WE LIVED IN A $650,000 EARTHROAMER (full tour)

we have spent the last year traveling around the us in our converted sprinter van some days it feels like life couldn't get any better other days well they're a challenge living in a van full time has made us super curious about what it might be like to live in other tiny homes on wheels so from time to time we take a break from the van to try out other alternatives a few months ago we swapped homes with our friends who own a super cool converted school bus that didn't sound good and earlier this year we rented a top-of-the-line winnebago rebel that retails for over 150 000 we thought the four-wheel drive revel was the ultimate combination of rugged luxury that was until we stumbled across a company called earthroamer making overland vehicles that are in a category all their own after a little convincing they finally agreed to let us take an earth roamer for a test drive so this beautiful piece of machinery behind me is going to be our home for the next 24 hours [Music] earlier today we met up with phillip at earth roamer headquarters where we got a full walk-through of the vehicle and a quick driving lesson i think this is the most nervous i've ever been to drive anything in my life no pressure i feel great after passing our driving test and signing our life away we were handed the key you break it you buy it phillip led the way to our campsite a little outside of boulder we have a little bit of a earth roamer convoy going on right now and we're attracting quite a bit of attention everyone who drives by is like look cool flex your muscles [Music] goodbye paved road we are currently on a dirt road that is just washboard if we were in our van right now i'd be going but being in the earth roamer it's pretty much just as smooth as being on pavement you can tell that this vehicle was made for these types of roads [Music] so now that we've familiarized ourselves with the earth roamer we're going to give you a full tour and show you exactly what you get for seven hundred thousand dollars all right before we get started we will probably end up comparing the features in the earth roamer to the features in our van quite a bit throughout this video but this isn't meant to be a comparison to determine which one is better i think that's going to be obvious the earth roamer should win in all categories against the van that we paid about forty thousand dollars for the comparison is just to give some context to how the earth roamer stacks up against a normal camper all right before we go inside and have kara show you around the luxurious amenities let me give you a tour around the outside of this beast the earth roamer lti is 29 feet long making it about seven feet longer than our van and it's 12 and a half feet tall first things first this is probably the coolest front of any camper i have ever seen they have this awesome light bar that i'm sure is super functional but also just makes the earth roamer look really cool and a 16 000 pound winch so you can pull yourself out of any situation if you were to ever get stuck i look cool right now yeah like i need to talk at a deeper voice then we have these military grade tires which just look awesome and can drive over anything there is a drawback to having such cool tires and that's at the max speed that they prefer on the interstate is about 68 miles an hour or they start to overheat inside the tire you have a wheel with about a hundred different bolts on it not sure exactly why you need so many bolts but i'm sure there's a purpose it's a three-piece wheel so this outer portion locks the bead portion onto it so keeps your tire from falling off when you drop real low pressure and this inner ring here is an adapter to the ford hub back underneath the passenger door is a feature that you would pass up if you didn't know it was here and that is the onboard air compressor so let's say you're driving through the sahara desert you need to let some air out of your tires in order to give you more surface area so you don't sink down into the sand but then you need to get back in the road so you need your tires re-blown up all you have to do is go get the cord plug it in and you can blow up your own tires it's free and unlimited this entire back half is completely made of carbon fiber which not only is durable but super lightweight and apparently carbon fiber is a really good insulator so inside we'll say cold when it's hot and hot when it's cold does that make sense also this is how many keys you need if you own an earth roamer this is where you're gonna fill up your fresh water tank which is almost a hundred gallons of fresh water i guess the lock on here is so no one can poison your water source we're not going to go inside yet but i did just want to show you that when you open the main door the steps automatically come down to make it easier to get into the camper when you shut it they automatically go back up this is your outdoor shower you go to the beach or if you just want to take a shower in the beautiful outdoors these back boxes are completely custom built so that they fit perfectly this one over here is your outdoor kitchen but it's not just any outdoor kitchen this is a traeger grill i'm not a big griller but i've been told that this is top of the line i think you pretty much just stick your meat in there turn on an app and your food turns out perfectly so you've got your trigger grill a chopping block both of these are housed on this super convenient slide out and then you've got room over here to store all of your necessary cooking supplies and if you need water for cooking you can just bring your outdoor shower over to the grill and you have a bike rack so you can carry two bikes up here and then tons more room for storage honestly this is one of the best back box designs i've ever seen because they are so easy to swing out these boxes probably weigh hundreds of pounds a piece and you can literally push them with a finger that's pretty nice and last but not least on the storage it comes standard with an axe a shovel and winch remotes which just makes you feel like you need to go out and do something cool so the earth roamer doesn't have a black water tank instead it has a cassette toilet the way the cassette toilet works is you do your business inside and it all goes into this little gray five gallon box which you can easily take out i was told that this toilet is never used otherwise i would be worried that this liquid leaking onto my arm right now was not water i used it earlier no you didn't yes i did did you yeah [Music] it smells kind of like water and then the way you empty it is you just unscrew the top right here and you can pour it into a toilet or a dump station and it's super nice to have access to this from the outside because in our van we actually have to carry our pee through the van which can be a little dangerous oh i need your help okay put the camera down so there's not one but two diesel fuel tanks this one is the standard 40 gallon fuel tank that comes with the ford truck but then earth roamer has added a custom 50 gallon fuel tank giving you a 90 gallon capacity which will allow you to drive up to a thousand miles without having to fill up with diesel and this is just your def fluid fill up which is in a lot more convenient location than ours the cab is an f550 which is a top of the line for trucks so you have your standard stuff like heated seat a cooled seat it's all super nice and plush in here but they've gone above and beyond to integrate the cab with the camper so there's a few things i want to point out first you have this little screen that allows you to monitor everything that's going on with your tires while you're driving then they've installed an always on rear camera so you can basically see what's going on behind your vehicle at all times and now i need to start the truck to show you what i think is probably the coolest feature of the earth roamer so we've downloaded a bubble level app to see whether or not we're level and then we can actually use each of the individual air suspensions to raise and lift each tire until the camper is sitting perfectly level how have about getting this so off so we need to inflate this side i don't think this is supposed to take this long i think that's pretty close to level that lego and then you get the vehicle perfectly level it's close enough before we go any further we want to thank skillshare for sponsoring this video in case you don't know skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people i'm currently taking a class by dan dan liu called creating a modern cinematic documentary film with soul because even after doing this for six years there's still so much to learn and we're just fascinated with how other creative people tell stories through video especially outside of the youtube travel vlog world so you can find a class on pretty much anything for example mkbhd has one on all things youtube this is how an mkbhd video gets made then there's self care with jonathan van ness welcome and indoor gardening with etka chaudhry let's get started the first 1 000 people who click on our link in the description below will get a one month free trial of skillshare so you can start exploring your creativity today i do not even know where to start with the inside of this camper we have at least an extra foot of headroom in here and it's just so open and pretty so when you first walk in there's a convenient place to kick your shoes off nate and the first thing you see is just all of this storage plus they all have these little lashes so that's why they all stay closed while we were going over this big bumpy road unlike an ironman and right next to all these drawers a wine rack we have one of these in our van but this is a much more beautiful setup and they were even nice enough to stock it for us with all colorado wine next to the wine rack is the closet this bottom level has an outlet we could just plug a power strip right here and plug everything in in one place but i think the coolest part not even the coolest just the most like brilliant is this it's a vacuum cleaner however if you just have a little cleanup you're not willing to commit to the whole vacuuming thing all you have to do is grab the broom put this dustpan back because we won't need that just do a little sweeping over here the wall literally eats the dirt and moving on to the bathrooms it is a full wet bath so everything in here can get wet kind of like our bathroom but a lot better the shower head is super fancy you can pull this off you can adjust the height of it but the best part and something i would love to incorporate into into our van is this clothesline you just attach it over here and there's a fan in here there's also a heater so you could dry clothes in here in no time there's the toilet paper it's hiding in here so that it doesn't get wet when you shower and last but not least this is the top of the cassette toilet if you move this lever everything just drops down into that bucket that nate took out close it back up run a little water and then it just disappears and somebody takes it out and does something with it every single time it's crazy wow it's crazy and it really doesn't smell it's pretty magical now i'm being on oh i think i left it open to them when it's closed it's great so say you're here with like some friends you take a shower and you need to change the closet door is designed to perfectly match up with the bathroom door and now you have a little changing room pretend i just took a shower hi friends i'm naked hold on oh here are all my clothes hanging in my closet i see in the mirror that i look super cute and i'm ready to party wow i'm not clean though okay the kitchen this is the freezer and refrigerator of my camping dreams and up here we have a microwave slash convection oven combo that is capable of running just off the solar mind blowing on this side of the kitchen we have this beautiful marble countertop and this giant deep sink we have a water purifier like our van a faucet with the extendable head which i love and they even added a soap dispenser and here we have a convection oven which i really want in our van but it's just not possible with the amount of solar that we get and they even have custom made earth roamer pots that go with the stove it's pretty much as organized as our pots and pans i'm so embarrassed so there are several other drawers here but my favorite one is not that one it's this one each utensil has its own perfect slot nice and snug but that's not all wait for it each knife is in this custom-made magnetic slot look how cool they look they're even branded with the earthworm or logo and then the last drawer underneath the sink is what i would use as a spice rack believe it or not i found one thing in the earth roamer that i'm not a huge fan of and that is this mounted keurig on the wall we have a chemix in our van with a hand grinder we take our coffee very seriously so that's one point for our van last thing in the kitchen the dishes each individual plate cup bowl mug has its own slot so i set the cabinets for the last part of the kitchen but technically this seating area can become an extension of the kitchen if you press buttons hiding behind the backrest of this couch are these extendable countertops which you could use for anything anytime there's more counter space i'm very happy about it in addition to this being a couch and extra counter space it can also convert into a recliner over a very small bed i can totally sleep here no problem across from the bed recliner sofa extra counter space area we have the dining room table which would also double as an office we're living in here plus they're giant drawers under each seat and this area also converts into a bed but i don't know how let's talk about these windows first of all they are double paned which is really nice because in our van if you're sitting by a window and it's cold outside you're cold but these stay nice and insulated if there are bugs super easy to just pull this screen down or if you want some privacy and you want it closed all together just pull it up this way before moving back into the bedroom let me show you a few of the screens in the living area this is the control panel for literally the entire truck you can even start the car with a click of a button you can see everything from how much solar you're getting how much water you've used you can turn on and off any light in this entire place you have mood lights fall interior oh i just turned them all off probably the coolest thing this thing does is there is a security feature to where if you're in bed and it's late and you hear something outside and you're scared you can hit it and it'll boom turn all the exterior lights on and lock your doors at the same time who's gonna go rob a glowing truck you can also drain your gray water with a click of a button here which would stop nate from having to crawl underneath the van and get some bladder on his face empty it out with your face not so close i think i've barely scratched the surface of what this thing can do but you get the point there are four ghost security cameras mounted outside the truck and you can see a live feed at all times on the screen so there's a lot going on up here in the bedroom first of all there are one two three four side windows and right here next to the bed oh what is that gun safe a little night light wow if the screen is just too far away there is a little mini screen you can turn all of your lights on and off pretty much all the major things that that one does and in this little bag we have a plethora of remotes this remote controls the fan what is this directv remote television remote this is very sleek ah must be apple and the bose remote which controls this bose speaker we have bose surround sound which sounds incredible and we would play it for you if we wouldn't get demonetized speaking of the tv if you want to watch tv in bed this is a pretty great setup but if you want to watch tv pretty much anywhere else in the truck including outside i can't pull it down and pull it out will you do it if you decide you don't want to watch tv inside you can even turn it towards the window and watch tv outside hopefully the next position we can get it to is back rip alongs look at that since i've taken over the inside tour can i show them the best part of the entire earth rower do it all right so you really don't need the stairs to get up into the bed you can just hop right up here this skylight right here allows you to lay down and watch the stars which is pretty incredible but not the best part the real reason i love this skylight so much is because it is the access to the roof check this out this is what the top of the earthwarmer looks like it is pretty much filled with solar panels that is over 1300 watts worth of solar power but the best part about these solar panels is that they double as a roof deck because you can walk on them this feels so wrong but it is so awesome to be up here also on the roof we have a satellite dish the air conditioning the vent for the bathroom pretty sure that's a tv antenna a wi-fi booster something to do with the fridge and a smoking hot wife [Music] so making a new dish that i've never made before so if it's bad have mercy that is sharp [Music] i'm just so happy that we have this opportunity i'm gonna chop my finger off because i can't stop crying okay oh no philip told me i'll give you five dollars if you put that thing back the way it came out and now i see why because somehow they fit six pans in this one tiny drawer and unfortunately i need this one that's in the middle i can't even remember how these were now perfect i think you nailed it oh shoot [Music] you almost had fingernail on your pasta [Music] okay even though i had a big amazing kitchen i'm a bit nervous about the meal i prepared i think i messed it up a little bit it was actually really good the best part is nate was never in my way i could definitely get used to this especially eating at the table and not in her bed cheers thanks for dinner can you imagine what it'd be like for this to be our home no now that it's completely dark outside i really want to hit the security button and see what happens ready [Music] go away we don't want you here nate is pretending to be a deer on the infrared camera hands wow good night [Music] morning that's what happens when you set up the camera before coffee good morning how do you sleep [Applause] [Music] we uh don't have any keurig pods but thankfully kara travels with an emergency stash of powdered coffee because that's how addictive she is so well it's no chemics at least it's coffee while i was lying in bed last night i thought of several really cool features that we forgot to show you first is the awning which can of course be extended by the push of a button from the control panel inside and the really cool thing is that it's actually recessed into the body of the camper so when you're not using it you can't even tell it's there even from up here on top of the vehicle also there's something that i can't show you but i want to tell you about because i think it's completely genius and that's that there's a diesel hydronic hot water heater which means that as the car drives hot water is being pumped up around the diesel engine and it's getting heated up and stored in a tank to be able to use later so you have free hot water without any extra energy consumption in a camper like this or in our van anytime you have to heat something up it pulls a ton of power so getting hot water without having to touch your batteries is a big deal there's also a hydronic heater which means that there's a fan that pushes air over the hot water pipes which just helps to raise the temperature in the camper without having to turn on the diesel heater these are things that i never heard of before and they are so genius all right we're about to leave camp and if you don't feel like exiting the camper and walking all the way up to the truck to drive home all you have to do is use the secret passageway that leads you into the cab i can't believe we already have to leave there's a little blue forward in between the two of us right now i'm pretty sure i can run over it and we just never know is that a speed bump

Channel: Kara and Nate

Views: 2,135,039

Rating: 4.9328156 out of 5

Keywords: truck camper, truck camper tour, earth roamer, luxury camping, converted van tour, couple vlog, full time travel, kara and nate, off grid living, tiny home, tiny home on wheels, tiny house, travel, travel vlog, van life, van life couple, van tour, truck camper build, tiny house on wheels, 4x4 truck camper, overlanding, overlander, expedition vehicle, earthroamer tour, tiny house tour, digital nomad, off road, off roading, luxury overlanding, luxury off road vehicle

Id: GvvA12oTQ94

Length: 22min 22sec (1342 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/squidgy-beats]

Perhaps I'm out of place but I miss the budget experiences going round Asia. I know everything changes but raw travel experiences is what got me into kara and nate and kinda feel I'm not suited for their content anymore

[u/PriorAd7865]

It was an okay video. It was interesting to see inside, but ya, I definitely am never spending $700,000 on something like that, I honestly don't know who in their right mind would haha.

[u/virtualmonday]

That vehicle does not seem worth nearly a million dollars.

[u/Randallk21]

I thought it was a really cool vehicle. I like the idea that you could take this camping or to a tailgate and turn the tv around and have a good time. However, I can’t imagine the target audience that this vehicle is targeted at, being the wealthy, would want to live in a van on a trip. I could be wrong though.

[u/klein_four_group]

It's an ad, but ngl of the hundreds of "van tour" videos I've seen over the past 2 years, that looks to be the best-designed van.

[u/OldJay7]

Another Colorado video. It’s nice out there, just feel like they could do exploring in many other states like they “set out to do” originally with the goal of all 50. I guess on the flip side, you’d never know they were in Colorado in this video because they strictly focused on the RV and didn’t really do anything else. It was a cool vehicle though. Idk about cooking onion and garlic in someone else’s RV, lol.

[u/Stephthorton]

Yawn. This is content is so vanilla and boring.

[u/RedRobbbin]

Zzzzzzz…

If I missed anything that was actually interesting (I fast forwarded in segments) please let me know.

[u/AlphaNepali]

spank