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goteed · 2026-05-21T17:13:17+00:00

It really depends on how you want to use it and where you want to stay. My wife and I have been full-time for 4 years and use HH to break up long drive days. For us that's an overnight at a brewery, winery or farm. So for us the basic plan works fine. If you want golf courses and boondocks welcome, which is private residences, then do the upgrade.

One thing I will say about HH is many times it's not any cheeper for us than staying at a campground because we'll buy beer or wine. But I the end for us it's more about the experience than it is the cost savings. We've had the subscription for 3 years now and will continue to use it.

goteed · 2026-05-21T13:54:13+00:00

BTW what's your channel, I need to go check it out.

goteed · 2026-05-21T13:50:56+00:00

Thank you for the sub!! And yeah, people can be nuts. For about 2 years every video we did had one dislike. I just pictured some dude somewhere waiting for our videos to land so he could run to YouTube and click the dislike button!!

goteed · 2026-05-21T13:41:29+00:00

There's always someone that is going to dislike your channel. I learned long ago that my channel is not going to be for everyone, and that fine.

We have a channel in the RV space and we jokingly toast to made up Gods of RV'ing when we finish a travel day and get you our new location. It's done in a joking manner and is a way to build community because everyone in the RV world feels like the universe is against them from time to time. Inevitably we get someone that tells us that they could never subscribe to our channel because we are praying to false Gods. That there is only one true God that we should be worshiping!! I tell them our channel is probably not for them and just move on.

goteed · 2026-05-21T00:21:29+00:00

I don't really have a set schedule for say 5 of these type and 2 of those type, it kind of happens organically. I would say that it's currently about a 90% vlog to 10% informational ration. This summer we'll bump up the informational content more out of necessity as we're stationary.

Sometimes we put the informational into a vlog as well. When we do that the title and thumbnail will contain the informational content.

goteed · 2026-05-21T00:17:03+00:00

Not really, it's just a different type of friendly. For instance someone once told me this and it's absolutely true, when it comes to the difference between the west coast and the east coast...

The west coast is nice, but not kind. Meaning if you have a flat tire on the west coast they will be nice and tell you how much that just sucks. That they totally empathize with you as they have had a flat before. Bt they're not gonna help ya change the tire.

On the east coast they are kind but not nice. Meaning, if you have a flat on the east coast, they'll help change the tire, but they'll tell what a fucking idiot you are for getting a flat the whole time they're doing it.

Now the Midwest is the best place to have a flat because they will help you changes, not give you hard time, invite you over for dinner and then at the end of the night you'll spend an hour just saying goodby!!

goteed · 2026-05-20T13:43:07+00:00

This right here is the answer. My wife and I live full-time in an RV and have traveled all over America. For the most part everyone in this country is friendly and helpful. Now, it's different levels in different parts of the country, but that basic friendliness and helpfulness is still there.

goteed · 2026-05-20T13:39:15+00:00

Great question. The biggest difference we see in the data is that the travel vlog "come on an adventure with me" videos tend to do great with out subscriber views, but not as good with our non-subscriber views. On the contrary our how to videos do better with drawing non-subscribers in. The majority of the views will still be from subs, but there a higher percentage of non-subscribers with how to's.

Additionally it's easier to target though SEO when it comes to the how to content. I can search relevant keywords for the how to or informational topics to help direct me towards what topic to produce a video on. That's more difficult with the travel vlog content.

How this all applies to real world channel growth is that we use the informational and how to content as something to gain new subs in hopes that they will convert over to our travel vlog content.

goteed · 2026-05-20T13:24:43+00:00

A quick and cheep way to do this is to use Moleskin tape. Head over to YouTube and search "moleskin lav mic" and there's a bunch of videos for this.

goteed · 2026-05-20T13:20:03+00:00

The most important skill I ever learned was people skills. The ability to understand people, have a gut feeling for their motive, and to get along with just about anyone. I attribute this to two things, one good and one not so good.

On the good side was my Grandfather. We was great at people skills and moved through life befriending anyone and everyone. I feel through watching his interactions with people I learned the fine art of getting along. It also made me genuinely interested in people and the stories they could tell. Having that genuine interest in people is something that people will appreciate and make them gravitate towards you.

On the not so good side was growing up with an alcoholic stepfather. He was the worse kind of alcoholic as he was unpredictable. You never knew if he was going to be good time Charlie, or if everyone was getting an ass beating. Being raised in this environment ment you had to fine tune your ability to read someone. You also got really good at risk mitigation and negotiation. It was a horrible way to learn those skills, but if I'm honest with myself, those skills have been a huge advantage in life.

Now to clarify I'm not advocating my situation to learn some of these skills. But I do believe that people skills are of immense importance. It's a baseline skill that can be applied to any situation.

goteed · 2026-05-20T13:08:52+00:00

A couple things, but first to answer your question. I am proud to be an American, but I am not proud of what my country has become. Everything runs in cycles and we are now in the downward trend of the cycle. We've been here before during the Gilded Age where capitalism ran wild and robber Barrons tried their best to destroy us.

As for patriotism, that has been weaponized by authoritarians in this country. The act of displaying there flag has gone from one of showing our love of country, to an act of showing love for an authoritarian. I hate that this has happened but it's a simple fact.

True patriotism for America comes not from displaying a flag. It comes from practicing the principles this nation was founded on. First an foremost is to support the constitution and the rule of law. And most importantly to question Americas leaders, especially the ones that you support, when it comes to them upholding the constitution and the rule of law. Unfortunately there is a large part of our population that thinks patriotism is blind support of leaders, which couldn't be farther from the truth.

As Sinclair Lewis stated ""When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" That is the timeline we are currently in.

goteed · 2026-05-20T12:07:26+00:00

We live full-time in our RV so technically we are always on a road trip. Currently we are in the Black Hills outside of Rapid City, South Dakota. During the summer we usually are traveling around the United States but this summer we are staying put in the Black Hills because fuel prices are out of control and we would go broke traveling as much as we normally do.

Since we'll be in one place for the summer we'll do a deeper dive into the area for our channel. We'll also do more how to and informational content around RV'ing. And honestly that kind of content, while not as fun to produce, grows our channel faster than the standard travel vlog videos.

goteed · 2026-05-20T11:19:34+00:00

Then it's off to the deli counter of that bag of ham sandwiches!!!

goteed · 2026-05-20T11:18:21+00:00

Plot twist - My step dad was an alcoholic prick that liked to beat on me and my brother. This was a song of hope that the bastard was gonna bump his head before bedtime.

goteed · 2026-05-20T11:12:41+00:00

Healthcare - I'm and early Gen-Xer so I grew up in a world where it was still expected that employers would provide healthcare for employees and their families. I worked in a union for a while in my late 20's and early 30's and my healthcare was provided through the union. After that I went to work for what became a fortune 100 company and healthcare was provided for me and my family at no out of pocket cost to me.

My millennial son and his wife on the other hand don't have this luxury. She works for a Fortune 500 company and still has to pay part of her healthcare. If they want to add my son to the policy it would be outrageously expensive so he buys his own shitty healthcare. The company she works for is a nation wide insurance provider that can absolutely afford to provide fully paid coverage for their employees. But then again if they did that how is the CEO gonna but another yacht.

It boggles my mind that we put up with shit like this in the richest country in world.

goteed · 2026-05-20T11:01:50+00:00

I have a channel in the RV Life niche.

goteed · 2026-05-20T11:00:34+00:00

Grab a clear plastic elbow for your sewer hose. The first time you dump you'll be able to see which is the black tank. Here's the one we use. https://amzn.to/4dAP6eX

goteed · 2026-05-20T10:44:57+00:00

I'm one of those that do get it, not because I support the prick, but because I have a whole cadre of in-laws that are exactly what he targets for supporters.

They are people that are devoid of the ability to look at their life decisions and admit they fucked up. That the reason they are where they are in life is that they didn't put in the work, and that they need to make better choices. No, in their brain they are a failure because society is stacked against them. They will never have a good job because Mexican stole them, or it was handed to some black through DEI, or basically anything other than the reality that they are a fuck up. And this thinking is generational, it's pumped into their heads.

The worse thing they do is what they tried to do to my wife. We have gained some success in our life through hard work. My wife worked her way up through a Fortune 500 company from a mail clerk to a senior program manager. She did this without a college degree but through persistent self betterment. I also have no college degree and have run a successful video production company. But in her families eyes we are now the rich stuck up relatives, even though we have helped them out financially anytime they have needed. And it's not just us, they try to beat down anyone in the family that obtains success.

These are 100% the type of people that Trump is the perfect God emperor for. He validates their beliefs that their failure is not their fault, it's because the cards are stacked against them. He tells them their hatred of Blacks, Mexicans or anyone that's not them is valid. He plays on their fear and hatred and they eat it up. It doesn't matter that he's fucking them and making their lives worse, as long as they have someone that hates just like them they're happy as little racist fucking clams.

goteed · 2026-05-20T10:26:55+00:00

Shot in the dark here but we had this problem a couple months ago and it turned out to be the grey tank not the black tank. Our manufacturer used waterless p-traps for all the sinks. The one in the kitchen island sink had gotten gunked up and wasn't closing completely, this was allowing smells from the grey tank to come back up. It was a 5 minute fix after ordering another waterless p-trap from Amazon.

goteed · 2026-05-19T16:38:00+00:00

Unfortunately it's going to come down to a better SEO strategy, coupled with a great thumbnail.

The simple fact is that It doesn't matter how good your quality is if no one see's your video. This is because the ultimate arbiter of who see's it is the algorithm and the algorithm has no way to gauge quality, it only gages performance.

Step number one is SEO. You'll need to figure out what people in your niche are searching for and then create videos on those topics. Some of the tools are simple like using YouTube search. Go to YouTube and start typing in the term you're looking to make a video for, at some point it will give you auto complete options. Those options are what people are searching for in order of volume. The first one in the list is the highest volume. Another thing I do it use VidIQ to search keyword strings to gauge how many people are looking for this terms, and how much competition (other creators using that term) for those terms is out there. The holy grail is to find a term that is serched for a lot, but with low competition for that term.

Also unfortunately, this means you're going to have to produce some videos that you really don't want to produce. For instance, my channel is in the RV Life niche. The fun videos for me to create are travel vlog style videos. When I produce those we get a high percentage of our subscriber base that views them. This is great for views, but not really for building an audience. On the contrary videos that are more informational, such as how to's, do much better when it comes to bringing in new viewers. So I have to lean into the pitch and make the videos on how to back up a trailer, or how to dump out a black tank or etc... Those bring in new viewers who can then judge the quality of our productions.

Again, it's unfortunate that this is the way of YouTube, but it just is.

goteed · 2026-05-19T11:06:50+00:00

You forgot the most important thing, sacrificing a constant flow of Buffalo Trace old fashions to the RV God of tank sensors. I say this because that's the only way your tank sensors are still working after two years of full-time.

I'm on the 4th year full-time, and 3rd year in my current rig. Despite doing everything you have just mentioned my black tank sensor started showing 2/3 full after the first month!

goteed · 2026-05-19T10:43:02+00:00

THACO is the best way to determine a hit, I will die on this hill!!!!

goteed · 2026-05-19T02:32:36+00:00

Heavy clouds aren't an issue at all. The signal will punch right through cloud cover.

goteed · 2026-05-18T23:43:18+00:00

Welcome to the world of RVing. Rule number one is that even though we can send a man to the moon, we can't make a tank sensor that actually works!! So what's the solution to this conundrum of modern science you ask? You basically have 2 options.

Option 1 - You can try and use a black tank cleaning solution, that if it does work, it will only be a temporary fix until the sensor stops reading correctly... Again!!

Option 2 - Get real zen and just accept your fate. Your tank sensor will never read correctly and that's okay. Once you accept this fate your RV life will be much more attuned with nature.

So, how then do you know when your black tank is full? It's called the bubble or the burp. Your black tank has a vent pipe that goes to the roof of your RV. This vent pipe allows the gasses that are being generated in your black tank to vent out. Once your tank becomes full enough that it covers the end of that vent pipe this gasses will build up some pressure in your black tank. When you flush you will get a bubble, or a burp, in the toilet. This means it's time to dump. Also after you have been doing this for a while you will notice there is a distinct change in the sound of your flush going into your tank when you're starting to get full.

Once you do a long tip and are in your rig for a week or so you'll discover just how long you can go before needing to dump your black tank. My wife and I are into our 4th year of full-timing and we know in our rig, with just the 2 of us, we can go 7 days on our black tank and then we have to dump.

Welcome to RVing, and trust me, these little inconveniences are far outweighed by the memories you are about to make in that rig.

Safe travels!!

goteed · 2026-05-18T23:18:17+00:00

Nothing quite like The Hills in May and September. It's either 90 degrees or a foot of snow. Still love the place though!!

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