we're gonna drive through a tree
we're gonna fit there here so we've overheated
and uh
we're on the side of the road
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it's hard to even show it on video how massive they are
so on our way to our next destination we wanted to stop at this place where
you can actually drive through a redwood tree
so we decided we would stop and check it out we had to leave the rv
up top I guess they do have parking for big rigs down here but coming down this
little hill I would not want to have taken down here so
anyway we're gonna check this place out it's called the drive
through tree park and we're just outside of Legett California so
we'll see hello how are you good you're doing great you'll want to
pull your mirrors in okay you want a receipt
uh no thank you pull the mirrors in probably because it won't fit through
the trees with the mirrors out because we're gonna drive
through a tree really really um you would touch the tree
maybe roll down your windows none of this that's
all redwood it's not sequoia no okay we do sell them in the gift shop though
okay someone straight ahead thank you thank you
sells sequoia in the gift shop I guess so but so that means I was right
yeah they are redwoods that they're redwoods and not sequoias
I was right again very similar to I was right
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put your head in put your head in you're gonna this does not feel like
we're gonna fit here yeah we're fine
i'm touching the inside of a redwood look mom isn't that cool
my phone automatically adjusts like the brightness to how bright it is
so I just realized something so you saw how much
room we had or didn't have to clear the top of that tree right
if we would have had bigger tires or a lift kit we would have not been
able to drive through that tree just saying it's a good thing this jeep is
completely stock because it made that possible I think
there were a few more inches to spare
first all right we can probably got it your daughter wants to go into the gift
shop because mom owes me something I owe her something and so here's how
this works if I just take care of what I owe her
right now then I won't have to hear about it for
however long until that I fulfill the said promise
yeah and I might okay if we do there is did you see there was like a
tree over there you could go sit in the trunk of or whatever
we kind of did that at sequoia national park too but there's
there's that I don't know I mean totally life-changing mom I guess it's
one of those things where you're like you just got to go do it to say that
you've done it and everything else yeah but it was a little
scary because I was afraid that I was going to hit the jeep so he does
look like Harry and the Henderson's bigfoot though doesn't he
yeah he does of course there's an actual real blue look he looks just like Harry
and the Henderson
there's an actual real blue jay those
are some really big feet though look at how big those toes are like
they're they're the size of my palm it's been
an interesting couple of days we went to go to the glass beach
yesterday and when we were on our way home
we started smelling this smell oh boy so it's not always fun we've got a
slight issue here where our the heater core
is damaged and spewing out antifreeze
Charity's driving like crazy to get back to the
Harvey's take exit 680 we've got about four minutes to go and
the temperature gauge is not rising yet my job is to drain the
antifreeze out of the rig so I'm going to do that
right now
okay
I think we're good for another mile or two
so I'm gonna get back to draining Jared's gonna be driving
wish us luck guys wish us luck so anyway I thought one of the
kids had like opened up I don't know modeling
clay or something because of the way it smelled
and almost the whole way home we're trying to figure out
what is this smell we're still smelling it is it like the
forest no it was antifreeze so apparently
it looks like that the heater core in the jeep is leaking which we had this
replaced not even a year ago so it's leaking again boy oh boy
that does not sound right look at the steam
it's not supposed to be doing that
just air is supposed to be coming out of there not steam we are
having a travel day today so yesterday we went to
uh Fort Bragg Glass Beach knew we were gonna be traveling today but it's one of
those really long travel days where our ultimate destination is quite a ways
away so we wanted to split the day we did want to take a drive through the
redwood forest however which meant we needed
the jeep so we decided to kind of try to band-aid it
just add some coolant if we needed to
it's going to blow
so we've overheated
and
we're on the side of the road now we gotta
figure out I’ve got a couple things of antifreeze with us so we're gonna put in
a couple just to get us going and hope it gets us back to the rv
all right we're going to go ahead and fill it up with the antifreeze here and
hope and pray that this gets us to our rv
so we can just hook it up and pull it behind to the nearest
service center mom says we might have to rent a car
yeah I'm thinking you're right so we went through like this driving tree
we realized that this coolant leak is probably maybe worse
than what we're thinking because the jeep started running way hotter than
it normally runs the temperature gauge was getting up to like three quarters so
pulled over and there was literally a puddle
of coolant on the passenger side floorboard which is not good
so we are on our way back to the rig we're just gonna hook it up
and tow it we're gonna boondock tonight which was our original plan
and hopefully we can still get to the cracker barrel that I wanted to
in Oregon just because of distance wise obviously the jeep being towed it can
leak cooling all at once while it's being
towed it's all leaking to the inside it's not like it's leaking onto the
ground so anyway um yeah
just one of those things that life is not perfect and stuff happens while
you're on the road and we're trying to make the best of a
bad situation by enjoying this beautiful redwood forest
area these trees are absolutely huge and
um amazing and it's just absolutely gorgeous out here
so we're just kind of checking out this area and
making the best of a bad situation with the coolant link that's going on
in the jeep and we'll head back to the rig here shortly
hook it back up and tow it the rest of the way with us into Oregon
and then hopefully the shop that we had fixed the heater core for us
because it should still be under some sort of warranty they gave us
like a 800 number I have to call and find an approved repair facility
etc etc so be doing that tomorrow and hopefully finding a place
that we can take it to you and get it fixed up we're just watching
the temperature gauge I’ve got one more gallon of antifreeze
left and we've got about nine
more miles to go
gopro take a photo
I think there is but I didn't I don't know how to do it I think you have to
probably be in a different mode
you're gonna have to be the one to edit this out later
so it's up to you you get to edit it out where's the children
they're in the tree