what's going on everybody Eric here from nomadic fanatic a beautiful not raining
sunny day in Illinois I will take it what a glorious beautiful return I got a Black
Betty out we're gonna be riding her later on down the river road down the Mississippi River
but uh yeah thanks for joining me everybody I will be uploading this video with some
Nomad internet link below in the video description we got some work to do today
yeah well guys believe it or not this is a really exciting time for me
um although this is a transition phase in my life right now and I got a lot of anxiety and
things going on I have already begun to downsize so I want you to know how serious I I really am
about moving into the tiny house life and getting and enjoying my land out in Arizona so all that's
left for arcades is my jukebox I have sold all of my arcades you will also notice that besides
my Camel cigarette Joe Cool collection all of my neon signs every single one of them has been sold
as well I'm doing really really well the market is good right now and I'm thankful for that
um I still got obviously a few things like big things and I don't think I'm that might fit in
the trailer like between the Motorcycle front wheel and the the Vinos of the trailer but really
realistically I'm not in love with it and I could probably let it go to somebody else uh things like
my my record collection uh it's just not gonna do well without climate control the the vinyl's
not gonna do well I've I've listed the couch and well this is today's starting project I had to
put Skeletor down a little lower to a clear right there it's still a tight fit here in the shop uh
but yeah my massive long-standing Mickey Mouse collection what are you gonna do with all that
Eric well guess what I'm gonna start carefully boxing up and protecting all these really older
pieces and of course all of my my glassware make sure that it's not going to break inside these
boxes and start packing up the Mickey collection okay we got all these uh U-Haul boxes actually
the rest of them are upstairs but I stopped by U-Haul and got another bundle of those small ones
uh because I think I lost a few you know I'm in a really good place in my life right now and that's
just you can see the smile on my face uh I haven't closed on the property officially there in Arizona
but um this is new I can close on it remotely otherwise I would have had to have rushed to back
which I was planning on doing but actually I can call the title company on that day we're gonna do
a zoom call with a notary as part of the zoom call and me and the other owner are going to digitally
sign and do our DocuSign during the I never knew this actually existed so I'm glad I I'm
glad I asked before I left it relieves some of the stress of rushing back before the property
closes so I'm going to be taking my time doing this and like I said we we gotta take Black
Betty out the battery is charged and good to go she runs great as I showed in yesterday's
video all right I put a new battery in her I could not get the other one to charge up
so brand new battery all the wires are hooked back up Moment of Truth oh yeah ready here we go
she's alive she's alive
projects man projects this shop has been interesting it's been a wonderful storage
unit and it's really cool that I can store my RB in here in the daytime while I'm working and doing
projects I got a roll off dumpster coming for other stuff uh the the fridge is already sold as
well it's another big item that I had to had to actually it's going going to a friend so oh the
70-inch TV also went so it feels good because what I did is I I traded in all these really big bulky
heavy things for this kind of stuff this kind of stuff they can they can go into my land uh
possibly into a four-wheel drive vehicle later but more on that later for right now let's get to work
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you may not have noticed there but that 30 40 second clip right there took three hours
and 12 minutes to do I was very careful I had a lot of glassware and other things I didn't want
to break and I ran out of boxes well I ran out of the 25 that I just bought so I switched to
garbage bags for now for some of the plush stuff I realized that is not going to be mice proof out
there alone so either it will transfer over into boxes later this will store really well in the
RB for transporting it back you know and then I can change things I'm going to have mouse traps
in my storage unit and and everything so I'm not worried about it but just didn't feel like
breaking into the other boxes and because I like how it all looks like that but that's it and then
the shelving units that have to go into the boxes that are upstairs still but making progress that's
a good feeling all right it's still beautiful 74 degrees outside in October in Illinois
Sunshine uh let's go for a ride on BlackBerry
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yeah so there's a fun little snack there with the pulled pork hot dog but met up with uh Sean and
Jill they brought the Yukon not Betty White this time and uh I guess the Barefoot restaurant here
near Hardin just just uh reopened so we're gonna go in there and see if we can grab a bite to eat
too so on the back of portsea or the restaurant a bunch of people gathered if you look off in
the distance see the yellow in the middle of the water they're doing rubber duck racing out there
and uh somebody's gonna win somebody's duck is going to come in first place there's the
Finish Line's a little bit further down that's pretty cool all right food's here I got the uh
catfish fritters and JoJo's there they're potato they're JoJo's they look exactly like Jojo's and
we have we all got the fritters we got the catfish fritters and the mic lights yeah and Jill got the
same thing all right dig in they actually call them potato wedges here but that's a JoJo oh that
was scrumptious back in the old days I I didn't used to like much much Seafood but uh catfish
especially fried catfish that was really good oh I'm gonna suit up here and we're gonna head back
we might take the ferry on the way back just to change things up because we're in Missouri right
now uh Illinois is on the other side of that river right there so I gotta go check in on the kitties
and get back to work at the shop good little break good good ride on Black Betty man she runs good
searches
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damn Black Betty oh what a fun ride this is the the first time the kitties had been back
in this room since I've been here Opie do you remember you were when we first came in
here after I adopted you yeah yeah I wasn't sure about you two so oh going to check out Jack's man
yeah that's that's Jack's man I'm I'm thinking you know thinking about whether I'm gonna put
this in the RV or not I just wasn't ready it was really emotional at first and you know I
just realized it's October we got the anniversary coming I'm gonna celebrate his birthday that's
I'm I'm just gonna always celebrate April 21st his birthday but I was thinking about
uh mounting it either back in the RV or maybe in my blue tiny house again you know now that
it you know it doesn't hurt quite as bad when I see it and stuff a tapestry there and pause and
and the King himself that's right so today you can see it's just it's a mess guys dad's gonna
start working on it you kitties want to hang out and help Dad pack up in here and clean up
yeah in my next video this room will be taken care of I've got these dual recliners from Rec
Pro listed too if there's anybody here in the East Alton area that want they're taken apart right now
because they fit through the RV door but these are the newer ones I got 77 inches long they're wall
Huggers so you don't you know you can put them up against the wall in your RV and they still recline
and the cup holder and stuff they're in really good condition actually but um I don't know if
you're interested uh hit me up in the comments and we'll figure something out here camel collection's
got to get packed up and everything but yeah just gonna get after it uh it's Sunday night so you're
watching this pretty much live Seahawks pulled out a a close win today I didn't watch the game but I
saw the highlights there what 48 to 45 against the Lions that was a high scoring game I don't
know I might not be following football this year does that mean I but I'm in Arizona it doesn't
mean I have to root for the Cardinals I don't know anyways guys have a great week I'll give
you some more updates throughout the week as I finish this up and hopefully by Friday we'll
have a we'll have a plan for loading all this up and see how this goes see you soon bye guys