The first time we talked in Quartzite, Jim told me “you don’t know what you don’t know.” After almost 3 years of research and countless videos from different channels, I’m still amazed at how much there is to learn about RVing. This is another great video with much needed information for those of us planning on becoming full timers! Safe travels!!

I’m so glad you had friends there that helped you empty your tanks. That’s so good to find kind hearted people. It’s not easy! Thank you for your tips. I hope you had a great weekend and hope you have a great Presidents’ Day! 🇺🇸

Gooood comprehensive overview of dry camping!!! We have the same setup as you 2 on the solar and generator on our 48’ toy hauler. Works very well and we love the freedom and autonomy it provides us!!! 👍😃🍻

🤣🤣 Why do I feel like you are speaking directly to me? 🤣🤣 Okay, okay; I get it! 🤣🤣

Use a reverse osmosis system and filter the grey and use it for washing dishes and showers,unless you have a commercial rated system and a ultra violet sanitizing system to reuse grey water after sterilization.

Thanks for this information. It would be great to see how you use your new backup pump to pump the water from the water bladder into your freshwater tank of your RV.

Everyone has the system that works for them. Big truck big travels has the Cadillac setup with fresh tank and black tank built into their truck

I really like my composting toilet. No water used

Great boondocking tips and delivered so everyone can understand just what is truly involved. We LOVE to boondock, dry camp, etc and actually try to stay out of rv parks/campgrounds for the most part. But like Kelley, wo do love the parks when we end up at one and cherish the longer showers and hookups! Great video guys!

Also a saw on living vehicle they have a system that creates 5 gallons water pe day from the air. May want to watch those videos to get another idea as to getting water while boondocking.

From my perspective this is the best video you’ve ever made. Thanks

Hi guys!! Very good information, thanks for sharing. You mentioned wiring...we've been in our rig for 4 years this month. And we never knew the wiring for our outlets by the bed were on the floor under the bed storage. We were in Idaho for hubby's brothers memorial and evidently when we were setting up and let the slides out, the bed slide outside seal turned in. Wind, snow and raining hard! Water got in and was under the bed. Shorted out the wiring and caught on fire!! Thank the Lord we weren't in bed!! Hubby turned off main power and we took everything out of bed storage. He unscrewed the plywood and we were shocked to see the wires just laying on the floor. We heard a pop before we saw the flames and smoke. It was the outlets shorting out. He fixed it temporarily and when we got back to our home base, rewired and got them off the floor! Very scary, but we now know where all our wiring is. Just thought I'd share if anyone else has a Montana 5th wheel, check under your bed for wiring sloppily put in. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us, very helpful...💜

Hi Jim and Kelly! Thus all good to know when you are boon docking. I like how you talked of those water bags 60 gallons or more. What great idea to do that. Hard work but it’s a great idea What a great idea when you need water when you are off grid.

My wife is getting eased into it a week a year. We boondock at Summit Motorsports Park every October for Halloween Classic a week of everything under the sun drag raced.

My sister has a trailer pretty similar to yours. Fifth wheel 40 something foot toy hauler.. I shared a drone pic of your tow vehicle and trailer.. She said oh no.. Don't let her husband see that 😂😂..

Great video, thanks for sharing your experiences

A couple more boondocking tips! GREAT over view, and you did such a great job of making what is sometimes complicated understandable. LOVE your videos! We are FT in a 2015 REDWOOD 42' fifth wheel. (Romany Life) We have a similar setup as you (solar, etc). After 9 years on the road with LOTS of boondocking (tons actually) we have a few tricks that makes "living 2 weeks at a time" more wonderful. For us, with a huge solar system, TANKS are the limiting factor. We can easily go 2 weeks on our tanks, and we DO NOT use a blue boy. We have one, never used it, ditched it. too big too haul around and frankly, using it was really not saving that much effort from simply hitching up our trailer and taking it to the dump station. It's about HOW you use your precious water that makes all the difference: Hauling in your freshwater makes it GOLD. Don't FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET!!! The toilet uses SO much of your fresh water. We installed a simple gate valve on the water intake on the back of the toilet so that it can be easily turned on and off as needed. For #1 (you know what I mean!) we do not use water. We flush, TP goes in the trash, and a quick spritz of diluted SIMPLE GREEN keeps the bowl fresh without harming tank bacteria. Saves GALLONS of water! Keep a collapsible dish tub in your kitchen sink (2nd biggest use of water) and pour the contents from sink use in THE TOILET. Most black tanks don't fill in just 10 days or so, but grey tanks DO!! This also helps dilute the solids in the black tank. Doing this will add DAYS to your boondocking experience!!

Great info as usual- very nice to offer someone the use of their "blue boy" and to dump it for you but I think I'll pass on that one. LOL

That’s a nice looking roof 😉 Great video! Miss y’all 😘

Thanks for sharing, I just had to watch, my best friend is a Master Electrician but I'm still headed to NRVTA to get paper work that says I can do it. We are nature lovers and love people as well ( Wendy says I have the gift of gab) but we plan to Boondock a good portion of our time. Love Arizona and New Mexico & Texas so we will eventually make it there. Keep up the great videos.

Thanks for the info on your solar set up... 😁

Glad yall for doing well. Always informative videos. Yep we are still frozen here in mn.

Great informational video! Good stuff to share. Thanks guys, enjoy your videos always.

Putting in my solar as we speak. Installing on my own it's a bit complicated but doable.

Excellent setup

Hi Jim & Kelley great information you have given out there very informative. Is all boondocking free in your country , there us a lot of restrictions here in UK you cant just park where u want to I.e.lots of towns dont allow motor homes most beaches dont allow o/ night park ups so it's always best to stay at designated campsites with hook ups water, electrics ,showers,laundry, clubs & pubs,restaurants, cafes. If someone to go to town you drive your car if you bring it with you,or electric bikes,or taxis, or bus.motor Homer's are very frowned upon in UK we have Walmart here ( Asda) strictly no /o/night / parking period.any way nice messaging you both again, stay safe & keep trucking the highways cheers bye.

Stellar video! Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Kevin

The information was very helpful ,we are wanting to try some boondocking this summer. We are going to start with a generator, just planning for the future. The starting place is even close to home at a bluegrass festival that doesn't have any hookups. If all else fails we can just go home. Dreams are for the future is to go west to show my wife places that I saw years ago .

First time on your channel and I'll check your other videos in a second, but since you asked for content ideas ... we're always looking for tips on water management inside the rig. We love staying at Harvest Hosts and Boondockers Welcome, but we fill up our gray tank distressingly fast even though we use the 3 container system for dishes and an aerator showerhead and Navy showers.

Always a pleasure to see you both.

As always an excellent video glad you're enjoying yourself look forward to the next one and take care be safe God bless

Hi guys...we have everything you mentioned except solar...but we are NOT full-time...when we stop for a night in Walmart or wherever we have a APU on our truck..gives us heat /air and house electricity/battery charging...so we mostly stay in the truck for overnight stops....boondocking...we use our honda eu7000is generator..i haven't been able to justify the cost for solar yet.🤔🤑...because like i said we are not full-time ...still enjoying our home....I don't park close to anyone...besides.. it under my bed... I DON'T hear it..😳...all you said is very good information👍..thank you for the video...stay safe...J&A 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

I'm going to be a pro....thanks to you two!!!! 😁

GREAT VIDEO! Thanks Guys!

Good information.

Very good it all works out, you jest keep adding stuff to your arsenal. Love you guys.

Good video 😀 thx's for information isn't it hard to boondocking with a rig your size

Great video again, I have to ask why you state you don’t have enough room for a spare waste tank? You can fit a car and a side by side on that rig just saying. Lol always enjoy your videos, keep ‘‘em going. Best wishes!

So my wife and I are looking at full time RV and travel! See our beautiful country. I've been looking into different places we'd like to see. I'm reading on some of these websites that HDT's pulling Trailers are not allowed. And I'm reading that some have restrictions on length of unit. Have you been limited on where you can go? And where or what kind of places don't allow hat's? Thanks again, Bill. 🌞

Thanks for your video. I like you describe your topic and it was very helpful to us. We were wondering how you pick your path and where to stay? I have heard a lot about an app Rvlife do you use something like that?

I’ve been thinking of full timing in our rv for a while. My question is do you still have a home base to return to at times. Just not sure what most people do. Thanks and be safe and have a very blessed day.

Thanks Jim/Kelly for the boondocking review. We have a similar rig with the HDT and DRV. We're wondering what tools you've found to be best for finding the ideal boondocking sites. Thanks in advance. See you at the next HDT rally? Safe travels...

I would be interested in finding a suitable person to do my solar like yours any suggestions?

Do you have the 8 200 watt panels in 1 string Hooked in series? or 2 strings with 4 panels in series and the parallel

I am shocked how close our setup is to yours. I have the Poly Tank but I am switching to a bladder this year. I have a 12 volt pump from Harbor Freight to move the water to my rig. I just bought a macerator pump, will be using it this year for the first time. I am just starting to look at the power issue. THANK YOU for telling what you have for power. What do you have for an inverter? I have a 2000W, what do I need. (our refrigerator runs on gas as does our water heater.)

I lost the information on the meet up can you send it to me also can you recommend a nice rv park Thanks

Do you know how much power your refrigerator uses an hour? Thanks

How do you find these sites

STRAV,;; HELLO JIM& KELLE,Godo,HS IAVE SEEN,PERMAMENT. TANKS,ON HDT,FEW days,past,saw,a NEW RV,built on a a SPACE CRAFT,,IT had a 400galln fresh,& 400 gall grey,did not mention black,,a wicked solar,VOLTA SYSTEM, ABOUT. $500.000, , I’ll keep yours !, STAYWELL,GOD BLESS YOUBOTH,,! Till next time,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸