Last Major Hurdle Behind Us

Victor Justin Rhodes and family finish moving into their converted bus, testing the water heater, installing a filter, and troubleshooting the battery wiring. They're heading out on an American Farm Tour with a hog-butcher workshop in Athens, Georgia on February 18-20.
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All right, that's the last technical problematic hurdle we gotta overcome. Now we just gotta load this thing up. North Carolina, America. I'm gonna miss this state. Let's test this out. Woo! We're cooking with gas. The water works, we know that. We just got to test the hot water heater, so let's put it on hot and see if it kicks in. Oh, I hear it! I heard it! It's going warm! It's going warm! We got warm water! Everything is going good! Woo! Oh my gosh, I'm so excited about that. We'll be fully moved in here tonight, meaning we're gonna sleep in here. We've been sleeping in here, but now we can cook, run water, and I think we have some stuff for the compost toilet too. So one of you guys said you haven't moved in until there's poop in the potty and food in the fridge. That should be happening in the next 24 hours. I won't film that part, at least not the poop in the potty part. Now to put the water filter in under the sink. Turn off the water to it. I've got a catch pail here. Hopefully that's enough. It's probably gonna have some water in it, so I've got this bucket here. Get the water out. No problem, man. Everything's going good. Here's our plan for starting the American Farm Tour. Hope to leave on Thursday. We're gonna go down to Athens, Georgia. In Athens, we go to Heritage Spot and Feathers Farms. They're hosting a hog butchering. Who's that in here? Somebody come to see me? You gonna come in and hang out in the bus? Yeah. Okay, good. Here, hold this. Hand Hewn Farm is putting on the workshop. They're experts in pork harvesting. We're gonna learn how to humanely kill do the rough butchering and then do the fine butchering, and then preserving things like lard and making sausage and doing all the cuts. It's going to be absolutely amazing. Now the cool thing is, if you guys are interested in joining that, they actually have 3 spots left. Since their host, that farm, is hosting this, I said, hey, do you got any tickets left? I'll be happy to promote it. So if you guys want to be a part of that, I'll leave the link in the description. That's February 18th, 19th, and 20th in Athens, Georgia. What are you doing? You like that pillow? You like Mom's pillow? They're her Great American Farm Tour pillows. Yeah. You like hanging out with Papa? Yeah. Are you getting special Papa time? Yeah. Yeah, this is fun. Alright, let's go do the next project. No fire hydrant, fire hydrant. And that's not the only fire hydrant. We're all about safety, folks. Fire hydrant number 2. Carbon monoxide alarm. Fire alarm. Another carbon monoxide alarm. What are you guys working on? Hanging up some pictures. Nice. We're gonna surprise our brothers too. We got some for them. We got some pictures of Mei Mei and Christy. And Pap, Grandpa. Oh, you got one of Papaw? And they've got a little frame. Did you make that, Christy? I did. A sweet little mermaid sleeps here. Well, we'll put that one on Jonah's bed. Yes, perfect. He'll love it, right? Now it's secure. Got Mr. Brown out here with me now. What's going on? Here, you want your truck out? Yeah, here, I'll help you. There it is. Look what Christy has done. What a nice surprise. Oh, looks like you might have gotten in here, buddy. Okay, nice job, Christy. Gonna try this out as a heater. This is what the Jamisons have, and they're a bus, and they say they like it. So let's give it a try. As opposed to that oil heater, this is much smaller. We'll try it out tonight and see if it's as good. Power on. Doesn't turn on. That's it, there's a switch in the back too. There we go, got a light. Open, open, open, open. Bye. There we go, feels warm. Look who just showed up. Oh hey, we're gonna figure out what's wrong with this propane heater. That's right, I got my helper with me today. Yeah, it's take your kid to work day, huh, Bracken? Almost every day. Who's this? This is Ezra. Ezra, he's 3. Say hey. You getting shy, buddy? A little bit. Oh, what do you think's the matter, Bracken? Well, the fault code says it has a low battery power, but we're plugged right into the solar battery, so I'm not sure why that is only reading 7 volts. That's not right. We'll get to the bottom of it. You had to go outside? Yeah, I figured it out. So I had it connected to only one of your batteries, but you're using 6-volt batteries. Ah, so I wasn't hooked up to the parallel side, but now we are. That's an easy fix. Yeah, it should come. You ready? Yeah, yeah, just let me, uh, that was anticlimactic. Oh, I'll have it plugged in. There you go. All right, crank it up, crank it up. Here we go. There it is, there it is, and getting warmer. Look who just showed up. That's Jeff and Stacy. He's coming to say goodbye, but let's play a trick on him. How are you guys doing? We're good. Jeff, good to see you, buddy. We had to come and say goodbye. Oh, okay, good. I'm glad you're here because we said goodbye. We missed— we missed Maple. Yeah. Oh, well, there's 3 and a half leaks underneath the bus I need you to go look at. 3 and a half. What's the half line? He ain't going under there, is he? He's not going back under there. He doesn't miss her that bad. No, no, I miss— I miss this part of Maple. I don't miss the underneath. Hey, where you been all day? I have been on the couch all day. I haven't been feeling well. You feeling any better? I am feeling better. Okay, good. I'm still a little bit— You're gonna be back at it tomorrow? I hope. Okay, well everything major's worked out. The heater's working. See, I feel now like— I feel like these things kind of had to resolve. Yeah, before we could— There'll be no more men coming in here and working on your bus. I know. See, now I can move in. Kids, hey, Ella's gonna leave. You're gonna see her for a while. Hey, goodbye buddy. We'll see you later. We'll see you on YouTube. Yeah, bye guys. Arun, I smell that you've been up to something, buddy. Yeah, I made some kofta curry. It's Indian kofta curry. Kofta curry means like meatball curry. So you can look at— meatball curry. Meatball curry. And what's that go good with? It's good with rice. You can have naan, will be so good. Nice. Yeah, this rice you can eat with. This is the raita, but today raita is different. It's tomato and onion. With yogurt and some cilantro and salt and pepper. And some greens. It looks delicious. You excited about that, buddy? What'd you think, Josiah? Um, I did not like it. You didn't? But you cleared your plate anyway. Good for you, buddy.
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