00:00Good morning, beautiful people. It's a sunny day, which is nice. We've been
00:05rained out for a few days. We can dry off a bit. Yeah, and as you can tell, we are on the road.
00:13Yes. And we are
00:16Glenbrook, Nana Glen,
00:18Glenark, Glenark Bridge. There's Glenark Bridge or Glenrach Bridge.
00:23It could be Scottish. I might be saying it completely wrong.
00:26Glen Road?
00:27Glenrach Bridge.
00:29It's 1918. Nobody can pronounce it since 1980.
00:33Yeah, the world has been struggling since 1918 to say Glenrach Bridge.
00:39We pulled over to set up and do some work this morning because we are on our way towards Nambucca Heads.
00:45We're going to go and catch up with a friend of ours who has had a very interesting career in,
00:51I suppose, government public relations and dealing with Indigenous communities and
00:55helping negotiate certain situations. And yeah, she's had some really interesting experiences.
01:02Oh, there we go. Chris is helping with the camera tilt.
01:04This is how not to do it on YouTube.
01:06Yeah.
01:06Yeah. We're doing it anyway.
01:08Yeah, we're doing it anyway.
01:09You're watching. So you're proof that the algorithm is wrong.
01:14So what have we learned so far?
01:16Chris, we've been on the road now for a bit over a week.
01:19Yeah, a bit a week.
01:20Well, I guess when it comes to tech, you really need to be very careful about how you're storing things and moving things around.
01:29So yeah, what happened?
01:31It's an expensive mistake, but I'm not entirely sure how we did it.
01:36So I can only assume that it's happened when we've been moving stuff.
01:40Let's show you what happened.
01:42We have an extender screen.
01:43End of the world as we know it.
01:44Oh, look at that.
01:46There's a lot of problems here. Check it out.
01:48Ouch.
01:48So this is my extender screen for my laptop.
01:50And as you can see, there's been an impact point.
01:52It's coming closer.
01:54Impact point.
01:55Oh.
01:56And it's just gone.
01:58It has.
01:59So look, it's still usable.
02:01Clearly, you need to be really careful about how we place things going forward.
02:06We have, it's very early days, so we still have a lot of things that we're moving and juggling and stuff like that.
02:14So figuring out the rhythm.
02:17So a little bit of an expensive mistake.
02:21I suppose the good news is we've had these extender screens for three, four years.
02:26So we have got some really good value out of them.
02:30It's a shame that it's broken.
02:32Officeworks, if you want to sponsor us, chuck us a free screen.
02:36Unlikely.
02:38It's an MSI extender screen.
02:40I want one of these.
02:41They are cool.
02:42They are cool.
02:43This is not a sponsored video.
02:44This is, I suppose, yeah, just a reflection on our learning.
02:49It is a learning.
02:50So, yeah, if you're hitting the road and you're trying to juggle things like we are and trying to find your rhythm,
02:57be mindful how you're putting your technology down because you might damage it.
03:02What we're going to do is I'm going to spin the camera around and Chrissy's going to give you a bit of a talk through
03:06on how we have these multifunctional desks that we've used to be able to configure our workplace setup
03:14to, I suppose, deal with different opportunities and challenges
03:19because some days it's wet, some days it's not.
03:22And we can work pretty much anywhere, how we want.
03:25Yes.
03:26Okay.
03:26So how it currently looks is multipurpose.
03:31There are actually, believe it or not, two desks here.
03:37Let's have a look underneath.
03:38Let's show you these two desks.
03:40Ready?
03:41Hold on.
03:42Hold on.
03:43Oh, look at that.
03:44See how they interlink and they just connect?
03:47Got to get closer for you.
03:48How they interlink and connect under our slide-out drawer there.
03:52So what you can see is we've got a slide-out drawer, which the purpose of that slide-out
04:01drawer initially was, and I'll show you on this side so you've got a better view.
04:05Yeah.
04:06The purpose of this slide-out drawer is that we've got a picnic set up.
04:10As you can see here, this is our table.
04:12It comes all the way out.
04:13And here on both sides, we've got picnic drawers that slide out, and that's now your bench seat.
04:21Yeah.
04:22So it holds 120-odd kilos, but you don't want to be bouncing on it.
04:28So the drawer is only as strong as its weakest point, and so we need to get some telescopic legs
04:33to stick under it before we start using it officially for sitting on.
04:38But it's actually come in really handy just for, like, as you can see here, placing a few odd
04:43pieces on and trying to work things out.
04:47And so what we've done is we've pulled one of the one on that side out, and we've placed
04:53our tables and interlock them into one another.
04:58And over here, we've got another brace just to give it a tiny bit more security and support there.
05:05Yep.
05:05So that clamp attaches underneath.
05:08I'm going to spin around behind you there, Chris, and I'm going to show the world how we've done it.
05:12See?
05:13That just clamps underneath there onto the timber.
05:19So what it really does is just takes that seesaw effect out of the back end there,
05:22because if you have a look under here, you can see that a large portion of this desk,
05:28probably two-thirds, sits further forward of that drawer.
05:32But look how these arms are interlocking.
05:34They provide, I suppose, a means of supporting each desk.
05:40So back to the main host in the show.
05:43Ta-da!
05:44So these desks, once they've been dismantled, they are stored underneath our mattress,
05:50and these little black bits that you would have seen underneath,
05:54which are currently interlocked into each other,
05:57they fit into the slats underneath our bed.
06:01And then if it's a yucky day, so it's a beautiful day today,
06:04so we're going to set up outside, as you can see.
06:07If it's a yucky day like what we have been having,
06:09we have a sit-up at the front, inside of the van,
06:14where those black arms hook onto the cage.
06:18And so then we've got our green sit up there,
06:22and it's adjustable for us as needed.
06:25And so it's been really fantastic.
06:29In the last week we've had, or a couple of weeks nearly,
06:32we've had beautiful sunny days,
06:36and we've had rain, which, I mean, that's nature.
06:40And, yeah, it's been really versatile,
06:42and quite good to see how much value we're getting out of this so far.
06:46So stay tuned, because those are going to be painted up
06:51to look really funky in time.
06:54Not quite sure when yet, but we'll get to it.
06:56Probably by about March, I think.
06:58It'll be when we're in Bathurst looking after Millie again.
07:01And so, yes, that is where we are at.
07:04The desk configuration's been what they are, versatile.
07:07We thought this through,
07:09and we're quite fortunate in how we've been able to utilise the space.
07:14And, yeah, you'll see a little bit later on today,
07:17the weather forecast is that apparently this area
07:19is going to be hitting storms in about two and a half hours.
07:22So we're going to migrate into the van.
07:25And we will show you how that configuration looks,
07:27and you'll get to see the versatility of what we've achieved
07:31in such a tiny space with our Aussie van life adventures.
07:35It's our tiny home.
07:37It is.
07:37It is.
07:38It's been really cool, really practical.
07:40Yeah.
07:40I think the biggest learning has been about,
07:43like we thought we were minimalists before.
07:47Wake up call.
07:48We're learning how to downsize even more.
07:51So this has been quite an interesting journey.
07:54And there are other videos about that process
07:57when you look through our channel.
07:59On the topic of downsizing,
08:03we recently pulled in via Nimbin,
08:05and we stopped at the Nimbin Craft Gallery
08:07and had a bit of a catch-up with Jess and Narelle there,
08:11two lovely ladies.
08:12And they have on consignment about 100 different items
08:17that we've left with them of, I suppose, different...
08:20Artifacts.
08:21Artifacts and different things of historic significance,
08:24which really vibe with Nimbin,
08:26as Nimbin's sister city is Kathmandu.
08:28And a lot of this stuff is from Nepal
08:30and that sort of Nepalese footprint.
08:32A little bit of Bagan,
08:33a little bit of Mandalay,
08:34some Myanmar stuff in there too.
08:36So, yeah, they're very kindly helping us out
08:40by displaying a lot of those things
08:42in one of the beautiful glass cabinets there.
08:44And we'll split whatever they go for,
08:47and they've taken the weight of our van
08:49so someone else can enjoy the ownership
08:52of these amazing little bits and pieces
08:55that we've collected along the way
08:56and the stories and the connections.
08:57Yeah.
08:58We, as much as we love the items,
09:01we've recognised that it's not where we are right now,
09:04and we're going to gift it to someone else to enjoy.
09:07We've had the pleasure of those items
09:10for about a decade.
09:12And look, if they don't sell, they're still ours.
09:14We can go back and collect them at any point in time.
09:17So it's a potential win-win
09:19if they're still there and we want them back.
09:22Yeah, for sure.
09:24Better get cracking.
09:26Yeah.
09:26We've got work to do.
09:27Both got to get on.
09:28All right.
09:28Buenos tacos.
09:29See you guys.
09:30Yeah.
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