 Good morning from Ehrenberg. Today we're still working on the bus. Surprise, surprise. Check out these new parts I got today. This is the fan selector switch for, you know, this thing right there. The other one was totally fried. Actually the other one's right here. If you didn't see yesterday's video, that is a hole from Heat. And on the back side, it's totally just fried, way too hot. This is what the proper one looks like. Look at that, nice and clean. Where's that o-ring? What do you say, dude? There's that o-ring, that thing that you can't take off because you'll break it. You got it. Use an o-ring picked like that. And then what you do is you, if you're by yourself, you jam this on a table or something and tap right on there to get this pulley off. And use the weight of the fan to take it off. I put a little bit of penetrating oil on there. So you just tap it a little bit. And it will start moving, right? Oh, interesting. So then tap that and don't miss. This is like the trust fall right here. There. Yep. So then you put this on, save yourself 30 bucks again. Look at you. I'm so proud of you. Bads just saved me 30 bucks right there with this fancy trick. This store wanted to sell me the fan blades, which we just took off right there. And that is the motor. And see, sometimes they don't do that, but now you have a spare clip. All right. We can use a new clip on there too. Yeah. You're the man, dude. I don't even know, how can I repay you? You know, I was thinking about that the other night. Yeah. The other day I was thinking about that last night, you know, and I talked to a couple of friends of mine, Carol, in RV life. And you know, she asked me why I do this. And I says, the reason is, is you do some, do some favor for somebody that cannot repay it. And that's because there's no way anybody can repay this to me. Right. That's true. So that's why I do it. Well, thank you. By the way, this morning I stopped by and got him a Cinnabon. Yeah, I got a Cinnabon. How's that for repayment? That's pretty good. I'm learning so much. It doesn't really matter because of that too. What's that? You get a seven, six inch socket and you put it on there and it just pushes right on there. Oh yeah. And you just put it on there like so and just push it down. Done like breakfast, buddy. Done like breakfast. All right. Oh, bad. You're the man. You know, this one here, see, this has got a different plug, right? Uh-huh. This is the old motor. You can always fill a factory motor because it'll always have a factory plug in it, right? That's probably the factory motor, I would say. And this has got a cord on it, right? Uh-huh. Now, if you get it and it doesn't, and you've got a cord on it, it's not the same as that. Just cut it off and match the wires. And the only thing, you've got two options, forwards or backwards. So it doesn't matter. Just change them to get it the right way. As you've seen yesterday, it'll go backwards, right? Yep. Awesome. You'll learn something new every day with this guy. All right. So we've got the new fan switch in and badge pulled out a little light. I didn't even know there's a light bulb in these things. Now you've got lights. Now this is going to be like a new bus. I don't know if I can get rid of it after all this stuff. It won't get rid of it. You'll have one for the weekend and one for camping. There you go. All right. Moment of truth. We've got Danny the Adventure Bus fired up. We've got good guy badge over here. And the fan is blowing some good air. The switch is not feeling crunchy anymore. And there we go. It was on AC before. Yeah, it's working, man. High five. There you go. Thanks so much. The coffee's not even that bad. At least I got a coffee out of this thing. Badge is fascinated by my French press here. I never used one before. What do you think? I never really used one. It's not bad. It's pretty good. All right. Well, you guys weren't watching. We fixed a bottom mirror motor. All the connections were broken off. Me and Tater did that before, but they came off. It rattles a ton. And then we got the fog light situated. What else do we get? Oh, we also got this here antenna for the FM radio. I've never had an antenna. And I wondered why I was not getting a signal. I thought it was some kind of fancy thing like a snub nose one, but this thing just pops off. And that's where you're... We got a radio. Yeah. Exactly. That's right with a strip chassis. It probably didn't come with one. Anyways, thank you so much. Bring it in. This guy's amazing. I don't have anything else for him to fix. I feel like I should go... You'll come up with something. That's true. Well, gotta say it feels really good to be done. All these little things have been on my mind for a long time, but I didn't know how to do them. And without Badge's help, I really don't know when those would have been fixed. Some things are a little overwhelming for a beginner like the cruise control, steering column stuff. And some stuff is actually just hard to diagnose like I didn't realize that this switch was toast. And those sorts of things, you know, it's like you could get yourself down a rabbit hole real quick. And I just want to say thank you to Badge for all your help. And on the way to the part store, pick up some stuff this morning. I stopped by and I filled up his tank, but he doesn't know that. I did bring him a cinnamon though. Check out the sunset. Sunset time. Also, we're topping off the solar batteries. Not quite sure why it never is at 100%. That's not my area of expertise. Also, tonight Badge is whipping up some shrimp on the... Shrimp on a stick. Shrimp on the bobby, baby. That's really hard on us. We've got a really big bore on steel to get some food, but we'll try to get this and choke it down. Look at that. Hashtag rough life. Rough life, exactly. Not many people will see it. So, would you care to share how many years you've been at this? 20. 20 years? Yeah. So you... I think it's 20s this year. What was your first Nomad rig? It was a 79 Mab Co. 18 foot. It was made in Canada in Lethbridge and it was a good trailer. And I lived in that for almost 15 years. Where would you park that for 15 years? I parked it at the racetrack because I had a problem with security, right? Because, well, Rob and Kim up in Canada were great, they're good friends of mine. And they were living way out in the side of town. So for... When every time the alarm went off, they'd have to call or go and reset it. So Kim says, well, you know, it'd be cool if we could find somebody to live here. I'll do that. I lived there for up until from 2000 until 2013, so almost 13 years. And then since then? What have you been doing? Well, then I moved into town for two years and I got married. And then after that, I was married from 2010 to 2014. And then after my wife passed away, I moved back out to the racetrack because that's where all my friends were, right? So then me and Ellen got together and this is the only way to go. Because I just, after being a nomad for that long and not owning a thing, I had never owned anything anymore anymore. But this is the only way to go because I can afford to live in town at $1,800 a month rent in Elkin. So I said, well, we'll just buy a trailer, $300 a month. It's all good. And then you come down here in the wintertime? Well, we come in now, we watched Bob Wall's movie and said, oh, come to Hurnberg. Because, see, the problem was that I always worked in the winter. Like my job I had was with camp services or working on trucks and I'd always work in the winter. Because that's, and I love working in the winter. I loved it. You know, you can always dress for the winter. You can't dress for this stuff. But I always worked in the winter. So I worked in the winter up until last year when we come down here. And everybody thought it was kind of weird because I always worked in the winter, always. So then when I come down here, I said, man, this is pretty good. We can do this. So then we come down this year. So we come down for 180, well, not quite 180 days. We come down from October to March. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, it's good. Like everybody goes on, it's nomadic and all that. But it's not. It's a life. Like this is our life. This is everything we got right here. Do you have, do you think you're missing out on life because you don't have an apartment? No, not at all. How's your quality? We've got a better quality of life now than we did if we had an apartment. Because we have a lot more money. Like we're both retired. So you know, we're not living on a ton of money. So the thing is, is that the money we're getting, we can live pretty good, as you see. We got shrimp tonight. So, you know, it's all good. But no, it's just, I don't know. I wouldn't trade it for the world. And if I ever did it over again, I'd do it the same way. Yeah. Because it's a good, well, look at it. Like, look at this. Like people pay millions and millions of dollars for this stuff and we got it for free. And you guys are Canadian. And we're Canadian. And you're benefiting on my land. Well, welcome to my land. I'm happy to have you. I know this is paid back. It goes the same way. You guys come to Canada. We'll show you where the free stop is. It wasn't exactly free because I had you working on the bus. Just, you know, that was like your rent, you know, for my land here. Okay. That works. It's just, I don't know, it's a really good life and I can't see an ending very soon. Yeah. You know, and it's like it's inexpensive. Like, can everybody do it? Maybe not. But if you got a little bit of, just a little tiny bit of ambition and you want to change, you can do it. Like it's not that hard. And with the RVs nowadays, like everybody says RVs, you can't live in them. Well, we've been in this one for three years and we haven't had no problems with it at all. And by the way, you want to explain what this is? A 20... It's a Flagstaff V-Lite. The reason we got this is people will probably get you all kinds of comments. But the reason we got this was the tapered nose and it's 8,000 pounds and we got a 21DS Flagstaff. And I can pull this for almost the same amount of gas as the little one, right? And how many feet is this? This is 36. Okay. They call it a 30, but it's really 36. And like this has got everything, like when me and El got into it, I said, there's some things. I will not get rid of my big bed. I will not get rid of the shower. And I will not get rid of the living room and the kitchen. And it's all in there. It's a little bigger to haul, but it's life, right? You know, there's not much you can change on it. Like, I'm not a van person. And you know yourself, you can't live in a school bus. Me and her couldn't, and the dog couldn't live in a school bus. That'd be a tight squeeze. But this is really comfortable. Like, really, really comfortable. Now, would you recommend this to other retirees? Because I know my... Oh, I would totally. Like, if you're having a problem paying rent, or you're having a problem with this, or you don't like the neighbor next door, there's one thing about this thing I found out. That if you don't like your neighbor, you hook it on your truck, and then you go see the other neighbors all right. Because there's no where... Like, you guys have got it made. You got 650 million acres of this stuff. Like, we don't have that in Canada. So you got 600 million acres of this stuff. Like, it's unbelievable. No, I would... Like, anybody that's having an issue with rent, or money, or anything, because you can honestly do this. Two people can do this for less than $1,000 each. Wow. Yeah. Like, we don't... Like, together. Less than $1,000 for two people. Yeah, we don't go on party or nothing. And the thing about this is, this is not paid for. None of this is paid for. Because we allotted X amount of dollars for this, right? And there's no need to... It's like paying rent, basically, right? And we don't have a problem with it. Like, you know, because you got the payment for the truck, you got the payment, and everything's new, so you don't have to worry about it breaking down, but you still have to work on it. I didn't say you didn't have to work on it. Yeah. But, you know, it's really good. Like, this is great. Like, if I would have done this when I was 20 years old, I would be scared to think of how much money I'd have. Like, it's unbelievable. Because when you sit down and you think you got no rent, you have no taxes, you have no gas bill, well, you got a gas bill, but not really. You don't have no hydro bill, and you don't have no water bill. That changes your life a ton. Like, you can play around a lot with that. Even with a little bit. Just with that little bit, right? And the thing about it is, is like, this, we're sitting on the desert, and we're not plugged in. We don't have water, and we don't have sewer. And we're living just quite comfortable. How about the other people in the area? Do you think they're pretty nice or mean or what? The other people in the area are awesome, because you got people all around here, and they know you're a nomad, so when you're like, tomorrow we're going to go into Ehrenburg and dump the tanks, right? I'll leave my antenna there, and I'll leave my lawn chairs and a barbecue and all that stuff here. And I'll go in and dump the tank, come back, and it'll all be here. Because all these people know, well, that's his stuff. Right? They all watch out for each other. I don't know them, but I know they watch out, just like I watch out for them. It's kind of camaraderie, huh? Exactly. And everybody's waving at each other. Exactly. Everybody's waving at you, and I don't know any of them. So, you know, that's the way it is. But it's really, like, it's so hard to explain, because people always say, oh, you can move out, you can do it, and you can do it. Well, yeah, you can do it. But it's not a walk in the park, you have to work at it, right? You get it, it's a walk in the park. You know, we're not YouTubers, so we don't spend all day making movies, but, you know, we got our thing. We get up and drink coffee for two hours, and talk about life, and then we have, we don't only get down to two meals, because we're not working, but, you know, it's a tough life. And then we have supper around five, six o'clock. Then we sit by the fire at night, and shoot the breeze with the neighbors. And then we go to bed about 10, 9.30, 10. Yeah. And then we start tomorrow morning, and start it all over again. Two hours of coffee, you know. It's a pretty relaxed lifestyle. Yeah. You know, when you're, you're in our boat, like I've been pounding it for 40, 50 years, you know, trying to make a living to what we're supposed to. And then you just say, I like this. So, yeah, it's hard, but after you get used to it, it's, you know, it's, it's really good. It's really good. Like I would never, like 10 years ago, you couldn't catch me down here. But now, you can't catch me not going. I'm trying to figure out how I can become a citizen without getting married, so I'm trying to work with that one. But, no, it's really good. Like any retirees or people have it, even people that are having trouble with money, like trying to make ends meet, it works. Like I'm not a car person, so I wouldn't recommend that. If you're single, you can do a van or a bee or something like that, or a motorhome or something like that. But the thing I like about this is we can unhook the truck and we got, we can go wherever we want and everything's good, right? So it's, it's a really good lifestyle. Like I don't really call it lifestyle, I just call it our life. That's what we do. It's our life, right? Because we sold everything off, this is all we got. Like the truck's full of tools because, you know, being a mechanic, you can only get rid of so many tools. So that's why we got the truck with the canopy. And by the way, you had everything to fix the bus. I had everything to fix the bus. Everything. And the good part about it was that I took tools out that I thought I didn't need and we used them. So now I'm good for that. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for sharing your story, by the way. And thank you for your friendship and the hospitality that you've showed me over the past few days and all the help. See, that's a thing. You come out here and like nobody knows you or not. And like, boy, it's not arrogance or none. It's just that a lot of people couldn't afford me anyway. And out here, a lot of people don't make a ton of money. So if I'm out here fixing their stuff for them or helping them, I don't fix it, but helping them, then it's just money they don't spend. Like we said about yours. If I didn't help you fix that stuff, you probably would have never fixed it because you don't have the money for it, right? But now it's all fixed. And that's like anybody else. A car breaks down or they need a booster. I'll get them. I'll fix it. It's not a big deal to me. You're a good dude. You want to say hi to Billy? Hi, Billy. I know, we miss you. He'll fix your 6.0 one of these days. Yeah, we'll pull it out and put a parish joke in it. There we go, 7-3. Cool.