I definitely agree with you about having a second pair of eyes and navigator. Since my wife passed I have been traveling alone and it takes a lot more planning. I also enjoy Harvest Host for overnight stops.

Builds are never complete, they're just ok to use until something big needs fixing, hey if you've managed a year then that's pretty good going.

Highway 18 is always like that part of the day, yes a lot to see here that you did not have time for. I have the opposite problem with my door, locks me in and have to pull it hard if it's aired up to get it open.

Hi Mela and Don. I loved the views you got from the bus as Don was driving. Pity about the noisy door.

Safe travels back east my family lives in southwest oxford ohio I live in florida God Bless

Thanks for sharing this journey with me. Safe Travels Always God Bless Y'all Mucho Love From Your Friend In Michigan Tam 💜💜💜💜

Heyy Mela, Don Pizzicato and hello Mr Sweet Face beautiful scenery, love the animals get the door fixed lol wonderful drive ,thanks for sharing stay safe

Guys, thank you for this walk down memory lane! We lived in WA for 20 years and moved to FL a year ago. Yes the 101 loop, especially on a bike, priceless! And looking at Mt Tahoma.. erm Rainier has in all those years never gotten old! Thank you guys!

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Watching your video today you were in my neck of the woods. And in September I was going to take our camping trailer over Highway 18 but I wasn’t going to go over the mountain because I wasn’t sure how construction was going on. So watching your show today I think it’ll be just fine.

Safe Travels and Enjoy!!! ❤️❤️

Ha, I know Don from his Kontakt instr channel and started watching the bus renovation during covid. Nice to see you on the road finally. Have fun guys!

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Hey dman, thanks for checking out the vlog! It is great to be on the road and celebrating a year in our bus!

Hello 👋 love y'all ❤❤❤❤

That was a lot of driving Don. you passed through some beautiful areas, but not very good going through road works, Have a great week,

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Barry, you have a great week too

Omg, that noise would drive me up a wall. Glad you're getting back to the to do list. I hope you made it past the fires by now. It is not good air quality here in Centralia today and its horrible to look at the numbers for Eastern Washington. Stay safe.

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Ha ha yeah that squeak is awful. Thankfully it’s not constant, we have to be traveling a certain speed, certain amount of wind….but definitely moved up on the to do list now that we are traveling faster on the freeways!!!

Just watch the signs!!

@jacquetaylor2714

10 ай бұрын

😂🎉 sometimes I hate garmin.. I felt like I was driving home from the west side.

We loved riding along with yall! We run RV Life gps and the truck gps (Dave calls it "Bitc**n Betty) too. Double is better! Travel safe! 😎🤗

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

🤣 oh Dave

Try this Ajax, hand soap, dish washing detergent best thing for shaving bumps acne, and others. GEN irritant skin rash been using this stuff for 30 years works great.

Hi guys Rex from Fort Steven’s ….. I hate Hwy 18 ….. safe travels

Your headed east stop in Tennessee and see the bus Greasemonkey for that door latch also he does stuff via face time

Love to watch your experiences. Thanks for opening up your lives for us. We’re just finishing up our bus now and looking forward to travel too. Welcome to look us up in HH if you come in west Michigan. Happy hens farm

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Awesome! Hope to see you down the road

00:09 That cat literally says "hello"

Still loving the videos... Watching the part where you connect your vehicle in the rear... How does that process actually take (start to finish) with all of the connections, aligning the car, etc..?

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Not long at all. If we are dumping, we start the dump and then go hook up the Jeep. We have our roles in the process so it goes super fast. Maybe 2 or 3 minutes, but we’ve never timed it. The waste water won’t even be finished dumping by the time we are done with the Jeep.

I like your breathing method! I'll have to try that! I experienced the exact same thing leaving the peninsula, except I drove the section of the 101 to where it was closed and had to turn around and drive all the way back. 😒 Hope you guys are doing well in the heat!!! 💛

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Yes! Ha ha! That’s why we didn’t want to go that way lol we thought we’d learned from what you said but ended up there anyway 😆 Yeah, I think our little breathe breaks make a big difference ❤️❤️❤️

You should be able on Garmin to say no ferry and etc?

I would ride with you! Come pick me up😅😊

grew up in the state of Washington, but sorry I could not travel with you...... I am allergic to cats hahahahaha.

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

🤣

Enjoyed the ride, on the first stop did you dump the rear air bags to level the coach ? Safe travels.

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Yes!

Hi Don. I checked out your travels after you posted on Deal Compressor. Very cool! How do you find time to put together the Deal compressor videos while traveling?

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

He is a busy man :) but we never travel on Thursdays so he can record and edit DC. Our weeks always look different, but thursdays are set!

Do these MCI's NOT have Jake breaks? Is that because they have a hydraulically shifted automatic (like an Allison)? In the newer OTR bus's, did they go to semi auto transmissions like on a 18 wheeler, or?

Do you have separate monitors for your left and right sides? If so, where did you get them. I want to do that for my car.

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

We have 3 back up cameras. Very helpful. Probably bought off Amazon

Garmin? Why not use an imap or Google maps? It’s more accurate

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

The garmin is for RV’s so you put in your height, length and weight of your vehicle and it takes you in roads that are safe for your size. If we used google or IMAP’s we’d run into problems like bridges we can’t fit under, roads too narrow for us to turn onto, bridges we are too heavy to drive on etc

crazy hot? Laughs in Texan....

Just man up and get an RV mapping machine and quit -fading about. Garment does a good job but there are others to . Vehicle height, weight limit, etc., etc., etc..

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

Dude the Garmin is specifically for RV’s with height, weight , length etc

@PeterPazucha

11 ай бұрын

@@Rehabit8 of course it is, but your parameters fit the description and you would be infinitely safer on the road than what you demonstrated in this video of your preparedness to be on the road. and less of a hazard to other drivers by having better routing. I was a full time RV’er for 7 years in a 42’ Holiday Rambler PLQ and the Garmin had our back every single day. Before that I drove semi in the lower 48 so I’m not without some experience of the dangers of unprepared drivers. You have a responsibility to others on the road to be safe.

@Rehabit8

11 ай бұрын

@@PeterPazucha as I said, both the Garmin we use and the RVlife app have ALL the parameters to keep us on a route that is safe for our height, weight and length. At no point in this video or any other time we have been on the road were we a hazard or putting anyone in danger. Thank you for your concern but whichever device’s route we had chosen to follow we would have safely arrived. It was simply a matter of choosing a route with less traffic and less expense.