 Happy Sunday, everybody. It's Robin with Creativity RV, and welcome to a new Sunday Morning View Queue where I answer all your questions about my full-time RV life. Today I'm going to tackle a few doozies, including the rumors of my death, and this is not related to COVID. This is going on for two or three months now, and how Doug and I survived being in the RV with nine degrees outside with no skirt. And, oh my god, I gotta tell you about this thing that Doug got me for my birthday, how Doug is doing, he's right out there, how the cat is doing, and if I got comped all that solar I'd just reviewed or if I paid for it. Hey birdwatchers, happy Memorial Day weekend. So I got a lot of questions from you guys after I was out sick. I wanted to let you know that I'm doing a lot better, and for the people that was worried I was like by myself in the fifth wheel up in the mountains in the snow, with no one looking out for me, I was under the care of a teled nurse and a teled doctor. And I had people looking out for me, Doug would come up and socially distance, visit me and brought me propane, and I was constantly in touch with my friends and family. So no worries on that, I have seen an actual doctor in person and I'm doing just fine. A lot of you wanted to know how the cat was doing while I was sick. You know how animals can tell when you're not feeling well. Most of the time you wanted to crawl up right here and like sit on my face. What is it? What is it? Are you going to stop screaming at me? Are you going to stop screaming now? Because I've been home for a while and I've gotten you everything you wanted and love. Okay, you're okay. And so half the time I was like oh my god this is just allergies, get off of me. He's fine and he likes being out there in the snow as long as I'm with him. But he could sense something was wrong and he's doing just great now too. Doug is doing fine too. A lot of you wanted to know if he also got sick. As you know, we were together in this heinous snow. It just kept snowing and snowing and snowing. It's still snowing. It's pretty though. Pretty deep. And we ran out of power because all I had at that point was solar which I'll explain in a second why he didn't have a generator with me. But we ran out of power and we were two or three times stuck in the RV with no power, no water, no heat. So when we first started getting a little sick we both thought it was just exhaustion. You know being up in the middle of the night trying to hook up the truck to get a little bit of power. Maybe dehydration. I think Doug was a little sick. He wasn't as bad as I was. Thank God. You know, he got headaches. He got sore throats. He got really tired. You never know, right? But we're both doing just fine right now. Now, you guys had some of the best questions about how we survived nine degrees with no skirt. Which you guys, that was really funny. If you're not RV people, let me tell you that an RV skirt goes around the outside of your RV. It stops the cold air from getting underneath your RV where, you know, it comes up through your floors and it can get really cold. You know, if I knew I was going to be in that cold location and I thought it was going to be cold for a while, I would have built a skirt. But, you know, the storms were not supposed to be that bad. They would say it would be an inch and it would be eight. They would say it would be two inches and it would be 12. So we had this snow on my solar panels. And like I just said in my solar videos, I did not have a backup. I wanted to put my money into the solar instead of into the generator. When we saw the storm was coming, I actually did buy a generator from Home Depot that never was delivered. It just never came. And it went through four different shipping companies. Trucking and shipping was a little bit hairy then. And somehow it went from one company to another company. And I don't know if it fell off the truck or what happened, but they never delivered it. So then Doug and I went to Harbor Freight. They, you know, brought this thing up to the car for us. Another generator. So again, in the snow, we're out there trying to start that up and we finally got it all out and put together and got the fuel put in it. And we ran it for five minutes and my host said, oh my god, that's so loud. You can't run that. We're going to get complaints from the neighbors. And that's when I learned a really good hack on my solar that I'm going to tell you guys about soon. I was told by the solar company that I could not plug into a house because it would just pop a breaker. And they showed me that when I was with them. So I thought it was not possible. But we found a wonky way to change how much voltage the system actually draws. And so we were able to hook into my friend's house finally. A lot of you wanted to know how we survived nine degrees outside with no heat. We had propane, like I said, but we had the little baby ones and we were running through them in a day. That's how cold it was. I mean, just to keep it like 56 in the house. Doug was coming up, God bless him, and just dropping off propane tanks every few days for me so I could have heat. But during that storm, our batteries went down to nothing. So we couldn't even run the furnace, the little electricity that takes even though it runs off of propane, we couldn't run the water pump. So we just had to figure it out. And one thing I've learned is this. If you're in a small space like a van with some insulation, it's a little counterintuitive. But the smaller the space with a purse center or two people in a pet, the heat actually builds pretty well in a small space. And, you know, I had a B before this and a C that were 25 feet. And that was true in those rigs also. Well, when we were in the situation in the fifth wheel, I said to Doug, we're going to be just fine because what we're going to do is go up into the bedroom. The living room has tall ceilings and a lot of windows, right? That's where it gets the coldest. So what we did is the boy and Doug and I were in this bedroom and you can see it's like, you know, a cozy bed and then there's not much over there at all. It's a small room, small windows. And I'm telling you, the two of us in the cat, we got too hot up here. Even though we had no heat, Doug is a human furnace that the cat has learned recently. So now they're friends. It was just like a slumber party in here. And we watched movies and played games and played on our tablets and that was it. So actually it was kind of fun. Okay, let me get to the whopper that I mentioned in the beginning of the video. There have been rumors that I died for about two or three months. They are founded on something that actually happened, but not to me. This is what happened, you guys. About the end of February, early March, I was camping out in the desert and I got a text message from a good friend of mine that I've known for decades, you know, but you talk to me four times a year. So she texted me and she said, are you okay? And I said, yeah, I'm great. How are you? And she said, where are you? And I said, I'm in the desert. Why? And she said that a friend of hers that doesn't know me texted her and said, I heard your friend Robin was stabbed to death. Of course, that also was not true. I was just fine. But here's what happened. There was another woman very close to my age from Colorado that was killed in a murder suicide. And that day, it came out of the news, Robin Barrett murdered and my friend sent me a screenshot that said, I'm Google and Google search Robin Barrett murdered and then my picture because you know how Google goes, you know, they have the stories and then the images depending on how you set it up. And because I have a bigger online presence, my picture was coming up first. So at that time, I had about five of you email me and say that you heard that I was murdered. And I actually was really torn about it at the time because if that rumor snowballed, I thought I needed to address it. But I didn't want to at the time because I didn't want to get clicks on a video based on somebody else's misfortune. And a victim's memorial was asking people for a photo of the other Robin Barrett. And so people were going on to Facebook and putting in Robin Barrett, Colorado. And I was coming up, I called the people that I know best, Doug, my mom, the people I was camping with. I didn't get any more messages from you guys. So I was just going to let it go. I felt really bad for that woman and her family. I did see a picture of her eventually. And she just was like our people, you know, she was just like a 50 something fun, happy woman. And I feel really bad for her and her family. But I'll tell you guys, it is really disconcerting to see your name with the word murdered next to it. And you know, I told you the universe like tries to tell you stuff. There was that and then the COVID thing. So I have realized the universe is trying to tell me, you know, like all of us, that we have to live our best life because time is short and it is. The reason I bring it up now is because when I stopped doing videos, when I was sick, a whole bunch of you googled me and I got a lot of emails and messages from you guys going, hey, I read that you were murdered in February, but I saw you put out a video in March. I don't think it's you, but please tell us if it's you. Do you know about this story? You know how rumors go. So I just wanted to address it now. It was another woman with the exact same name as mine from the same state as me, almost the same age as me, but it wasn't me. Yeah, so that happened. It was weird. But I wanted to let you guys know if you hear these rumors, not true people. I'm still here, just fine. Now let's get to some fun stuff. I have got to tell you about this thing I'm wearing. My birthday happened around the time that I was sick and, you know, I was getting the chills and stuff. So Doug got me this, like, look at this thing. It's a hoodie sweater. You can see it has massive pockets. It's one size fits all. And here's a picture of Doug in it. And what's funny is it matches my bedding that I'm obsessed with. Like, this bedding is so soft. And I don't know how he found this thing, but I will put a link for it below because I know you guys will ask me for both things. And I love it so much. Doug is getting one and we just did one as a gift to my friend Carol for her morning campfire. But I'll tell you on cold nights I sleep in this and it's great to go out when it's chilly and it's just really comforting. It's just like a big, it's like wearing a blanket. So that's how great this is in my boyfriend is. So let me address the questions about the solar. So you guys know I just did a couple of videos on my solar install and my test where I tested my 1280 watts with six lithium batteries in a rainstorm for seven days. A lot of people were like, well, of course it's easy when you don't pay for these things and, you know, clearly it was comped. It was not, you guys, I paid for it and I paid for the installation. You know, usually I don't address the comments about money, but I am going to say one thing about that. I know that, you know, everyone has a different circumstance and people kind of project their situation or they think that they're stuck. You know, it's like my mission in life to help people get unstuck. Honestly, that's why I wrote Be a Nomad, Change Your Life, because I wanted people to know that they can live on a lot less in an RV, which would allow them to pursue their dreams, especially if they're a boondocker like me. So I did that, you guys. I figured out how to do that with my life and then I wrote the book Work From Home While You Roam with 300 remote job sources, actual links to apply, information, everything, because I got so many emails from you guys going, I really want to be on the road, but I can't figure out how to make a living. It's up to you. Everyone has a different circumstance and some people cannot be on the road and even if they are on the road, they can't afford what other people can afford. I understand that, but I have a budget like everybody else and what I did is absolutely possible for everybody else. You just have to figure out what you need and what your budget is and how to get there. When you boondock, it's a lot easier because normally I'm not paying for a place to camp. Pretty soon I'm going to do an updated budget for you guys. Don't think that other people do things that you can't do, what one of us can do, all of us can do. That's it you guys. I hope I addressed all the questions. As always, if you need the links for this stuff or the books or whatever, they're down below. If you have any questions for me that you want me to address in the next VueCube, please do just leave them down below. I hope you're all doing well out there and having a good weekend and staying safe and I'm thinking about all of you right now. I hope to see you on the road soon until then. Everybody have happy travels and be free.