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- 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,600 Hello, my name is Kai and I am a bit of a rambler. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,520 I like to travel, learn and tell stories. 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:15,960 Today I want to talk about our V-life, van life, living in a large vehicle. 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:21,200 I don't care what you call it, it's great, however you want to refer to the practice. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,800 Truly and genuinely, right next to Hammett Camping, one of my favorite modes of life. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,440 I basically have no complaints about living in an RV. 7 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,760 I guess if you're still living in the country or from, you're still paying taxes, but with 8 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,320 no rent, that more than evens out. 9 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:45,400 An RV costs the same as car camping, but you get so much more. 10 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:46,760 And I like that extra space. 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,680 I understand car camping enthusiasts because I lived in my SUV for a while and I liked that 12 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:53,840 too. 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:02,920 But the benefits of RV life for me outweigh the simple convenience of car camping. 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,760 So let's go over a few of those. 15 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,320 Within RV, you get to organize everything. 16 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:17,240 When I was living in my SUV, I had space for what I had, but there just wasn't enough 17 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,560 room even with the back seats taken out. 18 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:25,200 And legs put under the bed that I built so there was plenty of room underneath. 19 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,480 There's just not enough room for everything. 20 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:34,720 Like all of the basic minimums that I like to live a comfortable life, including a shower. 21 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:41,920 So yeah, within RV, I have more than what, with a car, I had every single spot was filled 22 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,440 up with stuff. 23 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,920 With an RV, I had one drawer that was like filled with stuff and then another for tools 24 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:54,040 and then I had like 16 empty storage spaces, just giant. 25 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,000 And I could organize everything, everything had its own place. 26 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,400 And I liked that a lot. 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,360 I'm just going to talk about my own RV when I mentioned the benefits of RVs because I didn't 28 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,560 buy a super special amazing RV. 29 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,880 An electrician was selling one. 30 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:16,280 He replaced the alternator, which was totally broken in it and then sold it to me. 31 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,280 That's basically it. 32 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,160 I got it for $4,000. 33 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,320 And it drove and then I had problems with the batteries and I fixed those and I promised 34 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,880 the fuel pumps and I replaced those. 35 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:34,920 And so like it wasn't the best, it wasn't some $40,000 new RV. 36 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:40,840 It was a second, third who knows how many hand vehicle whose primary components like the 37 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,080 alternator had failed before. 38 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,200 But the engine had low miles. 39 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,400 When I started it up, it ran fine. 40 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,080 It was very spacious inside. 41 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,840 It was just what I was looking for and it started up and ran great. 42 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:02,280 It was a great vehicle that I loved living in and all explain why. 43 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,880 So organization fantastic. 44 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,040 Had a full stand in shower. 45 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:09,040 Fantastic. 46 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:15,360 Actually it had the shower area and I had to put in a cyclic shower with a filter in it 47 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,400 myself, but now I know a new type of shower that I really like. 48 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,520 Full kitchen. 49 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:25,920 So mine was hooked up to gas and all of the utilities ran off of that. 50 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:31,400 They're fridge and the refrigerator via the on board refillable propane tank. 51 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:40,760 So I have a gas stove top with four burners and it's so great to park in a supermarket, 52 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:48,000 back into the supermarket, walk out to throw the food in the fridge that you have full sized 53 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:56,000 fridge and then leave out the steaks or the fish or whatever you're going to cook and 54 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,200 just turn the stove right now and start cooking. 55 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,320 You park in the corner of the parking lot. 56 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:08,000 It's quieter back there and no one's going to bother you while you're cooking for 30 minutes 57 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,080 in each or lunch and then get out of there or hang out all day, which is frequently what 58 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,080 I did. 59 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:18,680 Oh, and of course the kitchen as well as the bathroom have independent exhaust fans. 60 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:23,640 So the smell from your cooking or from your bathroom or the humidity from your shower 61 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,120 can be vented via the exhaust fans. 62 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,680 So you can cook for an hour inside the RV and the exhaust fan will take care of that 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,680 smell and smoke and anything right away. 64 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:36,680 It's just great to do that. 65 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,160 You walk in, you have a full kitchen right there mentioning the full refrigerator as well. 66 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:47,320 Having a full size refrigerator just makes it feel like a house that and the full kitchen 67 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,120 with the stove and oven. 68 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,360 It was just like, oh my god. 69 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,600 Like, okay, that's a great. 70 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:57,320 I could get a pizza, bring it in and cook it inside my oven. 71 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,440 That's the first time I did that. 72 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,160 I was like, oh, this is the life hack. 73 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,640 Everybody wants zero rent full kitchen. 74 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:12,800 A pizza and as soon as you eat your full pizza and you're all tired and logi after eating, 75 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,320 there's a queen size bed five steps away. 76 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,760 Go take a nap. 77 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:17,760 Amazing. 78 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,400 Running on gas, propane gas. 79 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:26,080 So propane powered the appliances and that cost turned out to be $40 every six weeks or 80 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:31,320 so to power the stove top and the oven for pizzas and the fridge. 81 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,960 Two months, it was so cheap. 82 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,360 There's a dining room area, usually a flip table. 83 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:44,720 So it doesn't cover the hallway, but it folds down into the like wall, like flat against 84 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:50,340 the wall and then we had two benches facing the table and you just flip that out and put 85 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:51,340 the leg down. 86 00:05:51,340 --> 00:05:55,960 I think I kept mine permanently up because it was nice to have a table there because you're 87 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,160 always scribbling things and I like to draw things or put your laptop in a different area 88 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,520 than the bedroom. 89 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,840 And you're always pulling up the table so that you can eat at the table and it's a good 90 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:07,840 size table. 91 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,320 I mean, it's a table. 92 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:15,780 So yeah, you have a dining room area with benches on a table and if you for some reason 93 00:06:15,780 --> 00:06:20,040 need the space, you can fold the table against the wall. 94 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:25,320 Even driving is better than a regular car for me because the area is so much bigger, so 95 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,560 much more spacious and you're a little higher up. 96 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,320 So you have a much better vantage point and the windows are huge. 97 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:38,500 So you have way better perspective on everything and I had a class A motor home class A B and 98 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:41,560 C refer to the body of the motor home. 99 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,400 How it physically looks, but the front of it is flat. 100 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:52,120 So the engine and carburetor and everything is actually under where you're driving rather 101 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,440 than sticking out front. 102 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:59,720 So you have great vision or I had great vision inside this style of RV and it's only 24 103 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:06,880 feet long, which I don't know, might sound long to you, but that's shorter than two parking 104 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:08,400 spaces. 105 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:14,160 So even though it feels huge and you have a hallway and a bathroom and a kitchen and a dining 106 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,880 area and the back queen bed and the bedroom and all the storage area, it still fits within 107 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,840 any two normal sized parking spaces. 108 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,240 And it's shorter than that and it's shorter width wise than the parking spaces. 109 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,320 So it just fits in any parking lot totally fine with no problem and you're not blocking 110 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:34,320 anyone else. 111 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:35,320 What else? 112 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,160 You don't need a special license. 113 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:42,400 You can just buy one tomorrow with no special license as long as it isn't over 24,000 114 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,400 pounds, I believe. 115 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,400 Let me check. 116 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:45,400 26,000 pounds. 117 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:55,040 So as long as your RV is less than 26,000 pounds and my 24 foot RV was only 12,000 pounds, 118 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,600 you're good with your driver's license. 119 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,920 You don't have to get a commercial driver's license or any heavy machinery vehicle. 120 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,400 It's just a bigger car, but it's the same width as other cars. 121 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,160 It's just a longer car really, a longer taller car that you get to walk around and eat 122 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:16,680 and have a beer and legally, although boy do cops not know their own laws. 123 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:25,960 And another thing that just all these things sold it like full of gas burners, sink, full 124 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,720 sized refrigerator, all that stuff is so great. 125 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,880 And there is room for a queen sized bed in the back. 126 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,080 I actually could have put a king size, I didn't realize it at the time. 127 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:44,760 But yeah, I had a queen sized memory foam mattress in the back. 128 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:50,000 And like I said, after you eat and you're like, "Oh, town, go to bed, stumble five feet 129 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,200 to the west, my friend." 130 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,680 And there is a comfy memory foam mattress waiting to embrace you. 131 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:58,320 It's great, it's great. 132 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,400 I love it. 133 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:04,800 And if you ever don't like what's happening, you just drive it away. 134 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,320 You drive it away from that situation. 135 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:12,280 If you happen to be in the US and someone decides to shoot someone else in the head for a parking 136 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,280 space which happens in the US, you can just drive on out of there. 137 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:24,220 You have everything, all the modern conveniences of a home and then you can just go anywhere 138 00:09:24,220 --> 00:09:27,840 you want with it, which I'll get into more later. 139 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,020 Okay, let's talk about also interior decorating. 140 00:09:31,020 --> 00:09:33,800 You can make it look exactly like how you want. 141 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:39,280 I loved decorating the inside of the RV with the holidays, whether it was Halloween or 142 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,280 Christmas. 143 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,880 I totally decked it out. 144 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:47,820 So when our friends would come over or me just walking inside, it felt like a Christmas 145 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:54,640 RV, all of a sudden, like with a, I didn't have a tree in it, I don't think, but I did 146 00:09:54,640 --> 00:10:01,720 make a tree collage on the full-size refrigerator and then I put like garlands up and decorations 147 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,120 up and I do that for Halloween and Thanksgiving and everything. 148 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:05,880 And it's so nice. 149 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:12,120 It's so festive immediately because the space is smaller, but you're still standing and 150 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:17,720 walking around in a home completely decorated and all the decorations are right next to you. 151 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,800 I really like that interior decorating a good time. 152 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,520 And like I said, you can organize anything you want. 153 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,320 Solar electricity. 154 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,040 Yes, cars are, you know, a little more reliable. 155 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,400 Their engines aren't under the strain of so much weight. 156 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,880 So a lot of the parts will last longer than in RVs. 157 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:46,320 And being able to put three or four solar panels smack on the top of your RV with very little 158 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,400 fuss and so easily route the wires inside. 159 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,280 So you just have free electricity all the time is so cool. 160 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:58,680 I put solar panels on top myself and I have free electricity after that. 161 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:00,480 It's fantastic. 162 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:01,480 Storage space. 163 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:02,480 It's crazy. 164 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,000 I've never known someone who uses up all their storage space in an RV. 165 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:11,760 It's just there's so much space in an RV and you really need so little and that becomes 166 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:12,760 apparent. 167 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,560 I think when you're in an RV. 168 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,080 Now the flip side of that is that you can start accumulating things. 169 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,720 Maybe you don't need, but things that are particular to you that you really want. 170 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:28,280 So I really wanted a stand up shower instead of just doing a sponge bath like my girlfriend 171 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,000 recommended at the time she was like, too much work. 172 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,480 Don't set up a shower. 173 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:39,040 It's a pump, a filter, a hose and a shower head like that was it. 174 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,400 So I made that and then I had a stand up heated shower. 175 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,640 Oh, and since I mentioned the shower, I should talk about the bathroom situation, which for 176 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,840 us turned out to be the exact same as car camping, just supermarkets, libraries. 177 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:59,040 There's so many public bathrooms in the States that we would just use public facilities. 178 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,600 It never turned into more of an issue than that. 179 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,480 Other projects though, solar farm, that was my thing. 180 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,160 I really wanted for electricity. 181 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,800 I just didn't ever want to think like, oh, my laptop's going to run out of battery. 182 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,840 I have to wait until I can recharge while I'm driving. 183 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,960 So the alternator is providing like, I don't want to think about that. 184 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:22,200 So you can put your solar farm up on top and then boom, you got electricity forever. 185 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:28,320 You got a windmill if it's night time for extra electricity. 186 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,320 It's just great. 187 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:34,760 Do anything like little projects that you want to do, you still have the ability to do the 188 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:40,040 projects that are fun to do in a home like making your own little workshop or whatever. 189 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,120 So it's fun. 190 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,320 It's great organizing that space, how you want it and it's a smaller space. 191 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,720 So you finish those projects sooner. 192 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,240 I'm going to put up this solar farm. 193 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,280 Okay, I can only fit four on the roof. 194 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,240 So you can't do more than that. 195 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,280 So it's not like, how many should I put on? 196 00:12:58,280 --> 00:12:59,280 It doesn't matter. 197 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,800 Yeah, four and that's more than enough electricity for anyone. 198 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:03,800 So do that. 199 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,240 Do you want a different bathroom? 200 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:11,880 Like a few bucks in home depot of materials and you can completely remodel your bathroom. 201 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:13,120 You can get tiles if you want. 202 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,240 You can do a wood paneling or plastic sheet, whatever you want. 203 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:24,400 It's just great to be able to so effortlessly and within a limited amount of materials, 204 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:32,160 you can create and design and decorate your home, how you like it. 205 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,720 Do you not like those two couches? 206 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,080 There's like four bolts. 207 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:40,920 So you remove those bench couches that have a material you don't like and you bolt in 208 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,200 a different one. 209 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,760 The one you do like, that's leather, whatever. 210 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,520 What else is great about an RV? 211 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:55,380 The overcar camping is that you can have company and guests and show them around and you can 212 00:13:55,380 --> 00:13:58,520 cook for them, which I liked to do. 213 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,520 It was great. 214 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:05,520 Maybe you have a oven and a stove top and a full-sized fridge and you're like, yeah, and 215 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:11,080 then you cook my favorite sliced pork heart. 216 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:18,560 No, that was beef heart actually, sliced beef heart fried and also marinated in a Chinese 217 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,080 hot pot base soup. 218 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:26,800 So when you, rather than in a hot pot itself, when you fry it in simmer it down, just a super, 219 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:34,160 super strong, spiced fried meat, it's fantastic and was gone instantly. 220 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:42,680 We actually took that to a party another time and it was the first dish that was wiped out 221 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,880 before anyone touched any of the other dishes. 222 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:46,280 It just got destroyed. 223 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:52,840 And I can cook for that, like, cook that dish for my friends in my home and I could bring 224 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,760 over that food fresh, pipe and hot. 225 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:57,760 There was a party. 226 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,680 We drove to their house, parked on the side of the road and it's not wider than a normal 227 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,720 car, so you're not breaking any laws by parking on the side of the road in an RV. 228 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,800 Cooked this great meal, took it in, had fun at the party and when we're all drunk and 229 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,120 wasted, we don't have to think about driving. 230 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:19,200 We go outside and take a shower and then pass out in the nice memory foam mattress in 231 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:26,160 the back, store, ridge, space, your tools, your anything, anything like I said, any project 232 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,840 you want, there are storage space to organize it. 233 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:35,160 It's just shocking how much space there is in a 20 foot vehicle. 234 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:43,880 It seems like more space than a house, I think, because whenever, like, if a fan broke, 235 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:48,240 right, and I'm living in an RV at the time, I'm not going to keep the fan. 236 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,000 I'm not going to put it in a closet and think maybe I'll fix that later, like I might do 237 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,200 if I was in a traditional house. 238 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,720 I'll throw it up on Craigslist for free or toss it or whatever, but I just got rid of 239 00:15:58,720 --> 00:15:59,720 it. 240 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:04,320 You don't keep the big things that obviously clutter and the clutter is easier to see 241 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,600 in a smaller living area like an RV. 242 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,080 And since you don't keep those big things that you never look at again, that fan's going 243 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,040 to be in the closet in your home for 15 years now. 244 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,680 Since you don't have those, or since I didn't have those things, I just had so much space 245 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:23,160 for what I did want in the home. 246 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,000 Tow trucks can still pick it up. 247 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,520 Oh, that's amazing. 248 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:33,280 Mine died overheated up a hill and it was a very hot day and it just would not start up 249 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:39,040 again because the fuel pump was dead also, which I didn't realize at the time. 250 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:45,000 So I hadn't replaced it even though every single sign, if you look up signs of a bad fuel 251 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,120 pump, mine was doing all those things, but I didn't know it at the time. 252 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,080 And that's when I found out after I had a tow truck come along and this was a regular 253 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:58,240 sized tow truck, not like a, I don't know, a beefier tow truck. 254 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,520 And I told them 12,000 pounds and they were like, oh, yeah, no problem. 255 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:07,440 So drove up, hooked up, lifted up like any normal car and drove us up the rest of the hill and 256 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,640 to the town that I was living in. 257 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:16,600 And I parked that in a parking lot, spent like two days replacing the battery and replacing 258 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,560 the fuel pump. 259 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,600 And it was back healthy again, normal. 260 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:27,480 It's really nice that the tow truck can pick it up in case anything doesn't work. 261 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,880 You can tow it to a lot if you know it's going to be broken for a while or to a repair 262 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:36,640 shop or to your house, if you have a house or to your lot of land, a lot of people do that. 263 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:41,480 You can buy land in a lot of places and then just park an RV on it and live there. 264 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,360 So it's really nice that tow trucks can pick it up. 265 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,920 If something goes wrong, it's not just stranded wherever it is. 266 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,320 And you don't need a special kind of tow truck. 267 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,400 You need a tow truck. 268 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,560 They lift up that much. 269 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:54,560 Okay. 270 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:55,560 Rent. 271 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:56,560 Rent. 272 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,840 No rent. 273 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:06,680 Imagine you just paid one or two months of rent every time you moved into a new apartment. 274 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:11,600 And then after that one or two months of rent, you stopped paying rent. 275 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,120 And now you own the property. 276 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:20,360 That's what a RV is like in terms of living cost. 277 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:25,880 You move into it after you pay for it and then you stop paying. 278 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,760 Now my girlfriend kept meticulous notes. 279 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:36,520 Her big concern was that gas and repairs and and you know, I put on the solar panels. 280 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:37,520 I replaced the battery. 281 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,120 I fixed the fuel pump. 282 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,880 I think three times maybe four. 283 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,200 I replaced the solenoid. 284 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,960 I replaced a whole bunch of stuff. 285 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:50,960 But I was absolutely convinced that it would still be so much cheaper than living in a traditional 286 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,960 house or apartment or whatever. 287 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:59,960 So we had the RV, I think for a little over nine months in total. 288 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:00,960 And it was fun. 289 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,200 We just all the national parks and just rocked out. 290 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:10,600 So in nine months, the total expense, including the purchase price and insurance and all those 291 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:19,360 repairs and the solar panel farm I mentioned on top was $7,000 and $35.83. 292 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:23,600 You just see how meticulous her records were. 293 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:31,240 RV $4288, notary $10, gas $13.86, curtain $20. 294 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:32,720 Don't know how that happened. 295 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,560 Pillow case says curtain $3, black curtain $2.99. 296 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:44,440 So she tracked every single thing for nearly 10 months and every cost including all those 297 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:52,400 fuel pumps I mentioned, the air filters, like the home depot material to make the shower. 298 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,880 Even my projects like a doot yourself air conditioner that use like cool water and a thing 299 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:04,080 of copper tubing to make cold water or cold air blow out everything together over 10 300 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,480 months was $7,035.83. 301 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:14,280 We'll just say 10 months, $700 a month between the two of us for gas. 302 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:20,760 All the propane for running all of the utilities or running all of the appliances that is the 303 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:27,520 heavy appliances all ran on propane every single material every single replacement part came 304 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:34,240 out to each of us spending about $350 per month and that was with no expense spare. 305 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:41,360 That's with free electricity, hot shower, unlimited electricity basically. 306 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:48,360 We put in hardwood paneling on the floor actually it wasn't hardwood it was like PLM fake hardwood 307 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,680 but it looks really nice. 308 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:55,160 That's like the first thing everyone knows they're like wow nice floor curtains to separate 309 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,440 the areas. 310 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,600 I painted the interior. 311 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,400 I used caulking on the roof and re-did the roof. 312 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,280 I sealed all of the windows everything. 313 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:16,040 So everything every single cost with the RV came out to $350 for each of us per month again 314 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:21,160 including the purchase price of over $4,000. 315 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:30,720 So over 10 months that thing cost us a little less than $3,000 total or $150 for each of us 316 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,160 per month. 317 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,480 So our rent went down from $1600. 318 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:43,720 In a property that we don't own that we will perpetually pay $1600 down to $700 a month 319 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,960 and if you take out the purchase price because now we own that property free and clear, $150 320 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:54,240 a month between two people a little over $300 individual. 321 00:21:54,240 --> 00:22:00,640 So that's an over 70% reduction cost within the first months of you owning this RV and 322 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,320 the longer you have it the cheaper it is relative to what you would be paying in traditional 323 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:12,560 housing per month and you're not missing anything of the shower, the full bed, you can drive 324 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,960 to all the national parks you want. 325 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,200 Imagine just 150 a month. 326 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:22,480 That's how much I needed to make at the time to cover all of the car costs. 327 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,640 The only other thing after that was buying every fancy food I wanted. 328 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,880 We got prosciutto all the time. 329 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,800 We went to different buffets all the time. 330 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,960 That was great driving between states to go to all the different national parks. 331 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,840 We would just stop in it at buffet. 332 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:44,600 I'd get super fat and then pass out until it was time to go to the national park. 333 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:49,840 So yeah, I hope it's clear that it is crazy cheap to live in an RV. 334 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:59,520 Just a racing rent from the equation is liberating without giving up quality of life and another 335 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,200 nice thing about the RV. 336 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:07,080 I will say compared to a house, for instance, is that when you when something goes wrong, 337 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,400 the system is not as large. 338 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,280 There aren't as many pipes. 339 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,760 So when you have to replace the fuel pump, it's right there. 340 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,120 It costs 30 bucks. 341 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:16,280 There's two bolts. 342 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,560 You swap them out done. 343 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,720 Takes you a couple hours if you've never done it before maybe, but it's a critical component 344 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,840 of the vehicle and you can just swap it out. 345 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,440 No problem. 346 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,160 And rather than a home repair, it costs $30. 347 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,840 And if you hire someone to do it, let's say it costs $100 or $200. 348 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,680 That's nothing compared to the cost of any sort of home repair. 349 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,160 And now that fuel pump is going to last for at least months. 350 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:49,160 We were driving up and down mountains constantly, so I had to replace one every few months. 351 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,280 But still, I replaced myself. 352 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,960 So there's 30 bucks each time, less than 100 bucks total the whole time we had it. 353 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,400 And every time I had to replace something, I got like a 354 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,400 panic attack almost. 355 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,280 I was like, Oh, God, I have to learn a new thing how to replace. 356 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,040 And then I would go on YouTube and there'd be a dude and he's like, got to win a big 357 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,040 o'huh? 358 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:13,960 There's two bolts and you take those off and you put in the new and you put the bolts in 359 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:14,960 done. 360 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,760 And I was like, what? 361 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,160 And he was right. 362 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:23,400 And then if it was a different part, he'd be like, okay, you got to take out four bolts and 363 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:29,120 you got to put in this liquid and you put in the four bolts and you done it. 364 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:35,000 There's like a billion videos of how to repair our v's and our v's are recreational vehicles. 365 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:41,760 So they're built the good ones to allow you to access most parts and most most vehicles, 366 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:46,920 most RVs that is are built that way so that you can easily swap out these parts. 367 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,160 They're family vehicles. 368 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,400 So they're expecting people to be traveling and they want you to be able to repair them. 369 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,680 And I did. 370 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,040 And that car was running great and we sold it for more than we bought it. 371 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:05,040 So it's cheaper to fix parts or replace them and it's easier to fix or replace parts 372 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,280 than it would be in a traditional house. 373 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,800 And this house moves. 374 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,880 I really like that part. 375 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,240 Um, oh, also those parts are going to be under warranty. 376 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,720 So if you buy a part and it doesn't fit like my soul annoyed didn't do it just screwed 377 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,800 up, then they gave me another one and that one worked fine. 378 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:24,800 Okay. 379 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,800 Privacy. 380 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,640 V's great in an RV. 381 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:35,960 Most people are like, they, they sort of Americans especially see an RV and I feel like 382 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,640 they're just like there could be bodies in there. 383 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,840 Like Americans have very strange notions about so many things. 384 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,600 Um, and an RV is one of them. 385 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,840 But every time someone, you know, walks inside and sees the PLM laminated hardwood floor, they're 386 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,360 like, Oh, that's pretty, this is pretty swanky. 387 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,520 And like, can you have a kitchen? 388 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,400 Because some of them don't even have kitchens in their apartments. 389 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:06,440 But in any case, a respectful distance and usually a respectful, um, sense of decorum 390 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,800 is allows you privacy within the RV. 391 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:16,360 Like if you had a regular house in a parking lot, you know, more people could access your 392 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:17,360 front door. 393 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,440 So they might be interested. 394 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,320 And in the case of an RV, people really like RVs like a lot of them. 395 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,880 Because so many of them want to like learn about them and stuff. 396 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,440 But if you're outside, they'll ask you and most of the time, if you're inside, they don't 397 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,440 bother you. 398 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,640 Um, they just, they just leave you be. 399 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,120 We got a bunch of nice curtains and put them in all the windows. 400 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:43,440 And I think the nicer the curtains look, the better people feel about it. 401 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,440 I don't know. 402 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,480 Maybe I was just projecting, but I feel like if you just had blacked out windows or newspaper, 403 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,480 people be like, Oh, that's not good. 404 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:57,720 But if you have nice, crenellated, wavy, filigree, woven curtains, when people look up and 405 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:02,280 see the window in your RV, they're like, Oh, that is a sane window that I recognize. 406 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,480 A normal person must live there. 407 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,720 I'll give them their privacy. 408 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,240 And you know, the outside of it is metal. 409 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,280 Like the outside of your vehicle is metal. 410 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,280 So it does feel very safe inside there. 411 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,640 Now since everybody doesn't do it and it's an outsider mode of life, a lot of people 412 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,840 think RVs are cool and they want to learn about them. 413 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,680 And if you are outside chilling in front of your RV or, you know, in the park or whatever 414 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,880 and they saw you walk out of it, they might be like, is that your RV? 415 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,920 And then they'll ask questions about it. 416 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:32,920 They want to know all about it. 417 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:33,920 Like, well, how do you work? 418 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,400 And they'll ask everything. 419 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:41,120 Even the cops, um, sometimes I would park, uh, wherever and someone would call the cops 420 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:45,680 and the cops would be, could you move like very respectfully and politely because they 421 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:52,360 know it's illegal, but if we moved it makes their job and life easier because like the 80 year 422 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,760 old, like peaking through won't bother them anymore. 423 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:03,560 But those conversations very often turned into like 20 minute conversations with the cops. 424 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,320 Uh, we were like, really? 425 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,960 Well, I've been thinking about how much is it and then like, how do you do your job? 426 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,600 And I was like, well, I have a little office. 427 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,920 I can teach English online. 428 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,440 They're like from where? 429 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,040 And it's like the laptop I have solar panels on top for electricity and they're bold 430 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,040 over. 431 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,280 They're like, I just really, I don't know. 432 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,520 I want to take a shower. 433 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,400 You're like, yeah, I have a free hot shower too. 434 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,240 Well, it's good to have a dinner. 435 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,920 Yeah, I have a full kitchen in there with a full size refrigerator. 436 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:36,120 So all of the conversations are very validating because there's no common, uh, complaint or 437 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:40,680 rather common anxiety that someone brings up that you're not immediately like, oh, 438 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,160 yeah, I have all of the normal stuff. 439 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:48,760 I just pay 90% less for all of that stuff that I used to pay for in a house that couldn't 440 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,080 move around. 441 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:57,240 So I can just take all of my conveniences and comforts to national parks and to supermarkets 442 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,760 and just wherever I want to go. 443 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:03,120 Oh, also, I should mention there was a trailer hitch on the back of mine. 444 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:08,640 So I carried my electric bike around, um, which had a 200 mile range. 445 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,120 I charged it with the solar panels. 446 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:17,900 Um, while it was on the back of the RV and then when we got to Zion or another national park, 447 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:23,120 we took down the bike, which has little ramp to come off and ride around the national park 448 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,440 and then put it back up when we moved on. 449 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,180 People are always asking about the bike also, but yeah, you're going to have tons of good 450 00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:36,740 conversations because living in an RV is cool and the ideas that it gives people are 451 00:29:36,740 --> 00:29:37,740 cool. 452 00:29:37,740 --> 00:29:41,000 Half of those conversations are going to end with, yeah, you know, I should really 453 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,600 really look into getting an RV, even if they have a house there, they might live in the house 454 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:53,120 the rest of their life, but just the idea that you can carry a tiny house with you is very 455 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:59,680 appealing to most everybody, especially when they find out how cheap it is and how simple 456 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,600 it is to maintain. 457 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:07,240 And again, since you have no rent, you can design your house to look and function exactly how 458 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,960 you want it to your tiny home can just be exactly how you can do it. 459 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,300 You like it because there's no rent. 460 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:19,020 So you have so much extra money to for the projects or for the maybe the decorations, but 461 00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:22,880 more like the functionality of your house that you want, do you want an AC, you can afford 462 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,880 a nice comfortable AC that'll be powered by the solar panel. 463 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,220 You can plan out all the wattage and everything so you won't damage the batteries overnight. 464 00:30:31,220 --> 00:30:37,280 And you can live like that, even if the AC costs a little more up front, if it's less $600 465 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,640 or something like that. 466 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:45,580 That is a one time purchase with years of warranty powered by free electricity that controls your 467 00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:47,320 climate for you. 468 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,860 And every month you live in it, it costs less. 469 00:30:50,860 --> 00:30:53,840 You buy this new AC unit like made for RVs. 470 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,480 Let's say I don't even know if that's a thing, but let's say there's a window split AC 471 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,720 that's made for RVs, so it's slim or something. 472 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,880 It's 600 up front, you know, it's like high efficiency, whatever the heck low wattage. 473 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,280 The first month, that costs $600 for you. 474 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,320 The next month costs $300 because you had it for two months. 475 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:20,000 And after six months, it costs $100 a month for your climate, country free, climate controlled 476 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,400 house this whole time after a year costs 50 bucks, but like you can do the math. 477 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,620 But that's what's so great. 478 00:31:27,620 --> 00:31:32,320 You have the money to spend on your luxuries and conveniences and projects. 479 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:38,440 And every month longer you stay in the RV, that project, it costs half as much or it costs 480 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,840 a third as much. 481 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,400 And it just keeps getting cheaper the longer you have it. 482 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,680 It's very easy to set up a separate workspace too because you can put curtains, you know, wherever 483 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,000 you want to. 484 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:56,320 So you can have a home office in your RV and you can have it at the dining table or up front 485 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:01,840 in one of the seats and you can put a little desk on the dashboard or you can have it 486 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:08,520 in the back and put up a little shelf next to your bed and have a laptop shelf and you know, 487 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,560 keyboard shelf right there. 488 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,800 So it's very easy to set up a home office in your RV. 489 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,160 So if you have remote work done, if for whatever reason you don't want to just lounge on your 490 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:23,520 bed and do remote work on there, which is very comfortable. 491 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,400 Do you teach English online? 492 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,400 Guess what? 493 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,120 You can't really do that in a car, but it's very easily done in an RV. 494 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,120 Okay. 495 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,280 And then free camping everywhere. 496 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:41,080 So at the National Parks, you can pay not much, just like ten bucks a day or something, 497 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:46,640 sometimes less to sleep over at the National Parks in a vehicle. 498 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:52,480 Or you can go there all day, take down your cool solar-powered electric bike that goes 499 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:58,600 200 miles a charge, zoom, zoom, zoom around, have a great time, eat some ice cream and beef 500 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,080 jerky, whatever you like. 501 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:07,520 Load the bike back up, drive to a neighborhood, any town anywhere. 502 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,920 Park your RV on the side of the road, which is completely legal and go to bed. 503 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:17,400 Now because you're saving so much money, ten dollars a day, you know, $300 a month, not 504 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,920 a crazy expense if you want to live in the National Park. 505 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,840 But if there's a town 15 minutes away and there happens to be a buffet in that town, 506 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,520 then why not spend all day at the park and then eat at the buffet and sleep for free on the 507 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:37,000 side of the road, which is exactly as comfortable as you would be if you were sleeping in the 508 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,760 National Park. 509 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,440 I really like that. 510 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:47,520 It seems like a large vehicle, but it's only two times as long as any other regular vehicle, 511 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,000 maximum. 512 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,080 And it's not wider. 513 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,040 So when you park it on the side of the road, you're not blocking more than any other car 514 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,880 would block the road, parked on the side of the road. 515 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,280 So I would drive into a neighborhood. 516 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,040 I'd look for a road where there were cars already parked. 517 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,120 My favorite thing if there's a tree, then I'll park right behind that. 518 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,160 So I'm like the, it's kind of obscured from the view of the house. 519 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:17,040 But if there wasn't a tree, I just parked there anyway and almost never got the cops 520 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,880 called that happened like a couple times. 521 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,840 But yeah, if you're blatantly doing in front of a suburban neighborhood, someone 522 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:30,400 might complain, the cops will politely ask you to leave even though it's legal. 523 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,920 And you can leave because whatever you go around the corner and then it's fine or you drive 524 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,440 five minutes away and it's fine. 525 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,160 And that happens extremely rarely. 526 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:44,480 What's much more likely, I like finding a wall or a tree and I just parked next to that and 527 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:51,680 I've never been asked to move one next to a residential wall or next to a tree. 528 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:52,680 Never. 529 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,860 So I would suggest that if you're concerned at all about stealth camping, which is not 530 00:34:57,860 --> 00:35:00,960 as important as people make it online. 531 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,440 But for me, I don't know, I just like to thinking like, well, I'm not bothering them by having 532 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:12,800 a vehicle show up in park in front of their house because they can't see me through the wall. 533 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:18,000 So, yeah, you park next to a wall or a tree or anything or just on the side of the road 534 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000 anywhere. 535 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,360 And your house is as secure as it ever was as any other regular house is, but it has 536 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,080 metal on the outside. 537 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,440 Actually, it was right next to an RV park once and I remember, I can't remember why, but 538 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,960 we were very tired and we're like, let's just stay at the RV park. 539 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,560 I mean, you know, why not? 540 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:41,720 I figured it would be 20 bucks a night or something because they had showers and there was 541 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:44,360 waste disposal and all that kind of stuff. 542 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:50,080 So I called them up, you know, sitting outside in the RV and they're like, oh, yeah, 45 bucks 543 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,280 a night and I was like, what the 4500? 544 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,600 And there were no monthly rates. 545 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,600 It just cost, you know, 1300 a month to live in that RV park. 546 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:06,560 I was like, what's the point of getting the RV if you still have to pay normal rent? 547 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,480 So I start checking other RV parks, $2,000, $1,600. 548 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:18,360 And really the same amount of rent that everybody was paying in their apartments and everything. 549 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:23,000 And these RV parks are in the middle of the town with regular streets. 550 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,040 And so instead of living in that RV park in a town we really liked and wanted to stay 551 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,520 in a while, we just drove on to the street each night. 552 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:40,000 I went to bed and that's actually how I learned to ask cops for the good spots because we 553 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:46,320 were in the parking lot of a supermarket and it looked empty and there were no signs that 554 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:47,840 said you can park here overnight. 555 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,680 And I was like, yeah, whatever, we'll just stay here. 556 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:56,280 And I start going to bed and then blue and red lights and I was like, oh, man, and outside 557 00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,920 there was a cop car and then there was another cop car and eight cops got out and they all 558 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,240 started talking with each other and I was like, freaking out for 15 minutes. 559 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,800 And I was like, when are they going to knock on the door? 560 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:15,320 And they just kept doing whatever, just talking to each other out there, nodding and glancing 561 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,880 at us and whatever. 562 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,440 And after 20 minutes, I was like, okay. 563 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,640 And I just went out myself and I was like, hey guys, is it okay to park here overnight? 564 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,160 And they were like, oh yeah, this parking lot's public use overnight. 565 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,160 So it's fine. 566 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,600 You can stay here whenever and as long as you want. 567 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,760 Okay, thank you. 568 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,240 And I went back inside. 569 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:41,680 So the next time, some old lady called the cops on me when I was parking in her neighborhood, 570 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,960 I was like, is there a spot around here? 571 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:50,960 And they were like, yes, there's actually a vacant lot right behind the supermarket and 572 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,280 you can stay there forever. 573 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,560 Like it's totally fine to just park there as long as you want. 574 00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,600 You know, don't cause any trouble or anything, but that's a vacant lot that it's perfectly 575 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,640 legal to stay in. 576 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,400 And I lived in that vacant lot for like two months. 577 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,400 I mean, I drove the car around town and went to different places, but whenever it was nighttime, 578 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:15,840 I went to that quiet spot, went to bed and I never got bothered there. 579 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:20,800 So if you do have to talk to the cops and you're gonna stay in a town, you might as well 580 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:26,680 ask them like, hey, is there a spot that I can get out of the way and is okay for my vehicle 581 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,160 to park longer term? 582 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,400 Cops always answered me with the information they have. 583 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,360 They either didn't know, but more usually one of them was like, oh yeah, there's 584 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,800 that parking lots open all night, that parking lot is a vacant lot. 585 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,840 You can just go in there. 586 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,600 So I think they know the spots. 587 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,600 You might as well ask them if you're talking to them anyway. 588 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:52,680 I think they'll be happy to get you to a spot where they're not gonna have to spend time 589 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,400 asking you to move even though you are legally parked. 590 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:02,680 It is usually illegal to sleep on the roads in a vehicle, but a various days stays this 591 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,680 whole thing. 592 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,760 But I think the cops will be happy to tell you the information they do now. 593 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,160 Yeah, so I would say don't live in RV parks. 594 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,560 Just keep parking on the side of the road. 595 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:16,800 And if someone asks you to move, move a few blocks over or drive five miles to the next 596 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,200 neighborhood and you'll be golden. 597 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:25,400 I was in a public park that I liked to drive to every day and I could actually plug the 598 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,240 RV in and run the native AC that was built into the RV. 599 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:32,440 But I really liked this park. 600 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:37,080 And so I went there a few days in a row and we had a hot pod on the picnic bench and I 601 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:42,680 plugged in the AC when we were back inside and we just chilled in the AC. 602 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,200 And I think I did that for like three days in a row or something. 603 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:52,560 And this old Karen started, you know, cussing me out and telling me that it was illegal to 604 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,560 park there. 605 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,240 And I was like, nope, this is a public park in a public vehicle. 606 00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:58,080 There are vehicles right there parked here. 607 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:02,240 And she was like, yeah, well, I pay taxes and started walking away. 608 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:03,760 And I was like, that's cool. 609 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,920 Everybody pays taxes. 610 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:11,760 And then I parked there for like an extra two weeks because the cops came once and they're 611 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,280 like, hey, this lady is complaining, but this is legal. 612 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,800 So you can be here. 613 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,920 And I made sure to weigh that her every time I saw her in the morning. 614 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,600 That's maybe the most antagonistic I ever got in the RV. 615 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,960 But look, if you're not bothering anyone, people shouldn't bother you. 616 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:31,960 So RVs are great. 617 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,320 I obviously love them. 618 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:39,600 You can have an AC, a heater, full kitchen, you know, the sink, the shower, stove top, queen 619 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,080 size, bed in the back. 620 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,160 Everything's easy to fix on an RV. 621 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:49,120 It's so ho, ho, ho, ho, cheap compared to the way that most Americans live. 622 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,080 You can visit all the national parks. 623 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,800 People are going to want to have really interesting conversations with you. 624 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,040 You can design it exactly how you want free utilities. 625 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,540 And the longer you stay in a place, the more comfortable people are with your RV and the 626 00:41:04,540 --> 00:41:06,480 more used to it they are. 627 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:12,800 It just becomes a normal part of their cultural community fabric. 628 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,680 So living in an RV is great. 629 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:21,520 And I recommend it to anyone who wants to stay in the States and stop worrying about money. 630 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,520 RVs are a pretty good option. 631 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,040 Especially if you work remotely. 632 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,840 Yeah, get the RV. 633 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,400 I knew a couple of families who lived in RVs. 634 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,840 And if you have a family, yeah, you can do it. 635 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,080 They barbecued every other night. 636 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,480 We went over for barbecuing marshmallows one night. 637 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:47,360 It's just a very comfortable lifestyle that is essentially free after the initial one 638 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,360 to four thousand dollars. 639 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:56,840 In fact, let's close out this episode by looking at a few RV listings right now. 640 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,800 Having a 20/25 price for RVs. 641 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,800 Okay, this is pretty cool. 642 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,800 I've never seen this. 643 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:13,440 1993, Coachman, they cut off the last seven feet and made it into a wooden deck on the 644 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:14,440 back. 645 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,480 So you walk out onto a deck. 646 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,480 That's pretty cool. 647 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,000 That is 1500 runs and drives well. 648 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,680 And these descriptions I've never been to one that says runs and drives well and it doesn't 649 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,200 run and drive well. 650 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,880 It just doesn't make sense to lie about it because as soon as you get there, you can start 651 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:31,880 it up and see. 652 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:37,600 So when I was shopping, I didn't show up and the vehicle was radically different than the 653 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:38,600 advertisement. 654 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,400 50,000 miles on the engine. 655 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,040 So yeah, the engine is going to keep working. 656 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,040 $1,500. 657 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,040 You have a house right there. 658 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,640 Looks like there's a van life home. 659 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:56,320 GMC 1975, a automobile home with 60K on the engine. 660 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,320 So that thing's going to run. 661 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,360 That's a van life and we're looking for RVs. 662 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,880 So let's keep going. 663 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,880 Dang, Kansas Fleetwood, Teoga. 664 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,880 That is a Class C 60K miles. 665 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,000 1975 Sportsman, 3500. 666 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,960 So I think the most expensive one we've seen so far, but only 35,000 miles on the engine. 667 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,760 I'd take that. 668 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,680 I think mine had like 40K or something. 669 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:23,680 But there you go. 670 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:28,120 I mean, search for an RV, a bunch of the older ones. 671 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:33,240 No rust, drives well, less than 50, 60K miles. 672 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,480 That last one at 30. 673 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,360 They'll run and you have a house. 674 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:38,840 You pay 1500 bucks. 675 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:44,080 Boom, you have a house that you can customize design and fix and you have no more bills after 676 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,280 that 1500 plus insurance. 677 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,200 Which for some reason is really cheap on old RVs. 678 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:50,440 I don't know if I talked about this. 679 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,600 Mine was 120 or like 150 per year, something crazy like that. 680 00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:01,120 So yeah, I was like 12 bucks a month or whatever it is to ensure my RV. 681 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,320 Have no idea how that worked, but it did. 682 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:09,600 So if you're worried about money and you have your next month's rent, you probably have 683 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:15,960 about enough to pay for a full house with all the modern conveniences and everything. 684 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,960 That fleetwood is fully decked out. 685 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:23,200 Wooden paneling inside has the shower, kitchen sink, full fridge, all that stuff that I was 686 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,200 talking about. 687 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,280 1600 bucks, new tires. 688 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:31,920 You can have a generator on the back with 200 hours. 689 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:37,600 So you could buy that, sell just the generator, literally unbolt the generator. 690 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,720 You could sell that thing for like 500 bucks, probably. 691 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:42,960 The Onens are standards. 692 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:43,960 And yeah. 693 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,760 So then your RV costs 1000. 694 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:46,760 Maybe more. 695 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:47,760 I don't even, let me check. 696 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:48,760 I want to check right now. 697 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:49,760 Yeah. 698 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:54,960 No, it looks like more like a thousand dollars for one of those. 699 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,240 So you buy that, you strip the generator. 700 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:04,440 If you don't want it, I mean, and then your RV, your new amazing RV costs 600 dollars. 701 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,720 And that's a one time payment that you don't have to repeat. 702 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,160 Do it. 703 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,480 If that life appeals to you, go ahead and do it. 704 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,200 I mean, that's crazy. 705 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,200 That's a good deal. 706 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,960 I kind of wish I had seen that one when I was shopping for my RV. 707 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:44,980 [no audio]