We’re Taking our Brinkley RV Back to the Factory
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- This week RV life is taking us from Florida to Indiana as we take our Brinkley RV Model Z3100 back to the factory for some warranty work (and some much-anticipated RV upgrades!). Join us as we head north for some winter RV living along our 1,000 mile RV road trip.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 1,000 Mile RV Trip
3:54 Season 3 begins
8:06 Save on Fuel Costs
10:30 First Stop: Red Coach RV Resort
15:42 Low Bridges & RVs
19:43 Arriving in the dark
21:49 It's Snowing!
25:38 Charlestown State Park
*Who are we?*
We’re Victoria & Craig! In 2021, we decided that we needed to make life a little more exciting, so we bought a used fifth wheel and completely renovated it. Then, we sold our house in Tallahassee, Florida and hit the road full time in our RV! We’ve traveled all around the United States (and Baja Mexico!) and fell in love with boondocking in our RV at the most beautiful places. In 2023, we upgraded to a brand new Brinkley RV Model Z 3100. You’ll always find us on some kind of outdoor adventure, whether it’s hiking the Grand Canyon, rock climbing in Yosemite or surfing the shores of Baja Mexico. Subscribe to our channel (bit.ly/3ssOjGT) to follow along on our full time RV living adventures!
Self drive in any conditions is a hard no-go
Your production quality is absolutely excellent, and you’re nice people.
Thank you so much!
25 miles south of Indy is the Johnson County Park. They have a large, level campground only 5 miles off of I-65, at Edinburgh.
You guys should come over to Ohio and check out hocking hills state park if you've never been there before, it's amazing!
I keep hearing about that place. I definitely want to try to make it that way one day to check it out.
Indiana supports the RV repair industry also with their road conditions. Nice park though. Safe travels! And that doesn't count as snow, just a little cold dust. It's obvious you guys are from Florida!
lol!! so that's why the roads were so bad! It was a great state park though, we really enjoyed it!
Thank you for taking my mind off everything else. :-)
I enjoy watching you guys every Sunday :-)
And in between :-)
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Hey Craig, the 2024 Ford F350 SRW, HO, Platinum, Tremor I just picked up will drive itself “Lane Centering” and “Adaptive Cruise Control” will drive itself for 15 seconds at a time then you push on the steering wheel to let it know you are there. It’s available on most of the trim levels. Come to the dark side with Ford brother, the water is warm… 1200 foot pounds of torque and 500 horsepower it pulls our Z3610 like a dream!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have the 2021 F150 with lane centering and adaptive cruse control and I tow with it all on. It makes a huge difference! It takes a lot of stress away. Still need to keeps hands and eyes on
Hey guys, we also have a Z3100, #99 and it’s at the factory now having some repairs done along with some upgrades we want.
Craig, get a measurement from to high point of the front A/C to a fixed point on one side. We chose measuring to the top of the opening at the Nautilus water system. Then we can measure from there to the ground after we hook up to the truck and know exactly what our height is, no mater how loaded or unloaded the camper is.
Also, running the furnace does not add moisture to the air. The combustion happens in a chamber which is vented out the side of the camper. The combustion while using the stove or oven does release some moisture, but the furnace can’t. People think it does, but because warm air holds more moisture in suspension, they blame it on the furnace. Electric heat will do the same thing. Just leave the bathroom vent open a little because it’s height than the kitchen vent. You will lose some warmth but it will take some moisture with it. It would take a house-size dehumidifier to pull it all out while living in the southeast.
Oh how funny, our RVs are probably neighbors then, as ours is currently at the service center now! And good to know about the furnace! Everyone has always said that the furnace will add moisture because of the propane but it makes sense that there is the vent outside that would let it out. thanks for the tip!!
@@wildrvlifewe learned this lesson the hard way in very cold weather at a private membership campground where the power went out. Usually we’d use electric heaters but we ended up using a propane catalytic heater that was put in by the original owner. Because our alternative was running the generator so we wouldn’t kill the batteries, we used the wall furnace. Gallons poured down the windows and did some damage. The2003 Winnebago 110 outlets have a spacer that sticks out about an inch with a flimsy plastic cover. I am glad Brinkley 110 outlets are flush with the walls and not directly under a window. We had to replace ours that got soaked. We ended up putting every towel we owned on the dashboard, on the table and behind the metal blinds in the kitchen and bath. An 03 motorhome is no match for freezing weather. We had no freezing issues, thankfully but we did have to start the generator to plug in a hairdryer to heat the water valve to get our hose off. It was a weird vacation! The mat outside the door was one of those plastic woven cheap ones and it turned into an ice rink. The dog skated across it totally after he jumped off the bottom step. He turned around and gave me one of those dog looks like it was my fault.
You both are so cute. Full of life, loving each other and your pets.
Get a chamois for the windows or wherever else drops of water accumulate (ceilings). Then ring it out outside. Then it has no chance of running downwards to stuff it can damage over time.
Cheers.
Good tip thank you!
Awww Heck! You only need 1" of clearance, Clarence! Put the 🔨down and Ger-R-Done Baby! 🤠
Haha! I feel like we probably didn't have much more than 1" of clearance.
Craig and Victoria just wanted to thank you for the awesome RUclips content. We discovered your binge-worthy channel. You have entertained us while on the road and in the evenings when we pull into a campsite. We are traveling through Wyoming, headin' to Colorado and Texas. It's been fun to see your boondocking sites! Safe travels.
We are looking forward to your next video release. Love your Brinkley!
Beth & David / Camp Liberty (our 30-foot sheep camp)
Thank you so much!! 😊 it sounds like you’ve got a pretty epic trip coming up! We really loved Colorado last summer and have definitely put Wyoming on our need to explore more list!
Oh and “escited” rather than excited. It’s the X that he doesn’t use. That’s funny! We know you love both do your fur babies equally. 😍
When it's 29 degrees and snowing in the morning, we make coffee, make and eat breakfast, pack a lunch, saddle up and ride.
I'm in my 70s, and she's only a few years younger.
Also...if you can't aFord it, dodge it.
WOW! You guys are brave to head north in the winter. We are so glad we spent the winter in Florida.
gotta keep ourselves on our toes apparently 🤣
You Both make it easy for people to Follow You on Your Adventures. Snow to me is amazing. But in NC we don't get that much. Hope You both stay Blessed and Well.
Thank you so much so much for watching! We really appreciate it!
Great viedo,not far from me in southern illinois,God bless!!🎉❤
We told RV Life GPS that our Brinkley was 13’ 6” tall so as to avoid these types of “too close for comfort” situations.
As a southern man, I count that as snow flurries ❄️ As for exercising, it is hard to get out in the cold for exercise. When it warms up, you both will be out there more often. That was a good picture 📸 😃👍
When and if you do egg roll in a bowl just a couple tips to make it better. First use ground chicken instead of chicken pieces or ground pork. Then you can add a whole bag of coleslaw mix which you don’t have to chop up any of the vegetables. Then you sauté your hamburger/pork/chicken or ground turkey with the sesame oil and then you add in some of your minced garlic onion and minced ginger ,Sriracha, a little chilli flakes and of course, soy sauce. I make it at least every other week accompanied by potstickers from Costco. Super yummy and my whole family love it
If you said, "sauté your hamburger" outside of North America, they'd say, "Why would I sauté a hamburger?!" 😅
I'd live the receipt Thanks😊
That sounds great!
We had two dogs before we had kids. My husband had a favorite and she died from kidney failure at age two. It was devastating . But after the other died from old age, he realized how much he loved them both the same, just differently. After I ran my last Boston Marathon, I decided to slow it down and now I just run half marathons. Tough keeping motivation on the road. You’re doing great!
Oh man, sorry to hear about your pups, they really do become a part of the family ❤️ and yes! it can be hard to stay consistent when we're constantly changing locations, but it's doable.. thank you!
Your fur babies are so adorable! I think that every week but when Maverick put his hand on Craig! And Leland in his hoodie ❤
Haha!! They have such personalities.
Thank you!
you guys are just sooooooooooo much fun to watch!!!
Love to watch you guys and of course Maverick and Lealand 🐾🐾♥️♥️ Hope all goes well with your RV repairs!! Stay safe 🙌💛😎
Great job guys! Y’all are naturals at this!
Thank you!!
Fun little travel vid. Buckle up we see some big fun things coming your way.
Several years ago, I was in CT, at a family funeral, with our C-class. I needed to get on the parkway. There were signs saying, "No trucks." I figured I wasn't a truck, so no problem. Within minutes I came upon a very low bridge. I stopped right in the middle of the road, super scared. I didn't know how tall our rig was. Big mistake! I was alone, so no one to help me. I got out and looked. Then drove a bit, got out and looked, drove a bit and got out to look...several times. I made it under the bridge, but hustled off that parkway at the next exit, praying there were no more low bridges before the exit. Lesson learned! Put the rig measurements on the dash and if it says, no trucks, stay away!!
Oh my gosh! I'm glad you made it. Low bridges are probably might worst rving nightmare.
I should not even tell this story but....in 2016 we bought a new travel trailer that was 9'6" or 2.89m tall (Canada). Was bringing it home the first day and never even thought about it until I got home, but I had gone under a railroad track that is labeled 2.90 meters. I did not hit, but my measured height of the trailer was less than 1/2" less than the labeled height of the railway. I assume they must put a little fudge factor in there. Needless to say my heart was beating pretty hard when I realized what I had done. I can only imagine the feeling had I scrapped our brand new trailer on day 1..... 🤒, but I guess lady luck was on my side that day. as always, safe travels
You guys a breath of fresh air. Love your videos, keep it up !
Thank you so much!
I like it when Victoria looks at the camera. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, I feel like she's talking to *me*😅
Once again, great video guys. Thanks for sharing.💜💜💜💜
Thanks for watching!
I hope you did that 13'6" for production quality. Could you imagine your trip if you were one inch off. We use rvlife trip wizard first to check for low clearance. Then we know where google needs to route us - if google is going to get "clever" we break it into stops that we can control the route. Like we might say go to x-town post office, and just before we get off freeway we then say - go to y-town truckstop. etc
Can't wait to see next weeks...you two are definitely fun.
thanks for joining us this week!
He is adorable in his new sweater.
Good job y’all. Stay warm and take care of the pooch
thank you so much!
Good luck guys at Brinkley
thank you!!
Oooh!! Upgrades too??!! I can't wait!! ❤
I just hope we are able to get the upgrades we want!
@@wildrvlife oh, me too! ❤️
Eight years of full time RV’ing… we are now in our 40’s and have had a blast. Likely building a home this year so our full time adventure may soon end. Watching you guys just getting fired up is pretty awesome. Breath of fresh air.
Really enjoying your adventures. Not just your locations and the campgrounds but also enjoying everything having to do about your Brinkley. I just bought the same model. It is now being prepped for pick up on 13 March. Oh yeah, love your pups too!
Just happened upon your channel, catchy title. Breathe of fresh air seeing the two of you and your furry friends enjoy life.
Thank you for that!!!
Great job guys!
Thank you so much!
Love your channel. Keep smiling!!
Thank you so much!
We have definitely liked the Open Roads program and found it helped us get a cheaper cost at most fill-ups
Team gloves, heavens no on the self driving truck. We live in Ohio and the sun is rare in the winter. We have become quite accustomed to winter camping! You’ll enjoy the RV hall of fame!
Team gloves!!! I am excited about seeing the Hall of Fame! Thank you for watching.
Ivation Desiccant 13 pint warm air dehumidifier....best thing ever!
Thanks! For the video
Thank you so much!
We are also 5th wheel solar owners, it was kind of cool watching your video of installation on the old RV as well as the transfer to the new one. Keep up the good work.
Really enjoyed your video this week😊 Great work, as usual!
Glad you enjoyed it! thank you for watching!!
as a retired road commissioner most road underpass's are 8-10 inch's more than stated. Don't know about florida but in states that have snow and ice, this is usually true. Going to have to try that egg roll in a bowl. have to agree that you miss the deep fried part but my wife says that craig looks great with his weight loss. that's the first thing she said when the video started.
This is good to hear! Maybe we can relax about the bridges just a bit lol. and thank you!
I love in Goshen and the weather is pretty nice, 67 degrees today, 60s the rest of the week. Rain on Tuesday. Safe travels 😁.
Hi guys, I must say I love your Brinkley, They sure sound like they are the better quality ones out there. Good luck with your repairs. ❤️❤️👍👍🇨🇦
Thanks so much! From what we’ve seen at the shows and from talking to folks, Brinkley definitely does seem to be producing better quality units!
Congrats on y’all’s exercise progress! Good health is the key to happy travels! 👍
agree! thank you!
Thanks!
thank you so much!! ❤️
Charlestown State Park was an excellent choice!!
One of our favorites!
It was so nice. I highly recommend that place!
Dice up some chicken breast, marinate it in a good quality Greek dressing for a day in the fridge. Skewer it with chunks of onion and grill. Serve with cucumber and tomato salad with olive oil and salt and pepper as well as some potato wedges baked in lemon juice, chicken stock and olive oil (with whatever seasoning you like). Absolutely delicious
That does sound good. I'm writing this one down!
We try to stop at Petro or T/A stations when we need fuel. Their discounts are usually higher than Loves or most other station.Excellent video!!
I saw where Ram is coming out with the hands free drive mode. I don’t think I would ever use it, as I like to be in control of my vehicle! I also know people who use cruise control while towing! I was told that is a definite no no!! I totally agree!! Again I want to be in control of my vehicle, that’s the driver’s responsibility!!
I hear you. Although I think the self driving vehicles could definitely be an improvement on some people's driving. Especially around Atlanta.
@@wildrvlife sorry, I don’t think there is any help for Atlanta!! I’m less than 2 hours away from there. When I go there I’m usually an hour and half to get there and another hour just to get to the other side!!😂😂 Having also driven Alabama interstates, I totally agree with your opinion on them as well!! 👎👎
Gold Paw! Check out their fleeces for the pups! They are the best and just enough for dogs that don’t need thick jackets. Easy to put on (face the seam out!). Furley truly loves his every winter. They last FOREVER and you can layer two if needed.
Hey guys! If you're coming back through Southern Indiana, we live about 45 minutes south of Indianapolis and can hook you up with 50amp service for a night and there's a free dump station a mile down the road. If you're interested, reply and we can set it up!
We're near I-65 and it's easy in, easy out.
thank you so much!! I think we'll be heading more west when we leave, but if you want to shoot us an email, I'll make a note in our map with your email for Indianapolis in case we're ever coming back through there!
On my gosh, I wish I had known. I’m less than 10 miles away from Toney. I dont have hook ups but you could park at our place…… anytime. We watch you guys all the time.
Can’t wait to follow along with you guys to Alaska! Also, we toured the RV Hall of Fame last year while in Indiana doing some battery upgrades on our van and loved it! Safe travels!
We are looking forward to checking out the museum still. We've heard that it's super interesting! and thank you!!
I almost lost my snack when I saw you go under the 13’’ 6” overpass 😂 🤪
It was a little nerve wracking for sure
Lol, touchy about the sweater/hoodie !
Great video guys I love the state park y’all stayed at and the abandoned amusement park and I can’t wait to see where you guys are gonna stay while your camper is being fixed ..
It was such a unique state park! Thanks for joining us this week and we're looking forward to showing you where we end up next week!
Hope the repairs are going well. I used to winter camp in Washington with a big group in tents. All were off roaders and usually the snow would be a foot or so deep. Had a camp stove for the tents and it was pretty fun. Most of the guys where soviet military that had stayed in the USA when the soviet union collapsed. Poor Maverick is so sweet just telling you he loves you. Have you tried hiding things for them to find or other "jobs""? They like to work. I think open road youtube channel said they met you, they are going to Alaska this summer also. They now have a sweet pup also.
We drove from Tennessee to Elkhart last year to have some work done on our Van. It was a cool town and the RV Hall of Fame was a very unique museum. Very excited to see the Alaska trip. Also, I think a self driving truck is a great idea! I’m totally in!😂.
Craig is very cute when he says “fits” instead of fixed.
Love Leland’s new sweatshirt
we went on the road for 4 months and made one reservation. did a rv factory tour and had a lot of questions as to why they did things like use an 1 1/2 " screw where a 1/2" screw would have worked an why they used staples to hold the backing for the ladder atachments. anyway we had a great trip from Nova Scotia to California and back. Safe travels and that was only a few flurries.
My sister and I did the G3500 tour and loved it. We also got two free coffee mugs and tee shirts.
That's awesome! All the people we have run into at brinkley so far have been extremely nice.
yes. You drop the factory tank and it goes right in the same spot. The distance to empty isn’t correct after. But the gauge is. 20 more gallons when towing makes a huge difference.
This might be in my future soon!
@@wildrvlife I went with the titan tank. But S&B makes one as well.
Be safe out there
will do, thank you!
Alaska! Talking about cold, bring sweaters even for the the Alaska summers the evenings can be chilly.
You DO have friends all over the country!❤
it's really the most amazing thing!
It’s Good For U.
The sweaters for the fur babies are cute. I can tell you all are like me. I don't like the cold either. As for a self driving vehicle. No thank you. To dangerous. Drive and stay safe out there. God bless 🙌 🙏. Mary
Looks like a pretty interesting lifestyle? If I could get my wife excited about traveling, I'd be a happy camper..." No pun intended" lol
I envy you !
With being a SimTriage Analyst for a self-driving AI company. I LOVED IT. We had to learn inside the cars first. It's great fun. So it's a yes for me. Our RV is in the shop for the fourth time since we last saw you. We are all finding out what life in an RV is like full-time. Wishing you the best in getting it in and out in a timely manner. We've been with in-laws going on a month now. Anyway, until next week…
Oh man, so sorry to hear that the RV is back in the shop! 😩 that really is the worst part of RV life. And sometimes it seems like people get lucky and don't ever have anything too major and other times it's like you're describing... hopefully this will be the last time for a long while it has to go in!
I'm with you Craig, I'd love a self driving truck!
SNOW FLURRIES
Great video such a cool place.
thank you!! we had fun!
I have blue cruise and love it. Would take a bit to get faith with towing but I like it as a second set of eyes on the road.
Another great video 👍🏻
Thanks again!
Hey guys. Love the video. I see you avoided driving through Atlanta this time. I hate taking our RV through there. So while we were watching your video and you showed the snow outside a hail storm hit us. We are still in Central Florida, the sound of the hail on the RV was so loud. Our first storm experience since we started our journey. It was freaky. I hope you arrive at the Brinkley Factory safe. Pls take care. Love always Freddy and Bryan
Oh gosh, I hope you avoided any hail damage! Hail storms are always our worst fear because they can pop up seemingly without warning and you never know what size hail might fall from the sky!
Awesome video. Overpasses gives me the Ono feeling. If you don't hear the crash then pedal down.
Haha exactly!!
I call that flurries. Kinda like sprinkling and not raining…. lol
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My wife and I rented a class c recently. Our first RV outing. We arrived in the dark and had to set up, for the first time ever, in the dark.
I have a head lamp, so that helped.
Love your content.
God bless!
See you out there sooon.
lol well that's what they call jumping in feet first as an RVer right there! 🤣 I Thanks so much for watching and hope to see you on the road! God Bless!
Amigos debe ser emocionante cada vez que abras la puerta encuentres un patio distinto fuerte abrazo 🤗 desde mi Colombia
Thank you so much! It is an adventure every day!
Love you guys
thanks for watching!!
Victoria, at 2:16 I notice you activating slides while your door was closed. It can be very helpful to open your door while activating slides. Slides are pretty well sealed now and the air pressure building up while you move slides in or out can be considerable. This adds resistance to the movement of your slides which also adds a load to your slide motors. This could contribute to your fuse situation.
True that. Or open a couple of windows.
Love your videos
Thank you so much!
Love your dog😊
they are the best!
Watching from Louisville KY. Love your videos. Hope 65 N has cleared some of the construction detours. It was rough last year.
It was rough but not too terrible with detours.
Self drive Yes Yes Yes!
it would be nice lol
Welcome to the bipolar weather and Happy Anniversary
Egg roll bowl looked amazing! How are you liking your new Gen-Y gooseneck? Look forward to your Brinkley video next week, safe travels.
As A retired Professional long haul truck driver. I have driven amost 3,000,000 miles around the U.S. and Canada. I would advise getting a Trucker Atlas as the roads are marked for trucks. Also exept in New York the bridges are marked acuractly, In New York they are actually marked lower than they actually are. Follow the big semis and you should be OK.
Time for an F450 Dually!!
I live right by there and have been to the park!! I wish I could have met you all!!
Back home Again. for your camper. I am from Indiana. Wonderful place to be born and raised up to jr hgih school age. I clicked. Thanks guys
lol yep, back to where it originally came from! This has been our first time in Indiana and we've had a really nice time, thanks for watching!
Very enjoyable video, you all are a cute couple
that food looked damn good