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in English what what were they saying and it is not turning on not good since we're boondocking no yeah so no error codes there's no error codes being displayed you'll be able to turn in there with that big old ditch you think you can make that I think so without well without putting us in the ditch oh yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Farm's been in the family since the mid 1800s when my great grandfather came out homesteaded it a nice 5 days and yeah enjoyed it heading out now and on to the the next chapter if you will yeah yeah we got a little uh Pit Stop first mhm get the little chore done and then uh off to [Music] Alabama no truck parking are we a truck or are we an RV we are a truck today at 511 North Broadway Street on the right so I don't that's the entrance right there and we're done with our Pit Stop y so we got the generator diagnosed and serviced M and now we just have to get a battery yes that was slightly unexpected yeah cuz voltage was fine but uh tested the amps and yeah not so fine not so good yeah between now and January we've got to we got to get some batteries at least it was nothing serious it was nothing specifically with the generator so yeah yeah it wasn't the fuel nothing internal so good news it was just the battery so that's easily fixed mhm all right so now on to our next stop on to the next stop and WS Alabama yeah yeah1 9541 all right we have just arrived at our next Pit Stop rbh Lifestyles care to let everybody know why we're here well tomorrow I will let everyone know tonight I have to check into just a few things to see if what I want to do is possible so they're going to make some mods hopefully hopefully they'll make some modifications but not to what you think good morning everyone from Dennis Kansas um I don't know what Dennis's claim to fame is except that rvh Lifestyles is here so what do we looking at doing we're wanting to modify the hitch that's on the Smart car they used to make a pitch for the 15s and earlier that's the 451s but they didn't for the 16s and 17s cuz they stopped making them yeah and Kurt who made the hitch said no more that's it but we have a hitch but when we put our and we use it to uh winch our smart cart up on the bed which works great but when we put our ebikes on it little bit of flex on it a lot and the bikes just flop all over the the place yeah so it hasn't broken and it might hold but I don't know I don't like the balancing yeah the bouncing is not good we think the design is a little bit under um what it should be it should be a little stronger so we're here at rvh we're going to see if they can modify our hitch on the Smart car might be the only one like it out there yeah maybe we're going to see all right the review is complete of our little hitch problem and there is no hitch in the problem solving or in the resolution of the problem turn on the camera oh my gosh all right so they took a look at it did some investigation and there is a remedy yeah and the nice thing is they put the bikes on there yes and and we didn't have to lift it and put it on there saw where it was fle ing really bad so yep so they've got a solution MH and they're just going to build a whole new hitch yeah better materials better design and should be a lot better for the ebikes yes so we're excited about that MH well we may be down in the lower 48 but our minds and hearts are still up north yeah for a split second I saw that GPS and it said James River and I thought it said said fairy not freeway the abbreviation from freeway so yeah we pulled out from Dennis Kansas it was a good visit very good Pit Stop yes and we very productive yeah it was we accomplished everything that we wanted to do actually and then some yeah that's true that's true we got a little bonus on that they're also going to pull the B off yeah yeah wait a second the bed I thought we were just talking about the smart hitch all right so the bed is on the truck we've got to take it off this is a story that goes back four years actually five uh but when we had our spacecraft built it came in a little Hefty more weight than what our single axle truck which was originally came from the factory fact designed that way could handle so we had to add a second axle a tandem set to it we went to custom truck in Kansas City and they did it did a great job but we were idiots we did not add a power tandem it was just simply a tag axle for weight we weren't thinking we got some bad advice anyhow that's a long story and I don't care to go into it but what we're going to do now is we're going to have rvh pull the bed off we're going to take this back to custom truck in Kansas City cuz we went there before visiting rvh and before the HTT uh rally they checked it out looked at it they actually had a tandem set for a Volvo it's actually the upgraded version of what ours is so they uh they've got one it's on uh reserve for us so we're going to take the truck back up there they're going to swap out our tandem for this powered set of tandems both of our axles will be Drive axles which would be really sweet all right so two gentlemen just stopped by to take a look at underneath the skirt of Voyager and in English what what were they saying Yeah so basically we've got uh 43,000 lb capacity with our existing oh and that's what they meant by 40 is if we drop it from 40 three down to 40 right cuz they're trying to find a match set of 43 which is extremely uncommon but a match set of 40s 220s much easier to find probably less expensive and we don't need the 43 we don't need 43 40 is more than fine way over as it is y in a good way in a good way so that's what they were talking about okay thank you cuz we've had problems we've gotten stuck or almost stuck in almost almost uh small little areas like de on the grass it doesn't take much any undulation of the ground and our Drive starts to spin cuz our tag axle pulls it up so going back to custom truck they uh have said that they can do it but they had to have the bed pulled off they didn't want to do that so when we were at rvh we talked to them and they said sure we'll pull it off so that's what we're going to do uh the smart hitch and the bed of the truck and we're going to get a power tandem installed on the truck and then we can go to a lot of places they even looked under to make sure that so they they said they could do it so um so they were not the original manufacturer of the bed but they did say that they could pull it off and allow us to get everything boxed up and and and store the contents of Voyager uh at their facility yeah which is really nice cuz otherwise I'd have to find a storage facility get boxes Bo it up take it to the facility and this is also going to save us a lot of time too instead of driving from from Alabama to South Texas to Missouri basically Kansas City and then go back around we're going to save some mileage and not have to take that drive from South Texas all the way up to Kansas City uh driving separately right and which would be nice just a couple of hours up to KC and plus uh they've got a place for us if we need to spend the night that's really nice too so it just it's working out great it is and so now the plans in place Arkansas are you going to yell at woo Pig sooie woo Pig soe so we're staying at a harvest host it's a farm in mve at35 Highway West I'm thinking this has got to be it because there's really nothing else in the area yeah so where do we go she said pull in but man look at that ditch right there you going to be able to turn in there with that big old ditch oh man David I don't know about that you think you can make that I think so without what without putting us in the ditch oh yeah this is like our first time out in 6 months and you're doing this to me well you know got to start sometime oh my gosh I had like 6 in oh inches a mile I guess huh so when I talked to her she said go out back and go by the grass I'm thinking maybe over there yeah right so we've uh made it we're not settled yet but we've parked and we haven't sunk so the ground's nice and firm we are in Bono Arkansas it's a beautiful day it's uh really sunny so you know what we're going to see uh-uh we're gonna see Sunny Bono get it isn't he Bono arkans well he is but I really liked him and Sher so this is for you Sunny that we're in Bono and it's sunny Bono Arkansas all right that's it for tonight we'll see you guys in the morning was a nice overnight stop last night at uh pile's Farm it's a boondocker welcome um sa would say that the roosters were crowing a little bit too much I kind of like the atmosphere but I'd say 1:00 a.m. in the morning is a little early we're going to get going this morning and keep heading south and uh East towards Alabama this little fellow has come to greet us this morning he's been crowing all morning long traveling on a Sunday down to Alabama and it's nice going through a bigger town down on a Sunday cuz there's so much less traffic went through Memphis today and it was a breeze uh across the Mississippi that was a beautiful day you got so much to choose from I know I'm you know wow so you go right next to this guy yeah oh look at you backing up PS oh I know it's a nice little treat now filling this thing up is not going to be a treat well the afterwards the process of filling it up is a treat compared to curiosity cuz I can just Ram those nozzles in there put them on full blast yeah I love that I don't have to baby it no but then we got to pay for the uh fill up yes that's not the fun part that's not the treat afterwards is paying for it no I've never had anyone take fuel from me but I've had these locking gas caps for several years and they work great little bit of silicone in them every so often and keeps the Tumblers nice and oiled and I don't have any issues with people taking fuel especially during these days where it is expensive well we made it to the Hoover Met RB Park and we have never ever seen it this busy and then David went on online last week and looked like there are plenty of spaces available so not sure what's going on even over here there's trailers everywhere yeah so there's something happening today this weekend this week something wow so I think it's busy it's not that this place is tight but y all green all green our home for 2 [Music] months [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] n

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Published: Thu Nov 16 2023