Coromandel Prep, Mike's stressed towing, Our first night.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2022
- Hey team.
This episode, we are prepping for our 2 weeks up the Coromandel Peninsula.
As you might know, towing stresses me out, so see how the big drive goes. It happens when you catch a trailer on fire and your old caravan had brake issues.
We enjoy the benefits of being NZMCA members and enjoy a POP (Park over property) staying on some land at Acre park of another NZMCA member.
Really great spot.
#Coromandel #NZMCA #towing
Another cool video - i enjoy watching your videos because it’s like going on holiday without going on holiday!
awesome aye... Glad you enjoy the journeys, just a few hours from home... so many great spots to enjoy!
Great to see the new caravan loaded up and off adventuring, glad the journey went well and you were able to relax and enjoy. Congratulations on the 1000 subscribers
Thanks Garth good to reach that milestone. Absolutely loving the Caravan
Awesome video. I just enjoy the way you talk through your towing experience. Stay safe and enjoy
I'm getting less nervous and anxious about it... I was having nightmares for weeks before driving over that rd... 😳 lol... I just had to tell myself I'll be OK.
Great video Mike. You are towing like a pro. We are finally back on the road!!! But what an intro wet Stormy conditions here at Taupo.
Yea it's pretty rubbish weather for the next little bit aye... But always nice to be out in the caravan... Stay, dry, and hopefully the humidity isn't to bad.
Awesome mate, love that part of the country.
So good up there aye. The more remote I go the more I love it...
thanks for sharing - looking forward to the rest of the videos...
yea, this is just the beginning, so much video to go through... Especially on the next one... Hope your doing well, and surviving this humidity, which is killing me off.
@@leopardsgowild humidity bad but I'm mostly inside with aircon on! take care, enjoy the journey
Awesome video mike, loving yr guys caravan. Mate, that towing looked epic and some of the roads looked narrow as… keep up the great vids look forward to the next 👍👍
Thanks Chris, I'm glad I warm up to the towing and it gets easier as I go, rather then being stressed the whole time... Infact sometimes I try to forget I'm towing at all.
Had to laugh Mike when I saw your shopping, I was like "hey snap" - could have been our pre-departure shop. Bring on 1000 subs! Shannon
Yea man, just have to load up hard on the snacks... Sometimes the kids are so tired or so engaged in their game, dinner is an inconvenience to them, they want to be out there playing.
Awesome job on your first tow Mike 👍 This will be us at the end of this month eeeekkkkk! We will be equally as nervous gulp 😬
I'm like a pro tower after that adventure. lol.
Wow what a great beginning to wonderful trip - towing stresses me out too but that’s probably because Greg is driving lol
ha ha... I bet he tows just fine... THose tight corners, and steep climbs is what gets me... Soph was all prepped to have a go at towing till she tweaked her knee after a big hike...
Your in such a great spot up there to go to proper beaches haha Can’t wait to visit them again some day.
Yea it's magic I already want to go back. Theater clarity and beaches are stunning
Another awesome video thank you. Mike…. Next time that Soph says she’s busy working, check her computer!!!! She’s actually playing Wordle!!!
Lol... I won't tell her that... I'm sure she does it before 7am, cause she always posts in a group chat lol... I'm in the resistance... I'm terrible at those kinds of games... I think the next video will be quite long.... gauging mu current editing... have a good weekend
@@leopardsgowild she is in a group chat for Wordle??????? That little hold out! Hahaha you have a great weekend to matey.
*Reminds me of the good british summers, so many cars stuck behind caravans haha. We tend to have 2 lanes up big banks so overtaking is easy but those pull in spots are a good idea.*
Absolutely... in winter this road is virtually empty... it's definitely a holiday destination... Sumner it's packed. Everything is booked out.
Can’t wait to see the rest of your trip! It’s stunning up there 😍
Sure is... we want to go back already
I was up Coramandel last week. Went up to Whitianga. Have to take the boat there I think. Then had to rush back to Hawkes Bay because my Mum died. (Sad face!)
But I'm getting real good at towing my caravan over the Napier/Taupo Rd! Roll on 1000 subs!
How was your mum's funeral... Rough day for sure... Not looking forward to my turn, although mum's not even 60 yet, so plenty of years left. Yup getting close to the 1000 subs... Bring it on... How was Whitianga?
@@leopardsgowild Mum's funeral was good. Had to do it by invitation as we were limited to 100 vaccinated people and they had to be pre registered. So lots of phone calls before. Sadly Mum's sister is not vaccinated so couldn't be at the funeral. I quite liked Whitianga. Nice waterfront area.
The first times towing a large trailer I always worry. But after a 100k it all seems pretty easy with the right vehicle.
Exactly... and having a the comforts and good nights sleep when you get there, makes it so worth it... you got z new date for your caravan yet?
@@leopardsgowild let’s not mention that. It’s in NZ I have seen a photo. Now four weeks for it to be ready.
Totally feel your pain when it comes to towing, it does get better! It’s the narrow bridges that still get me!
Yea man... the far north has heaps of them... was bad enough with our old retro... lol.. 😆. But people are generally good at moving over.. generally
yoooooooo!!!!!!! great vid!!!! 992!!!! almost there !! congrats!!!!!!
Thanks man... looking forward to the partner program. Learn something new
@@leopardsgowild yes sir, plus onc u hit 1000 i think the algorithm starts to work with you lol
@@CHillAdventures yea I hope youtube puts some effort into showing our videos... do you share your videos on Facebook groups... you should post them onto some surf groups especially ocean surf groups... fresh water 🏄♂️ surfing
@@leopardsgowild filming urself surfing is kinda frowned apon,,, unless ur one of the best, i have a group of ppl who r cool w me and stuff but surfers in genera arent very supportive group, there are 4 main lake surfer content makers and only 1 has over 1k subs and its only like 1.17 or something so its tough,,, i do share a lot in facebook groups and on insta a lot too, vanlife has helped a ton to bring new ppl over.... tough game tho, u guys make great vids plus u all have character so its the total package once more ppl see ur stuff itll come fast... we have gained like 30 subs in the last 2 weeks but ive been doing a lot of promoting and posting lol
@@leopardsgowild im pretty positive ill get there deff enjoying the editing process more and more
You got this my bro 💪
I nailed it mate... The truck is a beast.
Having just been up there last weekend some of those roads and one lane bridges looked very familiar.
did the narrowness, and steepness of the hills ring some bells... Great spot, but great effort required with big caravans.
@@leopardsgowild You learn to breathe in on the corners.
@@craignelson-swiftyenzed7578 oh man that's so true and sometimes just close your eyes...
Love your honesty re towing. It looked like you nailed it! How long does it take you to set up once you've found a spot to park up?
Yea I'm a good driver, but it's a little scary driving with something that is so far behind you and turns differently to the vehicle. We had a couple of issues with brakes at the beggining which have sorted now, so all of that made me feel a bit anxious, onwards and upwards now.
30 to go
That's right!!!!! probably take 6 months with all your fake accounts
That POP in Coromandel town looks great, putting that on our to stay list. Great video, looking forward to watching your adventures. Just wondering what is camp America?
Yea it's really good... I love you get water, power and can have long showers... Camp America is a program to get international staff into camps in the US. I did it when I was 19 and 24 with SOph... They offered us to go back in 2019, but then covid... So we are going this year.. North Carolina for 16 weeks... Pretty much working with weekends off for adventure, although we will be pretty tired.
@@leopardsgowild That sounds awesome. We're hoping to make it to the States this year too, if we can get ourselves organised.
@@NomadLifeKiwi We were all ready to go in 2020, but then covid... WE had visas, flights and everything... Lucky we got refunds... Hoping it all works out this year...
Hi mike, cool video. Great to see you and your family getting out there living the dream. We just invested in a van and have manual hilux. How have you found the hilux towing? Also have you put a heavy duty clutch in it? Any other mods or is it stock as a rock.
Cheers and keep up the good work
Hey Jeff, just stock standard Hilux mate, not sure how many towing km's we have done it, I'd say around 2000km, so Probably couldn't give it a review yet, trucks done over 200k though, which I brought off the old man, who looks after his vehicles. So far so good, really hoping we don't have any mechanical issues when we are travelling.
@@leopardsgowild sweet, thanks for the info. Just gotta get out there and do it, I guess. Look forward to some more content.
Cheers
Cheers man, what caravan are you planning to tow?
I did a camp America jn 2007 in the pocono mountains in Pennsylvania called camp canadensis. Is this the type of camp your talking about or your actually camping in America?
Yea we are going to camp chestnut ridge in North Carolina... so we'll be working as camp counselors, our kids are registered as campers. Going to be an awesome summer. Still need to get the visas though and things at the US consulate are slow.
@@leopardsgowild oh ok yeah you will have fun. They do have alot of rules regarding drinking etc but I still talk to mates I met there from 07. Pretty cool and h get to travel round a see some cool things. What are you going to be teaching? We taught kids how to ride motorbikes. It was one if the only camps that did this tho.
@@newzealandearthmover4008 the camp is more like a kiwi camp. They do a 2x week staff training so you can run most of the activities...it means you can change each week unless you want to major an activitie. I like mixing it up and especially the water stuff, gets so hot
@@leopardsgowild sounds good mate! Hope you guys have a great time 🙂 enjoying your vlogs. We are looking at doing the same thing in Aussie with a triple bunk set up at some point. The n.i looks pretty nice up there. Mite have to have a look around when covid has done its thing
@@newzealandearthmover4008 awesome man, glad your enjoying the vlogs. Are you based in Australia??? The triple bunk set up is good, only downfall is kids can't sit up in their beds. It's goodvto take sometime put for an adventure. After camp America we are aiming to travel for 18 months through New Zealand full time...
Het Mate, we are looking at getting a van like yours, would you rate it?
We really love it, not so good with condensation in cupboards but seems that's an issue across all brands, I don't like the roof design which has 3 joins in it, with huge amounts if silicone over each join,c which means when iT rains the water just sits on top until your next tow. We have not had any major issues to complain about at all though and roof has been sweet, I just think it could be a problem in the future, which would like require more silicone so not necessarily a major
@@leopardsgowild thanks for that appreciate you getting back to me