 You can have your part in pills if that's your mode, but I get my half from smoking so oh, yeah I get up with it down with it. Love it and can't quit it right on I'm the best that ever did it and got away. Good morning from Gooseberry Mesa, Utah I am still here with the guys and one gal basically this morning had a nice little coffee talk and I Might have a fix for my data situation So just ordered a device. It will arrive over in Washington in a Couple of weeks or so I'll pick that up when I get there Gonna cross my fingers for that But definitely today I'm gonna introduce you to everybody here. It's a very eclectic mix of people who have been Living a nomadic lifestyle for quite some time We have people who are full-time in their vehicles We have people who are newly full-time in their vehicles, but I've been doing boondocking and You know camping and stuff like that for like 30 years It's a really eclectic mix of people and actually it's funny I have so much in common with them because when you let go of your house and you let go of your your car and your monthly responsibilities and You are able to sustain yourself Your days, you know, it turns into meeting up with other people like-minded people and sharing little tips and tricks about how to live on a budget and So I've learned quite a bit this morning about that. So Hopefully we'll get a couple tips from you Tips from the people as well, but I need to start editing. I apologize for not having Scheduled uploads for yesterday today. I'm late. So I need to quickly edit and upload one but hopefully I Will fix the internet situation here. So All right guys, so we have a video Exporting That's what it looks like. That's how I create a video is I use a Premiere Pro. It's a complicated Program until you get to use it and then it's not so complicated By the way, I've been breaking up longer videos into two videos for two reasons first reason is people's attention span I Have a fear that if I put up a 20-something minute video Might be a little bit long for the majority of people. I could be wrong. Please correct me if I am The other reason is that I haven't made a video every single day since July 1st 2016. So I'm trying to like kind of Make up for that by having You know like However days I'm into it. I'm trying to make up for the lost days as well To hold myself accountable because that's what this project is about is documenting the whole trip Just in the past when I had some Things happen. I was sick for a week. Whatever. It's really not that interesting I don't want to make six videos in a in a row. It's like me chilling in bad drinking soup Like not my idea of a good time on that note. Let's go check out the adventure vehicles I am parked next to so here is one of the rigs the adventure rigs This is Jim's See if he's home Could be gone could be taking a nap. Let's go check in on a bride You want to give you a tour? Yes, me and the viewers the tour All right, cool Hey Stella Hey Stella Project mode right now. Are you still working on the the lights? I am but I think it was successful cool So I just had to mess around with the little connector up there, which was I think while I was Moving things around it became disconnected. Hmm. Gotcha. So yeah, I'm just waiting for the liquid black tape to To dry on our little project sweet. Thanks again for your help. You're welcome, man My pleasure. That's that's what it's about is helping people and absolutely, you know collaborating on stuff Totally, right? It's so so give me a brief rundown of this thing your make model It's a 1977 GMC Classy motorhome. It's a hitchhiker by new law was the I guess the model of it per se Yeah, so it's kind of old it has a newer engine in it Got a new engine five years ago, but again, I'm having engine problems right now, so We'll see what happens. Gotcha. And how long have you been full-time and in the rig? This will be I think seven years Yeah, so right around seven years Left from Colorado Denver, Colorado in January of 2010. Nice. So yeah So I've been on the road seven years and loving it. Cool. Yeah, you mind telling us how you pay the bills Yeah, not at all. Um, so basically in the summer times. I work as a campground host In traditionally, I've been in the Sierra National Forest up near kind of halfway between Yosemite National Forest and Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Park sorry And so in the summers I worked four or five months During that time and that's usually enough to pay the bills for the rest of the year There's been three times during the winter out of the seven years that I've worked for Cirque du Soleil Just in their usher department within Los Angeles and then Portland, Oregon And so that I don't make a lot of money doing that, but it's just kind of a fun thing to do So that's cool to work for the circus Yeah, exactly. Could you give us a tour? You told me yesterday. That's a sleeping area. Yeah, so that's a sleeping area up there It has my computer's on it right now because I was trying to look some stuff up And so it's the bedroom. This is the living room Which is the couch Over here is our dining room Which is the table, which is also the workbench, which is now the workbench for soldering Over here is the kitchen area where I do all the magic and Yeah, I have a stove for burner oven for burner stove oven And then over here I have the sink and I added a under-counter filtration system so that I do drink straight out of my Freshwater tank. I know a lot of people don't But I installed that filter because I just wanted it to be hassle-free So I want to be able to do that. I just have one water source and it's a freshwater tank for everything Nice. Yeah, a lot of people buy bottled water or things like that, but I don't bother with that And then the refrigerator right here very tiny And then the bathroom back in there And I see the showers filled up and you were telling me yesterday how you shower. Would you tell us again? Oh sure or actually show us Yeah This is partly for everyone's information and partly for mine because I have yet to install a shower So I have a solar shower that is hooked on to the back a ladder When the bikes are not here This works as the pbc will come out Straight out from the motorhome on both ends and then create an enclosure so that you can Put up a tarp or something that to have some privacy while showering if you're on the middle of nowhere You don't really need it. You know if nobody's around you You know and So yeah, so that's basically it's a pretty simple system. Sweet. Thanks, man. Yeah. Yeah, no problem by the way also Brian tows this little car with the With the motorhome which is pretty cool. So when he is parked for an extended period of time He gets like 40 miles per gallon in the little car compared to like these at six in the RV Guys, this is a part two of A vlog from a few days ago. Let's go over and knock on Jim's door and see if he's around Oh Really? All right, cool. Well, tell us about your trailer It's a 2011 25-foot bunkhouse Amara light. Mm-hmm. It's an altar light It's been lifted to sit two feet off the ground so I can go down Jeep trails It's my rolling one bedroom apartment Yeah, it's got all the the basic amenities. I've added a freezer 750 watts of solar up top 435 watts of solar on the truck 675 amp hours of battery It basically does everything I do at home, you know, it'll run its own air conditioner as you can see I Use normal appliances like coffee pots and cook tops Heaters and water heaters and it's almost all electric. How long have you been in this full-time? Since the first of the year mm-hmm one one. Yeah, and what kind of do you do you get any sense of freedom from not having a House and having a van or a trailer I should say. Oh, yeah I Not having a house There's much less to take care of I mean it does need to be cleaned occasionally and but it's it's nothing like cleaning a house No rent no mortgage Much simpler bills I definitely don't pay a utility company It's Much much less stress. Yeah. Yeah, and and you were mentioning before About all these different devices. Could you give me a run-through on the different devices and just like point at him? This is an AT&T Mowgli. It's a mobile device. That's meant to plug into your car But I have it on an adapter. It runs $20 a month unlimited for AT&T data This is a Verizon 45 10 L hotspot. It's only 3g and it's $5 a month That's a Ting sprint phone This is my old business cricket phone That's an AT or a Freedom Pop AT&T 4g global hotspot The sims that go in it costs it or one time 99 cents and then they're never charged you again and you get about a gig of data after it's all set up The next one again is Freedom Pop, but that's sprint You have to buy the hotspot and the the sim together so you can get them for $22 That will net you about a gig and a half a month for free. No charge The one after that is a 4g community Sprint LTE unlimited that's $14 a month you buy the hotspot and a year's worth of service for $250 the next year. It's $168 for a year service and that breaks down to $14 There that's very fast when it's when it's well connected. The last one is a 4g antenna shop 5 gig hotspot with unlimited binge and music freedom, so I can Stream all of the Netflix YouTube Hulu Anything on their binge list as much as I want it never that one ever cause it to deep prioritize or anything like slow down Or slow down and how much do all these devices cost you $56 a month total and is have you written a blog post about this? I have some of it on a blog called the solar boondocker and I have a lot of posts in the communication center of The cheap RV living comm forum perfect, so I'm actually gonna You I've already ordered advice. I've ordered advice that he recommended I'll let you guys know how it works once I get it But it sounds like I'll be getting this one here, which is 20 bucks a month And again, I'll let you know how that works when I get it so high five for living in the alternative lifestyle and Freeing yourself from all those monthly payments. Okay last thing is This is sitting in a refurbished Wilson sleek But you can pick up on Amazon for $119 the cord and directional antenna that I use To improve its reception are another $70 for under $200 you can have a complete high-end Booster setup that I've never been without internet anywhere. I've been Day in and day out. It's just not possible right now. That's so cool So I did try this device earlier here just to prove to you how well it works So I got two bars right there if you can see that just take my word for it you put it inside the device and I'm boosted up to four bars So it does work. It is worth the money if you're gonna be out in the middle of nowhere. So I'm genuinely 20 miles or better away from any type of a town It if you want internet out here, it's well worth the money