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Hi again C&S Organization is a big key to having low stress in our lives. Truly a kind of comfort. So interesting to hear your comparisons. When you speak of smaller space and enjoying it that's another kind of comfort comfort too! Like snuggling in your small cozy bed space. Really fun as I can relate to much of what you said and sense the feelings that come. Lol! Always enjoy you two and whatever topic you're bringing. Stay healthy and safe and keep enjoying every moment regardless... Catcha next time!
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Love your videos! I enjoyed hearing your reflections on how you sometimes don’t see the beauty in your own backyard! I’m currently in the process of building out a sprinter and in between I’m finding ways to “see” the beauty in my own backyard! Thanks for the reminder and safe travels!
Thanks Sherry!! I look back on how long we took things for granted... We don't anymore... Happy to inspire a few others to slow down and "see" things again! Thanks for tuning in!!
I planned on staying in the SW until April but came home end of February due to an unexpected family death. I totally agree with your #5, I miss being able to freely travel. I'm hoping to at least get out in my van this summer and do some remote camping near lakes here in the Yoop. There are many National Forest campgrounds in an hour from where I live (Escanaba). Thanks again for the content, that mural behind you is amazing, I couldn't stop looking at the eyes!
Just found your channel and loving it. Sold everything built my own van and was about to leave in March... now because of curt and covid I am stuck in one place under my van trying to decide on recirc shower!!! Anyway loving your channel her in Perth Western Australia. Love your channel. Keep up the good work.
Ha!!! Curt's videos can do that to people!! Hope you get to travel soon! If we stick to our very estimated travel itinerary.... Perth will be one of our very last stops before we hang up the keys to the van... Likely to be ten years from now!!
That's so funny, I totally agree with your 1 bad thing, I haven't lived in a van as yet, but I solo travel around the world, 54 countries and all 7 continents so far and the one thing I love when I come home is getting back to the internet with no hassles...so I feel you. Russia is one place I found you do have to buy a sim card, the downside is you won't be able to tether anything to it, wifi doesn't work in Russia unless you have an actual Russian phone number, that's if you're going to Russia, something to keep in mind.
We do plan on Russia... But basically just drive across with minimal stops. It's how we get from Europe to South Korea (ferry from easy Russia to S Korea)!
@@SnowAndCurt I loved both countries, great tax free shopping in South Korea...lol...only did a quick out of country stop there to reset my visa for Japan. The white nights in St Petersburg, midnight opening of bridges, canals + buildings, Moscow for the subway architecture is like nothing you've ever seen before, Irkutsk food, wooden buildings + people were amazing. Sakhalin is the most beautiful though, it's above Japan, I lived in Japan and always wanted to go there, it's very untouched and full of nature...the world is a beautiful place...and still at least another 80 odd countries I have to go...lol...then I'll be happy to stay in Australia once I'm 80...lol...
11:41 You can actually solve the internet problem permanently. I am a web developer, so I really, REALLY need my internet to do most of my work. So what I did, when I spent months travelling around USA with my girlfriend, while living out of a Honda Element, is I got 2 sim cards (AT&T & Verizon for best overall coverage, no matter the location), both with an unlimited data plan (around $150/m for both). I put those sims into mine & my GFs iPhones, jailbroke the phones (super easy to do these days, don't even need a laptop anymore) and installed TetherMe tweak, which allows you to turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot (even if the carrier doesn't allow tethering/hotspots at all). Then I also signed up for NordVPN and installed their app on each iPhone to encrypt/hide all phone internet traffic (since I don't want carriers snooping about in my data or finding out that I am somehow downloading 100s of GBs every month, seemingly all from my phone). And that's it - whenever I needed internet, I just switched on the hotspot on one of the phones (whichever one had the best reception) and voila - we had unlimited internet/WiFi that was also faster than most home internet connections (if we were in an area with 4G/LTE). And all for the same price as what you'd essentially pay at home (if you combine the cost of unlimited home internet plan + 2 phone plans, you'd probably be paying around $150/m anyway). Can't believe more people are not doing that.
@@SnowAndCurt I haven't experienced any throttling myself, to be honest. And I was well above the limit by the end of every month on both plans (it adds up quick between my heavy web dev work, downloading software updates & watching UA-cam/Netflix in Full HD). So yeah, I agree that they do, indeed, reserve the right to throttle you after a certain limit, as they state in T&Cs. But I have a feeling they rarely exercise that right (based on my personal experience of blasting past the limit every month with no problems), unless you will consistently do something stupid like downloading a TBs worth of data every month. It's just too obvious and will probably get red flagged by the system. But I've consistently downloaded around 200-300Gb/m on each plan (about 500Gb combined) and no one bat an eye.. :) I am sure the fact that I was hot-spotting via TetherMe on a Jailbroken phone + hiding all of my traffic behind a good VPN, helped me stay under the radar, since there was absolutely no way for them to ever prove that I was tethering. As far as their system could see, I was just an extremely heavy phone user. And it's not that unrealistic either these days - some people do watch a ton of Netflix/UA-cam on their phone and it adds up very fast. So yeah, with my setup I doubt they could ever catch me, since they couldn't see what I was actually doing and what device I was accessing the internet with thanks to the VPN+TetherMe combo.
@@SnowAndCurt I’ve had my iPhone throttled by att. I’ve even had att send a message in a browser asking me to verify I’m not a bot due to such high quarantining internet activity
The key to fitness really is just simple consistency. It's staying healthy during the inconvenient times because as soon as you start moving backward it compounds all your mistakes and if you only ever move forward then your progress is an inevitability. I'm hunkering down at my parents house hoping that all the gyms will be open by august bc I dont have a shower like you two lol.
Not really.... but we try to be pretty conservative with the situations we put ourselves in. In other words, I stay on Curt pretty good about not taking me anywhere scary! LOL .... we also research quite a bit before we head into a new area so we know the good areas and bad.... no offense against Chicago, it is a beautiful city, but I would not want to park my camper in some areas on the south side! There are areas like that in most cities in most countries... so we do our best to know where those areas are and avoid them!
I miss Mexico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We've been traveling for 7 years but consider Mexico our expat "home". We were house sitting in North Carolina when the lockdown happened. We were supposed to go from NC to Sweden for another house sit but the borders closed and we couldn't go. Then Mexico closed it's borders and we couldn't go home. So we went to my parents house in northern Minnesota. 3 days after we arrived they sold the house. Thankfully it's a long contract so we have the summer to close up shop here. I've been sorting through all my things and selling off most of it. Helping my parents close up my childhood home, Celebrating my daughter's 18th birthday....... (sorry..... I heard you ask "what do you miss" and the story just fell out) Pretty soon I'm going to miss everything I own, my daughter, my home, my childhood home, etc etc..... anyway..... we are preparing our RV for our first big destination and we'll see if we continue after that. We named the RV Irys the Virus but refer to her frequently as "the Bunker," our shelter and Eye of the Storm. I wish you all the best in Mexico :) God willing we'll be stuck in Mexico soon enough too!
@@SnowAndCurt We have a few stops to make in Minnesota before we really head out...... Our current target destination is a past house sit in Selma, AL! The homeowner needs to travel and we neeeeeeed to hug her dogs! We're trying to visit a few more (new) states on the way though. I have 16 states I haven't been to yet and I'm on an "All 50 before I'm 50" kick. (still plenty of time, sort of!) I'm sorry.... I don't know why I find myself babbling so much on your page here! :) We're basically in the RV as a solution to a problem but not trying to be miserable while in it. Trying to make it fun. Some days I don't have the motivation.
Hi Snow and Curt. Curt, I really appreciate your tech-talk. Me and my wife are looking for the same adventure in a camper van. I have few question. 1. Did you use a book as an inspiration for your conversion? If yes which book? 2. Yours is a Sprinter 170 extended or not? 3. Based on your research and taking in consideration freezing do you think will work to build the water tanks under floor (we are not so tall and if we still few inches on the whole surface of the floor we can have easy 40-50 gallons of water). Maybe I will have more question down the road. Thank you. Radu
Hi Radu! That's super exciting that you are planning your own campervan... It's the best decision we ever made! We did not have a book to do the build from... It was hours and hours of sketching on graph paper... Watching UA-cam vids... And then more hours of sketching! Once we had the layout... We dove into designing each element and then figure out how to make it fit together; yes, we have a 2018 dually 4x4... 170 extended! Curt will keep putting out more tech advice... And we try to answer all of the questions we can! Good luck and keep us posted!
Thanks Helen... Yep, worldwide pandemic is not the best time to plan a journey around the world! But, like you said, this will pass and we will be back on the road doing what we live! Thanks for watching!
First commenter!! Awesome!! Thanks... But we are okay... And our journey will continue... Just a matter of when!! Hope you are doing okay as well! Thanks for watching!!
Thanks for watching guys! We are trying to keep the content coming during the Corona Downtime... If you have anything you would like us to cover in a video, let us know in the comments!
Miss you guys!!! Looks like so much fun 😘
AIMEE!!!! Hi sweet lady!! Hope you are well!!
Hi again C&S
Organization is a big key to having low stress in our lives. Truly a kind of comfort. So interesting to hear your comparisons. When you speak of smaller space and enjoying it that's another kind of comfort comfort too! Like snuggling in your small cozy bed space. Really fun as I can relate to much of what you said and sense the feelings that come. Lol! Always enjoy you two and whatever topic you're bringing. Stay healthy and safe and keep enjoying every moment regardless...
Catcha next time!
Thanks so much!! We love all of the comments you leave us as you go thru and watch our vids!
Wow, this was a great video. I love the reflections. What a neat idea for a video! Great job.
Thanks Lynda!! We are trying to get creative so we can keep content coming during this downtime! Let us know if you have any thing you would like us to share in a video!! Stay safe!
You asked what we were doing.... Well, I've enjoyed going down the Rabbit Hole of watching van conversion videos. Thanks for your positive attitudes!
@@SnowAndCurt May rent before I buy....uncertain times, ya know....
For sure...good luck and let us know how it turns out!
🚐 ❤ Can't wait until you are back on the road again! Your cozy wee van is home now so no wonder you are missing things about it!!
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Glad you found a beautiful temporary respite! Can’t wait for the beach scenes. Safe adventuring.
We cannot wait to share this area with you guys!! Thanks for tuning in!
Love your videos! I enjoyed hearing your reflections on how you sometimes don’t see the beauty in your own backyard! I’m currently in the process of building out a sprinter and in between I’m finding ways to “see” the beauty in my own backyard! Thanks for the reminder and safe travels!
Thanks Sherry!! I look back on how long we took things for granted... We don't anymore... Happy to inspire a few others to slow down and "see" things again! Thanks for tuning in!!
I am glad I found your channel
We are too!! Welcome... And thanks for tuning in!
I planned on staying in the SW until April but came home end of February due to an unexpected family death. I totally agree with your #5, I miss being able to freely travel. I'm hoping to at least get out in my van this summer and do some remote camping near lakes here in the Yoop. There are many National Forest campgrounds in an hour from where I live (Escanaba). Thanks again for the content, that mural behind you is amazing, I couldn't stop looking at the eyes!
Oh it'll be amazing if you can get out by the lakes!! Keep in s posted on how you are doing up there!
Stay safe!! Hopefully you’ll be back on the road living life to it’s fullest, again
Thanks, DJRAW78!
Just found your channel and loving it. Sold everything built my own van and was about to leave in March... now because of curt and covid I am stuck in one place under my van trying to decide on recirc shower!!! Anyway loving your channel her in Perth Western Australia. Love your channel. Keep up the good work.
Ha!!! Curt's videos can do that to people!! Hope you get to travel soon! If we stick to our very estimated travel itinerary.... Perth will be one of our very last stops before we hang up the keys to the van... Likely to be ten years from now!!
I can only imagine how it dawned on you two that you've become real UA-camrs lol. enjoy the life
It's all a bit strange... And funny! Thanks for tuning in again... It's appreciated!
That's so funny, I totally agree with your 1 bad thing, I haven't lived in a van as yet, but I solo travel around the world, 54 countries and all 7 continents so far and the one thing I love when I come home is getting back to the internet with no hassles...so I feel you. Russia is one place I found you do have to buy a sim card, the downside is you won't be able to tether anything to it, wifi doesn't work in Russia unless you have an actual Russian phone number, that's if you're going to Russia, something to keep in mind.
We do plan on Russia... But basically just drive across with minimal stops. It's how we get from Europe to South Korea (ferry from easy Russia to S Korea)!
Impressive Travels!!
@@SnowAndCurt I loved both countries, great tax free shopping in South Korea...lol...only did a quick out of country stop there to reset my visa for Japan. The white nights in St Petersburg, midnight opening of bridges, canals + buildings, Moscow for the subway architecture is like nothing you've ever seen before, Irkutsk food, wooden buildings + people were amazing. Sakhalin is the most beautiful though, it's above Japan, I lived in Japan and always wanted to go there, it's very untouched and full of nature...the world is a beautiful place...and still at least another 80 odd countries I have to go...lol...then I'll be happy to stay in Australia once I'm 80...lol...
Just added all of those to my ever growing spreadsheet of things we MUST SEE! Happy travels!
I hope you can soon go on or come home to the 🇺🇸
Thanks Shirley!
11:41 You can actually solve the internet problem permanently. I am a web developer, so I really, REALLY need my internet to do most of my work. So what I did, when I spent months travelling around USA with my girlfriend, while living out of a Honda Element, is I got 2 sim cards (AT&T & Verizon for best overall coverage, no matter the location), both with an unlimited data plan (around $150/m for both). I put those sims into mine & my GFs iPhones, jailbroke the phones (super easy to do these days, don't even need a laptop anymore) and installed TetherMe tweak, which allows you to turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot (even if the carrier doesn't allow tethering/hotspots at all). Then I also signed up for NordVPN and installed their app on each iPhone to encrypt/hide all phone internet traffic (since I don't want carriers snooping about in my data or finding out that I am somehow downloading 100s of GBs every month, seemingly all from my phone). And that's it - whenever I needed internet, I just switched on the hotspot on one of the phones (whichever one had the best reception) and voila - we had unlimited internet/WiFi that was also faster than most home internet connections (if we were in an area with 4G/LTE). And all for the same price as what you'd essentially pay at home (if you combine the cost of unlimited home internet plan + 2 phone plans, you'd probably be paying around $150/m anyway). Can't believe more people are not doing that.
Even though it is “unlimited data” carriers throttle you after certain data limits. So once we reach that threshold we can’t upload a video.
@@SnowAndCurt I haven't experienced any throttling myself, to be honest. And I was well above the limit by the end of every month on both plans (it adds up quick between my heavy web dev work, downloading software updates & watching UA-cam/Netflix in Full HD). So yeah, I agree that they do, indeed, reserve the right to throttle you after a certain limit, as they state in T&Cs. But I have a feeling they rarely exercise that right (based on my personal experience of blasting past the limit every month with no problems), unless you will consistently do something stupid like downloading a TBs worth of data every month. It's just too obvious and will probably get red flagged by the system. But I've consistently downloaded around 200-300Gb/m on each plan (about 500Gb combined) and no one bat an eye.. :) I am sure the fact that I was hot-spotting via TetherMe on a Jailbroken phone + hiding all of my traffic behind a good VPN, helped me stay under the radar, since there was absolutely no way for them to ever prove that I was tethering. As far as their system could see, I was just an extremely heavy phone user. And it's not that unrealistic either these days - some people do watch a ton of Netflix/UA-cam on their phone and it adds up very fast. So yeah, with my setup I doubt they could ever catch me, since they couldn't see what I was actually doing and what device I was accessing the internet with thanks to the VPN+TetherMe combo.
@@SnowAndCurt I’ve had my iPhone throttled by att. I’ve even had att send a message in a browser asking me to verify I’m not a bot due to such high quarantining internet activity
Please take a still picture of that back ground and post it for us. Love it.
Ok!! I'll do that sometime today!
The key to fitness really is just simple consistency. It's staying healthy during the inconvenient times because as soon as you start moving backward it compounds all your mistakes and if you only ever move forward then your progress is an inevitability. I'm hunkering down at my parents house hoping that all the gyms will be open by august bc I dont have a shower like you two lol.
You are right!! Hoping the gyms open up for you soon!! 🛀🏼🛀🏼🛀🏼
Quest for the always elusive Why Oh Why F👁
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Some trucks get WiFi by putting a satellite disc on the van that can rotate 360 degrees
We've looked at that a but... But international causes some issues and it can get really expensive! Thanks for the tip.
Wish i could imitate ur life but no partner, very jealous, enjoy ur videos immensely.
Glad you are with us‼️❤️☮️🙏
How’s the Spanish coming along?
Curt is picking it up quicker than me... But we are both progressing!! I think being older has made it harder to learn! Lol! Thanks for asking!
Hello. I just found your information and love your honesty. I was wondering if you ever feel unsafe from outside elements..such as people?
Not really.... but we try to be pretty conservative with the situations we put ourselves in. In other words, I stay on Curt pretty good about not taking me anywhere scary! LOL .... we also research quite a bit before we head into a new area so we know the good areas and bad.... no offense against Chicago, it is a beautiful city, but I would not want to park my camper in some areas on the south side! There are areas like that in most cities in most countries... so we do our best to know where those areas are and avoid them!
👍Good points. Thanks. Wishing you both the best. 💝
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Good vid, insightful!
Glad you enjoyed it
I miss Mexico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We've been traveling for 7 years but consider Mexico our expat "home". We were house sitting in North Carolina when the lockdown happened. We were supposed to go from NC to Sweden for another house sit but the borders closed and we couldn't go. Then Mexico closed it's borders and we couldn't go home. So we went to my parents house in northern Minnesota. 3 days after we arrived they sold the house. Thankfully it's a long contract so we have the summer to close up shop here. I've been sorting through all my things and selling off most of it. Helping my parents close up my childhood home, Celebrating my daughter's 18th birthday....... (sorry..... I heard you ask "what do you miss" and the story just fell out) Pretty soon I'm going to miss everything I own, my daughter, my home, my childhood home, etc etc..... anyway..... we are preparing our RV for our first big destination and we'll see if we continue after that. We named the RV Irys the Virus but refer to her frequently as "the Bunker," our shelter and Eye of the Storm. I wish you all the best in Mexico :) God willing we'll be stuck in Mexico soon enough too!
We get it!! It is a tough time in the world! Love the RV name. Have you pivked out yoyr first destination yet?
@@SnowAndCurt We have a few stops to make in Minnesota before we really head out...... Our current target destination is a past house sit in Selma, AL! The homeowner needs to travel and we neeeeeeed to hug her dogs! We're trying to visit a few more (new) states on the way though. I have 16 states I haven't been to yet and I'm on an "All 50 before I'm 50" kick. (still plenty of time, sort of!) I'm sorry.... I don't know why I find myself babbling so much on your page here! :) We're basically in the RV as a solution to a problem but not trying to be miserable while in it. Trying to make it fun. Some days I don't have the motivation.
Sounds like a great plan!!
Miss being able to travel....everything shutdown
We hear ya!! Hopefully things will start to ease up for us all soon!
Hi Snow and Curt. Curt, I really appreciate your tech-talk. Me and my wife are looking for the same adventure in a camper van. I have few question. 1. Did you use a book as an inspiration for your conversion? If yes which book? 2. Yours is a Sprinter 170 extended or not? 3. Based on your research and taking in consideration freezing do you think will work to build the water tanks under floor (we are not so tall and if we still few inches on the whole surface of the floor we can have easy 40-50 gallons of water). Maybe I will have more question down the road. Thank you. Radu
Hi Radu! That's super exciting that you are planning your own campervan... It's the best decision we ever made! We did not have a book to do the build from... It was hours and hours of sketching on graph paper... Watching UA-cam vids... And then more hours of sketching! Once we had the layout... We dove into designing each element and then figure out how to make it fit together; yes, we have a 2018 dually 4x4... 170 extended! Curt will keep putting out more tech advice... And we try to answer all of the questions we can! Good luck and keep us posted!
Best scenery videos, most informative videos, worst timing 😂. But this too shall pass and a great story for years from now.
Thanks Helen... Yep, worldwide pandemic is not the best time to plan a journey around the world! But, like you said, this will pass and we will be back on the road doing what we live! Thanks for watching!
I first to comment I so sorry for u guys
First commenter!! Awesome!! Thanks... But we are okay... And our journey will continue... Just a matter of when!! Hope you are doing okay as well! Thanks for watching!!