 Hey everybody it's Robin with Creativity RV and I'm here with my new friend Gary who's converted this very cool horse trailer into a camper. So he's going to give us a tour and an interview in just a minute. Guys it's Robin and this is my friend Gary. Do you want to say hi? Hi everyone. So we're at the RTR. What do you think so far? It's wonderful. Isn't it great? Everybody should be here. Yeah he just happens to be right across from me and I saw this horse trailer that was converted into a camping trailer. Would you, is that what you would say? Yes I call it my toy hauler. It was a horse trailer it's now a toy hauler. That's true because you've got the garage here. Yes. It's really cool you guys and he's nice enough to show us the inside. But first tell us the history of this trailer and how you ended up using it as a camper. Well I was married at one time which the marriage didn't last but I bought the trailer and she took the animals and I turned the trailer into my toy hauler. Nice. That's how it worked out. Did you always envision it as a place that you could take on the road? Well initially it was a six horse trailer and I moved the wall in the front back two stalls and made a four horse trailer out of it and built a living quarters in the front so that we could haul the animals into the sierras and then we would pack with horses and mules back into the sierras. Fine. And then when the horses and mules were taken out I started putting my toys in so that's what we got now. Nice. How long did it take you to build it out? You know it took several years over a period of time because I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it all. I just would take it out means I had the living quarters in the front and stack stuff on the floor in the back until I just worked on it a little bit at a time in my spare time it was kind of a hobby. That's great. How long is it? It's 24 foot from the box part of it and then the overhang in the front is about another eight foot and that's where the bed's at before the pickup and it's a gooseneck. Nice. And what do you haul it with? What do you tow it with? A 99 Dodge Ram pickup for the Cummings diesel. And that does okay? That's great. That's great. I got 12 and a half miles to the gallon. Wow. I'm pulling this thing here. Do you take it into really rough areas? Does it do okay in back country? Yeah. It seems to do fine here. Yeah it really does because I put the axles under the springs which raised at seven inches and that gave me more clearance. Oh that's a good tip. Yeah so I can take it to pretty, you know, hilly places in the tanks that I put up underneath for the gray and black holding tanks. I got low profile so they were sucked into different types so we got a lot of clearance. Nice. That's great. Yeah. Well can we see the inside? Yes. Great. So this is the back right Gary? Yes. This is the toy box part. Oh how fun. Storage, keep my motorcycles and my electric bike and I have my barbecue pits and my just all my junk. I got a 2,000 watt generator there if I need it. Although I have 400 watts of solar panels on the top and I really never use the generator but I haven't been in an area where there's been a lot of cloud covers for a long time. I just got my tables and my kayaks on the wall over here. Uh huh. So if you want to look into there. Oh that's great. Yeah and my bike I need to take these out. I'm getting ready. It's going to rain tomorrow so I've just left them in there until it rains and then I'll pull them out of there. Right. My big screen TV up there and you'd have to step up inside to see the cabinets and we'll look at that from the inside. Okay. We'll get up there. Yeah. So that's kind of what's back here. That's great. It's like a dream toy hauler. Super stealthy. It's super stealthy and it's super strong and tough. These walls are made for horses to kick so you can't already hurt this thing. It'll be around long after I'm gone. That's great. Yeah. That's great. Okay let's see the inside. All right let's go. How much are you going to be camping in this thing? Well I'm just getting started with this. I come to the RTR last year and it was really awesome so I went home and made a few changes that I wanted to do to it and now I've set out and I'm planning to be gone for three months and I'm only going home because it's tax time and I got to do all that kind of stuff and then I might take off again from there. Did you put this awning on yourself? Yes. A lot of the stuff that I put on and in this trader I bought an old camper and I got all the appliances out of the old camper for 500 bucks that worked you know it was really inexpensive that worked well. I got this off an old trader that had kind of rotted away and it had always been folded up so the awning was in pretty good shape. It's gorgeous. Yeah so it worked great. Really cozy. I just had to mount it on here and here it is. Here's the side entrance or the main entrance to the living quarters. Nice. And uh come right on in. You have a little screen here. Yes. Which is great. That works awesome too. Thank you. So I see your garage is here in the back. Yes this is the this is the the garage you can see the the other end of it from from here. This is the the cabinets that I put in this last year because I thought I needed more storage and I got the sun oven that I saw in some of the videos and I thought well I need one of those and I put my big screen TV right right there on that wall. Nice. And when I pull the motorcycle and the bike out of here this kind of turns into my living room or oh that's great. Man cave as Bob had said it was. Right. Yeah. Gary and I had both of our solar cookers out having dueling solar cookers. Yes. Yesterday and his his was bigger than mine. Well. We had a lot of jokes. Yeah. We won't go into it. Okay. Let's see the rest. Okay. This is my bedroom. It worked well. I guess they used to haul hay and different things up here when this was a horse trader. So I just turned that in my bedroom and I got plenty of room. I got a vent here for good ventilation and it just really does a good job for me up there. And I built these cabinets to put my clothes and stuff in this refrigerator coming out. Come out of the camper that I bought for 500 bucks. I had to work on it to get it up and running good but that's a 1975 refrigerator and it still works awesome. Well I see you have an office here. Well this is my dinette office. Kind of the dinette office deal that works either way here. I have another chair underneath so I can put two chairs there if I have company. It's really spacious. Yeah it works great. Yeah and then this is your kitchen. Yes this is my kitchen. This is the stove out of the camper and it was all part of the 500 dollars. The water tank is under here and that was all part of the 500 dollars. How many gallons? That's 25 gallons. Nice. And then I have another tank that I carry in the back of my pickup that's a 40 gallon tank. Oh nice. So I can you know if I'm out boondocking somewhere I can I have that and then I can re-go and fill it up if I need to to resupply myself with water. And I have 400 watts of solar panels on top as I mentioned earlier. My inverter and all that is down here. And then and then this is my my restroom and shower facility right in here. Okay yeah and that was I had to work on that a while to find to find because this being a horse trader it's a slant they call these a slant. Oh right. So that wall is at a slant and it took me a while to find that shower stall that worked with that slant configuration but but I finally did find it and put that together. Nice. Do you have a gray tank? Yes I have a 28 gallon gray tank and a 28 gallon black tank that's up underneath and they're up high so they're good ground clearance. They're kind of low profile tanks but long. So it feels really open in here actually with the desk in the kitchen. You did all this work yourself? Yes this over a period of time I every time I took it out I would kind of think well I'd like to have this or that and then I would come home and buy the materials and and start putting that together and then we're just one piece at a time until it end up you know what it is now. Yeah so tell us about the kitchen. Uh I cook here and uh and it's all the room I really need you know. Okay so you have a little sink here. Yeah and that's this sink come out of the camper. Uh huh. This was all part of that and then I have a my my coffee pot that I just sit in there to travel but I sit over here and plug it in to utilize it. Nice. Oh it's a double sink here and I have the microwave and I that runs off the the inverter with the solar panels and. Really? Yeah. How how much power do you have from your inverter? Uh I think it's 2,000 watts. Oh wow. With a 3,000 watt peak. So you and then you have a low wattage microwave? It's seven yeah it's a 750 or 700 or 750. That's nice that's a boondocking dream. It takes a little longer for it to heat heat things because it's a lower wattage. Yeah. But it doesn't stress the system. Yeah lower wattage. And then tell me about this cabinet down here. That looks like it has a lot of storage. Did you build that? Yeah I built all this and that's just kind of my paper plates and all my my different stuff like that so I don't have to get on my hands and knees and and just my you know all this kind of stuff. Well those are really deep that's nice. Yeah and these these back here they work in the same way. I made this cabinet so that these doors come out so I have access to all the stuff. Oh wow. I put my canned goods on the bottom because they're heavier but I don't have good access to all my stuff easily. Wow you know Horst trailer is a good way to go. There's a lot of storage in here. Yeah there's a lot of room to make what you want out of it. You just have to kind of figure out how you want to utilize it. I have to tell you the breeze coming through here is everything. Oh the breeze from the back through that screen door is great. It makes it nice and I have a screen there that goes across that door too to keep the bugs out if I happen to be in an area with a lot of bugs. I've been in a few other rigs today and they're they can get hot. Yeah so this this this is great for airflow. Plus I have the big vents up on top that I'm not you know I just have them kind of plugged off now for the cold that we've been having recently so I can keep it warm in here but I can open those up and those are also escape vents if for some reason I need to escape. Tell me about your stove really quick. So is it it's a is it propane? Yeah it's a propane stove like I said this is the one to come out of that camper all part of the five hundred dollars. Oh my gosh what a score. And so you have a portable propane tank for that? Well I have I'll show you outside I got my propane tanks and my batteries out there. Okay and I have the the wave six for my heater and if I it'll it'll heat this whole thing up unless it's real cold and then if it's you know down into the 30s or so if I close that door then it heats this front part really well nice really fast. Nice but before we go outside I wanted to ask you about the windows. Yeah it's got these these windows all the way along and I have them kind of sealed up right now too just to keep the heat in with the with the reflectix right but but if I take those reflectix out of there I just kind of got a constant window down both sides. Yeah it's actually from outside you think the windows aren't going to be very big but when you're inside you can see a lot and then you've got this huge window in the back when the back is open. Yes. And in this door there's also like a floor to ceiling window. Yes. Which that works that works great. Am I lucky or what? Say that again. Am I lucky or what? You totally are. So Gary. Yes. There are a lot of people here that want to be a nomad either part-time or full-time and they're trying to figure out how to do it and they could be a little scared. What would you say to them? If it's something you really want to do go for it try it you know and and buy whatever you can get just get started with there's so many different configurations of vehicles here you can start with just a car or a trailer or a van and and just use it and and be in it and make what you want out of it yeah and and just go for it and and build up from there and you know and and follow your dreams yay yeah my broke broke pain and batteries are right here that's great my spare tire and they're out of the way and out of the weather and and they work out really well right here were you handy before how did you know how to do all this stuff um I don't know how to do anything but but you know if I want something bad enough I just keep at it until I get where I want to go and and that's kind of every piece of this trailer that's right and just like that just figure it out a piece at a time it's like like eating an elephant one bite at a time that's great well hey you guys I'm gonna say goodbye to Gary so we can probably go sit at a campfire and hang out yes and just relax for the rest of the day but I want to say thank you for the tour you're very welcome it's really great everybody thank you for watching this video subscribe if you haven't already have happy travels out there and be free yes and thank you for what you do too Robin you uh you uh inspire a lot of people with with what you uh all your knowledge that you bless bless us with thank you thanks isn't he nice you guys he's my favorite person I've met here it's true wow