Thank you for sharing！

Nice！

Think many sailors miss Parick. Your vids were great. Rest in peace.

@RVing Life Now would you please be so kind and sharing Michael’s sailing channel for us😊

Only catching up now. Last video I had seen you and Michael were parting ways. More than a year ago. Just now watched the circumnavigation video and this one. I first started watching right after Patrick passed during Covid. You are an amazing resilient woman. I shed a few tears when you sold Brick House. 💕 It’s lovely to see Michael is still in your life. Here’s to all the new land based adventures to come! 🎉

Michael your a great guy!

33:03 You inspired me to change myself. Thank you.🙏

Don Casey has a simpler solution for blister problems.

He doesn’t explain why you need a big heavy dinghy with a a big heavy outboard. Small light, easy to lift on off deck. Small motor, electric? , you are in no rush. Why go to a lovely peaceful anchorage then destroy that with a noisy engine

Good work. If you want to be neater , mask off the area.

I recently used Aquasure (or ShoeGoo, etc) polyurethane glue. It takes a while to set, you have to stick down with masking tape overnight. Yet to find out how long it will last. Do know it works well in repairing shoes, very strong, very flexible. What is good is that you can get it in small tubes.

I think it’s sweet you didn’t fire anyone you just gave them an easier job for their skill level.

Back in 1975 we were threatened in Cumberland Bay, St. Vincent after we had anchored and settled for the night. So just before nightfall we left and sailed to The Saints thru the night. We never went back to St. Vincent😢.

Milwaukee Tools has an inflator that can do that. Tire Minder is the tpms that I have used with success.

What do you use for security so the Emile isn’t stolen?

I went to college in west Texas (Lubbock) and the only solution I found to bicycle flats was tire liners.

I’ve used tire slime with great results to prevent flats

I really am sad you couldn't stop in Mobile. Mardi Gras started here! LOL. I live on an Island in Alabama, but i told ya that! When you come back this way, let me know! All the best and stay safe! ✝️🙏❤️🇺🇸⛵️☘️🍍😊

What a tour. 👍

Love the wolf howling!

I ran my motorized bicycle (4 stroke, gas powered) on the Tucson mesa for nearly 9 months. I ran Slime in my tubes so when the thorns worked their way into the tube the Slime would seal the hole. I tried running tire liners to keep the thorns out and they worked but I stopped using them because they would abrade the tube on the liner overlap and the Slime would not seal that. I guess I could have covered the overlap with heavy tape but decided to just take them out instead. The Blue Rhino liners I used took forever to get laid properly into the tire. I am in WV with the machine now and as stated, only run the slime with no liner. There are no thorns here to worry about as there were on the mesa. So happy to see you still having fun in your travels good lass.

Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦

So when are you taking a break to spend some more time in Africa? (Flying here, not sailing, of course) 😅

Everybody needs a Texas boy in their lives 😂 Glad you enjoy friends 🎉

😊 You were definitely sitting in the rafters at the Rodeo!

2:00 ) Don't worry if you are a boy watching this video. She doesn't mean that all guys are dangerous and that when you grow up women will fear you. She's not implying that she would rather be in a forest with a bear rather than a man.

Wonderful capture of your adventures Rebecca. Concerning your E bike tires I am wondering if you have the option to go to “tubeless”. That is how almost everybody here rides their mountain bikes in the bikes, and I wouldn’t consider riding with a tube here because of the trouble that I would have like you are having

That was a very interesting episode Rebecca. We start to get to see some of the core purpose of this journey: you know the fun stuff! Don’t get me wrong … I very much like the DIY as well. I carry a max 120 psi hand held air pump in my hybrid pu. The thing about the handhelds is that while it can put out the higher psi, the tire pressure pushes back so with these little compressors, doing the high psi takes forever. But with your RV weight concerns perhaps the trade off in convenience is a worthwhile sacrifice?

Try lower RV pressures. So much better for comfort. The E350 we rented in the states was terrible till we dropped it a lot. You know it's right when they get quite warm driving, but not too hot to hold. Hi from Razzle Dazzle now in Malta

Ventilater is a death sentence

You GO GIRL! Enjoy Colorado!😊

Cool, I really enjoy seeing the different power solutions fellow boondockers choose. We're retired FT RVers who discovered we love to boondock. We've been FT for the last 5 years in a 1999 National Tropical It was the best decision we ever made. We have recently expanded our solar system as we find ourselves boondocking more often - for 10 months last year. We designed and built our solar system ourselves, which allows us to be electrically self-sufficient, without the need to connect to the grid anymore. We started by building a 620-watt liftable solar array on the side of our motorhome using 2, 310w conventional glass panels. Our side array makes a nice bedroom window awning too, practically lifting itself with a couple gas struts, and it's easy to clean, standing safely on the ground. Lifting the array to the exact angle needed improves its efficiency 20-30% compared to horizontally mounted panels, even more in the winter, when the sun is lower in the sky. Next, we built a 12v, 560ah LiFePo-4 battery using 8, 280ah prismatic cells and a Heltec 330amp (1,200a surge) BMS to start our generator. These cells fit perfectly under the steps of our MH where our old pair of golf cart batteries used to reside. We insulated the battery compartment, cut a small hole in our step risers and installed a tiny computer CPU fan to keep this space at close to room temperature, so we don't have to worry about the BMS shutting down charging due to low temperature - or their life reduced from getting too hot. If you add all our 12v system components together including the liftable array, wiring, converter/charger, inverter, charge controller, breakers, wiring, battery monitor, etc. this system cost us under $3,500. It has already paid for itself several times over the last 5 years, not just in the cost of electricity, but in the cost of staying in RV parks too. By mounting the solar array on the side of our coach, we left the roof free to rack 8, 550w solar panels down the length of our 35ft Class A, 15" off the roof, above our AC, vents, etc. It shades our entire roof, allowing plenty of cooling air underneath, increasing solar output and reducing the heat load on the air conditioners. Our 4,400w array can run both our A/Cs, our household appliances and charge our batteries at the same time, even in winter. We can even run our mini split heat pump 24/7 providing both A/C and heat powered by the sun. We use a Sungold Power all-in-one 48V, 5,000W Inverter/100A charge controller/battery charger, saving us space as well as money compared to a system built with individual components. We chose this particular unit because it supports up to 500 volts of solar power which was needed for our 400voc solar array. Our 48v battery uses 16, 320ah prismatic cells and a 200amp BMS to keep it safe. Together with our 7.1 kwh 12v bank, we have a total of 23.5 kwh of batteries onboard - kept charged by 5,020 watts of solar. We removed our old rooftop bedroom A/C and replaced it with an EG4 28.5 seer-2 mini-split heat pump on the upper rear of our motorhome. It's super quiet and cools as well as our 14.5k btu soft start equipped Furrion we have up front, but only draws about 1/3rd the power. It heats efficiently too, reducing our propane usage. Our total budget for both 12v and 48v systems was around $11,500, including the $1,500 high-efficiency heat pump. We have no need to hook-up to power pedestals or run our generator anymore, as we run everything in our MH strictly off the sun. We travel around the country a lot, visiting National Parks, and doing the tourist thing, mostly boondocking out west. We spent last winter in Yuma, AZ, but we're visiting our son in NC now, where boondocking places are pretty rare. We found an RV park that is letting us camp in a spacious site without hook-ups for only $100/mo., saving us $500/mo. off their FHU rates. Having options is good. Take care. We hope to see you on the road one day.

Bike rack on the front?

You look so chuffed & happy! Great set up ❤

Such a poignant and beautifully told story. Thank you for sharing your lovely heart and life.

Best video on blister repairs. ❤

Great to see you have options out there!

I'm not criticizing, but how much rotten balsa do you think is still in you deck?

we had a 4 day safari back in 2011, after hubby climbed Kilmanjaro, like your companion, we went to the places you did, we stayed in a tented camp, large canvas tents with proper furniture, having a shower under the stars was an experience, Animals walked through camp overnight, we said we heard lions and the elephants sounded close, so close that big piles of streaming p**h let us know were wer;nt dreaming about elephants, the Crator was amazing and in Manyara we nearly got knocked off the road by a femail hippo and her youngster running accoss the track , thank goodness our driver Edger was concentrating, i just had the bruises as i was standing up and took 2 photos of the hippo in front of our landrover and 2 hippo bottems going into the bush, were going back next year to Kenya this time staying in Amboselli and the Masia Mara. cant wait x Happy Traveling

Sending you so much love, Rebecca ❤ time for new adventures 🎉

Michael, ons Suid-Afrikaners is sulke goeie mense, help altyd 'n ander. Van 'n ex Vlootie. Het Offisiers kursus in G Bay gedoen in 83, miskien bietjie voor jou tyd.

How not to repair rotted deck core.

Welcome back.

It’s good to see you posted. All right let me get back to it.

It's so beautiful out there. Remember this winter, you have a free place to park in Lower Alabama. Or at one of the 3 camp grounds on the Island! Stay Safe! ✝️🙏❤🇺🇸⛵👣🍍☘🤗

Great to see you back going along to further life in your travels dear. I am an Engineer via 3 paradigms now. Patrick was never anything less than an Engineer as well. I see you as an Engineer too. You have crunched so many numbers both at sea and ashore that you know the over building needed to get what you desire from a system. I look forward to watching your engineering learning go further from the sea to land. There are needs and there are wants. WHEN you go from LABs to Lifepo4s you are going to have to get the battery storage high away from the pavement dear. Lifepo4s really do not like the temperatures down there just above the roasting pavement at all.

best of luck

At 1:51 it looks like there's space to extend that battery tray for a 3rd battery, non?

Hi Rebecca, good to see . Good educational clip. Later gator. Angus .

You went from the girl who didn’t want to be in Patrick’s videos to KILLIN IT now!