Our Window Exploded // S5 Ep2

Welcome to another episode of The Epic Family Road Trip. All right it's December 5th and we are leaving Hot Springs, Arkansas. We spent a day and a half, two nights here drying out all our gear, our tents, everything was soaked. We went through a couple days of pouring rain so we really needed that kind of, we rented a little cabinet at the KOA to kind of get warmed up and dried off. So we're ready to roll again. We're heading down to Oklahoma. Tomorrow we're going to meet with Exploration Outfitters and start talking about the build of the new Jeep and what we're going to do and when. And then we're heading down to as far south as you can go in Texas down to Big Bend National Park and we're so looking forward to getting back there. All right so we drove all day from Central Arkansas and we're now in Oklahoma setting up camp here. We got here just after or just as the sun went down but they were very helpful and helped us find a spot. This is a state park called Texacoma. It's right on a beautiful lake and the bridge over there, there's a bridge you can hear the cars crossing the bridge. The highway crosses this lake but yeah it's a nice spot. We're all set up now. Caroline's got some dinner on and we've got a fire going and we're looking forward to a nice evening here and then tomorrow on to Exploration Outfitters. Good morning. It's Monday December 6th last night when we were shutting down camp. When I was shutting down the Jeep I closed the window and closed the door and I'm not sure how it happened but after a few minutes of the door being shut there must have been something pressurizing behind the glass and everything popped and shattered. So now we need a new rear window and I'm going to try to open this up and see what we can do here. Yeah it's completely shattered. How did that happen? I'm looking here I don't know what actually would have caused it. It had to have been something up here but everything's pretty much normal. This little thing wouldn't have done it. Everything's pretty flush. The grill's there. You know what I mean? Yeah it just it's everything's just like normal so I don't know. Oh well. Maybe it did. Let's get all the glass on the ground and then rake it up, bag it. So we had to take everything out. Everything had glass in it and just sorting it, bagging it so we have more room. Putting everything in bags and getting it all out. Okay so we've emptied everything out of the back here. You can see that our little rig that runs the windshield is here. It also has lighting on the other side. We're gonna have to get that fixed and replaced. We've tucked in the struts so they don't blow off. There's still glass dripping around and Carol's done a really good job of cleaning up but there's gonna be glass for some time. So we're bringing it in, getting the back windshield repaired. So while the jeep's in getting the back window repaired the team here at Exploration Outfitters loaned us their Ford Ranger with a p-core back on it so we're gonna take this back to camp. What are you doing boys? So practicing using mirrors to reverse at a little bit of speed. An incredible high rate of speed? Yeah. Without hitting any trees? Yeah because going forward is easy enough to see and do stuff but being able to reverse even just a little bit faster than crawling I think a good thing to learn. All right go and be careful. Southern nights this is right? They last longer? You know what I love though? Cactus nights where it's just as hot as during the day and maybe a little bit cooler. Then you can just walk outside in shorts and a t-shirt. lindo lindo lindo lindo Oh what's that? This is the best invention known to man. Eggs already mixed in a in a box. Like you talk about easy to store and you don't have to worry about anything. It's great for travelers. Just pour it in and you've got yourself some scrambled eggs. So after a delicious breakfast we headed into Exploration Outfitters to discuss the build of our new JLU. We're pretty excited about this. We're going to get it all retrofitted for our overlanding adventures coming up. So we're here at Glass Doctor and we've got ourselves a brand new back window. That thing shattered. We're going to be a little more careful this time. I think um what happened was a strap went in behind here and it turned sideways and then when we shut the window it was okay but it's when we shut the tailgate that it shattered. So yeah we just got to be a little more careful and that thing should last a long time. They're fixing some chips on the windshield right now. Good morning everyone. It is January 7th. It's a chilly morning here in southern Oklahoma but we have got a warm fire going there and a hot coffee and Lando is sitting on mom's lap keeping it warm. But we're packing up today. It's supposed to be a bit of weather here in the next couple days and we're just gonna work our way south see how far down we can get. We're trying to decide now do we go over to Big Bend or do we go down to Padre Islands area. It's the opposite direction but we'll decide more likely now. And in the meantime, we'll see you down the road.