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Kenny’s Jersey Shore van life setup turns a parked campervan into a full tour of smart space, practical upgrades, and off-grid comfort. In Ocean Grove, New Jersey, he walks through his 2002 Explorer Dodge RAM 3500 conversion and explains how he uses it while staying near the ocean. The van has a 5.9 liter Dodge engine, dually rear wheels for better handling, a raised top, solar power, a generator, and a residential-style layout built for real travel and long stays.
Inside, Kenny shows the swivel seat, table setup, sleeping area, storage racks, propane heater, fresh water tank, three-way refrigerator, convection microwave, LED lighting, and the bathroom with shower and toilet. He also shares useful van life tips about water use, leveling, ventilation, insurance, road service, safety, and choosing the right rig for travel or full-time living. The setting at the Jersey Shore adds a relaxed coastal backdrop to this practical campervan walkthrough.
For anyone searching van life tour, campervan conversion, RV walkthrough, off-grid living, or Dodge Ram 3500 Explorer van tour, this is a detailed look at how one owner makes a compact motorhome work. It also fits searches for Jersey Shore travel, Ocean Grove van life, RV storage ideas, and practical van build inspiration for road trips, weekend camping, and full-time van living.
Inside, Kenny shows the swivel seat, table setup, sleeping area, storage racks, propane heater, fresh water tank, three-way refrigerator, convection microwave, LED lighting, and the bathroom with shower and toilet. He also shares useful van life tips about water use, leveling, ventilation, insurance, road service, safety, and choosing the right rig for travel or full-time living. The setting at the Jersey Shore adds a relaxed coastal backdrop to this practical campervan walkthrough.
For anyone searching van life tour, campervan conversion, RV walkthrough, off-grid living, or Dodge Ram 3500 Explorer van tour, this is a detailed look at how one owner makes a compact motorhome work. It also fits searches for Jersey Shore travel, Ocean Grove van life, RV storage ideas, and practical van build inspiration for road trips, weekend camping, and full-time van living.
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00:00Hello, this is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel.
00:04I'm here in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, beautiful Ocean Grove,
00:08hanging out my van for the day, and I bumped into a very nice gentleman named Kenny.
00:14Kenny has a 2002 Explore van conversion.
00:19It's a camper van conversion, and he was nice enough.
00:22He's going to offer us a tour today.
00:24Hello, Kenny.
00:25Hey, Patrick. How you doing?
00:26I'm all right.
00:27So tell us a little bit about your van and how you're using it,
00:31and maybe show us around, outside and inside, if you have time.
00:36I'd love to.
00:37Well, this is a 2002 Explorer, and I had a van before this.
00:43It was a pleasure way, but I had seen this on YouTube, and I had always been looking for one.
00:49When I got this one, it was in Arizona.
00:53I saw it on Craigslist, got it in Arizona, flew out the next day.
00:57I picked it up and drove it back.
00:59At the time, when I first got it, it was from the desert.
01:02It was very dry.
01:03It has no rust on it whatsoever, but it was in a desert, and everything was really dry.
01:09So I had to really kind of get it live in it and get it working and oiled, in a
01:17sense.
01:17And so I did have to kind of revive it in a lot of ways.
01:22One of the first things I did was that it had the graphics on it.
01:26I got rid of all the graphics, which was kind of difficult, but I eventually got them all off, which
01:35I was happy to do.
01:39One of the reasons that I like this van and I was interested in it was it had the dually
01:45wheels in the back.
01:46From the experience that I had and from people that I had talked to about these things, these vehicles are
01:52generally very top-heavy.
01:53And this thing, anything I ever heard about it, reports and whatnot, with the duallys, it drove really well.
02:01And to my, I'm very happy to say that it really drives.
02:05It's a fantastic driving vehicle.
02:07You could drive around turns.
02:09You could go 80 miles an hour if you wanted to.
02:12And it's steady as a rock, which is really nice.
02:15So I'm very, very happy about that.
02:16And that was one of the selling points for me.
02:19The reason that I wanted to buy it was because it had that dually conversion in the back.
02:23And I had heard that it handled really well, and it was true.
02:26The engine is the Dodge, the 5.9 liter, which is a real nice engine.
02:31It's a monster of an engine.
02:33The thing just cranks out a lot of power.
02:38So if you want, I can kind of bring you around and give you an idea of what's happening on
02:42the outside of it.
02:43Yeah, we really appreciate it.
02:44Our viewers are very interested in learning a little bit about this van and what features it has.
02:49And maybe a couple tips and maybe some modifications you've done to make it work better for you.
02:55Well, the modifications that I've done really are really just upkeep.
03:00It continually needs upkeep.
03:01One of the things that I got originally when I got it was the refrigerator was blown out, so I
03:05changed the refrigerator.
03:07So it's got a new refrigerator in it, which makes a big difference with this three-way refrigerator.
03:13So that's one of the first things that I did to it.
03:16I changed the refrigerator.
03:18It's got an orny, which is really nice to have.
03:21That was another thing that I really wanted to have.
03:23It's not out now, but it's, you know, when the sun is hot, it's really a good thing to have.
03:30So this is the refrigerator here.
03:33Let me get my keys, Patrick.
03:36Those are just the outside vents we're looking at?
03:38Yeah, these are just the outside vents for the refrigerator.
03:41You know, it's all standard.
03:44It's all, you know, this is the heater.
03:47This is the hot water heater.
03:49One of the other nice things about this is it has a storage area here, which actually comes out.
04:04You can pull this whole rack out.
04:07Wow, you got a whole bike in there?
04:08Yeah.
04:09Unbelievable.
04:10So, you know, this comes all the way out.
04:12So I have a folding bike on there.
04:13I've got my tools in here, and it goes all the way back.
04:16And then there's a top compartment here that goes all the way through.
04:19Oh, you look at that.
04:19It goes all the way through.
04:20Yeah, it goes all the way through.
04:22And does it pull out the other side, too?
04:24Or is it just one side?
04:25The other side is the generator.
04:25Okay.
04:26So, but it pulls out to about here.
04:28Okay.
04:29It's stuff now.
04:29I'd have to take stuff out to pull it out, so I'm not going to do that.
04:32But anyway, that's a nice thing to have.
04:34The water heater, what does that run on?
04:37Is that gas or electric?
04:38Yeah, it's gas.
04:39Propane.
04:40Gas, okay.
04:40And the heat as well?
04:42Yeah, propane and propane.
04:44Okay.
04:44Yeah.
04:44I mean, it's a 2002 vehicle, so, you know, it doesn't, it's not, some of the new vehicles,
04:50obviously, are going to go to electric.
04:52But, you know, they do the DC with the lithium batteries and the solar panels.
04:56This has a solar panel on it.
04:58The reason it came with a solar panel, but it's a very small one.
05:00It's a 15-watt solar panel, which I, which is my next thing that I'm going to do, is to
05:06put a, I'm thinking maybe 165-watt solar panel on there, or 100-watt.
05:10We talked about it today a little bit.
05:13But right now, that 15-watt solar panel with the two regular batteries that it has in
05:19there, it, on a sunny day like today, it recharges everything really nicely.
05:26Back here, obviously, it's got, it's just another storage compartment.
05:30And this is a, this is a fiberglass pack to it?
05:34Yeah, this has just got, you know, a lot of, a lot of different stuff in it.
05:38These are all utility items?
05:39Utilities, you know, that kind of stuff.
05:42Backup camera.
05:43Yeah, what happened, what they did was, is that they, they, they had, this is a Dodge 3500.
05:49So what they did was, is they, they cut it here, and then they added this part over here.
05:55So overall, the length is?
05:57It's 21 feet.
05:5821 feet, okay.
05:59And it's the maximum for a parking spot.
06:01If you want to park anywhere, this is the maximum that, that will be illegal to be in a parking
06:06spot.
06:06And you can see where he's parked here, right in a regular parking lot.
06:10We're in Ocean Grove, right next to Asbury Park.
06:15And he fits right in.
06:17And, you know, you look at my van over there, I fit right in too.
06:22So, obviously, the air condition is up there.
06:24One of the nice things about this particular unit is, is it doesn't have a roof air conditioner
06:29like the regular RVs.
06:31It's got a regular house air conditioner inside.
06:33So, one of the next things that I want to do, this air conditioner works fine, but you
06:38can get a really, a modern, very efficient air conditioner and put it up there.
06:42You can start to get the regular air conditioner.
06:44Maybe some of our viewers are familiar with that, like a road track or pleasure way, they
06:49do something similar, they inset it into the roof?
06:51Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a, first of all, it's expensive.
06:54It has to go through the roof, it's inset into the roof, so there has to be a special,
06:59you know, mount made for it, so it goes through the roof, so you have the controls on the roof.
07:04This is, when we go inside, you'll see, it's mounted, it's flush mounted on the inside,
07:09interior of the vehicle.
07:10And it's just a regular AC, which is nice, so if anything happens to it, you're not,
07:15you know, you don't have to buy a very, very expensive unit and it's readily available.
07:19You can go to Costco or a appliance store and get one.
07:22Yeah, yeah, which is cool.
07:24This here, as you can see, it's a tooth tear, 30 wide body.
07:28This is the generator here, so it's got a 4,000, uh, watt, uh...
07:33Okay, 4,000 KW, that's gasoline, that runs on gasoline.
07:37Yeah, this runs on gasoline, this runs off the fuel tank.
07:39That's a pretty big power plant for a small motorhome like this.
07:42I see most of them with, like, a 2,500 or 2,800.
07:45Yeah, this'll do it.
07:47When they designed this, they really thought it through, and you got some space above the generator?
07:51Right, it still goes through, yeah, yeah, which is nice.
07:54And, uh, and it's, usually generators are pretty loud from the interior,
07:59but this thing, because the bed is over here, it sits on top of it,
08:02so it kind of muffles the sound of the generator, which is nice.
08:05So, these are all your, you know, outside electric, this is, um, you know, your electric, uh, landline.
08:13So it looks like a 30 amp, 125 volt?
08:16Yeah, 30 amp.
08:16This is also water, and this is water, if you're in an RV park, you can plug that in there.
08:21And how many, how many gallons of water can you hold for fresh water?
08:25Well, what I do is, uh, you know, I don't live here, I, I have lived in this for seven
08:31months.
08:32Wow.
08:32So, I was on the road with it, but lately I've just been, you know, coming out to,
08:37I live in Manhattan, so I've been coming out to the shore and hanging out here.
08:40I've been out here for three weeks.
08:41So, it, it, I hold 25 gallons of fresh water, plus I have a five-gallon reserve tank.
08:47So, if I ever do run really low, I still have that five-gallon reserve.
08:50So, uh, and then I have, you know, regular bottles of water and stuff.
08:54So, I'm carrying about, uh, 35 gallons of water with me most of the time.
08:57Do you find, uh, troublesome to find, get water out on the road, or?
09:02If you're just traveling around?
09:03Well, I've been out on the road, and I've, uh, always figured out a way to get water.
09:07Okay.
09:08Water, you know, when you're, when you're on the road, and when you learn how to live in
09:12these things and to use them, what you'll do is you'll find, you know, your eye is keen
09:17on all of those areas where you think you may be able to find water.
09:21Like, what I, what I did when I was in, uh, on the road, I would go to the beaches,
09:25and
09:25the beaches would have, you know, water around, and I, and I also, I don't really drink the
09:33water, because I don't have a real water filter.
09:35I have a water filter to put it in, but generally, I'm just using water to wash dishes and, and
09:40to take a shower.
09:41Okay.
09:42That kind of thing.
09:43So I wasn't really always super concerned about the, you know, the water content, because
09:47I wasn't drinking out of it.
09:48So you can find water pretty much everywhere.
09:50You just gotta keep an eye out for it.
09:52The beauty about this is the doly wheels.
09:53We talked about that.
09:55Which is nice.
09:59Right.
09:59Uh, this is obviously a dump, dump tank, so, you know, that's your, you have to offer
10:04your dump.
10:04So is it a combination, gray-black tank?
10:07Uh, it's a, no, it's a, each, it's a separate tank.
10:10Separate tank.
10:11But the, but the spigot coming out is, you know, they both flow into it to come out.
10:15So it's like a Y pipe behind there.
10:17Yeah, correct.
10:18And, um.
10:18Here are the, these are the dumps.
10:20Just in case some of the viewers don't know, uh, there's two tanks in most of these RVs,
10:26and, uh, black tank would be toilet waste, and gray tank would be shower waste.
10:30Do you have them?
10:31It says body waste and liquid waste.
10:32Okay.
10:32Right.
10:33And the hole next to it, I guess, is where you store your waste hose?
10:36Yeah, but I keep, I keep it as a bag.
10:38Separate.
10:38Because it's never long enough.
10:39No.
10:39Those things are never long enough.
10:41Uh, the other thing, too, is, is when you're doing these things, at least the way I always
10:45do it is, I always, if I'm going to do the waste tank, these waste tanks, I always do
10:51the body fluids first, and then I, then I do the regular, you know, soapy stuff, dishwashers,
10:56washer stuff, shower stuff, afterwards, the waste water, it's just the gray water, so
11:01it clears out the, the, everything.
11:03Sounds like a good tip for our viewers.
11:05I see, what are these yellow things under your tires?
11:07Uh, well, this is, uh, has a, it has a propane refrigerator.
11:12It's got a three-way refrigerator.
11:13It's got the, so it'll run off, uh, it'll run off, uh, uh, you know, a connection from
11:20a house, a house connection.
11:21It'll run off the batteries in DC when you're on the road, you know, when you're driving,
11:25or it'll run off propane.
11:27When I'm sitting here, I'm running it off propane.
11:29So this, what these do is they level, it's part of the leveling system.
11:35This particular vehicle has airbags in the back, but it does not have airbags in the front.
11:41So I can, I can level it in the back this way and lift it up this way, but in
11:47order,
11:47but, but, but I use these, you know, to overall level it, depending on the, on the angle of
11:53the, so it'd be on, not only for your refrigerator, make it run more efficient, uh, it would also
11:58be for your drains.
11:59I guess if you're parked really crooked.
12:01Yeah, but you know, I'm never going to, you know, in a vehicle like this, unless it was
12:05a four by four, which is not, you know, I'm not too worried about it.
12:08I'm always, you know, I'm always going to be on, you know, a grade that's a mid-grade.
12:13I'm not going to be anything too extreme on this thing.
12:16You know, obviously.
12:19Dodge 3500.
12:21What engine did they put in this?
12:22It's a 5.9.
12:235.9.
12:24Yeah, it's the big one.
12:25It's the, it's the big engine, which is really nice to have.
12:28I mean, it's got a lot of, a lot of power.
12:29I see you got some windows up top.
12:31Yeah, these are just, uh, you know, they have curtains on them and, and basically what they
12:35did was, is they're on this particular vehicle.
12:38Now this, this vehicle was, it's, it's a, it's kind of a rare vehicle.
12:44It's really tough to get.
12:45And I looked for two years for this vehicle.
12:48Uh, it's what I wanted, you know, as you do, as you learn about these things and you learn
12:54what you need and what you don't need, you know, you change and you learn different
12:57things, what you might want and you might not want.
13:00I thought this was the penultimate vehicle and it is a great vehicle.
13:04I love it.
13:05Okay.
13:06Uh, and, uh, but you know, if I was to get something else, I would, there would be certain
13:11things that I would probably want different.
13:13But the thing is, is that that had, it has a raised top.
13:17Uh, and, uh, as you can see, it's a gel coated top.
13:20Um, and those, those are the, uh, those are, you know, uh, lights for extra light when you're
13:26in a sunny area or you want to shave yourself.
13:29Uh, the nice thing about this is it's got the screens.
13:34Uh, you know.
13:35You got some privacy with the curtains too.
13:37Well, you have the curtains.
13:38You need that.
13:39Yeah.
13:39Um, yeah, I mean, it's got all of that.
13:42Uh, you know, there are certain things that I need to do to the vehicle, but, you know,
13:46uh, you can't do everything, so you do things that work for you.
13:52I put, I put this up because I was getting, it was starting to drip inside.
13:56Uh, the, uh, the gasket up here is a little bit dried up.
14:00So, uh, you know, it's got to be good.
14:03But that prevents the water from coming in.
14:06Uh, basically you're walking into the vehicle, it'll open up this way.
14:09Uh, this is an outside shower.
14:12So, you can use this as an outside shower.
14:14This pulls out.
14:15It's got about a, a, a 15-foot hose on it.
14:18Oh, wow.
14:18So, you can, you know, what I normally do is I'll, I'll put it out over on here, on this
14:22side.
14:23And, uh, you know, I'll take a shower that way, which is pretty cool.
14:27Uh, I'll give you, I'll give you a quick show of it.
14:30This is also, here's a cabinet, so you can get it from either end.
14:34I got tools.
14:36I have a lot of tools in the vehicle because I'm always, you know, fiddling around doing stuff.
14:40So, I mean, basically you just pull this out here.
14:43This will go all the way out like this.
14:46Now, I have a, an oxygenator head.
14:49Now, for people who don't know that, it's a, it's a, it's a highly efficient head that uses very little
14:54bit of water.
14:55And basically it gives you a very heavy duty pulse and, and, and, and flow of water, which is real
15:02nice when you're taking a shower.
15:03So, what I'll do is I'll put it on here.
15:05I'll bring this over.
15:09I'll put this in, which I got from Walmart.
15:13Put this like this.
15:14Uh-huh.
15:15Like that.
15:16And then, basically with the oxygenator, there's your shower.
15:19That's great.
15:22I love it.
15:22Uh, so, so it works great, you know.
15:25Uh, and, you know, I'd rather, it's, I mean, it has an interior bathroom.
15:29You can take a shower.
15:31Uh, your, your vehicle has a, a really nice setup.
15:36You don't really have to, it's not as, you know, you just, you just walk in there and take a
15:39shower.
15:39It's great.
15:40I love it.
15:40But this one's a little bit, not as, not as convenient.
15:44Uh, uh, you want to come on in?
15:46Absolutely.
15:46All right.
15:48So, here's the interior.
15:50I don't know where you want to start, but basically, it's only me here.
15:55It's only me.
15:56So, what I did was, I, I, I got the, um, a nice mattress for me.
16:03I mean, two people could fit on here.
16:05Is that a residential, like, twin-size mattress?
16:07Yeah.
16:08Okay.
16:08So, I got a regular, residential twin-size mattress.
16:11And this way, I allowed myself to have seating over here as well.
16:15Uh, you can put a table here, which is real nice.
16:19That's what that socket is on the floor?
16:21Yeah, I'll show you.
16:23So, this goes, so I pull this here, like this.
16:28Uh, pull this out.
16:31Looks like a pretty heavy table.
16:33It looks, back when they built this, this is a pretty high-quality motorhome.
16:37Yeah.
16:39And, like that.
16:41And that's it.
16:43So, it also gives me more surface to work on.
16:46All right?
16:47Also, I have a TV back here, which is cool.
16:50You know, which comes out, you know, and you can, uh, here's the air conditioner I was talking about.
16:56So, you can see if it's a regular house, household unit.
16:59That's brilliant.
16:59I like that idea.
17:00Yeah, it's much better, you know.
17:02How's the noise level compared to a typical RV, uh, air conditioning?
17:07Uh, it doesn't bother me.
17:08No?
17:09Well, look, if you're in, if you're in your house and you put the air conditioner on, is
17:13the air conditioner going to be totally silent?
17:15Unless you have central air conditioning.
17:17But if you're in a room and you have a window unit, usually there's some vibration and some
17:21noise.
17:22But the fact is that it's a lot cooler than it was before.
17:25So, that's really what you're concerned with.
17:27And, um, I don't really, uh, I'm not the type of person that really needs a lot of air
17:33conditioning.
17:34So, what I'll do at nighttime is I'll, I'll open up all of the windows, uh, because they'll
17:40have levers on them or they come up and they have screens on them and everything.
17:43So, I can open up all the windows and I'll put a fan like this small fan here on.
17:48So, I have a few of these.
17:49These are brilliant.
17:50These are great fans.
17:51These are computer fans.
17:54So, if you can get these, if you're in a van and you can get these computer fans, these
17:58are great because they're like, they take no power whatsoever.
18:02Now, is that plugged into a USB?
18:03USB, yes.
18:04Oh, wow.
18:04Okay.
18:05So, you get a few of these things and you've got, you know, you get a lot of, uh.
18:09It says, oh, too cool.
18:11All right.
18:11So, so, it's that kind of thing.
18:14Now, you know, as, as, uh, as in any kind of situation like this, and Patrick will know,
18:20and I guess anybody that's watching that's interested in this will know.
18:23So, every, every section of the van, every little thing of the van is a place where you
18:28to store things so that you can keep them and then take them out when you need them,
18:33but they have to be put back.
18:34So, every little corner that you have in these, in these particular vehicles, you use, you
18:39use it in some way or another.
18:41So, uh, I have these boxes back here, which are really kind of cool.
18:45I use one for my bottles of water, and then I use another one for the laundry and that
18:50kind of stuff, which is nice.
18:52And then these systems down here on the floor?
18:54This is basically your, your heater.
18:56So, if it's cold out, this is the propane heater.
18:59Okay.
18:59And that'll heat up the vehicle.
19:01They use a lot of, uses a lot of propane, but it's, it really heats the place up nice.
19:05Uh, this is just your, you know, your, um, um, uh, electrical system, your fuse box is
19:13all in there.
19:13So, fuses in there are probably a battery charger.
19:15Yeah.
19:16The other thing, the other nice thing about this particular vehicle is, is that the, uh,
19:20water tank is inside the vehicle.
19:22So, that was another thing that I liked about it.
19:24The water tank and, and, and, and the one, and the ones that I, I knew about and the ones
19:28that I had before, uh, the water tank was usually outside of the vehicle, underneath the vehicle.
19:34So, you can really extend your season, do some cold weather camping.
19:37Yeah, you can definitely, you know, you keep everything warmer.
19:39So, the, so the water tank, the 25 gallon water tank is in here.
19:43Now, these are the heaters that are in here.
19:45Okay, so this is all storage, you know, storage.
19:49This is storage.
19:50Shelves.
19:51You know, I put the shelves in.
19:53It's one of the things that I did because I don't, you know, if you're in one of these
19:56vehicles, you're not wearing a suit.
19:57This was like a hanging shirt locker?
19:59Yeah, you're not wearing a suit and you're not too worried about hanging shirts.
20:02You know, you're just, you're worried about, you know, what, what baby suits you're going
20:05to wear.
20:05At least that's what you should be thinking about.
20:08This?
20:10Solo cup on the ceiling.
20:12This is basically, the thing is, this is, um, uh, an LED light, okay?
20:17But it's very bright.
20:19I have that problem in mind.
20:20Okay, so what I did was, I just took a cup and put it up here so it directs the
20:26light
20:26downward.
20:26It's a much softer light.
20:27And plus the red of the cup gives it a little bit of a glow.
20:30And that's it.
20:31You know, this is an electronics box.
20:33You know, it's got, uh, stuff for the DVD, you know, electronics in here.
20:36So when I walked in, I, I saw an inverter there by the door, but I see another inverter here.
20:41Is that a point of use one for making the TV?
20:44This is just for, that's just a TV and a, and a DVD.
20:46Okay.
20:46You know, I mean, the TV is, uh, you can plug into a regular USB, but the DVD player you
20:52can't.
20:53So I just looked it up that way.
20:54This is, you know, food, food storage, that kind of thing.
20:59I just pull them out.
21:00I've got these things here.
21:01These are nice bins that keeps it quiet maybe when you're driving so things aren't
21:04right on around.
21:05Plus it keeps it, you know, you pull it out easy.
21:07You don't have to go looking the way in the back.
21:09That kind of thing.
21:10Fan, you know, uh, you know, what is, I forget the name of the fan.
21:15What is it?
21:15That looks like a fantastic fan.
21:18Fantastic fan.
21:18And that was their King Deluxe model.
21:20It looks like it's remote control.
21:21No, it's not remote control.
21:22No?
21:23No.
21:23Uh, rain sensor.
21:24I see the sticker there.
21:26Parable speed.
21:27We got a thermostat control.
21:29Right.
21:30And a motorized lid.
21:31Yeah.
21:32All right.
21:32That's their, their top model from back then.
21:35Back in the day.
21:35And this is the bathroom.
21:37So it's a gel-coated bathroom.
21:40This is, uh, this is pretty impressive.
21:44Now, looking at this, it's all seamless.
21:48Where the sink is integrated into the walls.
21:50Yeah, it's all seamless.
21:50Got a stainless steel sink.
21:52Right.
21:53What else we got coming on there?
21:55Well, basically, that's it.
21:56I mean, uh, the way I use it is, uh, you know, I just take that stuff out of it
22:01and take
22:01a shower.
22:02Take the flowers out and I take a shower.
22:04Let's say you pull this curtain and you're, you're done.
22:06I guess there's some type of storage underneath the sink.
22:08Yeah.
22:08I mean, it's just basically, you know, more toilet papers underneath.
22:11It's got a gasket on it so it doesn't get wet in there.
22:13That's good.
22:14Yeah.
22:15I mean, back to the day, it was pretty cool.
22:17And this is, uh, just a regular RV style toilet or?
22:21Uh, yeah.
22:22Yeah.
22:22It's, you know, the regular.
22:24Okay.
22:25So it's not a composting toilet.
22:27No, no, no.
22:28It's a black tank.
22:28And you got a little vent on the top.
22:31Yeah.
22:31Fan in the vent, which is nice to have.
22:33If you're taking a shower, it takes all the steam out and whatever else is.
22:37And that's it.
22:38LED lights all around.
22:39Yeah, they are bright.
22:41Yeah.
22:41Yeah.
22:42And, uh, and that's, and actually I like the, I like the way this is set up.
22:47Uh, I know some people that have put, you know, one door here or put a glass door or they
22:51put like a slide.
22:53But this is nice because if you're dressing, you can dress back here.
22:57You just close this door and you have privacy, which is nice to have.
23:01So it's a, it's a good, it's a good set up.
23:03I like the set up.
23:04This is, uh, okay.
23:06So just more of the same.
23:07I mean, regular, a regular stove.
23:10So all your spices are.
23:11No.
23:12Refrigerator's not too much in there now, but probably beer.
23:16That's about it.
23:17It looks like a three cubic foot.
23:19Yeah.
23:19So this is the new, this is the new refrigerator.
23:23You know, it's electronic freeway.
23:26Okay.
23:26So all the controls are up top.
23:28Yeah.
23:28I mean, it works automatically.
23:29And the cooking, uh, situation, two burner?
23:32Uh, two burner.
23:33Yeah.
23:33I just, I generally just using one burner because I'm usually, um, you know, when I'm not traveling,
23:40it's just as easy for me to go somewhere and have something to eat or get some takeout food
23:45or something like that, you know?
23:46So I, I can do that.
23:47But you know, I've got, I've got soup.
23:49I've got hot dogs, I've got beer, you know, that kind of thing.
23:53Um, uh, you know, snacks, you know, some vegetables if I have it, if I want it.
23:59This is more storage.
24:01I put my water up here.
24:02There's a lot of storage in this fan that's, um, yeah.
24:05This is just, uh, plastic containers, that kind of stuff.
24:08This is a convection, uh, microwave oven.
24:11Will that run off your inverter system or you have to run the generator?
24:14No, that runs off the generator.
24:16Yeah.
24:16Okay.
24:16Yeah.
24:16You have to have that, that and the, and the AC.
24:19Right.
24:20Um, now this table will come out.
24:24Uh, one of the things that I did do, which anybody that has an Explorer, if you see, if
24:29you see this setup and you have this particular setup in Explorer, one of the best things I
24:33did on this thing for me was to put this seat in, which turns, it's a swivel seat.
24:38The Explorer, what it had was a stationary seat, only that went that way, which really made
24:44it kind of limited as to how you could use it.
24:47But with this thing, you can go like this and obviously there's a lot more room in it.
24:51And did it come stock with the front swivel seats?
24:53Yeah, everything, everything here, there's the front.
24:56I'm just here, this obviously can be removed.
24:58So this is movable because I need to drive it a little.
25:01I just keep it up because it's, uh, it's just an extra space for me.
25:05Uh, yeah, more storage here.
25:09Uh, this is, okay, these are your controls.
25:11These are your, your, uh, black water, gray water tanks.
25:13This is your, uh, tells you how your battery is and your levels on your tanks.
25:19This is the generator, you know, so you go here, hopefully it'll stop.
25:25It's a lot quieter than my generator.
25:28See how quiet that is?
25:29Yeah.
25:30So with the AC you can hardly, you know, and when you're-
25:32They probably cancel each other out.
25:33Pretty much, yeah, yeah.
25:36Yeah.
25:36Uh, so, and that'll, you know, that powers up, you know, everything you can do that for.
25:41This is just more storage.
25:43A lot of storage in this.
25:45Yeah, just more stuff like that.
25:48And, uh, you know, if, uh, if I have, I mean, if I wanted to, I can put the table
25:54back down here, over here, and I can put a couple of mats here, and I can get some more
26:00sleeping area if that's somebody that wants to sleep over.
26:02Or I can do with the-
26:03Probably be like a queen-size bed at that point?
26:05Yeah, or I can turn the seats around.
26:07Now, we're talking camping out here.
26:09We're not talking about, you know, like, uh, a whole-time thing.
26:12Right, yeah.
26:13So, I mean, so, basically, you could turn these seats around so they're facing one another, and you could put
26:17a mat in between that, and you could sleep there if you had to as well, which I've done, especially
26:22with the kids.
26:24So, this is, of course, that's the backup camera, the backup screen.
26:28It looks like up here is the air suspension controls for the rear.
26:31Right, these are the air suspension controls here.
26:33So, it's got an on-board air compressor.
26:35You can see, I don't know if you can see that.
26:37Yeah, so it's either one of those, right.
26:39So, you turn the engine on, and you can, and you can level out the, uh, you know, the vehicle
26:44with this, with this, which is very cool.
26:46So, everything is LED lights, you know, which is...
26:51I like how you utilized every space.
26:52Even the dashboard has stuff on it.
26:55Yeah, I mean, that's what you do, you know.
26:57Here's my other five-gallon can.
26:58This is my, this is my extra can of water.
27:01Here.
27:02And here's something that I do, you know, just to preserve water.
27:06Uh, because when you're, when you're heating, when you're heating up, sometimes I feel like heating up the water.
27:12Sometimes I'll, I know that I want to wash my body a little bit or something to, you know, just
27:16a quick body, body wash.
27:18Uh, so I'll need a little bit more water.
27:20So, instead of heating water up on the stove to preserve it, because when you, you know, your supplies are
27:26really important when you're doing this stuff.
27:28So, you have to keep an eye on everything that you use and how you use it.
27:30So, you try to minimize everything.
27:32So, when I heat up the water, it takes a few seconds for the water to come into the, into
27:37the faucet area when I heat up the water.
27:39So, what I'll do is I'll take my, my, one of my pots and, and, and, uh, you know, put
27:46the faucet on and run it and let the water get into the pot before the hot water comes.
27:51So, as soon as the water, and then, so that water I'll put in here and put it back into
27:55the tank.
27:55I mean, it's those silly things that you do, but these are the kind of stuff that, these are the
27:59kind of things that you do to preserve your supplies.
28:01So, that, that's because, and I found that, I actually found that I'm saving one or two gallons of water
28:08a week easily.
28:10Normally, you turn the faucet on and wait for the hot water to come in.
28:13But if I turn the faucet on and I have a pile underneath and I put it in here, I'm
28:17saving two gallons of water.
28:18And when you're on the road, two gallons of water is a lot.
28:20Do you have any tips for any new people that might be interested in getting a van and living this
28:27type of lifestyle?
28:28Anything over your, you have a lot more experience than I do, uh, that maybe people overlook or, uh, maybe
28:35some hassles you might have had throughout your process?
28:38Well, I think one of the things that you want to do more than anything is to figure out what
28:43it is that you're actually going to do.
28:45Are you going to be staying on the road? Are you going to be traveling around? Where are you going
28:49to be?
28:50Because you have to start, you have to think about the supplies that you have.
28:54How, how, how are you going to carry your water?
29:00How much water do you think you're going to need?
29:02And your energy, so it's the water and the energy.
29:04The other thing is, do I want to have a bathroom or do I not want to have a bathroom?
29:09Okay, a lot of people, what they'll do is they'll, they have a pot and they'll do whatever they have
29:14to do within the pot.
29:15You know, put it in a bag, they'll bag it and do all that kind of stuff.
29:19So, the things that you, and, and also your sleeping arrangements, how many people do you want?
29:25How many people are you going to be? Are you going to be alone?
29:28Uh, so, it's, when you're thinking about it, you also want to have a vehicle that you feel you're going
29:37to be comfortable in.
29:38I'm a, I'm like 5'8", so I can fit in pretty much anything, pretty comfortable.
29:44But if you're bigger, if you're like 6 foot, you have to take that into account too as to what
29:49kind of vehicle you're going to have.
29:51So, I think your energy supplies, what you, what, do you, do you want solar or do you want to
29:55have a generator?
29:57Do you want to have a generator that's on the vehicle or you want to have a generator that you
30:01can just like put on the ground somewhere so you can run it, so you can run, run your generator
30:06to run an air conditioner or something.
30:08Do you want an air conditioner?
30:09So, it's the type of life that you're willing to live.
30:12Are you going to be alone or are you going to be with someone?
30:15If you're going to be with somebody, then you have to make those kind of decisions as to how it
30:21will be to live in a small space with someone.
30:23So, you want to be, um, easily accessible.
30:27One of the reasons I got, I like this one, was when I was on the road for 7 months,
30:33I was with my girlfriend.
30:34And it didn't have a front area where I could sit and like do work or go on my computer
30:40or anything like that, which this has.
30:43So, I found it really difficult in terms of, of, of trying to, uh, uh, do the things that I
30:52wanted to do.
30:53And also, our sleeping arrangement was different.
30:54She would sleep really super early and I would go to sleep later on because I'd like to sit on
30:58my computer and do things.
30:59So, I think it's, the first things you have to think about is, uh, the space that you want in
31:09the vehicle.
31:10Is the bathroom going to be important for you?
31:13How are you going to take showers?
31:15How are you going to, uh, provide energy for yourself in terms of being able to charge your computer, charge
31:24your phone, charge the things that you need, have lights in the vehicle.
31:29And do you want, one, do you want to have hot water?
31:32Uh, so these are all the kind of considerations that you're going to have to have.
31:36Are you going to be in a cold area or are you going to be in a warm area?
31:40Um, so, um, and then of course, uh, as I said before, the type of vehicle it is in the
31:47space that you have.
31:48Um, so, uh, and what it came down to me also is, does the vehicle drive well?
31:54Am I going to be comfortable driving this vehicle?
31:57Um, where am I going to go with it?
31:59Am I going to go off-road or am I going to just stay and park in Walmarts and that
32:03type of thing?
32:04Um, so, there's a lot of different considerations that you, and the length of time that you're going to be
32:09in a vehicle.
32:11So, it's all, it's a lot of that.
32:13I would suggest that you look on YouTube, look at all the different people that have the different, you know,
32:21vehicles that you might be interested in.
32:22Um, and I would, uh, really take a good look at that and to see how they do it and
32:29what they feel works for them and what doesn't work for them.
32:33Uh, if you don't have a vehicle with any kind of insulation or, or you don't have windows that have
32:38screens on them,
32:40you're going to find, and you're in a place where there's a lot of, uh, mosquitoes at nighttime, and you
32:46have to keep the windows closed,
32:47you're going to find that the heat inside the vehicle is going to be unbearable,
32:51and you're not going to be able to really, uh, survive that kind of environment very long in a comfortable
32:57way.
32:57So, that's the other thing.
33:00Uh, the, the nice thing about this vehicle is that most of the windows here have screens on them.
33:06And I think something that's also very important, and a lot of, this particular vehicle,
33:12one of the things I do not like about this vehicle is the back window doesn't open.
33:17It's a, it's a, it's a huge back window, but it doesn't open.
33:21And because of the way they made the vehicle, there's no back door, they removed the back door.
33:26I find that having a back door and being able to open the vehicle really allows the air to come
33:34in and come through,
33:35especially if you're in a hot environment, you're at a beach or anything like that.
33:38Uh, and I think that's a really important consideration if, how much access you have, uh, to the open space
33:49around the vehicle.
33:50Uh, it really makes, it really makes it a lot nicer if you have a lot of fresh air coming
33:55in,
33:55and you have a light, a lot of light coming into the vehicle.
33:59So, that would be a consideration.
34:01Uh, what I, one of the modifications that I want to do for this vehicle, if I keep it,
34:06is I want to get a window that will open up in the back.
34:10I'm going to modify it so that I have a big window that opens up so that I can open
34:14it up.
34:15And also you can, you know, it's just, it's just a lot nicer.
34:18So that was another, that would be another consideration.
34:20So I think that, you know, it's energy, the, you know, the kind of supplies that you're going to have
34:26in terms of water,
34:28your, your, your ability to survive on the road.
34:31So it's energy, water, uh, food, uh, uh, air, ventilation.
34:41What about safety?
34:43Safety in regards to securing yourself and your, your personal items in the motorhome,
34:49especially people that are traveling across country, going to areas,
34:52they don't know about crime and how safe they're going to be.
34:56I recently read a story online about a couple that, uh, was traveling up to Alaska and their van,
35:02their van broke down and they were, uh, uh, unfortunately murdered.
35:06Uh, what do you, what do you say anything about safety to be mindful of?
35:11Well, I think that when you, uh, you, you, you develop a sense of what's going to be safe,
35:19uh, what's dangerous, uh, and, um, I think it just comes with, uh, with time and experience.
35:33If you are traveling in populated areas, there are always places that you can go where you'll feel more safe,
35:43even if you get chased away.
35:45If you, if you feel that you need to be somewhere and that you're concerned about your safety and whatnot,
35:51uh, but you're afraid that you're going to be chased away because it's an area where they may not want
35:55a van in or anything,
35:56I would take the chance on being chased away and, and, uh, and do that.
36:01I mean, there's always Walmart, uh, there's always, uh, uh, shopping centers that you can go to.
36:08Um, I think you have to be cognizant, you have to be very aware and cognizant of the fact that
36:14there is danger out there.
36:16Uh, I always keep my keys real close to me.
36:20I always keep the vehicle at nighttime ready to go so that if I have to jump on in the
36:27chair and pull out really quickly, I can do that.
36:30So I'm usually, I'll have my keys right next to me somewhere.
36:33I'll have the seats and everything configured so I can, I can move quickly.
36:38Uh, obviously you're going to lock your doors.
36:41Obviously, if you're going to have, um, uh, you know, your windows blocked, you know, I, to tell you the
36:49truth,
36:49I prefer not to, not to block my windows.
36:54All right.
36:55Because I like to see what's going on around me.
36:58Uh, and, uh, and if people are going to be looking in and whatnot, um, I like to also be
37:04able to look out to see what's going on.
37:05So, um, but it depends.
37:08If I want to be, uh, generally I'll leave all, I'll leave my windows open.
37:13A lot of people will put curtains off and stuff like that.
37:16At nighttime in the back of the van, you really can't see in back of the van.
37:20If you're looking in at nighttime, you really can't see in the back.
37:25You can't see if I'm there or not.
37:27Now, if I'm not in the van, if I'm not going to be in this van, if I'm going to
37:33go, let's say, take a walk,
37:34or if I'm going to take a hike or something, I will close it off completely.
37:38So nobody knows if anybody's in there or not.
37:41That's a really good tip.
37:42Okay?
37:43So, when I'm not in the van, I always keep it closed.
37:47So nobody can see in.
37:49So, they're going to think twice before they start trying to get in.
37:53And I think that, and I think if you feel that way, too, as well, I mean, you know,
37:58obviously if you park somewhere and you have everything all covered,
38:01people really don't know if there's anybody in there or not.
38:03So they, and they don't know whether you have a weapon.
38:06The fear of the unknown.
38:08You know, in, in there.
38:09So they're going to be, be careful about it.
38:10But you've got to watch where you go.
38:12You've got to know where you're going.
38:15And you've got to be prepared.
38:18What inspired you to get into this lifestyle?
38:21Because this is a lifestyle.
38:23It's not just a van.
38:24I don't know.
38:25I mean, what inspired me?
38:26I started looking, there was a guy on YouTube, we were talking about it before, called Justin Credible.
38:32Justin Credible, if you ever see this, thanks a lot, bro.
38:34He had the same, he had the same van.
38:37And there was something about it that was really cool about it.
38:41But I, as I think about it, what happened was, is that my girlfriend and I, we went to California.
38:50And we rented a car, and we were driving up Route 1 in California, and we were going into all
38:56these hotels at nighttime.
38:59And one day we're in, we're on the, on one of the cliff areas, over, you know, we're on one
39:05of the overlooks.
39:06We're looking at the water.
39:06We stopped to take a rest.
39:07And some family pulls up in a 4x4 Westphalia, which is a Volkswagen, with the pop-up top.
39:15And it's a 4x4.
39:17And, you know, they all piled out, and I was like, that is like the coolest thing that I've ever
39:22seen before.
39:23Okay, how cool is that?
39:25And they lived in California, and they were traveling around.
39:27I mean, I had known about this stuff before, but I never thought about it.
39:30But when you see it, it's like, why would I want to travel any other way?
39:37So, I got the bug from that point on.
39:41And this particular van, the history of this particular van, it is, it is a West Coast van.
39:46I bought it in Arizona, which I would, and the reason I did, well, I bought it in Arizona for
39:53two reasons.
39:54One is, Arizona, it's, it's obviously, there's no rust.
39:57There was no rust on it whatsoever when I got it.
39:59And it was a very low mileage vehicle.
40:01So, that was a double, you know, a double plus that I wanted to go out there and get it.
40:09Plus, it was what I was looking for.
40:12But, I just like the idea of being able to go and sleep anywhere I want.
40:20I had to go upstate last week to see my daughter.
40:23And I spent two days upstate New York.
40:25This, right now, we're on the Jersey coastline.
40:29In Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove.
40:33And I went, I saw, went to see my daughter.
40:35And I had no qualms about it.
40:36It was like, okay, I'm going.
40:38I'm out of here.
40:38I mean, she called me up.
40:40She said, come on up.
40:41I said, I'm on my way.
40:42And I went up there and I spent the week up there.
40:44I camped out.
40:45I went to an RV park.
40:47I went driving around.
40:49I saw her.
40:50It was, you know, I did what I had to do.
40:53And it was like, because I know the vehicle so well and because it's set up for me, the way
41:00I want it to be, it was really like being home.
41:03Yeah.
41:04And I got a chance to camp out a little bit, you know, in an RV park, which was kind
41:08of nice.
41:10So, and it was spur of the moment.
41:12I didn't really have to think about it.
41:13I didn't have to make a plan.
41:15And I'm sort of like it.
41:15So the van's always packed and ready to go.
41:18Yeah.
41:19I mean, this van basically, it takes about, it's always, yeah, it's always packed and ready to go.
41:25There are systems that you have to turn off and put back on.
41:30For instance, the refrigerator.
41:31You can't leave the, I don't leave the refrigerator on when I'm gone, obviously.
41:35And I leave it open so that it doesn't, there's no mildew or anything involved.
41:40It gets inside because it's used.
41:43And it's also hooked up to the electric of the vehicle.
41:48So what I'll do is I'll disconnect it from the electrical supply of the vehicle so it doesn't run down
41:53the batteries when I'm using it.
41:56But yeah, I mean, but it's pretty much, everything in this vehicle, I don't have to take out of this
42:02vehicle.
42:03So the clothes that I have in this vehicle are the clothes that I'm going to use when I'm in
42:08this vehicle.
42:11So there's nothing that I have to, you know.
42:14See, I'm new at this and pretty much everything you said is dead on with exactly what I do.
42:20I have clothes specifically that I use in my camper van.
42:23Yeah, right.
42:24So I don't have to unpack and pack stuff.
42:25Yeah, I mean, you know, so, and, you know, the clothes that you're going to wear generally are going to
42:30be casual, very casual.
42:32I have a one, if I have to do something which is less than casual, up a little bit, I
42:40have some clothes that I can wear to look, you know, proper if I'm going out to a proper dinner
42:44or something like that, you know.
42:46So, but very few, most of them is just shorts, sneakers, sandals, that kind of thing, you know.
42:51But I've got a good pair of boots, a good pair of pants.
42:53That's all you need, you know, and that's it.
42:56What about insurance?
42:59You just have a regular RV insurance policy?
43:01Well, I have the RV insurance policy, which is fairly inexpensive for some reason or another.
43:06I don't really quite understand why, but it's not very expensive.
43:09And then I have another policy for road service, which is great.
43:14I mean, if you're going to be in a vehicle like this, you want road service.
43:19You want towing service because you never know.
43:23There's always something that happens.
43:24I had, I was on the road and I had a fuel pump issue.
43:31So they literally had to put this vehicle, this vehicle is, when you put this vehicle on a flatbed truck,
43:37it looks pretty big.
43:39You know, it's like, okay, that's not a car, you know.
43:44So I had the road service, so I would definitely recommend having road service.
43:48There's no question about that.
43:48And any tips for internet, needing internet on the road, anything that you came up with that, from learning from
43:57people online or just from usage?
43:59Well, again, the places, my lifestyle in this van is, I hate to say that I'm a weekender, but I'm
44:09more like a weekender now,
44:11even though I've just spent three weeks in here, it's not really a weekender, but I'm in an area where
44:16there's internet.
44:17I'm not out in the middle of Nevada somewhere, you know, where there's going to have problems with it.
44:23I think that that's another thing that you want to think about, what, you know, how your internet needs, you
44:32know,
44:32what you're going to require from the internet and what you're going to, you know, require to use.
44:36I actually work every morning for about four hours.
44:40I actually work every morning on my computer.
44:42So I have a laptop, not a laptop, I have an iPad that I use, and I do my work
44:50on that.
44:50And it's got a regular, it's cellular, so I don't have to worry about that.
44:55I have a cellular program with my iPad, so whatever work that I need to do, I can do via
45:01the cellular signal.
45:02I don't have to worry about Wi-Fi, which is nice to have.
45:06But also it has a hot spot and that type of thing.
45:09If I was to go out on the road, there would be certain, like I know a few people that
45:15do it,
45:15and they'll have Verizon, they'll have Sprint, they'll have AT&T,
45:21they'll have a couple of programs that they have so that wherever they're in, whatever area they're in,
45:26one of those will generally work the best for them.
45:30But that's if you're going to be on the road for a long time.
45:32There are things that you can get there that will draw in signal even more.
45:38You know, they'll strengthen the signal, a Wi-Fi signal.
45:43I don't have any of that, but if I was to go on the road and I was going to
45:47go West Coast,
45:49and I have been on the West Coast with this, and I generally don't have that much of a problem.
45:56But, you know, and also there are also places that they'll have Wi-Fi so you can get the signal.
46:01If you really need to get a signal, you need to get onto the Internet, you can go to supermarkets.
46:08Like there's Public and there's a few other supermarkets out on the West Coast where they'll have a Wi-Fi
46:14signal.
46:15Or a Home Depot, they'll have a Wi-Fi signal.
46:17Or you'll find places, different stores that have Wi-Fi signals.
46:20You park outside of it and you can use those Wi-Fi signals.
46:24You know, you want to watch a movie, you can do that as well.
46:26So you learn to adjust.
46:28But if I was to go on the road seriously now,
46:31I would make it so that I would be assured that I could get a Wi-Fi or a signal
46:37wherever I am.
46:38So whatever equipment I would need to do, I would get that.
46:41Any final thoughts you want to share with our viewers?
46:44Maybe some of them are going to have probably questions.
46:46I know, you know, these are pretty heavy vans, but about fuel economy and how that plays into this type
46:54of lifestyle.
46:55Well, like we were talking before, you know, you have, I'm retired, even though I still work.
47:04I'm retired from what I did, but I work every day.
47:08So I generate a little bit of money that way.
47:11But I think that some people, it's not that much of an issue because you're saving money on having,
47:20if you're going to be traveling around, you're saving money by being on the road, eating in, cooking, and sleeping,
47:28your sleeping arrangements.
47:29So you're not spending that money that you would normally spend.
47:31But you do need to make some money.
47:39What was the question again?
47:40About fuel economy, because I know a lot of people are building out these new Ford Transits
47:45and the Mercedes Sprinter chassis, and they get pretty good fuel economy, anywhere from 16 to 20 miles per gallon.
47:50This is an older Dodge, and I have an older Ford.
47:53I get 6 to 7 miles per gallon.
47:55Well, I get around 11 to 13.
47:57That's not bad.
47:58That's pretty impressive for a van of this weight and size.
48:01Yeah, 11 to 13 is not bad.
48:02I'm pretty impressed.
48:03And also, it's how you drive.
48:06And it also depends on your elevation.
48:08So if you're in a higher elevations, then you're going up high hills and stuff like that.
48:12Oh, here is definitely something that everyone should know about, that I think is a good tip.
48:18If you know that you're going to be transversing areas where there's going to be lots of different elevations and
48:25whatnot,
48:26what I would normally do is not fill up your fuel tank.
48:30Go to figure out how far your gas is between each other.
48:34Figure out how far you can go with the gas you have.
48:38Keep it half a fuel tank.
48:40Don't fill up your fuel tank and don't fill up your water.
48:43So you want to lighten the load with fuel and water if you're going up a lot of steep grades
48:49and that kind of stuff.
48:50Because actually what that's going to do is that's going to help you get better gas mileage,
48:54and it's going to help you get over the grades that you have to get over.
48:57Because with all of that weight, it really makes it a big strain on some of these engines.
49:02Excellent, Ken.
49:03I really appreciate you spending the time with our viewers here to give a tour of your van
49:08and some of your personal experience and sharing your thoughts on how you use the van
49:13and what you've learned in this lifestyle.
49:15And I really thank you today.
49:17Well, I appreciate you having me on.
49:21I never expected it.
49:23You woke up to me and it's like I hope that it helps somebody.
49:28Yeah, I appreciate that.
49:30Well, this is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel.
49:34I hope you enjoyed this video.
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