WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.010
- Any sort of RV life

2
00:00:02.010 --> 00:00:05.700
or travel trailer life
hadn't really occurred to me

3
00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:08.310
because I never was around it growing up.

4
00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:12.090
I love to go to parks and
hike, and canoe and fish,

5
00:00:12.090 --> 00:00:12.923
and all these things,

6
00:00:12.923 --> 00:00:15.600
but, you know, generally
you find a location

7
00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:17.370
and you like rent a cabin.

8
00:00:17.370 --> 00:00:18.870
It was because of the pandemic.

9
00:00:18.870 --> 00:00:20.190
Megan had the idea.

10
00:00:20.190 --> 00:00:23.460
We were kind of depressed that
we were stuck in California,

11
00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:26.280
and her family's in Oklahoma,
and mine's in Illinois.

12
00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:29.730
She had a friend who got
one of those sprinter vans

13
00:00:29.730 --> 00:00:33.390
that Airstream turned into
a cute little camper thing.

14
00:00:33.390 --> 00:00:34.987
She said, "What if we
get one of these things?

15
00:00:34.987 --> 00:00:36.547
"They sound really cute,

16
00:00:36.547 --> 00:00:39.180
"and we can go see our
families for Thanksgiving."

17
00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:40.620
You know, we were on the lot

18
00:00:40.620 --> 00:00:43.800
where they had these
gorgeous classic Airstreams,

19
00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:46.470
and Megan said, "Well, let's
just go sit in one of these,"

20
00:00:46.470 --> 00:00:50.220
and we sat in the living
room area of this Airstream,

21
00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:52.200
and the windows were up,

22
00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.960
and it's a Los Angeles like summer day,

23
00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.260
so it's hot out, and a
breeze is blowing through,

24
00:00:58.260 --> 00:01:01.327
and we just immediately
were bewitched and said,

25
00:01:01.327 --> 00:01:03.307
"We can have this feeling

26
00:01:03.307 --> 00:01:05.400
"anywhere we can haul this thing."

27
00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.210
So then when it came time
to haul the Airstream,

28
00:01:09.210 --> 00:01:13.530
we shopped around and settled
on the Ford Expedition.

29
00:01:13.530 --> 00:01:16.290
Everything about it on
paper had plenty of muscle

30
00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:19.350
to pull this 30-foot Airstream,
and it's been fantastic.

31
00:01:19.350 --> 00:01:21.540
Megan, too, we grew up in
the seventies and eighties,

32
00:01:21.540 --> 00:01:24.270
so if your vehicle has power windows,

33
00:01:24.270 --> 00:01:25.770
to us, it's like a spaceship.

34
00:01:25.770 --> 00:01:26.603
With all the bells

35
00:01:26.603 --> 00:01:28.410
and whistles available these days,

36
00:01:28.410 --> 00:01:31.590
heated seats, cooled seats,
heated steering wheel,

37
00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:33.600
I could get any modern vehicle,

38
00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:34.680
and just be like this,

39
00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.840
I'm a king, and this is my chariot.

40
00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.660
There was one time in the
mountains of New Mexico,

41
00:01:39.660 --> 00:01:40.950
it was supposed to snow,

42
00:01:40.950 --> 00:01:43.650
and I was trying to get us out on the road

43
00:01:43.650 --> 00:01:46.830
and down to a lower altitude
before the blizzard came,

44
00:01:46.830 --> 00:01:48.030
and I didn't succeed.

45
00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:49.080
We got out on the mountains,

46
00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:51.090
and we're going around a curve,

47
00:01:51.090 --> 00:01:54.870
and the whole thing did
a little bit of sliding,

48
00:01:54.870 --> 00:01:56.610
and we shat ourselves,

49
00:01:56.610 --> 00:01:58.590
and we pulled off,

50
00:01:58.590 --> 00:02:01.080
and I had chains, and I put on my chains,

51
00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:03.630
and, you know, I threw
it into four-wheel drive

52
00:02:03.630 --> 00:02:05.160
and we just took our time

53
00:02:05.160 --> 00:02:08.520
and safely got down below the
snow, below the tree line,

54
00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.480
and once we did that, that
was a great lesson to not try

55
00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:14.190
and get out in front of the snow,

56
00:02:14.190 --> 00:02:17.615
but instead like preemptively
prepare for the snow.

57
00:02:17.615 --> 00:02:20.282
(upbeat music)