😍 A FIRST LOOK AT OUR NEW HOME // Grand Design 378MBS

this is our home we're marissa nathan hensley and jj we sold our house in 2015 and moved into an rv full time to live a life of less junk more journey life is a journey let go and get going so we mentioned last video that we were moving basically from from nothing to having nowhere to go just staying upstairs with brendan vanessa thank you so much brendan and vanessa they have let us use the upstairs um we told them maybe anywhere from a few days to a few weeks we kept within that couple of weeks i look forward to having my my small little space again and excited for the new adventure to come but it's definitely been a fun experience so in typical ljmj fashion i'm sure we're going to take what seems like a simple task of going and picking up your next rv and uh yeah we're just going to complicate it as much as possible so we're leaving tennessee and heading to canton ohio area to pick up the rv the first thing we ran into is a of course it's the first snow of the year so that of course complicates things in multiple ways uh are the roads going to be slick we can do their stuff because i'm constantly talking about all the pros of the short bed dually but this is a con it is a short bed duel we have to get this auto slider hitch which is massive and takes up the whole truck bed so i can't even fit like a regular tote in here or anything like that for the most part so yeah plan b is to just wrap stuff in all kinds of uh all kinds of trash bags and put it back here because no we don't need all of our stuff when we go pick up the rv but we do need some of this stuff because we do hope to stop once or twice on the way back with the rv and like i mean we want to you know you want to like lay down and sleep or maybe take a shower do some of the basic stuff so we are taking what we can take with us which honestly isn't a lot how's that snow hensley you like it i'm gonna guess hensley's seen snow less than half a dozen times we follow 70 degrees uh oh my goodness and i'm refusing refusing to put on pants it does get warmer as you go north right oh my goodness hey snow baby you guys be careful in this blizzard now and i get it you guys up north are laughing at us that is not snow hey this is tennessee snow like everybody's like everybody's freaking out like schools are closed today got the treacherous roads this stream of this rig started in july and here we are december and it's about to go down so i am so excited and if you guys remember back in july like we knew we knew what layout we wanted and this is still that same layout we've been just like wanting so we're super pumped and it's it is it's hard to be patient for months and hopefully this will go better than it did last time we went to new york and it just did not go well um we're doing things a little bit different this time than we did last time though so we're hoping for for better results we are i mean the weather is still probably kind of sketch so all that rain is going to start to transition to snow roads are going to get worse this is going to be one of our bigger snow events we've had over the last couple years the bulk of the snow is going to be over [Music] cleveland [Music] [Music] oh it's so cold it's cold man oh my goodness we are not equipped for this oh my goodness it's not just kids no they're freaking out he's like close the door daddy close the door i mean we're chasing 70. we don't chase 22 and spitting snow sideways this is nuts someone understand what's going on is that the whole actually using the camera to try to oh no we have to start over there there we go snows in the car when you open the door it's like snow everywhere from i understand northern ohio next to the lake you get tons of snow off of that lake somebody with the locals said that like this was the only place in the world where like they get this snow all the time off the lake so just you get like just this section of northern ohio like akron and cleveland that can area gets like tons of snow because it's pulling the moisture off the lake and just snowing uh throughout northern ohio versus it just keeps i looked on the radar to see it there's like this uh this cycle of it just around and around and that's how you get the prediction was anywhere from six to 16 inches of snow for this uh storm that's come in what's her joke she just made up a joke tell us your joke what is the dwarves favorite state one of the seven dwarves favorite state oh hi-ho [Laughter] kinsley i have told her she needs to write a joke book she is so good what is her karate one what's your cry yeah tell your karate jokes what did the ninja same person when the ninja met the person hi yeah is that thing still going i didn't hear a click there click i think it's still going i hope that was the diesel just rushed and grabbed that thing if you ever go to a bp don't rush and grab the green handle and start pumping it in there i haven't done that yet but it's easy to do you don't want the green one you want the black handle at the bp we are super close to where we get the rv maybe like 20 minutes away so we're gonna stay the night here and hopefully hopefully we can get the rv in the morning so we got a good night's rest last night near akron the roads have really cleared off there are places that got 16-ish inches from this storm that came in but they're mostly northern around the cleveland area i think this area got maybe like six eight inches which is still a lot of snow to us things do not look bad this morning as far as driving around i'd say yeah if we came in after dark or we're driving around super early this morning there was definitely some slick stuff going on but it's it's looking pretty good right now the time's finally here i'm so excited it was kind of a roll in getting out this morning but i think we've all been looking forward to this moment for so long even when we decided to live the rv lifestyle i mean it took us a year to get on the road and having to be patient is is very difficult sometimes i think what we've learned over the years is it's definitely worth the wait and so we're excited to to finally get to this point a lot of emotion today mostly excitement for sure [Music] i can't wait you can't wait are you excited yes what are you most excited about well i'm excited about my new bed your new bed i know our new home is here it's here it's finally here jj are you excited are you excited this is your happy face isn't it we have never bought a new rv so this is all exciting and a new adventure yeah kinsley do you know what we're about to do we're about to see our camper aren't we you guys excited super excited so our rv is right over here we have not seen it yet we're seeing it for the first time in the bay a little nervous so i'm so pumped to get inside this rv our rv we've only toured them so it's just kind of emotional that we get to hook it up and take it home today are you guys ready to find out what we're getting check it out welcome home [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my goodness this is our home oh my goodness this is up crazy what do you think about your loft hensley wow look at all that room that is crazy wow you could have like a party up here look at all that you got your this she's been talking about these shelves forever haven't you you've been talking about the shelves since like day one i love it do you love it you want to see mommy and daddy's room where you're now has wanted her own loft for so long like she is one of the reasons we chose this mid bunk loft layout because she has wanted it for so long do you love your own loft and you got your own window it's the small things for her she just wanted her home yep she wants her own window she wants the cubby holes and apparently the tv trays oh look at this what is going on here wow babe that is a how pretty is that oh wow i'm loving look look at this it comes out it's everywhere it comes out here too everywhere look i guess it's everywhere no it's everywhere you're gonna be like look in here the master bedroom oh wow i think this is the first time we've ever had a tv in our master bedroom in the bay yeah we've we have never had a tv in our bedroom our whole marriage there's a washer dryer hookup everything in there and dryer it's all the room yeah look at that closet this is uh oh i wouldn't even i was just looking at the room itself but the closet too my goodness isn't that awesome yeah this still doesn't feel real to me like i still feel like i'm just torn rvs on a lot and like like this is our home this is it oh the solitudes are just so beautiful i'm feeling all the modern edges the color scheme it's light it's light here man it's bouncing off everything in it look at this so residential i'm gonna have to learn how to cook just because this kitchen is so awesome like i still got my taco bar perfect taco bar here this is awesome but i mean come on you're going to have to you're going to have to be a cook with a kitchen like this yes this is what we were looking for like spot on the model the layout the year like spot on so this rv's been quite the journey for us uh it actually started back in july and if you guys haven't seen the video we'll have the link in the description but we left from tennessee to go get what we thought was our next home check in hand to new york to buy 377 mbs uh it is it fell through uh they just were not honest about the condition i was not comfortable paying what we were supposed to pay for this thing and we walked away that honestly was like crushing to us because we were so excited about getting this rig this specific layout and how it was going to be for our family and then when it didn't work out and we came home empty-handed and then we thought well what do we what do we do next and so i mean we have some really good friends cory and jesse from funding or someday that you guys have seen us caravan with and they are ambassadors for grand design and said why don't you guys just talk to them and tell them what you're looking for and that's when our relationship with grand design kind of blossomed from there so we're not gonna be ambassadors for grand design but we just came together loving their product and them supporting us behind our leisure more journey message and we're excited that we get to buy this grand design but work closely with them and have some input and have some you know some say in a little bit of the the prototype that we built here so we wanted to buy the 377 nbs from grand design like what we went to new york to get but they said well if you'll wait a little while you can buy the 378 mbs and it'll be a prototype that'll have the loft in it because the 378s typically don't have the loft so we waited and of course kova did its thing you know august pass and september passed october pass november and then here we are uh you know it's it's been a wait uh for them to get all the parts they need to get everything put together the way they need but man this has been so worth the wait so worth the wait we're excited we purchased this we're excited for the relationship with grand design and uh we're excited for you guys honestly we're very careful who we work with because we care so much about you guys we'll be careful what content we deliver and who we recommend to have a relationship with as well so i'm here with dominic with general rv um he's going to show us around the outside of the rv the inside of the rv and if you guys have seen our channel i really need to listen up because this is just a good thing to have because you want to know what the buttons do and where the buttons are and everything that's going on with your rv especially right off the bat central vac's going to be located up inside here yep all your attachments your hoses are going to sit down here they do give you an outside grill um runs off of propane it seems like they always put them on the other side and don't do it on this side so you have so this is this this is more or less kind of hosing the kids off watch the dog this is strictly cold water um you do have another outside shower on the other side too and that's cold in hot that the one on the other side will be cold it's the dogs and the kids we don't care right yeah me and the wife will use the other right solid fold steps yeah yeah these have been a hit but uh basically these will just kind of take swing up into the side of the door it's going to be a spring that just kind of pulls that up into place oh that is sweet um there is a switch again just to kind of help you roll that hose up and stuff too melissa come see this show what that is a little dust pan oh that's genius yeah so we got we got a vac we got a central vac system cool that just says the central vac system this one here is again for the actual hose attachments and whatnot so that's cool wow yeah that's genius it's already there when i just that's cool right yeah the stove i love the stove oh no you can't man basically they give you blue lights they like blue lights on the knobs also an oven light okay um but as far as lighting these depending on which one it is kind of come over press turn hold that over until it fires up in the oven same thing with the oven um with this one you got to kind of watch but this is not going to be on her knees anymore actually so you don't have to lighten it for me actually right you have a lot of happiness you're taking away your dustpan you're taking away lighting that up adjustable shelves pull out drawers look at that handling they're cool look at that yeah i love that having that window yeah yeah what's going on okay kind of pushes okay you know at that point that's just like your water on and off oh okay and then this will be like your selector okay that is crazy you know just depending on what it is that you're wanting that one it'll still kind of go through there but you can yeah okay after the ottoman that comes out under here oh wow cool so we're officially grand design solitude 378 owners um christmas morning right here this is exciting this is crazy this is crazy it doesn't even feel real it really doesn't like we are we are pumped this has been a dream in the making for a while now but uh thank you general rv they've been super courteous super great to work with but general rv is like the nation's largest family owned rv dealer and and i understand they sell more grand designs than anybody but for us the big thing is they're they're mainly they got a lot of locations on the east coast michigan ohio virginia and we're in florida a ton we're actually you can see how much we love cold weather in this video like we're gonna be in florida and they got a lot more to location so we're good so um it does matter if you buy from somebody you know obviously you may not always travel full-time you may not always be able to go back to that dealer but if you can go back to one of the locations to that dealer it you probably have a better shot of getting things fixed better fix right and then have the same kind of service each time you go so what we decided to do rather than rush back to tennessee because the snow actually has led up the roads have cleared up a lot but like you know what we're just we're gonna take a break we're gonna hook up so they have hooked up the solitude over here with electric only uh but that is good with us we got water in the tank we're gonna i don't know call like a mini shakedown or what we're staying there tonight we're excited about it so we're just excited to not be living out of trash bags and sleeping and sleeping but okay we're still technically living out of trash bags and sleeping in sleeping bags tonight but at least we're doing it in our new rv uh it's been a long journey to get here but we are super excited for where we are this is all totally new for us and something else that's totally new we've never done this before ever on our channel we're gonna have a live chat tonight if you're watching this sunday the 13th at 6 p.m so the video comes out at 5 pm typically the chats at 6 pm so from 6 to 7 pm we're gonna do a live chat on youtube i'll put the link below for that if you want to come join us and check that out you can ask us about the rv you can ask us about just our lives in general you can ask about travel kids anything that you think might be a hurdle for your journey that you're going through rving we'll be there chatting having a great time we'd love for you to come join us and so if you need something to watch between this video and the chat that starts at 6 pm central i'm going to link to the video of me bringing home the airstream from texas to our family in tennessee and then checking it out for the first time because man that was like four ish years ago and that was the start of a crazy journey too having all the storage in the motor home and the slides and then going to a 30-foot airstream travel trailer with no slides very little storage it's all part of the journey bye-bye jj [Music] what is it hensley what is that behind there a hundred it's an airstream that's right hello

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Length: 20min 24sec (1224 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 13 2020