August 2025 Q&A ~ Viewer Submitted Questions ~ Are We Buying A House or Property???
[Music] Hey everybody, Eric here from Nomadic
Fanatic. Hi Diana from Diana’s Road Life on Rumble. On Rumble. We should also mention uh both
of Diana and I are filming the same thing with our own cameras. are also uh cross-sharing this both
on my YouTube channel, Nomatic Fanatic and Diana’s Rumble, Diana’s Road Life. So, we are we asked
some people to do submit some questions, some uh Q&A questions and so we have collected those from
your Rumble, your Patreon, your Facebook. Yes. All our social media networking. So, all over the
place questions. Um there were a lot of questions that were repeated from our last Q&A video we did.
So, we might um not elaborate on those as much. True. Um unless we feel that that they should be
brought up again. I guess we also may read one or two that we don’t just don’t care to share for
whatever reason. So yes, there’s that. Obviously, we choose what we want to share and don’t want
to share. Exactly. Yeah. Um well, I want to say first of all, check out our our new gnomes.
Gnomes. Gnomes. Gnomes. Um they’re in a different um position which Eric says it’s pretty easier for
them because well my other one broke. Yeah. They had to stand up like this and any wiggle would
now these are just flat. Yeah. So now you guys are going to be seeing these little guys in our in our
in our stuff in our travels now. All right. So you want me to do Oh Patreon. Let’s do my Patreon then
all yours and then we’ll go to YouTube. Okay. So um cheers. Grab your drink and let’s chat. Yeah.
Cheers guys. Um, so Jerry R says, “Uh, uh, I just bought this RV a year and plan on going at least
four or five weeks long, long trips each year, and how do you find great spots you happen to stay at?
Is there an app you use, a website, etc.?” That’s a really good question, Jeremy. We’ve been doing
this for a while, and although we’ve been kind of all over with our I tasted that one in my tongue.
Thank you. So, sorry, bad timing. Um, yeah, we do use some apps, but honestly, our greatest resource
is you guys. We get so many tips from you guys. Yeah, even if it’s after we’ve come back to these
places. So, keep them up if we’re somewhere and we miss something or say something. But we also use
apps. I use a paid app called Roadside America on my phone, but it’s also free online. What What do
you use? Um I used to use a lot of Eye Overlander. I still use it sometimes, but since I’m with Eric,
I kind of just just go what he thinks and then he’ll just talk to me. What do you think about
this one? And then we’ll go. But free also the free camping.com campsites.net.net. That one’s a
good one too. Um but there’s a lot of new ones out there that are pretty that are free. And believe
it or not, social media will also help you. Your phone knows where you’re at. So oftent times
you’re scrolling through Tik Tok, Instagram, Patreon, Facebook, it’s going to say, “Welcome to
Memphis. Would you like to go to this?” And it’s like, “Wow, creepy.” Okay. And as you know,
we like to try out a lot of like like fun restaurants and foods around the areas. So I also
have a habit of just asking Google, what are your popular restaurants or food quirky stuff to check
out and that just helps. Or sometimes you run into locals and then you just h have a conversation
with them and then just ask them or they’ll tell you you should check out this place blah blah
blah blah. That’s true. If you’re not shy and you just go to some podunk bar in the middle of
nowhere, guy is sitting next to you. Hey man, what’s what’s not on Trip Advisor that I should
go see here that’s just a little bit different and sometimes they have some pretty neat stories, you
know? So, and then they can also join the there’s a lot of Facebook groups that are they’re they
might be called van life or bus life or travel and then they share everybody. A lot of people like to
share their locations or good spots to check out. on there as well. So, if you can find groups, you
can definitely find a lot of information in the groups. Very true. Uh Amanda C asks, “Are you
planning on a Pacific Northwest trip when the bus is completed? I’m still hoping for an Arizona
trip like Chris Travels did a few years.” Yeah, I mean, I think we’re both going to be different.
I would love to take my bus back home and show my family and friends up there. Although the bus will
be tricky getting into Liar River and you know a few of my favorites, but certainly I want to show
off the bus a little bit and park it in my dad’s driveway. Park it at mom’s in Texas and she’s
moved for Thanksgiving. I’ve talked about coming to see her for a third year in a row maybe even.
Um so yeah. What did you think of the Pacific Northwest? I loved it. I love Washington. It’s
like this, right? Similar to this. Yes. Actually, it is very similar here. very well. It has its
own things, but yes, I I love I love Washington. Washington. Yeah, Washington. Washington. Yes,
I loved it there. All right. Edward B says, “Have you done the DNA test on chunks yet?” Oops.
We keep forgetting. Um, honestly, I think it’s because since we decided to just traveling and
moving a lot, it’s really hard to honestly I have no idea how that works. I’ve never You’re
the one who Yeah, we got to initiate it. We got to get something physically sent to us the first
time. Then we can send it back to any post office and then the results will be online. But you still
got to be somewhere so we could have it sent down to Billy and Michelle, have it waiting for us
when we get there and then send it away. Yeah, we can do that. Thank you for the reminder
though, Edward. Thank you for getting to Yeah, you’re right. Couple more here on my Patreon.
Again, there’s a link in the video description of my video if you guys want to join me on Patreon.
I post updated ahead like a little look before the videos come out, pictures. We do live streams
sometimes and stuff like that. So definitely consider for like five bucks a month, you can join
me there and help support my channel. Donna F, have you thought about RVing internationally?
Maybe down to Mexico of the Canaan or Canaan Canada or through Alaska. Uh that way the kiddies
can go with you. There are some amazing beaches in the west coast of What did yours just do? It
beeped. Is it okay? I don’t know. I heard it beep. You go check on yours. Um, we we have discussed it
and thank you for bringing up Donna the the pets because that’s something that we have to think
about you plan. We have to have a cat sitter or it has to be something you have to get approval
ahead of time to be able to do it. So definitely something for us to consider and plan out but
we both want to travel internationally whether that be in our rigs or possibly you going to get
another battery. Yeah. Okay. She get a battery pack on hers. We SD card is full. Oh the SD card
is full. Gotcha. So, this will be a question only answered on my uh channel video here, but yeah,
we definitely talk about it. We dream about it. We both want to go to Paris, France, uh what
are some of the other country? Uh Scot Ireland. Ireland. I want to go to Ireland. Um so, we we
have we have a bucket list that’s out there in the future. We don’t have the logistics of how we’re
going to do it just yet, but certainly we don’t we’re we’re not going to stay here in the United
States. We have friends that go to Baja Mexico in the winter. Instead of like Courtsite, they go
down to to Mexico and spend the whole winter down there in their bus. How cool would that be?
You know, you you get your insurance ready, you get all your pets documents, and you just
take the whole bus down to the beach in Mexico and spend the winter down there as opposed to
the dirty desert of just a different scenery. So, definitely something we had considered doing
international. And again, thank you for reminding us, Donna. How about Sha D says, “I love seeing
you guys get back to your roots with the travel videos. Are there any plans for you both to do a
themed trip series like the ones you did earlier on the Cascade Loop, the Lincoln Highway, Route
66, and not to do it all over again, but it would be cool to see you guys in a theme series. A theme
series? What does that mean? I would do Route 66 and stick to it. Lincoln Highway, stick to it. Uh
oh. Amusement parks. Okay, that’s fun and great, but the way things are going now, is it possible
still? One other thing just just to note, I mean, it is definitely easier to stick to a themed thing
by yourself. We have to compromise together and we have to kind of do a little bit more planning.
We’ve also hinted at there might be a possibility where we kind of branch off here soon and kind
of do our own things, but then merge back up later on down the road or something like that.
And that’ll that’ll keep things fresh for both of our viewers. It’ll keep things fresh for us in
case we’re getting sick of each other. No, I would never get tired of you, honey. We do have that. We
We click very well. We get each other very well, which I think it’s why it’s it works so well.
Yeah, I think so, too. But I’m okay with themed trips that I might do on my own. But we don’t know
where our travels are going to bring us next week, let alone next month or what I can plan for a
themed trip. So, if anything works out that way, I will I will definitely let you know, John.
Thank you. Rebecca M wants to know, “Is there a proposal in the future, even though you don’t
need a piece of paper to say you’re each other’s, but it would be cool to see?” And I think this
is a repeat question from last year. Well, yes, and we talked about it on the on the
on the previous Q&A video. Um, again, we’ve only been boyfriend and girlfriend for a
year already. Yeah, we turned a year already. So, I don’t know. I guess it’s just we I we don’t
really discuss it. Not a priority, right? this second. So, yeah, but we both when we talk about
our future and our plans, we always talk about it as if it’s forever. Yeah. So, we will let you guys
know when when that happens. Also, Rebecca, M, any plans to go see the bus and figure out if that
overheating issue was fixed or not? We actually, we’re not I’m not too far away from getting back
to the bus. It’s going to happen very, very soon here. I’m going to get back probably a little bit
before Diana. I’ve been in good touch with Billy. Billy assures us that the thermostat has has
fixed it and that fixing the fins has fixed it. We won’t know until we get on the road and
that’s going to happen sooner than later. So, we we’re all going to find out together. Okay.
I’m excited. Yeah. And have you had any offers on the van or have you decided to keep it? Didn’t
you make a video? And uh well, do you even want to talk about that? No. Well, I don’t know. Cuz
my video will air before your next video. Yeah, that one’s not going to air till way later. We’re
going to skip this one, but it’s an everdeveloping uh conversation thing on our minds. Yeah. But no,
I have not gotten any offers on my bus yet. But yeah, that is all of my patron stuff. We’re going
to move on to her social medias and then we’ll go to my YouTube channel where I got lots and lots of
questions and comments on there as well. Cheers, guys. Cheers, guys. It’s weird talking to two
cameras. I feel like we’re in the newsroom. And back to you, Marty. I just Yeah, that’s
true. And if you’re staring at the wrong one, there’s a producer behind it. Over there. Look
over there. Okay, let’s see. Um Tammy Bazelle on Instagram. She asked, “Do you feel that you will
ever live together in one RV or one home?” Well, she said live, not travel, so certainly we can’t
rule that out. But do you want to touch on right now why we’re in separate vehicles? Oh, yeah.
Because it’s not like we have to, but um No, we don’t have to travel in separate vehicles at
all. We can travel in the same vehicle. That’s not a problem. We’ve done it before. Um the reason we
do it is I’ve always made a comment or my videos saying that our our rigs are like our bedroom.
So, it’s like I’m traveling in my bedroom and he’s traveling in his bedroom. Also, we have five
cats altogether, and a onebedroom is a very tight squeeze with all the cats that we have, although
he has all four cats with him because they’re all indoor cats. Um, but Yang, um, as I mentioned
before, she’s not friendly with other cats and she makes it very difficult for us to actually be
comfortable in our own bedrooms. Like I’ve taken her in his rig many times for travel, sleepovers,
and she just makes it impossible for us to to just be com comfortable and she’s not nice to the cats
either. So Terra Terra antagonizes and then Terra likes to I think Tara does it because she doesn’t
like her and and Yang just does Yang just doesn’t like to be around nobody or any animal or any
human being. Just me and Eric and that’s it. But we both spend a considerable amount of
time building out our rigs for travel. We’re both very comfortable with that right now. Yes.
Um I mean it would be I don’t know. It would be different when you have something that’s
completely built and then you invite someone else in. You did it last summer with me for a
month. Yeah. Yeah. That’s how to say we I did it before. Yeah. And it’s just like like I when
I was with him, I would bring all like my stuff, but I couldn’t bring everything because there’s
no space enough for all my And I tried to clear, but I still couldn’t do it. Yes. He cleared out
two closets for me and I still didn’t have enough space for all my stuff. So that’s why it’s just
more comfortable to when it comes to traveling, especially the way we travel that we travel for
a long time. It’s nice to bring all your I like to bring all my crafts and your camera gears and
your your collections and stuff. And me too. So it’s hard to do it all in one rig. And yeah, but
I mean we do plan on doing trips on the naughty bus together. Yeah. And we have all five cats in
a lot of ways. We built that one together. Yes. So that’s kind of like a fresh slate start for us
both to have um put it together ourselves. And it’s it’s bigger and more space here for the cats
to even be more com. So Yang would have space to hide out and so Terra does too. Like there will
be different areas for cats to be for them not to be squeezed up in one rig. Yeah, definitely. So,
it’s about space, I guess. Okay. Mommy Wags three on Instagram again. When bo when boondocking,
what are some of your tips you can share with others? That’s one question. The other question,
as in what to look for, ways to get the the best bang for your buck, or even how to be frugal with
your options? Oh, good question. Can I address the first part? Yeah, go for it. Some of the things
that I like to look for is um I I will first make sure that city doesn’t have any ordinances. That
state or city, you can easily do a Google search just to find out if you need to go one state
over. Also, we always have a backup in mind. So, we never just go to one place without a backup
that’s real close. And uh if there are signs that say no overnight parking, we just won’t touch
it. We we just won’t. Some people will, but we just kind of look for another spot. And then
getting there late, like after the light, after the sun’s already set, is kind of a good thing
for us, too, because you don’t stand out as much after dark. If they saw you there at 3 PM, they
might call you, call in on you, like just happened recently to us. Um, so yes, it did. Those are some
boondocking tips. What were the other questions? You want to answer any of those other ones? Um,
boondocking tips, um, tricks, um, tips can share. Others is what to look. Okay, so when you’re
look what to look for when you’re boondocking, um well, number one, you want to always pay
attention to your surroundings in the spot that you think you can boondock or you know you can
boondock is safety. Um pay attention to who is around the area. Um, I have a habit of whenever
I find a boondocking spot, I park the bus or or whatever I’m on and I walk around the perimeters
like what’s are you close to a house? Are you close to other nomads who are staying there?
And then you can kind of get a feel of them. No, most nomads are friendly and because we’re always
so alone for so long, when we see someone else who lives the same way, we kind of want to be a
little bit social like saying, “Hey, how are you? How are your travels? Are you safe? Do you need
anything? We always ask, is there anything I can help? Um, do you need anything that I can help
out with or to make you more comfortable? So, you you want that kind of interaction when you’re
around other people. If you don’t and they don’t even look at you or talk to you or they just look
suspicious, my recommendation is leave. Especially if you’re a solo female. If you’re not feeling
it. Yeah. If you’re not feeling it. Yeah. Um, look at your surroundings. Um, obviously when
you’re boondocking, you’re not always going to be leveled. So maybe keep in mind on bringing level
level, what do you call those? Level levelers. Levelers. If you’re picky at or if you’re
unable to sleep the way like your buses or van or whatever is crooked, if you can’t do it, bring
levelers. Um, always stock up with food because there will be you never know when your car will
break down and you’re going to be stuck there for a while. So, always have backup food, dry foods
and canned foods in case that happens in an extra gallon of water if you plan on boondocking. Yeah.
And and once you decided that you’re going to stay there the night, find out exactly where you’re
at. If it has an address or something, find out in case there’s an emergency. You don’t have to
dig that up. It’s difficult for nomads cuz we move so often. So, know where you’re at. If you have
pets, maybe look and see where the nearest pet vet is or the 24-hour, you know, vet that’s there so
that you don’t have to look that up. We’ve written it down on a piece of paper sometimes, but just
knowing the address and having that written down on the fridge on a little piece of notepad could
be helpful so that you don’t lose valuable time in an emergency. Right. And always let your people
know where you’re at, especially if you if you’re boondocking somewhere in a remote area. Always
let someone know, okay, I’m going to be here for a couple days, maybe two or five. Just let them know
your people that you’re you’re going to be there for a while just in case there’s so many crazy
stories out there. Um, in regards to a pet, I h I always, that’s another reason why I like to walk
around. I like to see if there’s any like snakes around the area when I walk around or any dogs
roaming around because I have a cat and she likes to be around the bus and and explore. So, that’s
one thing tip that I can give you before you get let your animals out. Make sure it’s safe for them
as well. Yeah. Yeah. If you get the knock, don’t try not to drag it out and argue. I mean, look,
guys, it’s going to happen to anyone. And and and people have different varying ideas on that, but
my tip to you is if you get that knock, whether it’s a property owner, a police officer, or just
a disgruntled, grumpy old local, just just smile, nod, even though they’re wrong or they’re misquing
a law in front of you and you know they are, just just smile, nod, and say, “Yeah, I’ll I’ll go
ahead and go somewhere else.” Yeah, it’s usually not worth the confrontation, you know. Don’t The
world is big. You’ll find something else. And if you don’t find it that moment or that day, the
next day I promise you, you’ll find something. So, just be patient. You have to have a lot of
patience when you’re boondocking. That is like a major major one. Um, this question’s been asked a
lot repeatedly on my channel and on Eric’s channel and our social media. So, I’m going to I guess I’m
going to address it again. Um, real quick. says, “Hey, Diana, why did you leave YouTube?” So, I do
have a video, letting everybody know. I do have a video explaining it. I know it’s not the biggest
and and dramatic explanation that you guys want to know, but again, unfortunately, YouTube was not
working with me anymore. They were making it very difficult for me to give to to make my videos for
you guys. there was always some what’s that word discrepancies or like there’s always something
that they didn’t like or they didn’t agree on and they just wouldn’t work with me and it was
very difficult to communicate with them and I just it was also very vague spent countless times
trying to decipher what they were saying exactly and it was just it’s just for me this is just my
experience not Eric’s experience my experience um as you know I have had other you I had another
YouTube channel and the same thing happened and I just decided to quit. So, I mean, it sucks cuz
I do like YouTube. It’s easier to to have people follow you and and and but it just wasn’t working
for me. I I couldn’t work with them no more. So, I quit. And Rumble is also free to join. There’s no
cost on Rumble. Yes. If you have Apple TV, there’s even a free app. You can watch it just like
YouTube. Yes, it’s free. And if you don’t want the commercials, the same thing as YouTube. You
pay a premium every year. And I think it’s cheap. It’s to me it was cheaper in on Rumble. You pay a
one-year premium and you don’t see commercials at all when you’re watching the videos. So, yeah. Uh,
let’s see here. These are not in any order. Sorry. I’m just going the the latest here. But, Jacob,
Jacob, only question I have is, are you going to turn the crapper lengthwise to the bus to put
the door on it? Well, actually, I was just talking with my buddy Sean about this, too. That toilet
arrangement is not permanent. We don’t we haven’t even built a bathroom wall or decided how that’s
going to work. I I have I have thought about, you know, the toilet instead of being this way
being this way. Um and then building around it and having shelving behind it. Um that’s that’s
just where the hole for the toilet had to be because that’s where it fit. Otherwise, it would
have been 18 in farther this way or this way. So, the hole had to go there. We plopped it down.
Um it’s not even hooked to anything yet. But but yeah, hang on, Jacob, because we might be moving
that around. Yeah, but that’s that’s the way this lifestyle of building your your rig. We I change
stuff all the time. You’re going to be changing stuff all the time, which is nice to be able to
do that. Let’s see. Glendair says, “Could we talk Diana coming back to you?” Just covered that one.
So, yeah, she’s on Rumble. I just can’t no more. See, John Chalker says, “Hello, Eric Metapanic.
Beloved subscriber. I’ve been with you since the beginning. Your friend John.” Uh, please link
Diana’s site again for my YouTube viewers. Head on over to Rumble and then search in the bar Diana’s
Road Life or at Diana’s Road Life. What else we got here? Oh, what’s your favorite food at Bies?
That’s an easy one. Mine’s the brisket sandwich. And now recently, I tried the brisket burrito.
Oh, that the breakfast. Oh, the regular one. The regular brisket burrito. Oh my god. I think that’s
going to be my favorite from now on. Um, mine is definitely just the regular pulled pork. That
barbecue sauce is fire. fire. How was the first couple days of the carnivore diet? Oh, yeah. Like
for me, fine. I was Jeez, fine. I’ll eat eggs, bacon, meat, steak. It uh it felt it felt great.
I just had some digestive issues that Yeah. But it felt good, right? I mean, yeah, it um surprisingly
I also felt I also feel very good about it. Um, the only thing I can complain, and I’ll talk
about it on my videos more in depth, is um, the digestion is way different than what I’m used
to. So, I wasn’t able to go number two every day like I usually do because of the meats. Also, my
teeth were hurting a lot from eating meat every day. Um, but I really enjoyed eating eggs every
day. I I honestly don’t eat eggs hardly anymore. I only boiled egg and I’ll snack on it or put
it in my salads. But like eating scrambled eggs and over medium eggs with bacon and sausage, it
was actually very it’s actually very enjoyable. But I mean, what do you what’s that word you
say? Spoiler alert, you guys are watching. I I decided to stop doing the carnivore diet. I
did it for three weeks. To a tea. You’re not doing it. Yeah. To a tea. Yeah. I did it for three
weeks strictly carnivore diet and I only cheated one day which was the day we ate that pizza at
at the the and I did it for one week. That day we ate pizza was the day I quit after one week.
Yeah, it’s it’s not an easy diet. Um uh and then I started doing we started doing more research
about it too and we started seeing that it it it can bring health problems in the future if you do
it for too long. So that’s when I decided to start another rhythm of eating, which is fasting,
intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting, which is 18 hours of no eating. And I could
only eat food between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and that’s it. And I’ve been doing that one for a
how many days? Five days, six days, something like that. Something like that. Last week. Yeah. And
I like it. I like it a lot better because I could actually eat my salads now and I can eat potatoes
and I can eat any a hamburger full hamburger which I’m still a little picky. I am still cutting off
a lot of bread. I if I crave the bread I’ll take a bite or two and then I won’t eat the rest of
the bun. Um but yeah. Um Stephen A asks, “When are you going to drink another Keystone?” Hey, you
know me well. You know me well, buddy. Thank you. I’m drinking a pineapple coconut Malibu rum
thingy. Mjigi Randy asks, uh, we have a meet up sometime in the future. Well, I’m not against it.
I mean, I don’t know. We don’t have one planned, but we don’t because we’re moving so much. So,
we don’t have one planned. Sorry. Uh, let’s see. Aqua, are you going to read the funny ones? You
should read a few of them so they can see what we have to deal with. No, some of these I they just
really want attention and that and I can skip it and that’s you know create your own channel and
get the word out if that’s what you want to say. Let’s see. You ever seen a YouTube channel crash
overnight? Play you’re going to be fine. Example A. Okay. God’s sake. I think you might want to
spell check that one. I didn’t know that was going in that direction, but it’s not. Yeah.
Uh did you hear No, I’m not reading that one. My goodness. Why don’t you just Nope. Wow. Okay.
Yeah, some are nasty. I’m going to have to pre pre-eread these here. Uh, can you make a video
compilation of the quirkiest places to eat from that jerk from Cali? The quirkiest places to eat.
I should put them in like a playlist like some of the weird ones that were, you know, like eating
out of a train car or we ate out of a plane once or Yeah, we definitely try to make them quirky.
How about I do this first? I’ll try to put them in a playlist. That’d be a fun playlist to put
together because it’s easy for me to remember some of the some of my favorite restaurants. I love to
eat, you know. Yeah. Not all burgers are created equal. No. What NASCAR tracks have you attended a
race at? Asks Chris. Lots. The Fontana one that’s no longer there. They’re turning that one into a
short track. I’ve been to Vegas twice. I’ve been to Atlanta. I’ve been to the Phoenix track twice.
I’ve been to the Daytona uh like three or four times and Texas Motor Speedway once. That’s six
and then a couple duplicates. Six tracks pretty much all in the south for me so far. So far, we’ll
see. You try to do one this year out. I did. I almost I almost made it. Bus problems. Uh let’s
see. CA Kalonia. Eric, do you think at some point in the future you might consider making videos
outside North America? We’d love to get your take on parts of Europe and Asia. I would love
to be in Europe. Yes, I would love to. I might need one of you guys to be one of my tour guides
when I get there to help me understand things. And having a guide would be great or a YouTube friend
with an extra van or an SUV where we can just go, you know, scoot around, you know, be our little
tour guide and show us the best spots. Yeah, we’ve gotten a few invitations for that. Ireland
is u made friends with Ireland. They ordered an art piece for me and they offered to um host
us when we go and visit Ireland and show us around. Wow. I can’t wait. I wish I could do that
soon, but not right now. Treeub says, “How much sandpaper have you used building the naughty bus?”
Well, I bought um a 100 pack of miscellaneous and I’m still on that first pack, ironically. Um so
I have haven’t used more than a hundred of the 6-in circular ones yet. And we’re getting almost
done with needing sandpaper right now. So that’s a good feeling. Although I do have a bunch of paint
touchup. Um Casey says hair YouTube is gone. Four words and he couldn’t put that one together. I
think he’s trying to say her YouTube is gone. Oh, okay. Yeah, I says horror YouTube is gone. Might
want to double check your spelling. One sentence, one insult. Couldn’t put it together. Special.
Eric, would you say you’re happier, calmer, less easily annoyed since being in a relationship
with Diana? It seems very much so happy for you all. Uh RG, thank you. Yeah, I would say that she
brings out a calmer me. Maybe uh maybe it doesn’t escalate to a level when I get frustrated about
certain things. I I think having a woman in your life definitely helps calm me. So, yeah, you’re
right. Good interpretation there. You’re a good influence on me, honey. Oh, good. I’m glad. Uh,
why the f did you sell your Arizona land? By now, you’re looking for the same thing. Well, we had
considered actually looking for the same thing. We’re kind of all over right now. I’ve said
this before and I will say it one more time. Sometime in the future here, guys, on on my
channel specifically, I’m going to tell you the whole dirty dark story of Taterland. All you
need to know right now is you don’t know about it. You don’t know. Yeah. But I will say that some
privacy issues that were 100% out of my control affected my safety at that land. And it was not
fair to me to have to deal with that. And it is still an ongoing police issue going on behind
the scenes. Something that I cannot talk about specifically at this time right now. Um, but as
I’ve mentioned on my channel, I think this person missed that one little clip. I will one day when
this is all over with and we’re moved on. I will tell the whole the whole story. And it’ll make
perfect sense why I just walked away from Why would you just leave Teland when you I didn’t want
to, guys? We didn’t want to. Of course not. Yeah, we got we got the raw end barely starting. It
was looking Yeah, but but but maybe there’s a tal 2.0 in our future. me. You got to keep watching
those videos and click like. You got to watch all the videos, too. Yes, please. Let’s see. Robert K
says, “Are you going to be going to another NASCAR race this year?” Oh, that’s a good question. I
don’t have any plans this year, though, Robert. I don’t I’m not We’re No, I don’t even think we’re
going to be near another track where there’s going to be a race, unfortunately. I’d like to, though.
Sorry, we need to get some questions for you. Have you both thought about buying property again
with a home together? Diana Bear is a very sweet girl and if she was a movie, she would be rated
PG. She’s the only reason we have Rumble. A well, thank you for joining her on Rumble. Thank you.
She They’re calling you PG. The funny thing is Rumble is a little more open than YouTube, so
she gets to be a little past PG sometimes. Not R-rated, but you know what I mean. Like cuss a
little more. Yeah, I can cuss a little bit more. show more emotions of frustrations and stuff like
that. And in YouTube, I was a lot more careful. Um, you can’t even I couldn’t even dance anymore
in YouTube. You were walking on eggshells. I was literally Yeah. And here I can they’re pretty okay
with whatever I want to do. Yeah. Logan wants to know, “What are your winter plans this year?”
Are you ready to know what our winter plans are? They’ve changed drastically. They didn’t
they just change this last week again? Flipped. They flipped areas of the country. I mean, yeah,
we we completely changed our plans for the winter, unfortunate. Not well, for good reason and and
sad because we want we we had a lot of things we planned out for the winter, but it’s okay.
We’re happy for Yeah, go for it. Uh, well, no, actually, I don’t want to share too much, but I
will say that we do have winter plans, and I will say that those are constantly evolving as well.
And as soon as we get back down to Mississippi, we’re going to start putting some of those plans
into motion because there’s some tricky elements to transportation. It was it was tricky to get to
Mississippi to be able to get I mean, we probably finished 60% of the bus build right there with our
friends Billy and Michelle. And we’re not done. We got to get back and get cabinets installed
and tables and and and a stove and a sink put in, finish the plumbing and stuff like that’s all got
to happen before we leave. And then when we leave, it’s going to be another crazy puzzle piece
of driving and flying and and uh checking in and figuring things out. And we’ll let you
know since that’s all finalized and we have a plan. We’ll tell you more. We definitely have
winter plans. Definitely. What else here? Okay. What is the air speed velocity of an unlaid
shallow? Quick save would like to know. It’s a bird. The air speed of a of a a swallow. A
bird. 22 miles per hour. I I don’t know. Thank you for the question though. Hey guys, been watching
the Nomatic fanatic series since February 09 when Eric went to Daytona Raceway. I’d love to ask
what’s the most unexpected item that you’ve bartered or traded while traveling if applicable.
Bartered like bartered means like traded or exchanged with or made a deal with. Well, we do
it a lot when antique shops or or or yard sales or swamp meets. We barter a lot there. But with
people? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, let’s say when you’re selling something you don’t want or
or something you want to buy from them. I don’t know. I think the weirdest one for me, and this
is something that I never shared on my channel, uh, but I showed you guys on my naughty bus.
I had a hitch installed. As a matter of fact, it was a custom hitch. It was a hitch that was
made custom for this bus. And, uh, I reached out to somebody in Courtsite about needing this, and
he had never done anything like it, but he was just going to weld and just go with what he had.
and we made a deal, a barter trade, uh the Honda scooter, the little Elite 80 with the title as a
trade for all of his labor and the equipment and the install to be done on the bus. And when the
when the job was done and we tested it all out, I handed him the title to the scooter and uh he
he rode away in the scooter. Yeah. Uh that was that was probably one of the strangest oddest
bartering that I’ve done that worked perfectly. I mean, and he was super happy cuz we saw him
running around Courtside with the scooter. Yeah, we did. And then he ended up taking that
with him. But, you know, it was it was one of those things on the bus that was really hard
getting someone to touch that nobody wanted to mess with it cuz there’s no script. There’s
no it was never designed to be that way. So, he just beefed it the heck up and he he said
this will haul anything. He said anything. So, that was good. Yeah. We’ll see. Let’s see here.
We got pee break. Did you have a good poop? I only peed, Eric. I didn’t have any keystone more
keystones that were cold, so I had to switch to uh Bush Light now. Still can’t find any more Bush
Light Apple, guys. It’s okay, honey. I can’t find any. It always It’s like Trader Joe’s. They come
out with some really nice treats and stuff and then they get rid of them. Mhm. Once you get
attached. Uh with watching your last video, I don’t This is an earlier post though. Can
you give a history on how nomads and gypsies have always been a target of governments and
communities just because they have a wandering heart and want to see and experience our nation,
our planet and and they are dehumanized? Well, Stormbug, you’re you’re right. It is tricky
sometimes for us to have to deal with that. But I think anybody out there that sees what some
communities have to go through like the big city Seattle and LA with the homeless and the abuse and
the trash and the human feces. It’s no wonder that anyone that doesn’t live in a conventional house
just kind of gets that bad rap. We we we’ve all experienced a little bit of prejudice just for the
vehicle that we’re in and the lifestyle that we live. Uh the truth of it is the governments don’t
want us to live this lifestyle. They don’t want us to be full-timers. They don’t want us to travel
like this. They want us to be very controlled, a stick and bricks house and then for us to go
on a short little weekend trip to an approved campground and and and do everything by the book
like they want us to do. The the scary thing to the government is that we’re able to live off-rid
almost self-sufficient except for food, water, um but but but everything else they don’t
want that. It doesn’t benefit them. No. So they they bring up the they they they they
start calling us that we’re homeless. We’re not homeless. But they come up with the excuse of
using the word homeless or that we’re trashing, but it’s it’s not. I think because they can’t
really they can’t really do anything to the people who are living on the streets with mental problems
and drugs and and and abuse of like that. They can’t do nothing because they’re mentally they
can’t make decisions. So, they’re living Well, this is my experience in California because I’m
from California. In LA, it just seems like they’re making it easy for them because they provide food.
They provide shelter if you want it. They provide showers and they provide drugs. By the way, they
literally pass out drugs. There was a to all the homeless. There was a Dollar General that was in
the news recently where they had the tin foil and then there was an open thing of tin foil on top of
it and it said, “Adicts, please stop stealing tin foil. This one’s open for you. So, you can just
take your tin foil and go do your drugs.” That that’s what it’s come to. Not only encouraging
it, drug use, but accepting that it’s there and they can’t do anything. So, you might as well just
let them do it, you know, so that they don’t just steal whole things of tin foil out of the store.
It’s crazy. It’s really sad. It’s really sad. And and since they can’t really do anything about the
population of can’t of living literally homeless, they need someone else to blame and someone
else to to to pinpoint or to poke at. And that’s they’re going to point at us who are trying to but
you know travel free. I I I sleep well at night because I am I I know for a fact that I’m not
scum out there. I’m I’m not a drain on society. I create travel videos. I help bring to light
small businesses, whether that’s food or a quirky attraction or a harvest host that just wants to
their company to be known. I I trade resources like that. We put money into these communities.
You know, we we spend money. The money that we make making these videos, we put right back into
these communities that we travel to. Just because we don’t want to stay at your $300 a night RV
resort does not mean that we don’t put good into these communities when we’re there. And we pick
up garbage at the free campgrounds. And we do our part. We I feel like we even clean even more than
the rangers. Everywhere we go, we’re cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. Yeah. So, we we we sleep
well at night knowing that we’re doing we’re doing well. But we but we understand that that that
that’s also there too, Storm. So, thank you for bringing that up. You never get used to it. Let’s
see here. Let’s see what low Patty says. Hey, Eric. I knew you were I knew you from years and
years ago from Washington. I’m now in Texas. Maybe you should look into Texas. The only bad thing
is the humidity. It depends. Texas is split. You know, my mom’s on the west side. There’s not
that much humidity. My sister is is down in the south near Houston. Lots of humidity. We like
Texas, but as I mentioned in a previous video, too. I mean, Texas is one of those states that
could be on the chopping block. They’ve already shown some evidence that they’re kind of anti-
RV and moving more and more to that area. So, I think if we bought a piece of land there,
even a piece of land that had a home, a house, and stuff like that, we may have some difficulty
fighting uh to have our RVs. My mom certainly did. As a matter of I don’t even know if I shared this.
My mom no longer gets to keep her RV outside her house anymore in Texas. The city came down, passed
a new law, said it can’t be here. It’s got to go into storage. You’re only allowed to bring it to
your house for 48 hours when you load it up for a camping trip. Never thought that would happen
in Texas. And my mom was just baffled by it. But things change. I mean, so I I don’t know uh
if if Texas would be a a spot for us. We’re not really looking there anymore since that one house.
Diana, how do you use the Rumble app? I’m having a difficult time with it. I am eating healthier by
now. Low carbs and few snacks once in a while when I go out for dinner. Nice. That was Tina. How
do you how do you use the Rumble app? You just download it just like YouTube, right? Yes. You go
to your phone and where you add apps, you add you just punch in the word Rumble and it’ll take you
straight to the Rumble app and then you just made an make an account. Yeah. Or just like YouTube or
on your laptop, just type rumble.com and then when you get there it’s a quick free app you can
make and you just search for Diana’s channel instead of subscribing you you would follow her.
Yes. Yes. But you you have to make an account, which is free. Or or you can just if you just
want to see the videos, you can just click on let’s say when I post it on on Instagram, you can
click on the link and it’ll take you directly to the to the to the to the chat to the video. But
I think it doesn’t allow you to comment or or do anything. You can just watch it. But it’s it’s you
just have to make an account. It’s easy. Yep. It’s easy and free. Michael wants to know, does Diana
smoke cigarettes? No. Ever? No. I I don’t like cigarettes. Yes. Have you resolved the issue of
your bus overheating? Uh Cavanasco wants to know. We We think like I mentioned earlier, we’re going
to talk to Billy when we get there and do a couple test runs here for sure. I think you guys should
camp in Wisconsin. I think you’ll really enjoy it. Says Dan Potion. Potion. Dan Potion. Wisconsin
could be next, huh? Yeah, that’s the plan. We got two ways down. We can go back the way we came or
we can go around the other way, go through Green Bay. And we always want to do something different.
Most likely we will be going down Wisconsin. Otherwise, I don’t think I’ve That’ll be a new
one on my bucket list. A new state. Yeah, new state. Sorry if I missed a couple of these. Some
of them are kind of mixed with other videos here, but uh did you get my messages? Where do I get
messages on YouTube? Is there a message folder? I don’t think they’ve created that yet. No, it used
to be. You used to be able to send private message to people on YouTube and then they got rid of
it. Really? Yeah. I don’t know what you mean. Uh, Giann Jean Jean. Um, do you avoid the Mid-Atlantic
and Norththeast regions because of traffic? RB camping laws or a bit of both? I’ve noticed you
never visit these areas. Which ones would be? The Northeast and the Atlantic. So, Alaska, Canada.
Uh, no. Uh, they’re talking about like New York, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Maryland. Why don’t I go? Well, you go first. I’m going to think about why I don’t. Um, actually
West Virginia is on my list on this trip. Um, again, this is going to be my last trip traveling
in my bus, so I want to go to West Virginia. Um, any reason why you’ve avoided it till now? It
just hasn’t happened. I have gone to those places, but not living nomadically. I’ve just traveled
over there, driven over there, but not not to live nomadically. Um, why? I don’t know. It just
hasn’t happened. And I I it’s a weird part of the state that you didn’t and and and I don’t like
the cold, so I avoid it as much as possible. So the only times you can actually go to those
areas is in the spring or summer even. Well, no, I was going to say cuz the last time I attempted
it, I was in the middle of Pennsylvania and I got heat exhaustion. It was 105 three days in a row
in Pennsylvania in the summer. So you only have a little a little gap in the year to visit there.
And if we’re all the way in the west and we want to go there in that little gap, it’s kind of like
not worth it. So you kind of Yeah. And I had also planned to go last summer, but then all of those
tornadoes were hitting in Illinois and the storms and the rain and then they were predicting a
unusually high storm thing for the summer and I said, “Nope, nope.” We ended up coming back
west and going to Washington State. This year, uh, Michigan was just the easiest to get from
Mississippi. Like the the weather the weather relief for us, it was the easiest way to do. We
had didn’t promise that we were going to stay here. We just really really like it. So, so we’re
gonna we’re going to keep moving around. In fact, in the next couple days here, we’re we’re thinking
about leaving this area and going trying some new parts of Michigan. I got nothing against the
Northeast. No, no, no, not at all. Just uh just But you guys have to remember too, we travel along
what the weather gives us. Yeah. In my my case, I don’t have AC, so I can’t really If we don’t
talk about it, I can understand why you leave that sort of comment. What do you got against us?
Is it the tunnels? Is it Is it the low clearance? Is it the people? Is it the camping? No.
No. Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, I’m not I’m not afraid of doing it. I did it
once successfully through upstate New York, Vermont, the White Mountains between Vermont
and New Hampshire. In Maine, I spent a month up in Maine. Loved it. I loved it. Um I do try
to do new stuff, but but that’s not really an excuse either. I got I got nothing against the
Atlantic and and the Northeast. Uh I was going to have to schedule it better if I if I make that
trip around weather. Do you change your own oil? That is weird timing. That is weird. Uh, yeah. I
just changed I just did an oil change on my bus and his RV. Yeah. Thank you, Rick. Diana did my
oil change. I did I did our oil change yesterday, actually. Not that we’ve been overly busy. It’s
just we we’ve been both putting it off for so long and then we realized this might be our last
chance. So, we we ordered the filter or actually Billy had two motorcraft filters for our engine
and then we got some oil. Diana did them both. Check out check out her video. It’s probably by
now on it. Yeah. Yeah. Will you visit Michigan again and where? Um Jason says, “I don’t know. I
I like Michigan.” Yeah, I could be back. We will be back. Oh, just a couple more. Uh let’s see.
Paul says, “Per your video, I bought a home base in Collins, Mississippi, and I live in my RV with
no problem in the winter. We stay in Montana in the summer.” Oh, he means per my video about the
ordinances and changes and stuff like that. Yeah. So, so he thinks uh Mississippi is still good.
Of course, uh you are talking about a home base living in your RV. My video was specific about
the public areas of Mississippi. So, you got to be careful in any public area in Mississippi.
Not that they’re going to mess with everybody, but knowing that that that law exists, I
would just be careful. But you’re right, you can still There’s many places that you
can still live on your private property except Colorado that I know of. Really? What? Well,
statewide. Statewide. Yes, there are counties, cities, ordinances all over in lots of different
states, but Colorado is the only one that has a blanket statewide law that you can’t live in your
RV on your own property. Why did you guys skip over Lower Michigan? Truth Seeker wants to know.
We didn’t. We skipped it. We didn’t skip it. I don’t think either of us showed us skipping it. We
um We went through there. Yep. Yeah, we we stopped in there. We camped in a couple different places.
We didn’t have the uh the recreation passport, so we didn’t go to any more state places on our way.
But then we stopped up at another lake up in the north north of Traverse City. We loved camping at
that lake and then we took the Meno Bridge up. So, if it felt like I kind of skipped through it in
my video, it might just be that we were we were looking forward to cooler weather. Big difference
between the lower Michigan and upper Michigan. I mean, it was at least 10 15 degrees cooler up
here. And we were we didn’t really feel like we needed to stay down there and camp for weeks up
here. There’s I mean, it’s just Canada if if we can swim across the lakes. So, I mean, we’re kind
of we kind of hit that that stopping point right now just because there’s nowhere farther to go
north. Yeah. Jason Slagger, hey bud wants to know, if you had to choose a location to create an
actual homestead, where would that be and why? You’re going to encounter weather no matter where
you go. But I think coming back to the Midwest is best. Yeah. I don’t have anything against the the
Midwest. Like like like Illinois, yes, there are crazy storms. But then you go to Washington State
and it floods and you got mudslides. You go to California, you got earthquakes, you got too much
sun. Arizona has wind. You are absolutely right, Jason. There is no perfect spot. And I mean,
where would I like to be? I would like to be somewhere that is more comfortable. Well, I want
to be somewhere that’s not hot as heck. Yeah, but I’m okay with it being cold. Does that
make sense? Wait a minute. You don’t like the heat. You like the cold. Yeah. Yeah. Not
extreme heat. But like the area where Taterland was at had really cold winters. And I don’t
think I’m ready to spend a winter like that if I don’t have to. Right. There’s too
many other places to go for the winter, especially as nomads. Yeah. Summertime. I I I will
say, Jason, that I had a dream once of having land in Washington State and and Arizona. Arizona being
my winter spot and I could be a snowbird between those two places and then I’d have a Washington
spot in the summer. But Washington state does not really they’re not real keen on living in your RV
even on your own property. So, I don’t know about that idea anymore. So, did you want to elaborate
on living or where you areas that you like? I know you like California weather, Southern California.
Yeah, but you can’t live there in in your rig. So, that’s true. Um, anywhere where their weather is
comfortable enough to live like this or unless we find somewhere with a house, then I guess it
really doesn’t matter. Yep. Because if we find something with a house, we can just stay there
and then travel. We could even store the RV and then go travel and, you know, save up for a couple
weeks or months. If we don’t find a property with a house, we’re obviously going to have to live
in our rigs still till we build something or make something happen. And then 26 thumbs up on on
this question. It’s the most popular question. As camper van Kevin is recovering from a few health
setbacks and he plans on going out to see him and help hold down his camp while he is recovering.
Well, first of all, a couple things, Jason. Yes, we have both been in constant touch with Kevin
since this happened. I know there is a delay in my videos, but believe me, I I knew about all
this before the world. You know, I’m friends with him. We get the updates. I’ve talked to him about
certain things. He has a lot of resources there in Arizona. We are not near Arizona, obviously.
And and you know, with Kevin getting rides to and from the hospital, getting those things done,
there was nothing that we could do except be moral support. I mean, it wasn’t even feasible for me
to to go to my stepmom’s funeral in Washington State. We had to cancel that. So for for me to
just up and fly there and and be at his side, it wasn’t practical. And I don’t mean that in
a mean way. It’s just that wasn’t a practical idea. And it and it and there was nothing I could
do for Kevin that his friends there in person who were already there uh were doing. Um so um we
are very happy that he’s okay. Yeah. That he’s that he’s on the mend and and and getting better.
Yes. Thank goodness. You know, we all hit that age where these things can just start piling up
and creeping up and and even me, I’m starting to question a few ailments of my own as I get older.
Um the the cracking every time you turn or Yeah. your knees cracking my bum foot, my sore tooth.
Um Yeah. You get older, everything starts hurting a lot more. Yeah. I’m I’m glad Kevin’s in good
hands. He’s got good insurance and he’s close to the the medical need he needs. That that’s the
most important. And he’s got a support system. that live there in Arizona with him. We’re we’re
nomads. We’re just not there right now. And I would say this I said the same thing to my entire
family who’s there in Washington State. So, um yep, keep it keeping my thoughts and prayers with
with Kevin here. Um but also with my videos are delayed. That doesn’t mean that I ignored him the
first week when my videos were still popping out. We had made all those videos way before the first
news. So, there was a bunch of comments. Why don’t you say anything? Don’t you do anything again? It
all happened before we even got the first word. I know that’s hard to understand and comprehend
sometimes, but it’s not always what you think. And people are kind of quick to be judgmental. It’s
YouTube’s crazy. Two more questions. YouTube, it’s the people. It It is. Yeah. Ignorance. My videos
are delayed. Have I mentioned that her videos are delay? Everything’s delayed. Mine are delayed.
It’s not that they’re delayed. I just I like to break up my videos into separate videos. So, I’m
just different. Two more questions. You ready? Two more. That’s all I got. Okay. Mary wants to
know two questions. So, there’s three. Uh, why did you remove Diana and her cat from your logo?
Are you thinking of buying land alone or with a house? I This is another one of those I didn’t
think it was going to be so crazy. Oh my gosh. I changed my logo from her and and Yang in it to
just me, which is the way it was when I started my channel. It was all about my perspective.
Now remember too, Diana’s not on YouTube right now. So I mean it’s not like she’s sharing on
YouTube. So I just thought it was more practical and I brought it to her. I’m thinking about doing
this. She said, “Yeah, it’s a good idea.” For the channel. It’s It’s your channel. It’s your bus.
It’s your cats. It’s your lifestyle. It doesn’t mean she’s not going to be in every video of
mine, though. You know, it’s just, you know, I think I think it would be the same thing. I
don’t know how to relate it to. Calm down, guys. It’s okay to make changes. I make changes all the
time in my intros. Yeah. So, there’s nothing but for people to think that just just a certain intro
change means we’re not getting along anymore and we don’t love each other anymore. Nothing to do
with it. Some of this stuff just baffles us. So, um cuz they want drama. Maybe. My goodness,
there ain’t going to be drama between us, you guys. It hasn’t yet. So, yeah. And then her second
question, are you thinking about buying land alone or with a house? Either or. We’ve Whatever we find
that it’s in our budget. Yeah, we’ve shared with you guys. We we did look at houses together. We
looked at houses that had land to be able to fit all of our rigs and our RVs and our toys and stuff
like that. So, we’re not against either one. It’s just right now we’re kind of traveling enjoying
Michigan and and we’ll make a decision later. We’re not against buying property with a house
though. No, of course not. Last question from Selenus. Love you two together. Are you guys going
to do international travelers similar to Adam the Woo? Oh, it’s similar question. We did kind of
cover that. Yeah, we do want to do international travels, but unfortunately it’s not in the books
right now. Um, you need money to do that to start it off. You ever put them together, so they’re
just one person. Creepy. That looks weird in the back. Yeah. So, if y’all know some connections for
international stuff or has some tips for us, we’re going to be new to this. you know, we’re going
to be away with from our cats for up to a week and stuff. That’s another reason why it’s a little
harder for us to do travels like that because we do have a lot of cats and and since we live like
this, the cats are at your house, though. That helped our cruise. Yes. So, yes, now that I have I
can go back to my mom’s house. We actually have a catio there that we can leave the cats there with
my brother and my boys and they can watch. They love cats, so they can watch them and it’s super
easy. It’s all indoor um patio an well patio. It’s a patio with a patio outside. Yeah. So when we are
closer to there, we will definitely try to plan an international trip without the rigs, without
the cats, just us two and and and then I’ve got family in both Texas and Washington State who’ve
made the same offer. We were fortunate this summer to find Billy and Michelle down in Mississippi.
Same thing. U they’ve watched our cats. They have volunteered to watch our cats again when we end
up do moving out of their place here with Billy and Stacy. Same same thing. I mean, they haven’t
they haven’t volunteered to watch the cats, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did this. So, so we
we meet new friends often. We’re just we’re just careful about it. So, we we got to vet everybody.
Yeah. Make sure they’re not crazy and they can put a sentence together. Well, they’re trying to
insult me and he can’t even Okay, done. All right, you guys. Thanks guys. Thank you for watching the
videos. We appreciate you being here. Thank you for being here in our journey and our travels. And
it’s nice sharing our relationship with you. And um as always, we respect you, but please also
respect our relationship. We don’t like drama in our relationship. We like to keep it
peaceful and happy and we try to share with you as much as we can. Um and again, please
be respectful. If you have any more questions, please comment below and we will answer them for
you as clear as we can. And if you liked this, let us know in the comments so we we’ll do it again
sometime. Yeah, this was fun. Thank you. Bye. [Music]
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My name is Eric and I travel with my girlfriend, Diana and our 5 cats, Tara, Opie, Yang, Gizmo, & Chunks in a 29ft 2002 Ford Bigfoot Class C with either my 2004 F150 or my 2012 Harley Softail Slim named “Black Betty” in a 6×10 trailer named Trailer Swift. We travel about 35 miles a day chasing 70 degrees year-round since 2010.
Here is my gear & some popular questions answered:
Gear: (UPDATED 2023)
*Main Camera: Sony ZV-1
*Audio: (On Camera) Sony ECM-G1 Shotgun Mic
*Stealth Camera: GoPro 12 With Mod Box, and Volta Grip
Editing Laptop: 2019 16” MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 8-Core i9 ~ 64GB Ram ~ 2TB SSD
Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Editing Encoder: Adobe Encoder – Presets: MP4 VBR H.264 16mbps
Aerial Drone Shots: DJI Mavic2 Shot in 2.7K Downscaled to 1080p
RV MPG: 7-8mpg depending on generator use.
Solar: 2,750 Watts 10x 200w Ecoworthy on RV. 3x 250w Canadien Solar on Trailer
Charge Controller: 3x Victron 150/70
Inverter/Charger: Victron 3000 watt MultiPlus 2
Batteries: Vatrer 460aH x2 (920aH total lithium)
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Music: www.youtube.com/audiolibrary & www.epdiemicsound.com
Tara is a Tabby Mix born May 10th 2021
Opie is a Turkish Van born August 6th, 2021
Yang is Black Short Hair born April 17th, 2021
Gizmo is Calico/Tabby born July 10th 2024
Chunks is Orange Short Hair born July 10th 2024 from same litter as Gizmo
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27 Comments
I got Bush lite apple in my fridge here in northwest Ohio
you guys be happy and keep doing your own thing
Eric, you saved the best (Diana) for last. She’s a keeper. ❤
If you plan to come to Italy stop here in the Dolomites mountains. None will bother you for sleeping in your van ❤
I love to see you both so happy! Every day out of the dirt is a good day ! Lol , blessed to have each other!
Awesome video guy's. Great energy, straight up with your audience. Good to see you both together and doing your own thing as well … nice 🙂
Really more interested in what you guys are doing with the bus. That's why I showed up and subscribed. I understand you needed a break, but it seems were just never getting back to that. All the rest of this stuff is the same fluff found on every other channel. Not interested.
Love the video. You guys are very good together. We saw you in passing at Quartzsite but didn't want to interrupt you and and your privacy. Really wanted to go to the YouTube get together, but had prior plans. But someday it would be nice to meet you both in person. I know we are the same age as your parents, but we do have a lot of younger friends also. Love watching your videos and the travels. Take care of each other and enjoy life. We'll keep watching.
Eric have you been to the worlds biggest truck stop in Iowa? Did I miss it?
I'm in TX right now. I've been here for a while now. I was looking to change my vehicle insurance. The insurance I have was too high because I have a private PO box from America's mailbox.They wouldn't insure me. Just wasn't one insurance company it was 2 saying the same thing. About my PO Box. 😢
Yes, liked it, thank you. Pets for kitties. Take care.
Thank you both for the Nice video, but I'm calling BS on the reason you need to travel in 2 MH. Diane and you are a great match, you love her and she loves you so much, don't let a cat get in between.
I don't know the rules about living on your land, and maybe too far north, but northern Nevada might have something for you. just a thought.
Really enjoyed the Q&A.
Thank you for sharing your lives with us 😊
Always love the Q&A you guys are awesome thank you for being transparent showing your true self. Please continue to block out the negativity. You guys are awesome. Always look forward to your videos as a staple for us to sit down and watch.
Eric, the reason I asked why you took Diana off your entrance is because I was concerned if it had anything to do with You Tube and Diana. Sorry if I offended you. I obviously know you guys don’t have any problems because I see her in your videos all the time neither is that any of my business to know. Again sorry I offended you.
Why does male gnome have no underroos?
FYI there are places you can live in your rv on your property in Colorado. We live right next to an area that it is allowed. In our area you can only live in an rv 3 months out to the year, but the area next to us people live in their rv year round. We are in a rural area. So it’s not a state wide ban, it’s a locality thing.
visit lake of the Clouds/Porcupine mountain in the UP.
Enjoyed this video. You too make such a cute couple. I have followed you since you started Eric. Stay safe out there y'all.
Wonder way your views are dropping so fast?
Don’t give up on Texas. We specifically said we would not buy land in any area with a HOA. We bought 12 acres and can pretty much do as we please. Cities in Texas have passed some ordinances, but most prohibitions come from HOAs. HOAs are evil and I would never buy where one exists.
Have you ever tried rvovernight?
My son went on the carnivore diet and lost around 25 pounds. Thank you for your videos. Diane looks great! I saw her in Quartzite back in January. You are a good match
Don't bother with Paris. You'll be disappointed and disgusted with what it has become.
Best window for Scotland is May into June. I'd like to help if you wish, get your choices right.
Would you think of tiny home community