SURVIVING BIBLICAL RAIN: New Troopy Storm Test with Bernie

追加: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Welcome back everybody to another camping with  Tony Bernie from AB Camping. We're camping in Brucey the Troopy in a horrendous  storm that's coming in. We've set up in the wet. We're going to sleep in there  tonight. Come along. It's going to be fun.

[00:00:27]Okay, good boy.

[00:00:51]Come sit. Sit pretty. Go on.

[00:07:34]Okay.

[00:07:52]Okay.

[00:10:44]Let's go, baby.

[00:11:05]Good boy. Lay down.

[00:11:42]Oh, what?

[00:14:35]Heat. Heat.

[00:17:23]Well, thanks again for coming on this  one everyone. An impromptu camp. Middle of nowhere. Beautiful spot. Horrible  weather. We've got really bad weather coming in. I've tried to tuck myself  out of the wind as much as possible.

[00:17:41]just over there. It's absolutely ripping through.  We've got a lot of rain coming from now through to tonight and tomorrow morning is meant to be  biblical rain and the wind is going to pick up.

[00:17:56]So, the plan for this camp is to further  test the troopy Brucey. I've made some changes. I'm going to run you through all  of the changes that I made since the last video. We're going to eat some good  food. We're hopefully going to get a decent night's sleep. And as you'll see,  I've got a tarp. Back to old school AB camping with the tarp. Bernie is dry under  here, but he'll go and lie out in the rain.

[00:18:30]Should be a good camp. But  right now it's about 300 PM, half 3. So we're gonna chill out and have a  coffee. We'll take Bernie for a walk in a bit in the pouring rain cuz he loves that.  We'll go and have a look at the river and then we'll hunker down. Going to cook some  dinner tonight. Probably going to cook in here.

[00:19:00]But right now I am dry. This is a great setup.  Small tar 3 m by 2 m is all I need. I've got protection from the sides because of my barn  doors. But basically it's all coming from that side. No rain is getting to me at all with  the top like this. Completely protected. Any wind that's blowing is underneath. What  a great setup. I've got all my room. I could just sit in here if I want. Be even  more comfortable. If it got really cold, it's about 10 Celsius now, but if it got really  cold, I could sit in there, put the heating on, close the barn doors, and just leave this  tarp up like this. It's not going anywhere.

[00:19:39]And I've got all the water  draining off this side. Right, we're going to have our coffee and then we'll  take Bernie for a walk. Isn't that right, Bernie? A walk. You want to go for  a walk? Yeah. Cheers, everybody.

[00:19:57]While there's a lull in the weather, let's take Bernie for a quick walk  down to the river. Let's go, Bernie.

[00:20:07]Come on. So, there's camp.  Pretty epic. What do you think?

[00:20:16]Looks good, doesn't it?

[00:20:20]I think it's not bad. Right, let's walk.

[00:20:29]Come on.

[00:20:51]So, we're in New Zealand. the South  Island. It's May, which is autumn here.

[00:21:03]Got Bernie, the purebred border collie. Bernie, come on. What are you doing?  Bernie, the purebred border collie.

[00:21:12]And we're in a beautiful location by the  river. We're going to cut across. Come on, Bernie. Yeah. Come on. Up. Up.

[00:21:26]came here in Brucey the Toyota Troopy. It's a  2007 Land Cruiser 78 series. In New Zealand, it was called a Toyota hardtop. Land  Cruiser hardtop in Australia. It's a workmate and I don't think you can get  it in the rest of the world. It's from Japan. Made in Japan. But it's called a  Troopy because it's a troop carrier. Was originally designed to take Japanese military  into battle. Well, not into battle, but to war.

[00:22:09]What a beautiful spot. A beautiful  stream. It's lovely. Bernie, you going in? Go on then. Want some water? You  going to have a drink? What a stunning stunning area. Lot of weather coming in up there.  You can see it's uh looking a bit grim.

[00:22:37]So, the plan is get ready for this storm to come in. We need to  hunker down before it hits us. This way, Bernie.

[00:22:48]He's running like a gazelle.  Come on. Come on. He's so fast.

[00:22:59]Got to hunker down for this storm that's coming  in. I've had this rooftop tent open in some pretty serious weather. In the last couple of videos, I  well, last last time I used this, I had the roof down because the weather was so bad. This time  we're going to sleep in it with the roof tent up and hopefully I get a decent night's sleep. I've  got a feeling I'm going to need ear plugs though.

[00:23:32]So, we'll come back for hunkering down for  the storm and cooking up some lovely food.

[00:23:41]All right, Bernie. You warm now. It's  almost Bernie's dinner time soon.

[00:23:54]Wow, it is really coming down  out there. That's a lot of rain, but we're okay in here.

[00:24:11]Starting to get a bit chilly.  Going put the heating on.

[00:24:18]Start her up.

[00:24:24]There we go. It's cranking. I'll show you  all the other functions like the outdoor lights and the under under floor  lighting later when it's dark. So, that's going to start cranking. My diesel heater  is in there. And these are the vents down here.

[00:24:42]Got two of them. It's going to be toasty toasty  warm in here soon. And it will dry all my gear out, which is what I need. And then we'll decide  whether I close the back door or not. Right now, it's fine. But I do need to dry everything  out cuz I got a wet dog in here. Right, it's now almost 6:00 p.m. I think it's time for  Bernie's dinner. Bernie, do you want some dinner?

[00:25:11]So, as I said before, Bernie is on a very special  restricted diet cuz he has a very sensitive tummy.

[00:25:25]So, it's very strict what he can go  on. Fat-ree diet is what he needs.

[00:25:37]It's just been so cozy sitting here just chilling.  It's been lovely. It really has. Come on then, Bernie. Come and have your your dinner. Got your  breakfast. Good boy. Lovely. So, for our dinner, um, let me angle you down a bit. Hold on.

[00:26:03]There we go. Can you see me? Good. For our dinner,  it's something special. I've got an air fryer here. Now, I didn't realize the cable for this  air fryer was so short, and I didn't bring an extension cable for it. It's 12vt air fryer that I  got dirt cheap. Um, it's only 300 W, and it needs an Anderson plug to work. And the only Anderson  sockets I've got are here. So, what I'm going to have to do, and it's quite a pain because I don't  want to put it on the floor. So, I've got the box that usually goes here. That's what the camera is  on now. I'm going to put the box here, put the air fryer on it, and cook like that. Um, it's Yeah,  it'll do. It'll be fine. You know, this is and and I've had to point this out before, and some  people just haven't really listened. This is not the final design of what I'm going to do in here.  This is temporary. These boxes are temporary. When I'm done, and that we do a build in here, and I've  worked out what it is, these boxes, I'm going to take all these out. I'm going to install these at  home. Um, I just need to work out what I want in here first, how much space I need, etc., etc.  So, that's why you see these boxes and all my batteries and power bank and everything is exposed  right now. Eventually, it's going to be neat, tidy, all hidden away. Um, I'll still be able to  use it as a utility vehicle, which I really need.

[00:27:33]So, I need to be able to access quite a wide area  here. Um, and I need to be able to sleep down here in an emergency when the weather is really bad.  And I need to have good storage here and maybe a little sink and a place to cook with the air fryer  and stuff. Was that a nice dinner? Did you have a nice dinner? Good boy. Come and lie down. Come on.  Good boy. You can stay here, Bernie. You going to come and lie down or you going back on your bed?  What are you going to do? There you go. He's going to lie down. Oh, you're going to sit with me.  Okay. So, yeah. So, I need to work out. Yes.

[00:28:05]I've got very big feet. I need to work out how I  want this set up. Uh I I'll have a proper fridge installed, like a drawer fridge, everything. So,  I know some people are making comments about, "Oh, it's not very cozy. Oh, I expected something  different." It's just temporary. It's okay.

[00:28:24]It's not ready. I have to It seems I have to keep  repeating this, but yet it's not ready. This is all temporary. I I've not had the vehicle I've  only actually physically had ownership of the vehicle for 3 weeks, and I've already installed so  many things. Come and lie down, Bernie. Come and lie down. Good boy. Lie down. Come on, lie down.  Good boy. I mean, things I've done. I've put a gold wing window in. What's a Goldwing window? It  opens like this. Uh, didn't have those, so I've had to put that in. Uh, other things I've done,  I've done a lot of rewiring. I've added external lighting, which I'll show you later. I reorganized  these drawers and bought a different ones. Benny, you finished it. Um, lots of stuff. Lots of stuff.  I've done so many different things. Okay. Um, I will go through each item. Are you done? Can you  come and lie down, please? On your bed. See where he goes. He's comfy on his on the front seat. So,  the front seat, the passenger seat is big and he's got a sheep skin on there and he likes lying  on there. Today, I drove in with him. He stayed in the back here, not on the front seat. I don't  know which he prefers. Good boy. There you go. Um, okay. So, I've got to work out. Yeah. So, what  I'll do is I'll put the air fryer here and we'll cook up our dinner. Um, and then I think we'll  open the back door for that. I've got everything closed at the moment except this Goldwing window.  I've got a little fan running up the top here uh just to circulate the heat. Um it's piping  hot in here. It really is. It's lovely. So, I think we'll be doing dinner in about half an hour.  Right, we're going to do this out here. I need to just turn this light down a bit. It's dimmable. Or  I might just turn it off altogether. I go into my app and this is the back door light. I press and  hold it and turns it right down. Check it out. Not bad, huh? Now Bernie's out here. He's on the lead  cuz he wanted to come out. He He'll just lie down out here while I cook up here. So I might have  to crop you in a bit just to see you all this, but I wanted you I wanted you  to be out there to see it all.

[00:30:57]So, got my air fryer here.  I need to heat it up first.

[00:31:08]Going to turn it all around so you can see it.

[00:31:28]Okay. So, we'll crank that up to 180.

[00:31:37]Preheat it for about 10  minutes and then we'll be good.

[00:31:48]That's drawing almost 30 amps. Benny, can you  stay down there? Good boy. And for dinner, I've got two pies, steak and cheese and butter  chicken from Dad's Pies in New Zealand. So, they'll just go in in the bags. You cook these in  the bags. Straight in here for 20 minutes. Easy.

[00:32:11]Right, I think we're ready to put the pies  in. I'm doing it in this angle. Obviously, I would have it facing me usually, but just so  you can all see. So, you just throw these in.

[00:32:25]It really is that simple. 20 minutes and that's it. And I sit back and I wait  for my dinner. Couple of pies. We got some Tabasco sauce to have on them. to know me  is to have Tabasco sauce with me. Honestly, really couldn't ask for anything else.  Right, it just dinged. It's 20 minutes, so time for my pie uh cutlery.

[00:33:10]Right. So, we've got two pies in here.

[00:33:15]Uh, they're going to be hot.

[00:33:22]So, that used I've now got 91% power left. I've  got 400 amps of power here. So, even after running that for over 20 minutes, I think I ran it 22 20  no 25 minutes cuz I let it warm up. I've still got 91% power left. Got tons of power. Now, would  it have been better to use an inverter and a home machine? Probably. Yeah. But just complications. I  wanted to see if I could do all this without using home appliances and specifically use camping  appliances. All right, let's have a look.

[00:34:03]Hot. It's good. Worked.

[00:34:11]So, I'm sure in future I will have sorted  this out so I can make it much better for you to see what's going on filming  wise. Let me unplug that. But yeah, this this cable is so short. I wanted to cook  up here, but it's a teeny tiny cable. Look at this. I'm assuming they want you to use an  extension cable, so I just wasn't prepared.

[00:34:41]Silly me. All right, these pies  smell absolutely delicious.

[00:34:49]So, we've got a steak and cheese. Oh, yeah. It's bubbling. And a buttered chicken. I  think we'll do the uh steak and cheese second.

[00:35:03]I'm desperate to try this butter chicken.

[00:35:07]Wow.

[00:35:12]Oh yeah, it doesn't need anything else. It's got  everything you need. It's got meat, sauce, pastry, everything you need. Perfect. Well, bon appetite,  everybody. Let's go. Butter chicken first.

[00:35:27]I'm praying it's hot inside.

[00:35:32]Mhm. Oh. Oh. M. Oh, that's absolutely  delicious. It feels like a camping meal. M I tell you, I've used a lot of electronics  on this channel to cook and it's always been on an inverter. This is the  first time I've used 12vt to cook.

[00:36:05]I got to say, I love it.

[00:36:13]Different to home appliances, more rugged,  cute, looks good. And look at this thing. Well, I can't turn it around, but  it's such a nice little device.

[00:36:29]Perfect for heating things up. for cooking.  It's just going to be a little bit slower, but it uses a lot less power. And  you can just use this if you got an Anderson socket cuz it it it uses  30 amp. So, it's not a 50 amp socket.

[00:36:48]But yeah, you just basically find a  connection to plug it into a battery.

[00:36:56]You can use it anywhere.  Don't need a fancy inverter.

[00:37:05]zesty.

[00:37:08]All right, everybody.

[00:37:16]If you're wondering where Bernie is, Bernie is  he's under the camera, directly under the tripod, just looking out, watching what's going  on because I've got the flood lights on.

[00:37:33]Bring you back after I've chowed this down.  We'll have a hot chocolate and a cigar.

[00:37:42]Maybe a treat.

[00:37:48]Bonap, everybody. Butter chicken. Now we're going to do I can't remember what it  was. Steak, mints, steak and cheese.

[00:38:20]Yum.

[00:40:01]Time for a hot chocolate and a cigar now. Hello,  Bernie. Hang on. Don't want you here when I've got the flame on. What are you doing? Wind out,  Benny. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Bernie. No.

[00:40:21]Oh, that dinner was epic. I've been chilling out, but I'm going to have the cigar, so  I've got to sit up. No, Bernie. Come on. Come and lay down. Come and lay down.  There's a good boy somewhere. You settle.

[00:40:33]It's the Bernie show over here. Come on. Come  on. Lay down. Lie down. Good boy. It's cuz I'm talking. It's triggered him. So, we'll have the  cigar outside obviously for obvious reasons.

[00:40:49]We're having a Avalanche coffee hot chocolate. Uh so, thanks again everyone for coming on this trip.

[00:41:02]Hope you've enjoyed it so far. It's It feels  like one of my old school videos, my originals, just with less mistakes so far, I hope.

[00:41:26]But you never know. So, what I need to do is  maybe I should have closed the door first.

[00:41:33]I've got some Walker's shortbread here. And  I've got my cigar. Monte Cristo number four.

[00:41:42]Walkers Scottish shortbread. Oh my goodness. It's  so good. What do you think of my setup? Look at this. I mean, you can't hear it because  I've got this on, but it is it's raining.

[00:41:54]It was absolutely chucking down earlier  and I'm sure it will chuck down again.

[00:42:04]But I'm actually looking forward  to going inside and crawling up into the bed upstairs. I think that'll be nice.

[00:42:18]I love this chair. Here we go.

[00:42:44]I tell you this truck is Just amazing. It really is. Look at this. I've got space outside to just hang out. I'm  going to close this. Obvious reasons.

[00:43:06]Got my keys with me. Don't worry.

[00:43:11]Cheers, everybody.

[00:43:16]M. Oh, yeah.

[00:43:27]Now, I don't know if you can see, but underneath it's lit up all the  way around. I can change colors, but I've just got it sort of amber yellow at the  moment. You know, I don't want to get wet here.

[00:43:45]Perfect. I've got a ton of room.  Now, this is a small tar. 2 m by 3 m.

[00:43:55]If I put a 4 m by 3 m tarp out, imagine how much  more room I could I'd have out here. Tons. So, maybe next time I'll bring a  bigger tarp. But right now, this is perfect. But it's not too  windy. So, hello my lovely Breny.

[00:44:16]You're not going to like this cuz I'm about to  have a cigar. I know you like cigars. Smoke.

[00:44:23]Benny's very strange. He he he likes cigars. I  don't know why. He has to come and have a sniff, but he actually likes them. So,  Monte Cristo number four. Uh, yeah. Thanks for coming on this. I hope you're  enjoying it. I am. Be careful, Bernie. That's hot.

[00:44:48]Uh, the Troopy is incredible. It's done a great  job so far. I do have an issue with the roof tent, which I will show you at bedtime. It's  the same issue I had with it in Alaska, and it's very strange. I don't know why,  but I think it's either condensation or there's water coming in. One or the  other. And I can't put my finger on it. It looks like it's seeping in. Now,  I had this exact same problem in Alaska.

[00:45:26]Oh, that's nice. So, I can see Bernie. He's  got his light on. I've got my flood light up here that I've set up that's on the  lighting that I can control dimable. I showed you that earlier. So, I can see  out, no problem. I can see all around.

[00:45:42]This is great. This is Oh my compared to  my Ford Ranger, this is a superb setup.

[00:45:52]Just is really is cuz I know I'm going  to sleep in there tonight. It's going to be lovely. My Ford Ranger, I'd be  sitting out here, yes, with the tarp, yes, connected to it. But I still got to work  out where I'm going to sleep. And that usually means having to sleep in a tent. And no one  really wants to sleep in a tent compared to being able to sleep in a vehicle and be secure.  You're going to see Bernie here out the corner.

[00:46:22]So, what is there to talk about? Well, you know, thinking of this truck, it made me think  Bernie. Oh, there you are. It made me think of how many vehicles I've had over the years.  A lot. And I've had a few 4x4s as well. But it made me think, I was thinking, what was  my very first car? My very first vehicle.

[00:46:54]And just reminded me of the story. One of the  funniest things that's ever happened to me.

[00:47:03]But my very first car uh that my mom  and dad bought me and they bought it for the princely sum. I think it  was £250 and I was 17 years old.

[00:47:18]It was a Ford Escort M2 and it was glorious. You  know why it was glorious? Because it was awful.

[00:47:32]was a rust bucket. I spent my whole time  tinkering with it, working on it, fixing it.

[00:47:41]Most of the time I didn't want to start.  Sometimes it did. And when it did, it was glorious. You know why? It was freedom. My first  car was freedom. And I loved it. It was all mine.

[00:47:55]And what happened was one very cold winter's day  I uh had to get up early to go to work and I was working uh in the bakery at Tesco's which had  just opened in Ipsswitch in Suffukk in the UK.

[00:48:20]So, I got up, got in the car, and it would not  start. It was too cold for it. It would not start. I tried everything. It wouldn't start.  I was like, "Dad, and it was a weekend. Uh, and it's a 20 mile drive. It was quite  a long way." Said, "Dad, I'm stuck. The car won't start. What do I do?" He says, "All  right, son, don't worry. I'll drive you." Now, my dad my dad was in the middle of this massive  he always used to have this massive mug of tea every morning. He he wasn't a coffee drinker. He  was a tea drinker and have this huge mug of tea and it was a freezing day. But he was like, "It's  okay. He's just going to get in the car quickly, drive me to work, uh, and then come home." But  he said, "Right, Anthony," which is my name, "Can you carry my tea? Can you hold my  tea? Just be careful. Hold my hold my tea."

[00:49:19]So I was like, "Okay." So we start off and  we live a few minutes from a very steep hill. That's when I was a kid. and my dad, bless  him, who passed away a couple of years ago. Um, we were driving and he got to the hill and bear  in mind it was really cold and he hit some black ice and his car suddenly started swerving like  this. So, I'm holding his tea. I'm like, "Oh, it's going to spill and it's boiling hot." So I held it  over my dad's lap and it was spilling in his lap.

[00:50:10]So he's trying to control the car trying not  to spin and he's got boiling hot tea falling in his lap. to eventually manage to get the car  stopped and he jumps out screaming and he's got steam pouring off his crotch and I'm in hysterics.  I can't stop laughing. And then we get home when I get home later that night and I tell my mom she's  got tears running down her eyes. It's one of my favorite stories ever with my dad because it was  so funny. I mean, he laughed later. He He'd laugh.

[00:50:50]We used to talk about that story all the time.  Come under here, Bernie. Come on. Come and lie down cuz it's really chucking down now and you're  getting dripped on. Come on. Lie down. Lie down.

[00:51:00]Right down. Right down, Bernie. Good boy. Oh, I  miss him. I miss him every day. We were so close.

[00:51:15]But it just makes me think, first car, what  was your first car? And do you have any funny stories or sad stories or whatever? Put them  in the comments. I'd love to hear it. I'd love to read those because you saw me just those  memories. You You can't get them back. Um but man, it was superb. Crappy car. hardly ever worked.  Absolute pile of junk. And you know, it's my dad's idea to get me that load of rubbish. And he's the  one that ended up with half a pint of scolding hot tea on his crotch in the middle of winter. And he  had to drive. He drove me all the way to work and back with this soaking wet crotch that must have  got so cold. Bless him. Oh, I miss him so much.

[00:52:14]Cheers, Dad. And to everyone who's missing theirs, and to my mom. Bless her as well. She  was in tears when she heard the story.

[00:52:30]So, yeah. What was your first  car? And what's any funny stories?

[00:52:36]Ah, in other news, uh, Rory Maroy won the  Masters, two years on the trot. Unbelievable.

[00:52:47]The guy goes from the most infamous Masters  choker to an absolute legend. What would we do without Rory Mroy right now in in golf,  in sports? Just superb. Absolutely superb.

[00:53:08]I hope he wins other championships now. And  I hope he wins another Masters. Three in a row would be absolutely insane. What  else? My town, my football club, Ipsswitch Town Football Club has been  promoted in the UK to the Premier League, the top division. So the year So last year  it was uh relegated um to the championship which is below and this year it's been promoted  back up. So I'm hoping this year they're better and they stay in the Premier League this time  for good. Let's hope so. My wife is from Rexom and I don't know if you've ever seen the the  show Welcome to Rexom with Ryan Reynolds. They missed out very narrowly missed out on on playoff  position to be promoted. So we won that battle in Formula 1. Kimmy Antonelli in the  Mercedes is crushing it. You can see that George Russell is so demoralized  now. He's lost his He's lost his mojo to Kimmy. Good on him. I am now rooting  for Kimmy Antinelli. Seems like such a nice kid. Great car. Obviously, best  car at the moment, but he deserves it.

[00:54:46]So, we'll see. It would always be  good if it went down to the wire, but he's walking away with it right now.

[00:54:54]And then they've got a whole load of rule  changes that are absolutely ridiculous that I don't want to talk about again, but  Formula 1 just isn't the same anymore.

[00:55:05]Gosh, this setup is good. Yeah,  I think I need a bigger top and I want to find a way to connect it  safely and easily to the back of the truck.

[00:55:23]So, thanks again everyone for coming. Thank  you to all of our members on Buy Me a Coffee that have bought Bernie and Bali treats. All  the money on there goes to them for treats.

[00:55:34]And thank you to all our YouTube members who've  joined the channel. Uh means a lot. Thank you so much. All our Patreon members and everyone who  buys merch. Thank you so much. Love the merch shots. I love it when people write in and say we  love the merch. Um yeah, thank you everybody. Uh and to all the super thanks. And then all  of our subscribers and everyone who gives thumbs up. Thank you so much. And everyone  who writes comments. Not enough people write comments. They just watch the video and then move  on. Don't do a thumbs up. Don't do a comment. Um, and I understand because I do the same a lot of  the time, but it is nice to sometimes see those and I want to know. Yep. So, the first car, but I  also want to know what you think about this. But bear in mind that obviously I'm going to be  modifying this. I am going to be building it out properly professionally inside. It will  be lovely and cozy. but as a as a flexible utilitarian vehicle that can go anywhere with an  incredible four-wheel drive system. And later, you're going to see the house up the top  where I'm going to be sleeping. Let me know what you think of the whole system, especially  compared to my Ford Ranger, which I am selling.

[00:56:51]Which leads me on to buddy. This has been a  question I've got a lot and a lot of comments about Buddy. Don't you dare get rid of Buddy.  Blah blah blah. I'm afraid we've made the decision that we're going to sell Buddy as well.  Not straight away. We'll do the Ranger first, but I just can't justify having the vehicles  anymore. And Buddy overlaps with this far too much. Buddy is very gutless. It's a tiny  engine. It's very slow. would cost a fortune to upgrade that engine. Um, it is comfortable. It  is lovely, but it's a little bit too comfortable, a little bit too cozy, a little bit too lovely for  me. I need a little bit of roughness. Otherwise, I just turn up and turn the heating on  and that's it. I'm done. There's nothing to do. I like the challenge of this.  Setting up a camp, setting up a tar, popping the roof open. Am I gonna even be  able to sleep under there or do I have to do an emergency sleep downstairs? That sort of  thing. And I like that. Uh I just The goal is though is to make this as comfortable as Buddy  is. So I am working on it and I will do it.

[00:58:05]But I can tell you this much, the bed upstairs  is more comfortable than buddy. Now wow.

[00:58:16]You're seeing raindrops, by the way,  because I've got the umbrella up and it's coming off the front of the  umbrella. It's not that the tarp is leaking. It's just bouncing off  the top of that. But holy moly, I'm going to leave this tarp up all night  because I haven't had to touch it once and I think it's absolutely fine. All right,  everyone. I think I'll see you at bedtime.

[00:59:18]Heat. Heat.

[00:59:27]Heat.

[01:00:14]Heat. Heat.

[01:00:20]Heat. Heat.

[01:00:56]Right, it's bedtime. Time to crawl up into the  rooftop tent. First, we're going to say night light night to Bernie. Night night, Bernie.  He came here all by himself and climbed on his little seat here. He's cozy and happy, isn't he?  If he wants to, he can come and lie here, but uh I think he really likes that seat with his uh sheep  skin. Right. So, what we do is lower this down.

[01:01:27]And that's pretty much it. And  then we climb up into here.

[01:01:31]Uh now I've got a uh little contraption  at the back here to uh a board that I need to fill this gap in for the hatch. And so  I'll show you how we do that as well. Okay.

[01:01:45]So the biggest problem with these is that  there's a hatch uh that you close like so and then that's the whole of your  bed, the whole length. Obviously, the problem is then warm air can't get up into  here. So, what I've done is cut a piece of MDF and that's what this is. This board, I've  put some material on it. But before I do, before I show you that, look at this. Hang  on. Can you see the water marks? I hope you can. Let me try and get some light down  here so you can see more clearly. But look, look at the water marks. Look at that.  So, I don't know if that's rain. What is What is it? Condensation. I had this exact  same problem in Alaska. It really annoyed me there as well. I don't know what it is.  Anyway, I'll work it out and report back.

[01:02:57]So, uh, yeah. So, I've got my board.  So, what I do is lift my board up, lift the hatch back up like so, and I drop  my board down. And my board is on Velcro.

[01:03:16]And that's it. And it literally clicks into  place here. So now I've got all that extra space to sleep. I'm not going to lose my pillow  over the edge. And I've got heat coming up from downstairs through this gap. Look. See? Coming  up through here. Isn't that awesome? Why this design is the way it is? I have no idea. It's very  odd. I've got a fan here in case I get too hot, but also to circulate the heat. Um, I can put  this fan on if I can ever work out how to do it. Here we go. Just put it on low and that'll  circulate the heat up and down and around. It's all good. Right, I'm going to get back into bed  or get into bed and uh bring you back. Right, all tucked in. So another change I made is these  things. So what they did was it come the way it comes is that these are uh what they put on here  is like a Velcro thing which transmits water.

[01:04:31]So what happens is when you're breathing out and  you got condensation because these behind here are rivets um they transmit the cold through and  they all get soaked all of them. And in Alaska what was happening was they were all freezing.  So I had loads of ice inside. What I've done is taken all those off and replaced them with  rubber grip. These are meant to be under sort of used under chairs to stop them from sliding on the  floor. Uh, so these are rubber, so non-permeable, so they won't freeze. So it's like an insulative  layer. And then if I wanted to then velcro, I could then stick Velcro on top of these instead.  Again, I don't know what Ali Cab were thinking, but uh, I fixed it myself. No more condensation.  Right, everybody. Well, very chilled out, very relaxed. Think I'm going to have a good  night's sleep. might watch a bit more of my movie and then uh hit the sack. It's stopped  raining for now. I think in the morning we got a lot of rain coming. So, I'll bring you back for  that. Unless something major happens in the middle of the night, I'll bring you back. All right,  everyone. Night night Bernie. Night everybody.

[01:06:06]Morning everybody. It's 7:30. Oh,  had a good night's sleep. Man, it's pretty hot in here. Oh,  I can hear Bernie. All right, I got to get up. Let's go down and see  Bernie. And let's have a cup of coffee.

[01:06:27]Morning, Bernie. Morning,  my lovely. Hello. Morning.

[01:06:37]Morning. Did it say morning to everybody? Morning.  Morning, my lovely. Morning, Menny. Did you have a nice night? Oh, it's lovely and warm. You're  toasty. Oh, it was a good night's sleep. Sorry, you're on a bit of a wonk. Oh, need to let Bernie  out, do his poo poos, pee pees. Need to get him some water. Although, you know what? He's going  to go straight to a puddle and start drinking. And uh we need to get our coffee on. So, it's chucking  with rain. It's been raining heavily pretty much all night. I've got a bit of condensation in  here. Not too bad. Um but it's just a very, very wet night. What can you do? Just what it  is. Not too much condensation on the windows, which I'm surprised about. Right, let's get a  coffee on and let Bernie out. Right, I'm going to turn the heating off because Oh, it's boiling  down here. Right, come on, Bernie. Let's go out.

[01:07:40]Go on then.

[01:07:44]Let's go and see what we're dealing with out here.  Well, the top held perfectly. Yep. Excellent. No pooling, nothing. Everything I put under here  is dry, which is always a good sign. There's no leakage in the back. Got a bit of a mosh  pit going on down here. But look at this. Oh, look at those hills. Isn't it just beautiful?  Oh, it's a love lovely temperature now out here.

[01:08:23]What is it? 13 Celsius. I've got my thermometer  right there. So, yeah, I've turned the heating off. Let's get some silence. Get a coffee on. Have  some breakfast in this beautiful rain. Last night there was some heavy, heavy rain. And I think  the fords are going to be pretty flooded when we go out that we cross. Oh, and we've got to get  Bernie his breakfast as well. Isn't that right, Bernie? You want your breakfast? Yep, you do.  Okay. All right. Let's get Bernie his breakfast.

[01:09:03]So, I did turn the heating off last night and  then it got really cold and we started getting condensation. So, I put it back on again.  just low, which seemed to do the trick. I was quite hot. I didn't have to wear anything  in bed, but that's fine. Very tricky conditions with it being so wet. Condensation's always  going to be a problem. Even in a camper van, you get condensation. Right. Come out here,  Benny. There you go. Go on then. Good boy.

[01:09:44]Yum. Okay, coffee. So, I've got my MSR  switch. It's quite handy just cooking off the back here. They are going to the  guys who installed all this are going to build me a table that drops down that's flat,  that's flush. I had one that stuck out before and it was a bit of a pain. So, flush and  I can cook off the back of that, be fine.

[01:10:12]So, the plan today, have some breakfast.

[01:10:18]I've got some special pancakes  and then we'll head off. Going to pack all this down and we'll head off.

[01:10:42]Heat.

[01:10:54]Heat.

[01:11:18]Oh, it's quite handy this thing. I  tell you, you don't even need a chair, especially with the step here or here.

[01:11:30]It's just such a great setup.

[01:11:35]Honestly, the the top was no hassle.  And once I've done it a few times, it will be even quicker. If I have a bigger  top, I got even more space out here. But I could use a bit longer space. So, just a  slightly bigger top. Or I could turn this top around and have it more out that way. We'll  see. Um, I'm quite liking this this wall that I have here so no rain can come in even if it's  windy. So maybe just a slightly bigger tar.

[01:12:13]Ah, hey Bernie. What you doing?

[01:12:21]Hey puppy, you coming up? Hello?  You're soaking. What a morning.

[01:12:59]Time for breakfast. We're  going to do breakfast inside because it's simple. So, what I've got are some  individually wrapped Toscano French crepes, chocolate hazelnut fil. So, I guess what?  It's like Nutella. Can you see that?

[01:13:25]I have to bring my face in to  get the focus. There you go. So, nice and simple. I don't usually go for chocolatey  things, but I saw these and I just thought, "Oh, you know what? Couple of those. I reckon three of  these. So simple. Look simple. Just heat them up.

[01:13:52]I don't even think they need to be refrigerated,  but don't know why I had them in the refrigerator.

[01:14:02]Okay, my trusty pan. My pan is a bit warped, so it  it moves all over the place. Hang on. This thing's got legs. My MSR switch has legs for a pan. Ah,  that's it. Okay. So, we just need this on low cuz these are already cooked.  What we got to do is warm them up.

[01:14:36]So, I've got the doors wide open so there's not  going to be any carbon monoxide issues here.

[01:14:48]one. So, I think the plan with these is you  can you I mean you don't have to heat them, but I'm sure it would be much  nicer warmed up thoroughly. So, you don't want to recook them. You  just want to lightly warm them up. So, let's turn this right down. There we go. So,  this is what I love about this setup is I can stand up. I've got tons of room to move around  and cook. Look at this space. Oops. Look at it.

[01:15:37]If I was in a van right now, I  wouldn't be able to stand up, unless I was in something like  Buddy, which is just massive.

[01:15:53]And I know Buddy is purpose-built for that. And  honestly, Buddy would suit a lot more people than this than this vehicle would. It just  would, I think, especially if you're older.

[01:16:08]a female 100% buddy would be better for you  because it takes quite an effort to lift this roof tent up. You have to be fairly strong. It's it's  a heavy piece of kit. There's more maintenance involved in this. Wiping things down, drying  things. When you get home, you got to open it up, let it air. With Buddy with a camper van, there's  no maintenance. Literally, you pull into camp, you open your roof vent, and you're done. You  put your heating on, and that's it. Comfy, cozy, lovely. But this is an expedition vehicle.  It's not a camper van. That's what I'm trying to create here. An expedition vehicle. And when you  understand that, that I want this thing to go to places that Buddy just cannot go. I want to  do river crossings. I can't do that in Buddy.

[01:16:59]extreme winds. It's dangerous to drive  buddy in anything over 70 km an hour.

[01:17:06]That's not much. Things swerves.  It could tip easily easily. So, those are things I have to think about.  This thing is a unit, an expedition unit.

[01:17:16]And that's what this is about. It's not meant to  be exactly the same as Buddy. Okay? And I know some people can't get their head around  that, but trust me, expedition vehicle.

[01:17:33]I want to be able to drive this thing absolutely  anywhere. Okay, how are we looking here?

[01:17:42]Oh, yes. I can see the Nutella  is warming now. I think I think they're already good. Let me just flip them all.

[01:17:54]And because it's got the Nutella spread in.  Oh, yeah. They're done. Look at that. Oh, they smell fantastic. Because  they've already got the Nutella spread in. I don't actually need to  do put any maple syrup on. Nothing.

[01:18:14]Check it out. Three lovely Tuscano  hazelnut chocolate filled crepes. Yum.

[01:18:28]One app everybody.

[01:18:35]Oh yeah. When you hit the chocolate  spread. Oh, absolutely delicious.

[01:18:44]Very good choice.

[01:18:52]I had this gold wing window open that I installed  all night like this. It's about 2 in crack. Look.

[01:19:01]I mean, it's got air flow coming in here. It's  lovely. I'm glad I did that. I've got a Velcro strap here just in case there was wind pulled  it, it would hold on to it. But it's worked very well. I like this. The only thing with  this is it's the way it comes. It's all it's all or nothing. It will open all the way up  or it closes all the way. You got to adjust it with your own sort of strap. Small price to  pay. We need another coffee and then we need to pack down. And I don't know if you can hear  the rain out there, but it's coming down now.

[01:19:39]So, I'm going to finish up, have  a coffee, and then we'll pack down Heat. Heat.

[01:21:28]Heat.

[01:21:58]Heat. Heat.

[01:25:00]Heat. Heat.

[01:25:34]right time to pack everything down. Um, so  what I'll do is I'll square it away in here first. So we'll close the gold wing. This  has got to be locked from the outside to uh to get the compression on. So I have to  remember to do that. Um and it stops dust coming in, water, everything else. Everything  else is secured. These are magnets. That's all good. This is all secured. Fridge is secured. The  strap. I'd love to hear ideas of what you think I should do with this space. I need to keep  a full width of space available to sleep in, but also to put rubbish bags in, things like  that. I don't think I want a bench unless it's partial way. I still want to be able to have  a comfy chair. So, have a think about that everybody. Come up with some designs if you  want and post them on Facebook. Um, so yeah, I've got tons of space, tons of opportunity,  but yeah, I need to work it out. All right. So, what we've got up here is my cross bracing. This  is the board that I made that bridges the gap.

[01:26:42]I've got this thing, which is kind of cool. It's  a damp absorber. And look, can you see that? That water mark. I I I don't think the camera picks  it up. It's quite wet now. Is it condensation or is it That's That's wet. I don't know what it  is. Um, but it's only where it's single skin.

[01:27:10]Now, luckily, it all goes down into the Velcro  and outside. It doesn't come inside at all.

[01:27:16]It sort of looks like it was designed to drain  condensation away. But it's only on this single layer. These double layers, there's nothing.  It's dry. Dry. That's dry, but it hasn't had the It doesn't get the rain on it. Dry. But  this back bit that's getting constant rain on is damp now. I had the exact thing in Alaska  as well. I just I don't know about these single layer material. I just don't know what the  issue is. This is my fan that I had running last night. My cross bracing that I can now take  down. Not that I needed it. It wasn't windy.

[01:28:04]But the cross bracing just adds so much  strength to the whole thing. It would be awesome if Alicab built this in to the system.  Not just locks, but actual cross bracing. So you see it all sits neatly here like that. Now,  what I have to do, don't really have a choice here because I need the air to escape when I  close this. So, I have to open that just to let the air gush out. We'll turn that upper  light off. And we're all good to go. Right.

[01:28:47]And these I extended. I think I said I put  longer hydraulic uh struts, gas struts on here so it sits more upright. before it was it was  coming to here so I had less vertical room. Again, I don't know why they did that. I'm sure they  could put longer struts here as well. In fact, I might try and find some just to be able to push  this up just even more. Right, I need to put my rain coat on, put this away, and uh we'll pop this  down and then we're ready to go outside and get rid of the top. Okay, that comes down and it's  all good. You can't really see anything in here, but as long as your bed is fairly neat. I put  the pillow down that end because it compresses easier. And then this whole thing will come down  on top of here. This mattress, I'm going to change this mattress next time. Put a wider one in. Yeah.  Light off. And then you pull this down from here like so. Oops. And that's it.

[01:29:59]It's all done. That's pretty simple.  Now we just got to do the top.

[01:38:13]All done. Okay, let's get out of here. It's gross.

[01:39:03]Heat up here.

[01:39:20]Heat. Heat.

[01:39:43]All right, everybody. Well, thanks again  for coming on this one. When we get onto the main road, Bernie's going in the back. He's  just allowed up here on this little back road.

[01:39:58]next time. Hopefully see you on  Mars for a really brutal test and a massive storm. But this one's been  fun. Thanks again for coming. Oh, we got another crossing here. What's this  one like? Oh, there we go. Not as bad.

[01:40:23]So, thanks again to all of our members, YouTube  members. Buy me a coffee fans. Thank you so much for the treats. For Bernie and Voli, thank  you so much. All our subscribers, all the super thanks everyone on the Facebook page, and the  Facebook group, Instagram, and X. And thank you for everyone that writes comments. Don't forget,  write the comment about the first car. Love to hear it. Also, any ideas you have for the layout  in here. And if you can sketch some, post them on the Facebook page, uh, on the fan group.  That would be awesome. Thanks again everyone and we'll catch you again soon from Tony and  Bernie from AB Camping. See you soon everybody.