Buy a junker Van and drive across Canada! Treasure hunt road trip!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2017
- This is part 1 of the video where we discover the Mercedes Ambulance. Alex flys out with a half empty backpack, and comes back with a van full of antiques! we go back later to drag the Ambulance home in another video! (reposting).
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You live a very interesting life. Thanks for taking us along. Great channel.
Watching your old video and see that Dave drove you to the airport. You have treasures for memories!
❤️ that church should be made into a major museum, touristy stop ❤️
Classic Archbold adventure. Outstanding.
I grew up in the woods of South Jersey with lots of ticks. It was a common routine for us to sit down with the dogs outside and pick ticks off of them, sometimes 1-2 dozen per dog, and drop them in a jar of ammonia. They liked the attention (the dogs, not the ticks). We were careful to get the heads, too. We also always checked each other's scalps when we got back inside, like monkeys (we didn't eat them). We would sometimes find them crawling, or digging in. None of us got Lyme disease.
Lyme disease was found in CT around 1975, yes it has been around longer but in the states it wasn't found until then. So if you grew up in the woods of South Jersey before 1975 there was no Lyme disease.
@@farmcentralohio I was born in 1977, and we moved into that house in the woods around 1983. I left for Los Angeles in 2002. I only ever knew one person who got Lyme disease, a high school teacher who ended up out most of the year because of it.
This was amazing Alex!! I hope a lot of the subscribers ( from the Potters series) are like me and are coming and watching some of your older videos, this one is just a GEM for anyone who loves antiques, or just Canadian scenery and hearing some Canadian history. That general store was OUT standing! Wow...wow wow wow wow...that would be amazing for filming I would think ( I suppose not an ideal location unless they just brought a crew in- filmed just the scenes in the store and left) , I always think about the filming angle having lived in Saint John NB for many years (loads of films done there) and then Toronto for most of my adult life- also, tons of films done there. Anyway, super cool video! So, the old Ambulance you bought on this trip, this isn't the one you are driving now is it? I need to just start at the first video and watch in sequence, lol, then I'll know the answer to this question! This was just an amazing video!
Potter's house brought me in, as well. Now I am going back thru all the past videos. This was a great road trip!
I am watching this because I need to buy a van like this to haul the contents of my small storage from Bellingham,WA to Tucson,AZ. This gives me hope to clear out my 6 year old storage of family stuff and lots of Limoges.
Wow! Great road trip, love the Ambulance! Lol but I truly love all antique or classic vehicles.
Wow - what a fun video. Loved the creativity of flying out a distance, buying a vehicle and then making a plan to source to get back to home base. That my friend is what sets you apart from weekend warriors!
Aww we miss you Dave, rest in peace sweet man ❤️
Lots of fun watching, Things, Cars , We dont see anymore up my way!! 🖒🖒
That's actually a pretty cool adventure! Need a bigger van and travel across the whole country! ;)
Your production is really great. It's absolutely TV quality. You could sell this to Netflix!
I get the paranoid heebie jeebies with ticks as well. Lol. Ugh. I’m fine with so many other insects and arachnids but ticks get me every time.
Excellent video .. truely enjoyed your trip!
About the same time you went west, I was heading east on a journey from Vancouver to Winnipeg! I hit that washout too! LOL That tick gave me the heebie jeebies, I almost died from a tick disease once.
The tick thing made me laugh, we live in Wisconsin and my son sounded just like that when he went to Boy Scouts camp the first time.
Amazing IDEAR let's go💯👌🏾👍
Alex!! What a fun trip!
I also just finished watching the Airstream series. You’re so creative and hardworking!
I hope at your new place you have a large shop (in addition to your personal vehicle garage) to work on car projects.
Hi Alex
Saw this video in my feeds and had to check it out. Thumbs up! Trish
"do they travel in packs?" lolololololol
These videos are really well made. Kinda ready for TV. ;)
One of the best.... Thanks
I grew up down the street from Mike's Antiques. One of the few shops still there.
I also wish people would stop the old wives tales about tick heads. Only the mouth parts are connected, they can't regrow the bodies or keep burrowing.
Hi from Winnipeg!
I do believe they tell you that due to perhaps infection
Please be careful I having that tick on u a very good friend of our family get Rocky Mountain take fever and It crippled him not telling you to scare you but I don't want anything badd to come of it God-bless you all I enjoy both of the channels and the Facebook I'm on Facebook
Hahaha You are so funny with the tick thing! Better tick than bedbugs or lice! :-(
Thanks for the work you put into this project!! Great video.
I love your channel. I only found it the other day but have already binge watched most of your vids. This one looks like it's going to be a good one.
+TheStwat thanks so much! I'm going on a road trip again this week so should have something to post after the weekend :)
Love u video's
@@CuriosityIncorporated "Stwat"--so much classier than my cousin's pronunciation "Sturt" for Stewart
My partner and I are getting super into your channel, and I described what this video was about ( after watching the setup in the first few minutes) and he said "I LOVE the way that guy thinks!". And to update him at the end about the resale of the van for what you paid for it made him really happy too, haha. Always fun watching, makes me want to do something similar with my life.
Roadtrip! Fun!
Excellent van buy!
Great Collction of signs and toys!
Your Dexter flying bag 😂😂
Still fairly new to your channel (watching a couple weeks now), but love your videos! So far I have to say this is my favourite video, hands down! If you are ever in Winnipeg again, I would love to go picking with you! Thanks for your great content!
loved this video. I especially love how you chronicle your travels. Thank you for sharing :-)
Your Father-in-law is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love your videos - they are right up my alley! I love watching your travels and I was enjoying your adventures too much to notice that you did not shave...lol! I am from Regina and would love to know where the church museum is(?) - it looks like a great place to travel back in time. Another thing that I appreciate is that you take time to educate us on the places that you go - you go that extra mile. If you drive East again my friend has an antique store at Lebret in the beautiful Qu'Aappelle Valley. Thank you for sharing your antiquing fun.
You are such a work horse Alex, you keep us entertained for hours😯🙀. We here in Tasmania Australia have a great store for old stuff, called the Junk St Store, check it out on facey 🙂🙂. Also there is a place here called Nowhere Else, lol. 🌞🌞
I’m so jazzed to watch this and find out this is where you found your ambulance!
I love that this doesn't seem staged or like items are "planted". :)
It doesn't seem that way because it's not, it's just a long story about Alex and his family's life and their business..
I am so hooked on your videos. I’ve bee 🐝 n away for about six weeks due to Wi-Fi going out. I used to watch car flippers, but now you have me exclusively. If I were a fish 🐠 I’d already be in your freezer! You are such a class act 🇨🇦🌟!
I really loved this one great finds. You have to dig if you want to find the gold
It's interesting that you share with us a day of yours in Canada.
Great channel. Thanks for sharing!
You find some crazy cool stuff. In the U.S. , Seattle Washington, we have a place called Pike Place Market, don't know if you have heard of it. You, Alex, could spend the day there, find cool stuff and probably never leave lol.
Enjoyed watching. What a trip and what appears to be a money maker, congratulations.
Really great. Very well done!
Enjoyed.
this was a cool one. Lots of good stuff.
I'm surprised you haven't had a tick considering your job, picking through old barns etc. I have had hundreds on me. About ten years ago I had a tick bite that swelled really bad. I had never had such a response to a tick bite. Luckily I went to the doctor pretty quickly. It was Rocky Mountain Spotted Tick Fever. I was given a big dose of antbiotics, and oddly I never got sick. But that was only because I got treated so quickly. My dad once caught it also, and that was the sickest I ever saw him until his cancer. It made him horribly ill. We live in Tennessee, and ticks were not nearly this bad until wildlife management brought more deer in this area. Now you cannot walk in the woods without dozens of tiny seed ticks clinging to your socks.
was raised in lockport man sister worked at skinners back in the sixties favorite fishing spot was just over the bridge thanks for the memories
My pleasure Mike!
I love my Mini Vans!! They haul soo much stuff!
My mouth dropped open when you mentioned you'd never had a tick on you. I'm from Kentucky, it's a daily routine to check yourself and your pets for ticks 😂😂😂.
Funny thing is, I grew up in the country, worked in the hay fields, farm work, walked and played in the woods and as an adult always gardening. I of course have had wood ticks on me, but who comes to the country and gets the deer tick between her toes embedded in her skin, the city girl who does NOTHING outdoors. Hah, go figure.
It looks lick you spent some time adding Sun light to the tree mural behind you at the desk talking about the van .or not the Sun light is cool.I like nice people.I think you and your family are nice.holidays for you must be special.😉😀
I bout died laughing at your reaction with the tick. come visit OKlahoma in the summer. I need to move to Canada!
Rania Treadwell ticks are getting horrible here☹️
I rescued a springer and had about 20 ticks on him lol we have them here lol
@@dakotasauve661
From NE Oklahoma... The ticks were awful last summer... fingers crossed next summer is better
Love your choice of music.
How much time do you spend editing your videos like this one?? You are a real professional Alex. Love watching your videos.
The tick! 😂😂😂 I feel that way about spiders! 😝
That was so fun TFS!
I have always been so curious (see what I did there) about Canada. I have been to Montreal and Vancouver, but that is all. I grew up in small-town Kansas USA and you know what surprises me most is how alike they are!!! It is a small world after all...no song reference intended...LOLOLOLOL
Consider yourself lucky . . . with the Tick, there are worse insects and it's just a matter of time before your luck runs out. WEAR SOME GLOVES AND PROPER BOOTS. The amount of ''digging'' around you do, protection is essential. (that Horder-House series threw up all kinds of alarms I didn't notice you taking . . . especially the airborne crap . . . NOT A FLIMSY PAPER DUST MASK. These protective devices are as essential as having property insurance, except you install it on yourself.
I had a friend nearly loose his life after a run-in with a Brown Recluse spider . . . he woke up from the bite soon enough to make it to the hospital . . . just lost a couple fingers. A little bit longer and they said they would have had to amputate his arm. [[if it happened to you, no more exploring . . . and you would have to use a tripod for filming, since you'd only have one hand left. if you lived thru the bite itself.]]
I was exploring a deserted building in Ohio one hot summer day, wearing only cut-offs. After a minute I felt some crawling on my legs when I looked down both were covered, black, with fleas. I freaked, ran back to our house and got hosed off by my buddy. Had it been farther I might have been eaten alive. You take your business seriously, then go all the way.
That was a cool trip for me. Knew the guy who owned the Chrysler airport limo years ago. Tried to buy it years ago but a no go. Also knew of the Olds airport limo but found it once I moved to BC. Fun to look at my old haunting grounds. So cool Dennis sold you some stuff as well!
+72cuts thanks for watching! It’s fun digging around in scrapyards and meeting great people along the way :)
This was a very cool trip! Something I would love to do.
GREAT trip.
I like the green MG that you found in/near Winnipeg, I lived in North Eastern North Dakota until 2000.
I still feel badly about leaving the rear seat behind but I guess it is something that the previous owner can still sell and the new owner can live without. (or get one from a junk yard if they really need it). I know that it was the right decision from a business point of view and what you needed at the time. Great video and adventure. the idea of getting a cheap car or van on the road to drive a thousand miles home is a risky venture, but you must know how to pick them because it really performed splendidly. That was fun and energizing.
Next time you're in need of something being picked up in Winnipeg let me know! I live there and would love to have a fellow vintage/antique seller out your way to pick stuff for me. And a big ps.... Taro house isn't old. Only one small part of it is! The rest was all built up over the 70's and 80's.
I’m hoping to get back next summer :) I’d be happy to buy from you!
I Absolutely loved watching your adventures, Do you mind going all that way on your own ? I would be a little nervous incase i ran into trouble, But you seem to have really enjoyed yourself apart from getting your feet soaked lol, Glad you made it back home safe. Great video Alex, Thanks for sharing.
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That was Stacey's Double Cab VW van @ 8:45. Not for sale. :)
Enjoyed the video, when I was moving house last year I was using my motor home to do the move but the clutch went towing a friend who had tried to help. I rented a van but wish now I'd just bought something cheap and had an asset to sell. Wasted a lot of money on the rental. Planning a road trip video soon to a sale to sell some of the old stuff from the house we bought.
+Vantage Point Video that stinks! Yah, we looked into rental and because it was one way and so far it would've been almost $2k! This ended up being free after I sold the van :)
Redhead grease... ... that one made me lol
Thank you for taking me to Bousejour again, my grandmother is buried there. River Road is lovely, looks like you got some good sights in going to the Forks....actually thats where we pick sage. First Nations have been picking it there for thousands of years, as many tribes met there for thousands of years for ceremony and medicine picking.
Next time, try Dairy Whip....and Half Moon in Lockport. Unfortunately Skinners isn't what it used to be years ago. Why is my text red?
I love Winterpeg! I lived there for all of high school and first year university at university of Winnipeg. I am a Calgarian but live in Beisekeker Alberta now which is a tiny village
ah the birth of the ambulance :) cool
What a good video. You put alot into this one. I'm totally visiting your store in Edmonton next time I head up that way.
+Tyblorg thanks! It was a fun trip :)
Hahaaaa made me laugh ticks hunting in packs.. so funny
I find myself enjoying your vids, good content, good editing you earned a sub. Keep up the nice work and best wishes for your future.
+Chas Riggs thanks Chas! I’m still trying to get better :) I just went to that old mansion yesterday (not sure if you saw that video yet) I try and keep it pretty current! Lots more adventures ahead!
I'm curious about the economics of buying from other stores and still making a profit at your store. Is this just how the world of antiquing works? All the buyers and sellers are just trading goods around? In any case, I'm loving your videos! I've been sick for a few days and I've been binging a ton of your vids. 🙂
I know it's been a month, but I hope you are feeling well and are back to your normal self.
If you haven't watched the hoarder/potters house series it is so good.
Like you I stumbled across Alex's videos and they are my favorite! Take care :)
Thank you, that's so kind! I am dealing with some chronic symptoms while I wait for a surgery, but I am able to work and live a bit now and it is incredibly nice to just be out and about :) videos like his still help me relax every night!
@@janicew9 so happy you are feeling better. Prayers for your operation to go well and for you to be back at 100% real soon.
@@cathifamjourney469 xsss
Things are worth more or maybe less depending a lot on location. In the small towns Alexander traveled through things may be cost less because there's no one to buy it. He hauls it to Edmonton and sells it for more due to his location and people
Another interesting vid,....like!
+Antonio Mao thanks Antonio!
Only 47k subs!? Should be way over that.love this new channel I stumbled across today
Alex, you can put petroleum jelly on them, they can't breathe and back out if they are attached. Also clear nail polish does the same thing. I usually just pinch them tight and pull it out, but thats not the normal tick we have here. I also grew up, in middle of NJ lol and the ticks suck, I have really sensitive skin and can usually feel them walking on me, yep then you itch all over imagining there are more. They can blow out of trees, be in grass, on animals it's the tiny ones that look like a poppy seed that carry Lymes, this is why gfixler never got Lymes as it wasn't around when we were young, and it was wood ticks we dealt with. They are gross, I just pinch them really hard so I can't feel them in my finger then burn them. Die Suckers.......Die!!
well....what ever happened with the gas pump you were supposed to pick up? kept waiting to see the thing but it never appeared.
I know exactly where that VW bus was/is! here in the Peg! haha that's awesome! Also this is my new fav youtube channel!!
great video
+kenneth thanks so much Kenneth!
HEY😃❗ At the 31:11 mark your standing in front of a shop I ain't seen😱😵 following you
Steady for a while.. What's up ❓🤔
I know UA-cam videos go outta order 😜
Interesting trip. Especially the old church.
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sure wish I had that van much better than my 1990 dodge carivan
I hear your pain Harry
that was good stuff you got there, i think that instead of leaving the seats behind you should have tide them yo on the van, But oh Well to late, and you should carry you own sheets too For when you stay in hotels sometimes they too have ticks n taking your own sheets n pillow case can be safer that's what I do if I'm gonna stay in hotels
Fun trip! New subscriber.
+The Shade Tree Fix-it Man thanks for watching! Hopefully we have a few videos that you may like :)
The gravel road is where they had to build highway 6 up higher because the Big Quill lake was over the road. The lake used to be a few miles east and now it is quite a way past the highway to the west.
You should do a trip like this one from Colorado!
If you would have purchased the dodge/chrysler with stow and go seats. You get to keep the seats in the floor so you can still carry junk, I mean treasures.
That Benz is Swiss cheese but so cool!
I love my dodge minivans my 2003 has 250 thousand miles and still running strong lots of rust though
rebecca ash Thinking about looking for one.
Yes unfortunately the caravan was a rust bucket. But you can mostly count on them being reliable.
@@trr5291 How big is the engine on those? V6, V8,?
A great pick and cool road trip. I hope that you make some killer sales from your new inventory.
I enjoy all of your videos.
Thanks very much! And so glad you watch our videos :)
Enjoyed this vid. You were still in your old building so obviously it’s been a while since you recorded this...
Another great video--very fun to follow your adventures! How much time do you spend on cleaning your finds?
I see the back seats went😉
It still had it's head on. That's the good news.
that tick sounds like a bed bug, lol
You can listen to it on the , AM Radio - Everclear.
Hello from Montreal! Watching your channel is cathartic, as I spent my whole childhood surrounded by antiques and digging in my grand parents attic, and I now have no outlet for all my curiosity! I'm obsessed! I even often dream I'm snooping in a dusty attic, uncovering treasures!!
I have a question. In this video, at around 34:20, there is a kind of hutch in the back, and I noticed that in other videos of yours (at least one), there are similar hutches, with a detailed embossing/carving (?) on one of the doors. is this type of hutch specific to the pairies? I have never seen one out east. And does it have a specific name? A friend of mine is from Saskatoon and she brought along a hoosier cabinet, which I find very nice and useful, but the one behind you is very attractive, it's something else...
If you or anyone has an idea...
Thanks!!!