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HOW DID WE GET HERE?? (buslife in New Mexico)
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2021
- We’re following the road as our bus decides it’s time to change direction and head to Albuquerque, New Mexico!
We found ourselves here after our bus had some problems with the starter, and we drove to the nearest International dealership to get a new part for our tiny home on wheels.
After some minor hiccups (the dealership gave us the wrong part!!), our skoolie is back to driving around and bus life is back on track!
Taking this as an opportunity to explore Albuquerque, we headed over to Petroglyph National Monument where we got up close to three of the six Albuquerque volcanos (JA Volcano, Black Volcano, and Vulcan).
On our second day in the park, we hiked the Rinconada Trail, which has over 300 petroglyphs visible from along the path! Unfortunately there was an incident with some dogs on the trail, but everyone (and every dog) is going to be okay!
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I have been a bus mechanic for the last 32 years. I learned with starters over the years to pull the old one first if possible. Then count pinion teeth and check rotation direction. If it has the original tag, snap a photo. With that information, you can always get the correct one the first time. You certainly should have gotten your money back on the first one. If you gave the International dealer the last 8 of your VIN, then it was absolutely their screw up.
Anyways, I am impressed by your persistence on the repair and you willingness to learn. You will never regret these experiences no matter where life takes you.
I feel like Christmas came early getting two videos from y'all in one week. Your positive attitude amidst adversity is, once again, admirable.
Ive been watching these "road shows" for over a year now and yours appeared today in my recommended list. You two remind me so much of my wife and I when we were young, we are old enough to be your parents, maybe even your grandparents. Take care of each other, be kind to others. Make the memories and enjoy life while you can. Someday you will look make on these times and say "Remember when we................................................!!!!" Take care and God bless.
I hate doing repairs at night outside in the cold! I have almost the same bus as ya'll, and one of the reason's I went with it was because of parts availability.
Remember in the future the t444e is virtually the same engine as the FORD 7.3 Powerstoke... You should be able to get basic engine parts (like starters ) from Auto Zone and O Reilly"s in the future.
My local NAPA has that starter in stock for 119.00 here in Ruidoso, NM Lifetime warranty.
I have on one occasion gotten an idler pulley from International dealer, and later put the same product from Parts Plus on a friends truck ...they came in the same exact package. One cost 138 dollars .....the International source , the other cost 46 from Parts Plus. Same identical product. Go figure.
There are a number of parts that OEM , (Original Equipment Manufacturer)is the only way to roll. But they are pretty limited. There are specialty parts that are after market parts that are BETTER than OEM. especially with the Ford Powerstroke diesels, thus the t444e as well. Good Luck I hope that fixes the issue.
Thank you for the dogs update. I am 2 years behind in your videos but slowly enjoying them as I go!
Land of Enchantment baby. Always wonderful and crazy
I can’t believe Jimmy made her climb under to beat on the starter, and didn’t tell her about the grease smudge on her face.
Kudos for taking on the DIY job to swap the starter.
Wow ! You replaced that starter > You 2 are FEARLESS ! Enjoyed the video.
I would have taken the first one back, because they made that mistake. You are not the only one that have that problem with dealers, but you guys are rock stars doing it yourself, you are so much fun to watch.
Ah to be young and on the road again. Stay positive, roll with the punches. Love the grease stains on Natalie. Reminds me of when I crossed the country all those years ago, on pretty much the same path. I loved the food in Albuquerque, ended up staying there for 4 days. Enjoy the ride, because time flies.
You both are such warrior's, way to go. Natalie is a great partner, she gets right in there,and not afraid to get dirty
To bad that dog ended up injured even though he will be ok. Thank you for sharing your trip, happy and frustrating times. 💖🐱👤
Love to hear, “I’ve never seen that before!” from one or both of you, because sometimes I never seen it either. It’s also super cute to see your reaction to things I have seen plenty of, like tumble weeds🤭 Thanks for taking us along on your hike- really enjoyed it. Sorry the bus keeps breaking down on you☹️but you two handle it like champs! Merry Christmas Jimmy and Natalie 🎄🎅🏻
You guys have no quit in you.. Keep on trucking and Merry Christmas
You are welcome in N.m.
You should also, while you
go on trips, go see the
Acoma Indian Pueblo.
They, the Native Indians
show you where the cook
Indian btead. Yum!!!!
I recommend carrying a very large walking stick on these trails. It’s out and ready if you need it without notice and extending it out can keep any animal off you. It’s not so much for clubbing (but it can be) but it’s the extension part that’s really helpful.
Plus you'll definitely stand out as a turista! Entertaining for us locals.
New Mexico is an open carry state. Don’t waste your time with sticks, get a firearm and learn to use it safely. You can legally carry it in the open just about everywhere.
@@tacticalant3841 Yeah and look like a wannabe cowboy or a turista. It may be open carry but we still don't think people like that are civilized.
Aick Sofonofos - you are clearly ignorant on the topic. New Mexico has lots of people open carrying snd concealed carrying, none of whom look like cowboys. Let me ask, whats so civil about being attacked and maimed by dogs? You would probably think a woman being raped and strangled is more civilized than her defending herself.
@@aick I’d ignore the guy. I’m from Texas and pro guns but they are not going to help with most dog attacks unless they want to risk hitting the person they are trying to help - because the time they draw the dogs already swinging around. Plus most state and federal parks have restrictions, open carry or not. For some guns is the answer to every situation. Clearly it’s more complicated than that :)
Next summer, when it's warm, and before fire season has gotten out of hand, you guys need to head up I-5 from California north to see the stratovolcanos, including Mt Shasta, Mt St Helen, Mt Ranier, and Mt Hood. Absolutely awe inspiring!
California, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii have all the active volcanoes in the country but I'd head for the Redwoods up on hwy 101. The ocean and the largest trees on the planet.
YESthey are sights not to miss!
Albuquerque mountains(sand is and Yemez) are its saving Grace honestly…everything else here is 🤢
Glad you’re enjoying ABQ! We’re in a neighboring city!💕
"We now have 3 bus starters. Never thought I would ever say that before." Funny. Cutest couple on RUclips I think....
Those yellow berry plants are a very prickly and invasive plant, silver leaf nightshade.
I always would encourage to do your own repair just to familiarize yourself with your equipment but in situations where you need, don't be afraid of repair shops at truck stops they are generally competitive on prices and have access to most commercial equipment and when it's private owners most shops tend to work with prices on labor best of luck be safe. 🚛👋
you did great. I enjoyed all 25 mins of it.
Another exciting memory...
Your engine is the heart of your bus.....never cheap out on it....change the oil...all the fluids...it will take care of you. I drove a big truck for over 40 yrs and learned the hard way !
Our hearts dropped when you said the dog had gotten hit. But I'm so glad that they are all ok and accounted for. The trail looked amazing and that's so cool that the glyphs come and go depending on weather and light conditions. Keep up the good work!
I just started watching you guys!
I was born in New Mexico, it's nice there.
I hope things start going better for you now.
Merry Christmas to you two.
We absolutely LOVE New Mexico! It is so pretty, the drives are smooth, and everyone we've met here is so nice. 😄
Merry Christmas! 😀🎄
Prayers
Well the main attraction to watching your video's are you guy's, seeing what you're doing is an added bonus. I for one and I'll assume others is the idea that you two are sharing this experience together, most of us want that in our life no mater the adventure, it's a rare thing. That's why were here.
Thank goodness you have a hammer on board I can’t tell you how many times over the years and different vehicles I’ve had to use a hammer on the starter best of luck
I hope you two have lots of younger viewers who can be inspired by your self confidence, to show what you are capable of and you ability to learn new things.
Great Job on the starter. Frustrating when you get the wrong part but yall did it like champs! Merry Christmas
Yes. Always double check numbers.
You made the right call on the starter don't cheap out and buy junk or you'll be out in a parking lot doing it again! That goes with any mechanical or electrical parts for the bus I've been a mechanic for over 25 years
I admire your tenacity. Nice to see some fresh nomads.
Nice to see my home city in your videos! The yellow tomato-looking things are silver leaf nightshade (do not eat). I hate those things! They do have a very pretty purple flower though. lol
Hey!! New Patreon member here!!!
O'Rileys is the best because, as a nomad, the warranty is valid at any O'Rileys nation wide.
Love the grease on your face Batalie. So cute. So sorry about the breakdown. You guys are being smart with your choices.
Shout-out from someone else from South Carolina! Safe travels!
WOW ! Great adventure video . You two are so brave and fun to watch. God Bless you both 🙂✌❤
You guys rock 🤘🤘! My new Favorite couple
That certainly was Not International Rescue guys.
Enjoying your adventure 👍
We had the same reaction to arriving in Albuquerque at night, then seeing the mountains in the morning.
You two show how caring you are , looking forward to your next adventure
Excelent ! You guys are so entertaining, keep it rolling !
I admire your pleasant outlook even with all the hard work and mishaps you've been confronting. Good for you.
"Field repairs" can be a pain...😢
Hang in there. Good job on the repair.
Albuquerque is one of my favorite cities
Sorry made the prior comment before listening to the whole video. When in Albuquerque ride the tram. Go during hot air balloon season, way too cool. Santa Fe is just an hour away, my favorite city in NM. Trying to find those rocks beats the heck out of working on your bus in the dark ,cold, in a parking lot on your back.
There's a reason we call NM the Land of Entrapment 😂 I'm glad you managed to get through it and do some sightseeing. It is indeed beautiful here. I'm 37 and still have stuff to see.
And yes, the tumbleweeds do fly and tumble. Those "berries" were nightshade so don't eat lol. And vul-CAN is the Spanish word for volcano. We're too laid back to actually name things. We have Big River and Volcano. Lol
Merry Christmas, Sweet Friends! I went to Albuquerque once. It was great.
You all should have come up north to the mountains. Anywhere north of Santa Fe is awesome for skiing hiking and exploring
love how you guys captured my home! NM is massively underrated.
Glad you guys enjoyed ABQ! We live right behind Petroglyph National Monument 😬
I just found your channel. Love your videos. I am now subscribed. Merry CHRISTmas.
Thank you forcyourcpersonal touch in the video.
In the west...please...stay hydrated...and wear a hat.
Have fun!!
You guys are fun tour guides. 😀
Part of the appeal of your channel, is how both of you deal with adversity.
The positive take-away between last weeks video and this weeks is; you’re not having any problems getting content to post! I am glad you gave us an update on the doggies too! Wishing y’all a merry Christmas from Key West! 😎🎅🏼🎄
Welcome to NM. Thanks for coming out. Nice ride
Keep a cam position sensor in your spare parts. It’s a common fail item on the 444e that can leave you stranded.It’s inexpensive & easy to replace. I would recommend learning to access & read flash trouble codes with the vehicle’s on board diagnostics. It’ll save you a lot of money & frustration. Many vids on these topics here. Safe travels & have fun!
It was fun to see an outsiders point of view on ABQ. I grew up there so I do forget all the cool attractions that are there. This is a lot history there.
Jimmy you have to give it to her ..she had grease on her face you better hold on to that one!!!! Lol
U 2 give us old farts hope for our collective futures. merry Christmas, God bless.
We are in nsw Australia love your videos great pictures..thanks
The petroglyphs national monument and the volcanoes are actually inside Albuquerque's city limits.
you guys rock hope trip is going good,,,,,, dont feel the gabby petito mojo with you both great couple thank goodness!!
These little drawings were so neat. I had never heard of them before this. Thanks for showing them.
Merry Christmas you two. Sure enjoy your channel.
Wishing you guys a lovely Christmas. Stay safe.
It's awesome how you two keep your chins up when you have problems with the 🚌 bus. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤ stay safe ❤ 💖 have a blessed holiday 🙏 😊 ❤
I really enjoyed this video! Living in Hawaii, we have prehistoric petroglyphs in lava fields, especially on the big island of Hawaii, where I live. The red lava rock that Jimmy picked up gets its color from the iron ore that's in the magma. If it was lightweight "pumice stone", that's a part of cinder. There's red cinder and black cinder. Depending on the temperature, gases, etc. during an eruption, sometimes there's a splatter cone formed when the lava shoots up into the air and comes down, building up a cone shaped mound. I love learning about other places, especially when they resemble parts of Hawaii. Of the 13 climates in the world, this island experiences about 11. Hope you guys can come to visit the Big Island of Hawaii sometime. Sorry that van life is not allowed here, yet. I always look forward to your adventures. Stay safe!👍💗🙏🏻
Omg I live in Albuquerque and saw y'all driving. This channel randomly got recommended to me today and I'm so glad it did
Thanks for taking us along..I appreciate the ease you are developing with your time on camera.
I just love how positive y’all are and thank you for sharing ur adventures with us.. happy holidays from the lopes family 😍
Happy Holidays!! 😄💚
You all should have stopped in at Los Alamos,NM when you were in Alberqurque. It's the home of the atomic bomb. There Bradbury museum which is free and a 20 minute drive away is Bandillier National Monument. There are ruins that the Indians lived in that you could climb inside of & deer around. Safe travels on your adventures, I enjoy watching you both!
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO 📹 ! GLAD ALL THE PUPS ARE FINE . THE BUNNIES WERE CUTE ! BEAUTIFUL AREA VIEWS SCENERY LANDSCAPE WEATHER WILDLIFE & VIDEO 📹 COULD HEAR YOU BOTH PERFECTLY & CRYSTAL CLEAR VIDEO 📹! YOU DID TAKE THE FIRST STARTER BACK TO THEM & DID YOU GET ALL YOUR MONEY BACK SINCE THEY MADE THE MISTAKE ! THEY SHOULD HAVE PAID YOU BOTH FOR THE LABOR OF PUTTING ON TAKING OFF & PUTTING THE SECOND ONE ON ! L.O.L. NOT FUNNY !!!!! THANK YOU 🙏 BE SAFE ! HAVE FUN ! HOPE YOU BOTH HAVE A GREAT HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO 🎉 GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS 🙏 ON YOUR JOURNEYS / TRAVELS / ADVENTURES ! ENJOYED 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨
You look like my wife when we were in Texas choke canyon st. Park. Deer and javalina all day. Wild pigs all day. She was so amazed, stayed up most of the night looking out the back window from the bed.
Hey welcome to New Mexico !!! Hey at least no one can steal your bus..
Wishing you continued safe and uninterrupted travels. As a full-time RVer myself, I have maintained at least two and sometimes three separate towing packages in case I break down which I have had on the road.
Wishing you wonderful holidays 🌲🤗
So I stumbled upon y’all’s channel randomly 😂 but I have some advice for your mechanical issues. When you’re looking for parts I’d buy certain parts from the dealer and others from third party stores. For example the starter y’all got can be purchased at a lot of auto parts stores, all you would need is the part number. The part number is usually on the part itself which is usually hard to read. But there is a solution you call the dealer give them the vin and ask about your part. The trick is ask them for the price and what not but at the end ask them for the part number. For the most part advance auto and autozone carry big truck starters, alternators and other parts, but if they don’t call a bunch of truck parts stores nearby. Just my advice because parts can add up overtime. I run my own trucking company so I’ve learned thru mistakes of my own. Good luck on y’all’s adventure and if you need help in the Houston Texas area I’m here with tools. 😂
Brilliant video pals ho ho ho Merry Christmas🎅🎅🎅
You should be able to return the starter no problems. Thanks for sharing Keep us posted. See you after BBB in lake Havasu city.Safe travels.
Wow! That hike was awesome. Saw graffiti plenty of times, but this was cool .Glad dogs r OK. Bunnies r cute
I always see these videos AFTER someone fixes their vehicle amd leaves. I have space and tools I would have been more than happy to lend you. Glad you enjoyed the Sandia mountains hopefully you tried the food also.
very nice video.. you'all stayed patient with the starter.... I don't think I would have ;) Merry Christmas !!
I love New Mexico so majestic people are super nice met some real cool travelers !!
I hope you can visit White Sands while in New Mexico. Very unique!
Merry Christmas! You guys work great together.Good job on the bus repairs!
Liking the videos. Good job!
Awh I’m so glad you got the right starter in the end, I was like no not again, glad you enjoyed your hiking and the dogs will be ok, until next time, Merry Christmas 🎅🤶🎄☃️, hope you have a blessed time, stay safe xxx
Take your old starter to an old school starter rebuild shop, have it rebuilt & keep as a spare. Looks like you have the 39MT gear reduction starter. If you think that one is heavy try the 42MT. That bad boy is 66 lbs over your head while trying to get one bolt started.
I very much have enjoyed following u & Natalie. I pray that ur bus will stop making u young people worry about what's next? Spent monies on mechanical (in the beginning b-4 starting ur adventure) is always monies well spent. I pray that u both maybe think more about water & 4 sure a way 2 keep yourselves safe on ur trails. Mean dogs r bad on a trail but there's other predators 2 think about that r far worst. A plan well in advance will get u & Natalie back 2 ur bus safe. So praying & enjoying u young good folks on this adventure is putting smiles on my face. Stay safe till the next time l see ur next feed. See-ya
I rode passed your bus in Old Town the other day and now you're in my RUclips recommendations haha. Looks awesome in person!
Been to Santa Rosa/Albuquerque many many times. Wish I had seen these videos earlier.
Wait until you go into Arizona BEAUTY💖 Be safe and Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 🙏😇
I am from ABQ. We are currently in Santa Fe and will be in ABQ in a few days.
Awesome vid and good job on fixing the bus!!!!
You can buy a 10 tooth bendix for that starter to replace the 12 tooth one. That way, you will have a back up starter if the other one fails :)
Was in Albuquerque in October for Balloon Festival but didn’t launch the 2 days we were there we did the Tram that was cool! Hope you returned and got your money back at International you should have charged those guys LABOR! Ok where to next! Be Well Be Safe & Stay Blessed.
Merry Christmas from your hometown!
Gail & Les
Volcanoes around Albuquerque erupted a bit over 800 years ago and a great deal of the Rio Grande valley as far south as Elephant Butte was a lava flow. The local natives were still talking about it in their oral histories when the Spanish came up from Mexico about 500 years ago. Around Grant, New Mexico you can visit ice caves in the volcanic hills where CO2 seeping up from underground reaches atmospheric pressures, expands (thus siphoning ambient energy), and freezes whatever humidity is in the air. Early settlers used the caves for food storage. Any sheep in petroglyphs would have been hunted. Domestic sheep were introduce by European and readily adopted by the tribes. Some species of wild sheep (as well as mastodons and giant ground sloth) were hunted to extinction before the arrival of Europeans.
as a resident of albuquerque. this was a cool perspective too see! Definitely subscribed!
This is all really fun. You two showed a lot of personality on this one!!!
The bunnies is funny, they are ALL OVER Denver. Downtown and everywhere else. haha!
Fun time and cool Petroglyphs
Thank you!
Those bunnies were such a surprise for us! We are used to seeing them out in the woods and such at Jimmy's family's house but NEVER in the middle of the city! Haha 😂
So sorry for the bus problem and glad you got it taken care of. Happy to know the dogs are all ok. Safe travels!