The biggest news yet on this blog!

Once again it has been quite sometime since the last blog post. But this time, the excuse is really good! WE BOUGHT THE TRAVEL TRAILER! That's right, we bought it, after a very long 9 hour day of driving to go and get it. Thus said the reason why we haven't posted much blogs yet is simply because well... When we went to go and look at the trailer everything was perfect, besides the fridge possibly not working, not so bad right? So we went ahead and bought the trailer for a pretty good deal, we think. The asking price was $2500 and Bear was able to work the seller down to $1350. Although that was with the understanding of the fridge possibly being broken.

Upon taking the trailer to our friends house where we are gratefully able to park it there, be was looking around and he found the one thing he didn't want wrong with the trailer when looking for the right one to buy.... DRY ROT! You heard me dry rot! Now here's the thing, when we went to go and look at the trailer Bear looked and looked for dry rot or anything else major and he wasn't going to buy it there was any. He didn't see it until the following day after we had bought the trailer. 

There was some in the front on the wall and on the ground, which wasn't all too bad, but the worse of it was that the entire back end where the bathroom is was all gone. So we've been spending the paste few weeks restoring all of the rot and now we are half way done, well more than half. The front end got done in a week and the back end has taken a little longer just due to how much rot was there.  Although now the underlayment and the floor is completely put back in. All that is left is to put new walls in (front and back of trailer), to put all of the tanks, tub, and plumbing stuff back where it was. Once all of that is done, Bear needs to do the real easy stuff of building a new medicine cabinet and building a new vanity for the bathroom. Then it done! Once all of that is done my department of decorating will come into place! It's now almost a home again, which means we can get married in about a month or two, we are still aiming for July but it might be sooner in June, we will see though. 

We are super happy about this and cannot wait for it to be done finally! If you are interested we have been documenting this all on YouTube and should have the videos up of the tour of the trailer, before and after of all of the remodeling that has been going on. I just need the time to edit it all. 

Stay tuned on here and on YouTube for more exciting RV stuff! And continue to follow us on our embarkment!

Oh I almost forgot! It's a 24 foot 1900 Yukon Wilderness (Fleetwood) 

  

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We have not disappeared!

We apologize for the last month with nothing on here nor on Youtube. We have been super busy but there is GREAT! News to come from the month absence,

I'm not really sure where to start, Bear has been super busy with work and I've been helping him as much as I could. We have gotten the greatest news that we could get. We have a little over $2000 buck aroos for our RV, we have enough to get one now!
The biggest thing that was hindering us from buying an RV was not having a place to put it while we customize the way we want it to be and to get all the legal stuff taken care of before we hit the road. But now we have a place to put it, with a little bargain. Bear has a good friend who we can park the RV on his property  as long as Bear clears out the area they agreed to park it. Of course Bear said"YEAH!" So now all we gotta do is wait till the rain stops so he can start working on it.

We also made a big purchase that will be a big help on the road. Bear bought a Glock 17 4th Gen, to help protect against bears if needed and to also protect us if needed. This is more of Bear's department so if you want to know more you can always ask him and he will talk about it. We are also planning on buying me a Savage AXIS II XP Muddy Girl Compact Bolt- Action Rifle, yes it's a "youth" gun but it fits me just right and it shoots just the same as an "adult" gun, but we wont be getting that until we are on the road.

The biggest news yet though is we are getting married! In July we are going to get hitched and go to Sacramento, California. We are going to make that our Honeymoon/Shake Down trip. We plan on going to the Railroad Museum and the Zoo, then going to a Red Hot Preaching Conference down there. Hopefully we wont have too many issue and the truck will be okay as we had to get a new starter, but so far so good.

Stay tuned and continue to follow us on this journey!

Less junk, more junk!

Both Bear and I had gotten rid of 90% of all of our stuff to get ready to move into our RV once we get it.  We were so excited that we had done so, well that changed...

We now have more stuff than we wanted to have. Bear's father informed us he was moving cross country and needed to get rid of all of his stuff that would not fit in his car. Guess where all of that stuff was going to? Us and other family members. So now Bear's shop has even more stuff in it now.

It has been a little stressful having to get all of the stuff we wanted and having to store it all at Bear's place, but if we look on the bright side of all this it means more things for our Ebay store which means getting the money for the RV sooner. 

Although getting all of the stuff wasn't too bad with our truck we were able to get 90% of it all in one truck load, all that is left from what we will be taking will be some tools and other things that Bear says will be very helpful with the RV, but we won't be getting them till the end of February when his father moves.  

So that is what we plan on doing is going though all that we've received from Bear's father and seeing what is worth the most profit and selling it all on Ebay, and whatever we don't end up selling on there we will either sell on Craigslist or pawn it all or just donate it depending on the value of it all. 

We will keep you all updated on the process of this if you're interested.  


Since this has been stressful for us, enjoy a picture of our kitty cat because we all know kitties are cute and they make everything all better, even if they are a poopface like Recon LOL!

Bear and Bunny Embarkment out!

Mad scientist experiment 1

Can you run a Coleman model 220 on straight diesel fuel?

With kerosene being over $10 bucks a gallon at your local wally world, why would I pay that?
After some research done with my highly intelligent banana hungry monkeys, we came to the conclusion that kerosine is just highly refined Diesel. "Kero" for short, simply lacks sulfur and other impurities that are usually plentiful in diesel. So the only downside would be, as monkey number one put it, more "poo" build up over time. I though, poo? Little poo never hurt nothin. So, starting with a 1:1 mixture and upon great success, I moved on up to 2:1. 2 parts diesel #20  highway grade, and 1k Kero. Took a bit to warm it up, but after successfully priming it up and feeling a wee bit lightheaded from the fumes, its now burning hot and actually, much brighter and burns
much hotter than it did on pure kero! Successful experiment!

Introduction

Welcome to Bear and Bunny Embarkment. Our journey started about a year ago when we were wanting to get an apartment, then changed our minds to getting a mobile home. We then came across the idea of RV living, and that is it. We loved the idea of being able to basically live for free and to go where we wanted whenever, instead of having half of our income going towards rent and being tied down to one place all the time.

About 6 months ago we finally got enough  to buy our truck. We used to have a 1999 Saturn SW2(Bear loved that car because it was FAST). We now have a 1999 GMC K1500 Suburban SLT. We got it for a killer deal for $600 and put about another $600 into it and now it is running solid.

So now the savings begin to find our RV, we are looking for a bumper pull travel trailer no more than 30 feet. Once we get the RV we are going to get hitched :) So this is just a basic little intro to what this blog will be about and we hope you will follow us along the way. Here is a little bit more in depth video about how far we have gone so far. Be sure to check it out and all of our other videos that will be coming to that youtube channel.

As for our names Bear and Bunny, that is our nickname for eachother thus why we chose to make it our names for our blog and youtube channel name.

Bear and Bunny Embarkment out.