I don't know what's better the sound of the rain or the sound of the river
flowing but it definitely all reminds me that I am in a rain forest indeed but
it's not gonna rain all day today I think it's going to at least stop and I
have a bunch of fan mail I want to open up plus some important packages and
stuff that I ordered just a few things to get me started there's a few more
things I want to get as well but first I want to share with you some interesting
things that happen when I first got back that I think the rest of the world to
find interesting if you've been watching me for any length of time here and that
is if you go back to after route 66 in 66 days last year when I came back I was
basically situated in one part of Lacey Washington trying to get all the
scooters stuff figured out at the time and I talked about those three places in
detail that was the Lacey Walmart the Cabela's parking lot across the street
and the little road that was behind Cabela's store that didn't have any
parking restrictions and when I got back I was kind of shocked at some signage
I'll show you some clips from my phone and so both entrances to Wal Mart both
entrances now say no overnight parking and it says it on every post in the
parking lot even Cabela's on the other side of the same exact intersection put
up brand new signs in the RV lot no overnight parking allowed at Cabela's
either and this whole entire Street both sides of the street behind Cabela's see
all these parking spots I used to use every single lamp has a no parking
anytime the entire street both sides of the street no longer Park so see it's as
if the county was watching my videos and just to spite me they decided to close
down all three of those opportunities for me to Boondock
it's important to note that I don't I don't have a way to sleep outside any of
my friends or families places it would all be street parking taking that away
really bummed me when I when I first got back you know that that very first night
I couldn't even spend in my hometown so I had to go to a different County the
first night and now I'm 150 miles away from my hometown basically the northwest
tip corner up here near clallam bay county for the campground I would assume
that if I go south Riffe Lake is still open although they've made a lot of
changes there too it's just weird it makes me wonder if I contributed to
that like for me offering that to other people did that make more people come
and a like abused it yeah I don't know or as my County just hate me and not
want me to ever come back I don't know but starting to get the picture here
it's fine I'm excited to get back on the road so whatever but I was I was truly
sincerely very weirded out by that random it felt like a personal attack
but yeah anyway once the rain stops I'll come back outside
I could honestly happily just sit here and record the water in the river I
thought about doing that for you but I've got things I want to share with you
guys so go set up over at the table and well actually first let me talk to you
about a few things on the way I have received four things from Amazon so far
and I still have 17 products on the way to my P o box we'll get to those
eventually one thing is now that now that now that the spare tire is actually
back on the back of the RV it wouldn't fit when the scooter was back here but I
just leaned the tw a little bit this way when I load and unload it and this is
back up here frees up the space in the garage below but I'm gonna get a nice
cover for this so that it's protected from the Sun actually I think that's
about it for the RV I'm gonna have to just wait and see I'll just share with
you when it when it happens but the reason why I have to leave tomorrow is
because Friday morning this bad boy goes in for a complete service tune-up and
check that way I know it's gonna be 100% road worthy for the next year at least
on the road so I mean there's certain things that I'm comfortable doing it
with it there's certain things I'd like for a mechanic to check out and make
sure that everything is good and approved and somebody signed off and
said yeah you're safe you're good to go these things don't need any attention
right now so Friday morning drop this off and more on that later for the
record it did actually rain all night so that's why this place is so soaking wet
but we're gonna have clear skies today at least but just so you know get the
river running over here so that's the noise you're hearing I want you guys to
know that when you make suggestions on YouTube to me when you talk to me when
you comment, it when you send me an email even if I don't have time to reply to
you guys I do listen to you and you have given me a lot of information that I
otherwise would not have known if I was not on YouTube I want to share a couple
upgrades that I've made to get ready for the road the first thing is I got some
good riding boots these are over the ankle boots so that I can be protected
on the bike also got a new clutch lever so I'll be putting that on here soon
I got a chain cleaner for the bike as well as the cleaning solution and the
lubricant to keep the chain working well this is not necessarily for protection
or anything but I didn't get a blue Yamaha t-shirt to be able to ride that
matches the blue on the bike okay but these are my pride and joy I got Yamaha
pants with guards it says Yamaha it's got knee protection
it's got back protection side these are really nice-looking motorcycle pants if
I happen to hit the ground at some point on the road if I'm wearing these I know
that I'm gonna be protected and they're breathable they were two hundred and
forty-nine dollars on Amazon I had to get them on Amazon right away because
they had them in my size 34 waist and tried them on they're not the most
comfortable to wear but yeah happy to have those might might
save my my legs one day and as for the rest of the gear that I still need the
other two things are I want a good leather jacket with you know pads where
they need to be protected not something I want to buy online because of the size
difference you know you don't buy an extra large or in a 2x or a large you
know you buy the waist that you need you buy the chest that you need and there's
you know there's all these different sizes for the motorcycle jackets so it's
something I want to buy in store I'll definitely look at the Yamaha store here
in Olympia when I bring the bike in on Friday see what they have maybe try on a
few jackets have the same kind that they have and if they don't have the color or
the size that I need I might special order that through the Olympia store
there as well as I want to get either a black or a blue helmet that is better
than the red cheesy Amazon one that I have that the visor no longer goes up
and down but anyway more on the motorcycle stuff later that is all the
stuff I have ordered I have some fan mail here that I want to share with you
guys though so Charlene & Gage sent me some coffee from Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin
this is Door County coffee I really appreciate that guys and one of these
toys I'm sure Jax will go crazy for this we will try this later but turn it on
and then he chases the feather he would he will love that thank you guys and
thanks for the card some of these gifts are a little late
because I wasn't home for Christmas but John and Patty Chism hand crocheted a
couple hats one for me I can't wait to try this on Jax and one for Jax that
even says Jax on the back crocheted thank you so much guys that was really
sweet of you love these Thank You Charlotte and Percy for the pet LED tag
I don't know if Jax is gonna wear this but yeah I got lots of stuff to try on
Jax and the beautiful blanket thank you so much Jax loves that fleece material
he has several blankets now gives him more room to be by me thanks guys
James sent me a bunch of electrical this is hilarious perfect timing James thank you
zip ties black electrical tape some eye hooks
some L brackets and wiring conduit for the trailer I assume there's a letter in
here - yeah - things of a half-inch flex tubing probably for all of my crazy
wires everywhere you know if I'm such a master electrician all right I get the
point James thank you thank you so much Chad this is actually really quirky and
unique I am wearing this next Christmas by the way the tree lights up with LEDs
and flashes you will see this on my head thank you very very cool. Steve Liddick -
thank you so much for the book guys he sent me this book that he wrote campsite
gourmet fine dining on the trail and the road I really appreciate this is gonna
come in handy you guys want to look him up he's at Steve liddick dot-com and he
has this book that'll that might come in really handy I appreciate that no name
on this return
all right that's new to me twinkle tush give your cat's bottom some bling it's a
piece of jewelry that okay oh my gosh I'm glad I paid attention
it's from Cat crib in Long Beach California but at the top it says tired
of looking at cat butt bro okay thank you yeah I got another package from Josh
and Clarissa my friends I met in Tyler Texas what do we have whoa a bud light
raincoat yes and it's blue it matches thank you
I shot my eye out from the Christmas story yep yeah I love the coca-cola
napkin dispenser I have my paper towel dispenser up there off to find out where
I can get some napkins thanks bud and this is an awesome upgrade it's a
Seattle Seahawks harness for Jax this is a great upgrade thank you so much Josh
and Clarrisa. I'll see you guys again in Texas and of course the dozens and
dozens of Christmas cards everybody I got them late but thank you so much I
read every one of these and I appreciate that so much guys I think I'm just gonna
hang out for the rest of the day make some tater tots chicken nuggets at the
river and just kind of enjoy it yep I am surprisingly very eager to get back
on the road guys I feel like I'm almost ready I've got to get a few more things
fixed and prepared and get the rest of my packages but hoping to be out of here
by the end of the week or in the next seven days so you know it's been a weird
day I've seen it all as far as weather pouring down rain
freezing temperatures no snow I guess but now it's kind of sunny and nice here
and I after I stopped making my last video I thought it was a police officer
because he wearing like a blue parka with a badge here he's a corrections
officer and he came over and asked me how I was doing asked me if I smoked and
I said do I smoke what? I mean what no what I don't understand the question
he's like okay no I've got some inmates over here that
working and they're always looking for cigarettes which they can't have or
something so just wanted to make sure you weren't going to offer them a
cigarette okay no don't smoke cigarettes so I tilted the panels on the RV though
not for Sun not getting much Sun here in the woods I think the most I saw was one
amp but I've been working on my new outro actually I guess you will have
already seen the intro so I changed my intro to start this video even though I
haven't done it yet you've magically seen it and you'll see my new outro shot
here today in February of 18 with the new bike and the new the new feel for
the channel so anyways I guess that's kind of it I want to ask
you guys something if you wouldn't mind giving me your opinion in the comments
below as far as do you think that it's a bad idea for me to post coordinates
around the country seening as I mean I've seen it all the three places getting
shut down for parking here but also people have told me you know Eric they
put up new signs like a week after you left and said no overnight parking
they've done it in all sorts of states I'm not doing anything wrong I mean if
you go somewhere and it's okay to overnight Park and then I say hey this
was cool you guys might need to want to use this too and then people use it and
the city's like whoa now way too many people are using it so let's put up a
sign that says no overnight parking that is literally literally happened dozens
and dozens of times in the last couple years because of me sharing things
online and it makes me feel a little uncomfortable you know because I didn't
want to draw that kind of attention. I've also had people tell me you
know hey we were sleeping there and we got this rude awakening at 2:00 a.m. by
a cop and we told him hey Eric said it was okay here's his video okay now wait
a minute timeout I never ever say that if I say anything about it I say it
worked for me and it may work for you period you guys cannot be using me as
your as your alibi or as eric said this was okay never do that ever please
guys but let me know because I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's a bad
idea for me to share any kind of coordinates for places that aren't
approved campgrounds like this like where you can park for free
stuff like that or where I get water or where I find free electricity or other
services dump stations and stuff like that I mean think about it do you guys
want these free dump stations and free sources of water for drinking water you
let them all shut down because too many people are using them I know it's a
tough compromise but you know I got to think smart about this I don't want the
best places in the country for boondockers to get continually shut down
because it's getting too much exposure on YouTube does that make sense I think
that's the way I meant to say it the first time am i giving the free parking
too much exposure around my travels and if so you know I may have to stop
putting up coordinates for camping spots that aren't approved camping spots I
will still provide coordinates for all the quirky stops and I will provide
stuff all the neat campgrounds that are free that are like official campgrounds
and stuff but possibly anytime I find like the free water sources or dump
stations or okay places to park overnight where I didn't get in trouble
type of stuff you know or I wasn't kicked out let me know what you guys
think about that otherwise I think that's about it guys
I'm going to start to slowly pack up today even though I'm going to spend one
more night here and then tomorrow get back to town and get everything done
that I got to get done to get back on the road so have a good night guys bye
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