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We have driven past this hidden gem 1000 times and when we heard there was a horse and hound graveyard here, we finally turned left into the parking lot. Antique barns, farm equipment, carriages, and some really beautiful scenery! Oh and did I mention the horse and hound cemetery!

We just bought this old house and decided to do a flashlight walk through while it was completely empty... well besides all the creepy old stuff in the basement.

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal closed on a new house and take you on a first day tour. This was a huge moment for us years in the making. We landed on the wrong side of the Illinois/Iowa border, but this was a great opportunity to check off a lot of boxes on our list! We officially doubled our square footage and then some + paid off ALL of our debt including having paid for this house cash! Subscribe for future videos restoring the house as well as many of our other interests!

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal decide to change plans on their road trip house hunt and change direction to head back north closer to family. With that in mind we enjoyed our day in Franklin Tennessee before heading to see some houses back towards Illinois.

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal are on a quest to find a new home. With the RV at a KOA east of Nashville they check out another home just over the border in Kentucky. Lots of driving this week!

Joel Villarreal does a very detailed walkthrough of the 1997 Winnebago Itasca Suncruiser he calls the Whale King. It has been through many modifications and seen a lot of updates and maintenance. We enjoyed it and put some miles on it traveling searching for a new home, now its time to switch gears and focus on the house we found.

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal head north to Spring Green Wisconsin to check out The House on the Rock's The Dark Side tour. With the lights turned down and plenty of creepy music, the already eerie exhibits take on a new face at night in this awesome Halloween destination.

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal check out the first house on the hunt for a new home. We found this house in budget with 6 acres of land. It was in very rough shape but definitely worth a drive to see it!

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal check out the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lots of special cars here that go under the radar. The V10 C4 Corvette and the Rotary powered Corvette just to name a few. If you are like me and passed this on the highway 10+ times and never stopped, I hope this video can sway you to take a quick break and check it out. You can kill a few hours here easily or just 30 minutes with a quick walk through.

Lindsay and Joel Villarreal drove from LS Fest in Kentucky back to IL to catch day 4 of HOT ROD Drag Week in Byron IL at Byron Dragway. It is always awesome seeing the fastest street cars in the country going down the strip. There are so many interesting cars that make it out to participate. My favorites were the 2 beetles and that crazy Valiant!

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal hit the Mammoth cave national park on their way through Kentucky. It was hard to get footage but this really shows you just how dark it was down there! The park also contains many old cemeteries, we included a quick walkthrough of the Little Hope Cemetery. We will be dropping more cemetery walks this October, so if you like them definitely subscribe to the channel!

Lindsay and Joel Villarreal head south to Bowling Green Kentucky to check out Holley LS Fest. This event had drifting, drag racing, autocross, a massive car show, and even a burnout contest, all with cars powered by LS engines. Enjoy 1.5 hours of our experience at the event!

Lindsay and Joel Villarreal head north to the Bristol Renaissance Faire. This was one of my favorite things we did this summer! We saw some awesome bands and I finally got to eat a whole turkey leg like Kano in Mortal Kombat. I love how many people dressed up and really lived their persona. Sign me up! Next year I am going back in full costume! Shout out to the Jackdaws and Troll Moss for the great tunes! Please come back next year!

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal take the project Whale King RV for a test drive to a couple Harvest Hosts and explore the town of Galena, IL. The town where President Ulysses S. Grant once lived is rich with history and possibly ghosts of the past. We found some great places to eat and tried a ghost tour ending up in one of Galena's most prestigious homes, the Ryan Mansion.

Joel and Lindsay Villareal take a hike through the Morton Arboretum to check out Daniel Poppers art exhibit "Human Nature." The mosquitoes were brutal and attacked in full force but we managed to find most of the massive sculptures before literally running out of there!

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal take a drive up to the Volo Auto Museum. This is a really fun day checking everything car related under one roof! They also have an awesome playground and kids dinosaur park that looked really cool if you bring the kids along. If you live in Illinois I highly recommend planning a trip here!

Joel and Lindsay Villarreal take a break from working on the RV to go visit some family resting nearby. We love visiting graveyards and I think we will be doing more videos like this soon. It was a perfect stormy overcast day and it made for a very nice visit to Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery.

Joel Villarreal works on replacing the old worn out awning on the RV with a new one. This one is for you America! We need to hold our American values tighter than ever right now. God bless our Troops and everyone around the world that still believes America is a beacon of freedom.

Finally after multiple weeks of pushing back the closing date our house is sold! I do a quick walkthrough of the progress on the project Whale King RV.

Joel Villarreal continues prepping the Whale King RV for the road with some electrical upgrades. A new 4000w Giandel inverter coupled to 5 new AGM batteries, 30amp Surge Guard, Vitron 712 battery monitor with Shunt and battery cut off switches, Go Power TS-30 Transfer switch, a new circuit breaker for the converter and Washer/Dryer. We are all set for some quiet boondocking! It was a lot to think about but this is a LONG video that breaks down how I did it.

Joel continues prepping the RV to hit the road. Doing laundry on the road is a major convenience so we picked up this Equator Super Combo Washer/Dryer machine. Installing it was pretty tricky adding a circuit breaker and outlet, plumbing the hot and cold lines and feeding the drain over to the kitchen sink via a dishwasher sink drain pipe. This is a long one but I hope it helps someone out there!

Joel gets to work on the project Whale King RV. Starting with a quick exterior wash that actually took all day, then building a dinette bench that doubles as a litter box for our two cats.

Introducing Joel and the new Project Whale King, a 32ft RV we fixed up to live in while we search for a new home. We will be heading south east and trying to see as much of America as we can in the process.