my gosh so that awesome airbrush artist this is the most unique thing remember when
you were little and you had those shirts like with the airbrush you gave me yeah yeah you go down to
like the boardwalk and you're like doing the thing yeah yep so we asked the kids if they wanted to do
something like that and they were like yeah so we had each kid design their own little area and so
nixon wanted the whole tropical theme sky she loved green and so she had a whole green thing
and then ryder we call him prince ryder so he's got a little crown oh yeah awesome and then we
did a whole tropical scene in the back because of course we love the beach and tropical yeah so
well I think what I'm loving that's going on here too is like each kid has their own space and their
own wall and with it being an older rig it's like you're not worried about you know whatever you're
like hey sticker of the world we are not wearing pairs of value you know yeah the kids would never
ever let us get rid of this RV anyways so it's like game on you know so nixon wanted to make
a whole picture wall memory wall yeah and so she literally painted that we didn't even know
she closed the door and she's like mom don't come back here and I came back and it was fake and I go
all right well great there you go that's your wall yeah and so yes guy has all her animal stuff over
there because she's obsessed with animals but yeah we really get encourage them to express themselves
and do what they want you know of course not damage anything but you know right really express
yourselves because it's a small space and this is their home like when we're in the states this is
all we have this is our home we don't want to take anything away from them and make them feel like
they're missing anything and so even though it's on a smaller scale they get to do what they want
right and I think that's like the beauty of those of us that have chosen this more kind of like
nomadic type lifestyle like that's what we want for our kids is we want to be able to give them
those new experiences we want them to be able to experience life in a way that isn't like
the norm how I grew up yeah right exactly it was nothing like this so I think you know being able
to like have that creative outlet because like there's no way i'd be paying on the walls when
i was a kid like oh yeah right right you know so it's like it's awesome that this just creates that
sort of environment for them to be able to just express themselves and to have that expression of
themselves and then like you said you know when you're living in an RV they need that
space that they can call their own yeah and so i love what you guys have done back here thank you
thanks yeah that and the one thing is I know the kids love it you know and so we we've rented a
house for a couple of months just to you know for the winter time and we had to build a set for our
courses and the kids instantly want to move back in and I'm like really out of a four bedroom house
like I never go yeah we missed the RV so that to me knows we're doing something right that it's
not about the space it's about the experiences it's about the being together in the closeness so
that's really special yeah it's really awesome i love that okay so I saw your video that really
this whole thing started because of the bathroom the nightmare bathroom yeah so tell us about the
bathroom and then let's check out the back all right so we knew nothing about buying rvs before
we knew nothing about delamination and how bad delamination is and what that means that there was
water damage and so jimmy flew to south carolina got the RV drove it back had a whole nightmare
started with that but when we started to do the bathroom we realized it was extensive water damage
completely mold horrible it's like bubbled out on the side of the RV and so we're like we did
not know any of this and so we preached to people buying rvs like if it's got delamination don't
even bother right you know because it can be a nightmare and so yes so the bathroom started
everything and actually it turned out super cute and it's more like a residential bathroom more
than anything we have a tub a residential vanity and so yeah let's go take a look
all right so that's it guys what are you doing in my shower bathroom is what started the whole
thing so yeah check it out we put a residential sink in here we got this tub off amazon which
you can't believe the whole inlet and this thing showed up in a box that was like nine feet tall it
was huge it's crazy amazon's got everything they got bathtubs for a 1999 winnebago on amazon so
full tub the kids love and then you have a ton of counter space that's just wrong I mean the colors
and your man feet so we went to los and we got a residential vanity which is amazing because the
original countertop was like this big and so this works out way better for our family of five and
then jimmy built a little insert over here to sort of fill in the gap and have more counter space
so that's been amazing so I was just looking at their dinette and I love it it reminds me oh yeah
thanks the little 50s diner or whatever so tell us about how that came together
well so we were getting everything reupholstered and we knew we wanted it to be gray because i
want the whole color scheme to be like white and gray yeah but then we didn't want it just
to be like blah colors and so turquoise is obviously one of our favorite colors it's
on the outside represents water but we didn't know you know we don't design furniture and so
we asked the guy and he was like oh maybe do like this and we're like cool do it and yeah
it did turn out really cute it's like um like an old-fashioned car too you know yeah like the
interior love it but yeah and this we had all um like just a remnant place that had chlorine pieces
yeah so we had them cover this do the counters nice it's like brand new again thanks for the tour
but when we're finishing one more thing I have got to put up your stickers yeah yeah all right we are
so honored our sticker's going out there oh yeah let's see where shall we put you normally the kids
pick the spot but I'm gonna put you guys right here front and center awesome the grateful glamper
youtuber's your night thank you so much
i know so glad we finally got to connect meet each other like we said earlier the power of social
media is absolutely amazing yes without youtube and instagram we would have never met this lovely
family and being able to connect our kids have been hanging out and had a great time together
had sleepovers movie nights all that great stuff they actually slept in the tents last night
so don't be scared to reach out to people you never know the great connections that you'll forge
and the great memories and friendships that will come out of it one of the things I just
love about the whole RV travel lifestyle is the people that you meet along the way well they're
like everyone's like-minded they get it you know everybody just loves someone to experience life
now not necessarily weight you know and so you do the things you you have to do now to make
this possible right which you know it's not always easy but it's worth it exactly well thank you guys
i hope it lived up to your expectations oh my gosh even better in person gave
us some inspiration today yes I know what i need to do with our bathroom turquoise
that's cool tag us and remember get out there and try something new
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