Good afternoon from Gallup, New Mexico. We are about halfway
through our journey on our way to Albuquerque, New Mexico. We
have some really exciting updates for you because today
kicks off our journey to go see the total eclipse. The last
time that this happened was back in 2017, I want to say
around Oregon where the freeways and all the population
just influx right there and it just locked down everything. So
we're going to document how much traffic are we going to be
involved in? Are we going to run out of supplies like gasoline or
food because let's face it, the towns are going to have to take
on so many people coming from all sorts of different areas of
the country to partake in this once-in-a-lifetime event. Are
you doing dishes right now? Yeah, I didn't do dishes before
we left. Do we have enough water for that? Yeah, I think so. Did
you even check? Yeah, we've like a third. I just didn't feel
like doing them this morning. Stinky butt is getting his
exercise in and I see that you're making like a salad
slash tuna here. So, that's awesome. So, I I put Italian
dressing on mine. Why would I pick Italian when we have this
amazing stuff from Costco. Oh yeah. The sesame. I'm obsessed with it.
Try this out. Alright, walk me through the game plan today.
Okay, you're ready for it? We drive. We only have 2 hours
left. If you guys have never been on I -forty, well, not
much to see out here. The roads are extremely bumpy and well, I
guess that's just any road in general. Like we said in
previous episodes recently, we have a lot of boondocking slash
harvest host coming up where we get to share that journey with
you guys and just kind of let you in on the inside a little
bit to see what's all involved with that. But enough of my
yammering for now. Let's eat. Oh, it's like the totality is
already happening with these clouds coming in and out. These
truck stops are like so bumpy getting in and out of here. It
wouldn't be a truck stop if there weren't bumps. Or it wouldn't be a
truck stop if you couldn't figure your way out. Oh my gosh
that's so funny because the TA over there. There's something
about the TA specifically that it's like a maze to get in and
out. Why? You're telling me. Why? When do you want to run to
the grocery store to get groceries and stuff? Maybe
tomorrow. And then get gas for the generator. Yeah. We'll just
tomorrow will be like a stocking up day. Are you pretty
nervous about running out of resources when we get closer? I don't
know. Like sometimes I am and then sometimes I'm like no
we'll be fine. They're prepared, like the totals, the eclipse of
2017, a lot of places weren't prepared. I'm hoping that that
does not happen to us. Are you being stinky today? Oh running.
You're running and hiding. Well you still gotta go back into
that cage later on I'm just throwing it out there. Jeez I
wonder where he is. He's probably... I'm going to guess he
is in the litter box and just hiding in here. Oh called it.
Dude, you have got to find better hiding spots. You can't
sit in there the rest of the trip. Come on. No. He's not
using the bathroom. He is just sitting there. He does this
quite frequently. I'm coming in there if you're not coming out.
It's time to go. We gotta go bye byes. And you got cat litter
everywhere. You already to hit the road. You want to drive? Yeah.
Just be careful out there on the road honestly because it is
really windy and those wind gusts sneak up on you so. Yeah,
I just actually googled in and said 26 miles per hour like
wind gusts. I figured as we got out here in the flat areas,
we'll have to deal with that more and more.
Finally here. I think we're all ready to get out of this truck
by now. And we're in a new time zone. Just thought I'd throw it
out there. It's we're officially in Mountain Standard
Time. You wait here, Dexter. They might be closed and I
don't like that. Do you have your wallet? Yup. Okay. 127. So, we're
here and we're going to. Is that pull through or back in?
It's a back in. Maybe I should drive and back in. Yeah. I was
hoping we get our packages but I guess we have to wait til
tomorrow. Tomorrow. We'll grab em tomorrow. I'm surprised they didn't
give us a map, they usually give you like a little envelope
with like some rules and. Yeah. Stuff like that. A map but
we're just wandering in here like lost puppy dogs. Take a
ride at vacuum. We're way back here. Yeah. Well, we're over
but to get to it, you gotta go around. Oh, wow. This place is
packed. Well, we just. What is going on? We just, is it Easter
weekend? That's why? Oh, that's right. Yeah, probably. Cuz
every. Well, then I'm glad we got a site. Yeah. I think when
I talked to her, it was like one of her last sites
available. Dang. This must be us. Ah. Passenger side back in.
Lovely. That's okay. Can't win them all. 127. There we are.
Here is the situation and why we're here in Albuquerque and
don't mind my voice I'm currently dealing with all the
springtime allergy wonderfulness. So we're on our
way to see the 2024 total solar eclipse. This solar
eclipse compared to 2017 is passing over more cities, more
of a populated area. And what I read in an article is that
around 150 million people are going to be within 200 miles of
this path of totality. To only drive 200 miles to be able to
see a once in a lifetime event, a lot of are going to be headed
for this. But here's why we're anxious. I read an article
yesterday that the governor of Texas is declaring a state of
an emergency for this event. Guess where we're headed?
That's right. We're headed to Texas. We're a little anxious
but we're going to be showing you guys the entire experience.
We're going to see how chaotic is it in Texas? Are we even
going to make it to our destination to see this? How
backed up are the roads going to be? Are the grocery
stores going to be stripped of everything? We don't know. You
would think they'd be more prepared for this but there's
only so much you can do when you have 150 million people
flocking to the path of totality. Oh my goodness.
We have a lot to do.
So, when we got here yesterday, the office was closed. So,
hopefully it's open because we have a lot of packages. This
place did a really good job holding on to a lot of our
mail. Yeah and if you're curious on how we get packages
on the road, it's pretty simple actually. We usually just call
ahead and ask the RV Park before we come in. We say,
we're going to show up on this date. Do you mind if our
packages arrive couple days early? You just hold on to em
for us. Yeah, it's kind of a balancing act because you have
to be able to plan ahead and know when a package is
arriving, if you're going to be there and it's not going to
arrive late. It's this whole song and dance. They're open.
Open this time. Yeah. We timed that one right. Little
game room. Puzzles. I love when RV parks have puzzles because
you can do a puzzle while you're here and then return it
and I have to take it with you. And I found one that you can
handle honey. Perfect. 350 pieces only. You give me a lot of
credit for this. Free pool. Oh my gosh. You got all those? You guys
got the Christmas gifts. Yeah yeah honestly. Thank you. You
too. Yay. I guess I'll do all the heavy lifting around here. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. So, we got a lot of packages. Man, I hope the
Starlink cable's in here. Our Starlink stopped working when
we were in Flagstaff. So, we did some diagnosing and we think
our cable got some dirt in it. We had to order a new Starlink
cable and we had to wait like over a week to get it because
we weren't able to ship it to Flagstaff because Starlink
takes a while to ship things. So, we had to play it safe,
ship to Escapees and then Escapees shipped it to this RV
Park. I'm excited to see if we can get it working again with
this new cable. And if not, I don't know what's broken on it. Are we
there yet? Goodness. Long walk. Alright, are we going in? Oh, I
think I know, I forgot that I ordered this. What are those?
So, because our cable got really dirty on the ends, I
found something online. Just little like silicone things
that wrap in there. Keep it safe. We'll see if it works.
Let's go see if it works. Alright. It comes
with caps but you know like you would lose that trying to keep
that protected. It smells fresh. Do we need to slide the
slide in? Yeah. Well, you know what? While we're doing this,
we'll show them how we set up our Starlink. This is a pole
buddy. We mount our Starlink on top of it. So, it actually
mounts on the rear ladder of the RV. I guess you just
kind of yank em over like. Yeah, because they could just
hang out there when you're not using em. Look at that. Oh,
that's nice. Keeps it dirt free. The nice thing about the
Starlink is it's so easy to hook up. Just slide it in
there. Slide it in there. She locks into place and we're
about done. There we go. Hopefully, we have internet
again. We actually don't even drill holes in the RV at all.
We try not to ever do that because there's no need to add
fuel to the fire with RVs. They fall apart enough on their own.
So, we actually just sneak this right through the slide out here
and it works out really good for us. Okay. Thank you. And the
key is to making sure it's flush against the ground so
that when the slide goes back in, it's just like right there.
It's like playing Nintendo from the nineties where you would
blow in the cassette. Hmm. If you know, you know. Alright and
now we wait.
Download is 140 and the upload is twelve. Yes, to have
high-speed internet again.
Alright, so walk me through what exactly do we need to get
before heading deeper into this craziness? I would definitely
suggest we get some like cases of water because you just never
know if like places run out of water. We're actually just out
of groceries in general. So, this is going to be a big
order. A lot to get here. A lot. 1399. That's a good price.
For DEF. For the blue def too. And there is no like, oh,
we'll get it next time because this is like might be our only
chance. Right. Take a right, sir. Well, we got traffic here
so hold on.
Oh, I always forgot my jacket. It's always so cold in here.
By the way, don't come to Costco on Easter weekend especially
the day before Easter. It is so busy in here.
I'll let you take that. Thank you.
We're preparing for the eclipse. I want everyone here is not
preparing for. I don't know that. I'm just assuming.
I wonder if I can just get. Yeah? Oh my gosh, I'm doing
that. Let's get some eggs. Do you think this is going to last
us for a week because the eclipse is still a week away.
Yeah. Well, I hope that's that's what you gotta think is
we can't go to a store. That's what you gotta think. I love
how we shop like we don't live in an RV. Let me get that. No,
I got that. It should last us for a week at least. Sorry, I
didn't mean to drop you guys. Just don't take any sharp turns
with that thing. No promises. You can never get out of Costco
without spending like $200. Oh. Go, go, go, go. Oh, geez. You
keep abusing everyone on the camera. Sorry. Just about
everyone in the US will be able to see the eclipse. It'll just
be a partial eclipse. Yeah, well, not us. We're going for
the full full shebang and that's why we're so worried
about running out of supplies. Dude, legit, my dad, when I
talked to him in two thousand seventeen, are you listening to
me? The freeways completely locked down and all the grocery stores
are sold out so that's why I'm kind of like we should prepare
like this. I'm just anxious to see what it actually ends up
being versus what the news articles are like. Oh my gosh,
like portray. One. We have so much stuff in here. I can't
even turn the cart. It's crazy. You know what's a good idea is
to get like paper plates because we're out and what if
like we can't wash dishes because we can't dump our tanks
because all the dump stations are really full. Yeah, let's do it. Okay.
Dot's pretzels. Everyone's been talking about. Yes. The new
flavors. So we gotta go see if they have different flavors.
That would be cool if we could try new ones here. Costco size.
Yes. These are the best too. So you're just getting like loads
of it. Yeah. This may be the last time we ever come to a
Costco. We may be stuck in like Eastern Texas for the rest of
our lives. You know what they say. Let er rip. Let er rip. Do we
have enough stuff? Here's what we gotta do. We gotta guess how
much this is all going to be. Ooh. I'm going to say two
forty-three. Hmm, I'm going to say, I'm going to say it's at
going to be at least three fifty. 350? Yeah. Are you
serious? Yes. You're paying for this. Okay, really quick if you
could just loan me a couple dollars. I'd really appreciate it.
(cashier small talk)
(cashier small talk continues)
It's so much stuff. You'll never guess. Yeah.
Last time I take you shopping Ney Ney. This is crazy. Solar
eclipse, here we come. You think this is all necessary? Are we
being those people right now? To be fair, we also just
haven't gone grocery shopping in a while and I saved
everything for this special day. I believe it because our
RV is completely empty right now. Yeah, we have no food. Here,
the last item, your eggs, your precious eggs. Okay, thank you.
Just we'll just. $550. Really? Yeah. That is the most I've
ever spent at a Costco. Yikes. Insane. We don't shop like that
a lot though. No, usually our Costco orders are $100. But the
solar eclipse ain't got nothing on us so we're good. There's
one thing we have to do and that is get some gasoline for
the generator. We just gotta be super prepared. We don't know
what is going to happen for this eclipse. Play with fire
and you're going to get burned. Especially with
gasoline. Wow, look at that sag. Yeah, look at that. Can
you see it on the edge there how full it is? Almost. Keep
going. And right there is good. Wow, we should be good because
the generator is completely full of gas right now too.
Alright, we got groceries, extra water, gasoline for the
generator. Now, we don't have an extra container for diesel
and that is already making me nervous. Kyle is not really
sure as well if we should carry some extra diesel because
sometimes in situations like this, they can run out of fuel.
After all the horror stories I've heard about the eclipse in
2017 and now this one being just even more immaculate with
more visitors. I don't know what we're getting ourselves
into. I talked to someone today who was like, oh we're going
away from all that. We are not heading towards the eclipse.
Good luck and I was like... Tomorrow, we're back on
the road. We're headed towards Texas. We are going to be
crossing our fingers and hoping that everything runs smoothly
but you know what? Either way, we're documenting the whole
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