good late afternoon everybody see the water out there little Texas
Lake life is unscripted and as much as I try to be in control or it's just never
works oh today I impact at removing all of the
residue sticker residue from the old decal looking really good but before we
get into that unfortunately the windshield for the new
RV arrived broken and the dealership I'm working there with they're doing
everything they can to help out they understand that this you know affects a
lot of different aspects of what I'm trying to do right now and and they're
really helping out you know they really are they it was out of their control too
but it took a week to get that broken windshield so and unfortunately the old
windshield that was removed actually got damaged so that is not an option
mm-hmm my RV currently has no windshield at all but I will say that they have
ordered the windshield it's on the way however the problem with that and it's
not even really that big a problem like look I'm smiling it's fine we adapt it's
no biggie the problem is Yodas already been paid
for luckily the buyer of Yoda is being very understanding of the stuff that's
also out of my control and the dealers control but Yoda still has to be picked
up within a certain window here so for that reason it looks like Jax is getting
used to it welcome to my u-haul truck here yeah
it's it's kind of ironic and funny because if you've been following me
every single RV I've owned I've had a u-haul truck involved in that
transaction cuz usually you have to move out of what you're in put everything in
here and either go to a hotel or you guys remember in Panama City I lived in
a u-haul van with and got in trouble for it for a couple
days but just the timing I will say the dealership paid for this u-haul truck
for nine days they already paid for it in full
they are doing absolutely everything possible to help out so what I got to do
in the next two days it's move all of my stuff from Yoda into the u-haul truck
here and then I'll probably be spending my nights in Angela's van with her until
the RV the new RV is ready then it'll get here and I will move we will both
move into the new RV and return the u-haul truck you know it's just another
step it's just another little obstacle life is never as you planned it and
that's okay Jax is pretty adaptable we all are you
know there's there's just nothing I can do except you know I figured I'd share
that with you again I don't know what I'm gonna do for the next week except
clean and pack and then move back out again so I'm not even it's it's fine
it's beautiful it's gonna be what 70 degrees 70 or 74 degrees coming up here
this weekend so so yeah no problem oh I'll just keep giving you updates I'll
let me go on the other side I'll show you the process here I'm using my new
telescoping telescoping ladder here that'll go 12 feet if you need it but um
I've actually got that Google stuff in here for sticker adhesive so that's what
I'm spraying on there and then rubbing off the sticker adhesive that you can
probably see up there if I get that can you see it
the old sticker residue there but not right here that's what I'm doing on the
outside for the rest of today and then tomorrow start moving out of Yoda Texas
so funny what are you doing Jax it looks like
we're moving to Arizona got an Arizona plate is that not where we're going okay
are we going then anywhere did anywhere so I'll just keep working at the
exterior and interior of Yoda and make things happen
and when things change I'll update you here from a rat
all right good morning everybody slept well out here really quiet and yesterday
I didn't get a whole lot done but the little mom's attic part up there that is
my cab over area is completely empty up there so today I hope to finish it all
in one day get everything except food and clothes
out of the RV by the time the Sun sets today and get this thing packed up I
want to keep an aisle way here so that's the plan in the meantime though this
campground does allow us to get some packages and but it cost $5 to accept a
package here this is 3000 Trails the first one I've seen like that oh no
biggie really good timing actually a company of rock pals sent me out
something that I am very excited to add to RV life because as you know when I
sell yota my new RV will have zero solar I have to start all over so in the
meantime until we get there this is a 300 watt portable power station as you
can see it's got DC it's got AC out it's got USB ports it's rechargeable its
lithium I forget how many amp hours it is total I'll put a graphic of how many
amp hours are in this portable power station as well as a folding 100 watt
solar kit let me open this up press there dress there jintan those are solar
panels guys how about that so it looks like yeah four of them four panels and
you can see how big they are with my hand on here this is 100 watts to put
that into perspective I have two panels on the roof that total 500 watts on Yoda
which Sharpe going with Yoda as with the batteries in the charge controller and
the inverter and everything so this is one fifth of what we've got up there but
I am going to use this for a long time until as long as it lasts basically you
guys remember when I got a little solar suitcase kit some five years ago my very
first RV well go to the northwest where it's
really cloudy or if you want to park somewhere with the RV where there's no
Sun you're not gonna get any charge to keep cool so this I can put out
somewhere else where there is Sun and then run an extension cord back to the
battery and this kit comes with a bunch of stuff in here too so see the little
charge controller right there built-in but they also included the mc4 adapter
so you can plug this into the panel and then this can go right into your
existing array of solar with the mc4 connectors or you could clip them off
and put in little eyelets and hardwire this connection to your battery bank in
your RV and then just get a very long extension cord so the panel can go out
in the Sun and I expect that's probably what will happen I'm also gonna have
some help to install the other solar kit later on I'm not gonna do it myself and
want someone who's a little more cleaner with the wiring and stuff like that but
we shall see so this kit comes with everything I'm gonna hook it up right
now and see how it works alright I got the solar panels connected to the power
station here I'm doing USB I am charging my phone successfully right now the
little screen on here is kind of hard to see what the Sun behind me right now for
so for this experiment there is red LED through here with the display telling me
what the battery condition of this how many amps are coming in through the
solar there's a great little display on there that tells me what's going on I
think what I'll use this most for is going out to the river with my macbook
pro plug it into this power station underneath my chair and I could have
unlimited editing right by the water other things you could bring a fan 300
watts is the total max and I think it's I think it's just great it's so thin
it's so paper thin compared to some of the folding suitcase solar that you can
get out there in the hundred watt general area so uh yeah anyway I'd
really appreciate Rockpile sending this out to me they're not sponsoring me or
anything but they did send it out to me free of cost and if you want to look at
the prices you can get eleven percent off if you use a promo code nomadic and
I'll put a link in the video description you can go check out their power station
and their solar panels they have a few different solar panel kits there that
you might be interested in and like I said I have I've used these before right
in rock pals is a good company so I have to give him a thumbs up they did have
they came with all of the correct wires and everything I needed today so cool
well and now this okay well it's time to move out a yachtie making progress my
helper is hilarious he just cannot stand to not have a tension during this move
you're funny man ok I'm back on schedule now all empty I've got a few things left
over here food wise for the next two nights
otherwise it's looking pretty plain in here cap over area all empty uh-huh Jax
man has been helping we've been finding all sorts of cat toys all over the place
funny because four days ago it was 20 degrees and I had to run a heater I've
got the air conditioner on now because it's like seventy three or four degrees
and I'm making laps back and forth so let's stay cool that's Texas for you so
I'm gonna keep working out of here just taken up a little lunch break and then
maybe we'll have a little bonfire cuz I got a little section of trash donate
that I'm done with and that's always a good thing
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