 Well, it actually turns out I'm not going to Schooley Palooza, and I'm not going to RTR but Since I won't I want you guys to meet a few people who I've been camping with so you can get a taste for why people Choose to live this way and if they like it, so let's go do simple kind of couple question Q&A First victim of the day Why do you live this lifestyle? Let's go out under the sun because it's a little dark. Alright, so why do you live this way? Because well, I've always wanted to and I finally had a chance when I retired Okay, I got fired from a job bought the bus built it tired of looking for work get on the road and Been loving it ever since what's the best part about it? If I'm near people that I like I can stay if they're near people that I don't like I can move or I Find a pretty spot. I can just say I can stay here. I can stay here for a few days and enjoy it All right now. We got everybody's favorite mechanic. Mr. Badge V light RVing Why do you live this way? well because Like I said before in Alberta, you're looking at 18 to 2,000 a month the rent a place and to buy a place at 65 would I waste the time and it's We don't we live it on social security. So we only got a boat. I don't know about 1500 bucks to play with so This here is a lot. This is you can do it with this here. So It's just it's just I don't know. It's hard Dean asked me out there. It's just hard because It this doesn't take a whole bunch of money to do it. That's the thing and like Everybody goes on about owning this or owning this stuff, but see none of that's paid for but the thing is is that The payments you can live with like the truck like six and the trailers like a 300. So at 900 that's still cheaper than 1800 plus gas plus this plus that and it's just so we can afford it, right and If you don't like the neighbors, you just move That's a good part about it, but you know and That's a Dean asked me about it the other day was that what's what's the worst part about doing it? And I just can't come up with anything like there's nothing bad about this Like it's really hard to explain to somebody that watching it because unless you do it it's really really hard to explain because There's nothing bad about it like you get the Like we're out trying to outrun the snow. So it's a different thing, right and like it's just I don't know It's just so many good things that I I really don't have no bad stuff about it really because it's you know I mean all these great people and you know and have campfires and Talk and it's like you know the funny thing is that you sit back and you look at it Oh like a year ago The only ones that we knew was you It was you doing you and Bob will Bob's in California and we all sit around that fire And it's like we were there. We've been friends for years. It's the weirdest thing going but it's true It's like and not anybody has a problem with the other person and it's just It's amazing. It's just totally amazing. So I was just asking people why you guys chose to live this way Yeah, cuz we were tired of the rat race and just the same old same old and We love traveling and seeing the country. Yeah Yeah, and we just take our tiny just wasn't satisfying or or Meaningful to just live a life to just pay bills and to just feel like you're constantly falling behind So yeah, we might be falling behind now, but it's much more fun So yeah, that works and we met on a cruise ship in Hawaii as we're telling Jack's earlier And it's just kind of a wild travel life and we knew that we kind of wanted that life And we were tired of paying rent. We had paid rent You kind of added it all up. Yeah, we'd paid rent for five years And it's $1,200 a month going to someone else's mortgage and that was $75,000 that we'd never get back so we wanted to try and live a little differently cut down our expenses and Fill up with our experiences We worked on a cruise ship in Hawaii. It was our contracts were five months long So we'd work on the ship for five months. We'd get our food paid for our room and board So no expenses at all and after about five months We'd save $10,000 and then have five weeks to go on vacation and just travel So we've done that so many times already We decided to Do it in America, you know in the United States instead There's so much here in the states that we haven't seen so but we had gotten acclimated to like the tiny living lifestyle because There you have roommates at least we got to choose each other's roommates for this life, but but it's yeah, it's very Small quarters. You're working all the time and so we're you know, we're we're fine with hard work We just also need to know who we're working for and what we're doing it for and that's why building the bus was something We could do together and do it the way we wanted to do it and having less material possessions to it's it's so much It's freeing because you buy, you know, we had cars. We had motorcycles We had a two bedroom house and we bought all this stuff But it was the material for the things that we bought was preventing us from doing what we wanted to do You know was holding us back. So once we freed ourselves from a lot of that We're able to just move around and travel We are an outdoorsy family. So we're rock climbers back packers Adventures and we have two young kids five and eight two girls. So We spent the last eight years or so living in North Carolina And we could only afford one big trip every two years out west And so this was kind of our way to move our life onto the river and spend more time adventuring and having fun with kids Awesome. Yeah been climbing probably At least a third of the days. We've been traveling so far. Yeah, two months in and we've done a lot of climbing Yeah, more than we've done in the last three years. Yeah more. Yeah For the freedom gained from it for sure That's definitely major major inspiration for me And then found out, you know, once I got into the lifestyle that there's some amazing awesome people doing this as well So the community is fantastic at this lifestyle for sure You know living this kind of lifestyle You're kind of going for that more sustainable type life that this actually provides for you now rather than you having to You know give so much to your house to keep it working for you this now on solar provides everything you need Much less money unless you're driving all the time, of course diesel gets expensive If I travel around, you know doing the rough raises and that sort of thing So in doing that pays pretty good and it fords me a lot of freedom just to travel and check things out You know, there's so much to see out here So much beauty, you know So you finally get a chance to be in it rather than just see it from afar But I don't have hardly any payments, you know now at all so I find that living out here on the road like this Your bank account stacks up way faster than living at a house where you have all these bills You're just trying to maintain, you know, so you're working your butt off just to pay the bills You know most mainly so now I'm just working my butt off to have more money in my account So it's great Yeah I can work for a little while and afford to take off for a couple months at a time and just enjoy life for a while So you're you're you're free and clear and you're you know, yeah completely 100% debt-free and just live in honestly A little personal but about 200 bucks a month is all I actually need to live That doesn't include food or fuel But that's basically my bills cell phone insurance on my bus 200 a month. That's all I have to have to have I live this way because I wanted a way to travel And still be able to afford it So this seemed like the best way to see as much as I possibly could without requiring a bunch of tickets airplane tickets and Just go at my own space at my own pace so To be free and to not be tied down to Material items and when you aren't stuck with a bunch of stuff It feels lighter And you can experience a lot more because you can put your money towards Experiences rather than rent right right and I think another thing too that we didn't realize until we like actually Became a part of this community was how big the community is And just like how incredible it is to meet people on the road and like you meet up with someone And then you may not see him again or you may see him again And if you do it's like super cool because then you cross paths again Like we're driving on the highway and one of our buddies that we hadn't talked to in months Recognized us and contacted us was like hey pull over like let's grab lunch And we were just in the middle of air like where are we we're like New mexico so yeah being part of a community that like values the same thing Exactly. It's really really cool. Exactly. Well, I guess uh for For us. I mean we're living in austin, texas and I mean for one rents insane there, but that wasn't you know, totally it I mean I've been wanting to you know live this way for a long time and traveling is really the main reason to be able to go wherever you want when you want and More importantly see the people that you want when you want to see them and not be rushed to be You know heading to the next deal or you know, however Um, but I mean yeah, I guess just the freedom. I mean for me. What do you think big? Yeah, freedom. This is awesome I mean, it's just It's the best to be able to have everything you need right in like this small area that you can drive Wherever you want to go in the whole entire united states you can go to central america south america canada alaska anywhere And you have everything you need and it's just it's simple and it's awesome It's a little disappointed that I'm not at one of these events. I apologize, but this is the reason why this is all of my Belongings I have nowhere to sleep. I don't have a mattress. I have nothing to sleep on and Have all this stuff on my bus. It's not finished So my apologies if anybody came out to meet specifically me if not Enjoy all the amazing other people that you will meet at these wonderful events