Hello everybody and welcome

and welcome back to the coolest d- oh wait no that's YouTube

Hello everybody and welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast with me

Tom Davis America's Canine Educator the podcast love, live, and of course work with dogs.

How the heck is everybody doing?

It's been a while, I apologize for that, but not really because there's a lot of good reasons why I haven't been on the pod

But I am on today. So I'm gonna do the best I can to catch you guys up. I have been on the road for I don't know since let's see since the beginning or no since the middle of April

So I've been on the road for a while almost two months just traveling.

The first thing I did is I did four or five weeks in my van, lived in my van for four or five weeks

out west.

What an incredible experience.

I'm not going to go into too much detail because it was obviously a long period of time, but it was a life changing experience.

The first time I lived in a van was like three days in Oregon or four or five days in Oregon with my buddy also dog trainer for us Mickey.

And it was just life changing to be able to just, you know, you get tired, you pull over, you eat some food and go to bed and then just wake up and grab a cup of coffee at a local gas station and just keep going. Really just the freedom of that motivated

me to build my own van and I got one. It's a 3,500 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter extended Dooley completely decked out. It has a kitchen, it has a bed, it has a kitchen it has a bed it has multiple tables it has

storage it has lights LED lights has a heater, that actually is like a customized heater for the van, and it's all

solar operated.

So it's a pretty decked out thing.

It's pretty nice inside. If you guys haven't seen pictures you can go to my Instagram at Tom Davis to check it out to give you a visual but that's what I did for like four to five weeks. I I drove out to Denver by myself with my dogs and the first night was

miserable I was like what the hell am I doing I'm like I don't need to do this and I think

that that's why I did it is because I wanted to put myself in an uncomfortable position to grow myself as a human being.

I think that that's like the biggest thing that I took from it was the fact that like

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