El Paso Texas Is Our HOME BASE

El Paso Texas Is Our HOME BASE

Hi, welcome to the YouTube channel. In this episode, we're talking about why El Paso is such a great home base, and where are we right now, Leah? We are in Sedona, Arizona. Absolutely. So we're outside our little Airbnb here in Sedona, and why are we in Sedona? We love to explore.

For sure. So, I mean, one of the things that we started on our relationship is about 10 years ago, we met in Wisconsin. Long story short, we ended up renovating an old Airstream trailer, getting an old truck, pulling that thing down to Belize, and we lived in Mexico for about a year in that. So, what did you like about that? I love just roaming and exploring, and so it had always been a dream to renovate an Airstream, and I loved everything about the experience.

That was a great little exploratory time in our lives, but at the same time, you know, sometimes you've got to settle down and, you know, your plans change. So, you know, we no longer have that Airstream and old truck, but we do have the Gladiator, which we're working on kind of outfitting so that we can use the Gladiator, the Jeep, to explore. And so far, so good, right? We slept in the rooftop tent, which we're going to show a little bit later. Yeah, it's been a great experience so far. I'm really glad for the overlanding adventure.

Yeah, absolutely. But, like you said, we said, you need a home base, you know. What do you think of when we say a home base, Leah? A place to put down roots, develop a community, and create your own family if your family isn't already in your location. Yeah, definitely. And one of the reasons that we chose El Paso was a number of reasons, but affordability, home prices, community, weather. And the other thing, though, that's pretty important, and we're pretty happy with our home base, wouldn't you say?

Yeah, definitely. We love El Paso. But aside from just, you know, the things like affordability, weather, you want to end up in a place that you really love, where it, you know, suits your lifestyle, where, you know, things go well for you and you enjoy being home. And so one of the ways that we've kind of started kind of going on this channel is we've started kind of comparing different cities to El Paso because we love El Paso. It's our home base, but we like to explore. And so one of the things we do is we kind of compare the cities.

You know, last time in the last video, we compared El Paso to Albuquerque. And for us, that was a no-brainer. But as you're going to see in the next couple of videos, this recent trip, most recently to Flagstaff, which we're going to show at the end of this video here, and then Sedona, which we're going to showcase in the next video or so. This has given us, this was a little bit trickier to compare to El Paso because there's a lot of things about Sedona and Flagstaff that honestly we think are a little bit better than El Paso. Definitely. It's stunningly beautiful.

Yeah, it's hard to beat Sedona and Flagstaff when it comes to nature and beauty, but we're going to talk about that in another episode. And really just kind of want to just talk about kind of the pros and cons of these different cities. But before we do that, we want to talk and kind of show you our recent trip to Flagstaff. It was our first night in the rooftop tent. We're going to roll that footage here shortly.

But what did you think of Flagstaff in a nutshell? Flagstaff is also stunningly beautiful. So much climbing in the area and there are no mosquitoes, which was amazing because you could sit outside day or night and no mosquitoes. Yeah, it was great. And maybe it was just the time of the year, but I mean, it's really beautiful.

We caught some drone footage of this canyon. So we're going to show that in this video right now. Next video, we're kind of comparing El Paso to Sedona, kind of weighing the pros and cons of each. And I think it's going to be exciting because it did open our eyes to some things that we realized were maybe lacking in El Paso.

But at the same time, what we're going to talk about, since we are real estate agents, we're going to talk about home prices and things like that in Sedona. And El Paso is definitely probably the winner in that category, would you say? Definitely. Another win for El Paso is that it's a great home base to get to beautiful places like Flagstaff or Sedona in a day. Absolutely. Yeah, that's what we're also kind of trying to do for our home base series is places we can get to within a within a day's drive.

And I think it took us about eight hours to get to Flagstaff and we kind of even went kind of the long way. Yeah, made a few pit stops along the way. For sure. So without further ado, here's our kind of first little series in this trip featuring Flagstaff. And stay tuned next episode where we're going to compare El Paso to Sedona.

OK, Tuesday morning, we're running a little behind, which should surprise nobody. Obviously, we got the tent and then still working on this part of the overlanding experience about packing everything. I mean, we got some bins in here and everything, but obviously we're not really using our space back here yet. And fortunately, we took out their back seats, so we got plenty of space in here, but still fills up quick.

If we were taking the dogs, they would we would have had to rethink this whole thing. So headed to Sedona for the first night in the rooftop tent. OK, so we're about four hours into the drive. We're kind of like halfway through Gila National Park. We could have gone kind of south and west, but we decided to go kind of up and over.

So, so far, so good. It's pretty beautiful. It's awesome to see all the green. So, Leah, how would you characterize the trip so far? It's been beautiful so far. Got a little bit of rain. It's nice and cool.

We got out of the truck just so we could like feel what it feels like to be at 65. All right, we got the tent up. It wasn't pretty if you saw that time lapse, but it's up. We found a place. We're just kind of outside of Flagstaff. There's this epic canyon here. We saw some people coming out climbing.

So parked here for the night. First night in the tent. Pretty excited. Leah, how excited are you to spend a night in the tent? I mean, on a scale of one to ten, probably an eight. That's pretty high. So no pressure.

Yeah. So hopefully we have a nice restful night. Supposed to be like in the 50s. So I don't think we're going to be too cold or anything, but we're about to find out. So we'll let you know in the morning. OK, so we had our first night in the tent. I'd say it went pretty good.

It probably didn't get down past like 55. And so I think weather was fine. Totally comfortable enough for me. But how about for you? Yeah, I'm going to need a little extra padding for sure added. But all in all, a really good experience.

Yeah, it's nice to be able to just pull off and like pop up your tent and do your thing. So definitely maybe a sleeping pad in our future, though. Yeah. .