good pleasant afternoon to y'all from the cascade loop here near concrete
Washington I am staying here at Granby Creek Grandy Creek koa and Thousand
Trails they've been booked this weekend but they had an opening I came in for
one day just to have a safe secure spot to park and that's it not even hooking
up or just parking and using the river down here really enjoying the nature
side of everything you know and again not having service you know that's okay
actually it's just that I don't get to respond and communicate and connect with
my viewers as much as you know I just go to town to upload a video or something
so and you know sometimes I don't you really want to read the comments cuz
like three of the funny ones today were Eric you just lost your man card for
owning a cat okay and there was Eric I'm gonna unsubscribe because there's no
more drama and negativity in your life anymore that's the only reason I
followed okay the thing is I have just found inner peace and not caring what
people think about me anymore you kind of have to do that as a YouTube vlogger
anyway cuz you're walking around talking to a camera and everybody is staring at
you anyway you're not comfortable with that
then you can't be comfortable with these other things that are uh normal as
everybody says so I am at total peace and I honestly I don't care what people
think about me I don't want to be normal I really don't I want to enjoy life I
want to be happy point-blank so you do your thing guys I'm gonna do my thing
can you blame me for wanting to just kind of stay ahead of that pretty much
I'm reminded by what my fifth-grade teacher told me that John Rogers
Elementary in Olympia Washington we went out in the class and did one of those
you know cliche what do you want to be when you grow up I didn't I didn't know
what to say I literally was just stoned while I had no idea what to say and my
fifth grade teacher rest in peace said Eric you got to find what you love doing
most of all and then find a way to get paid to do it and until my
early 30s I thought nothing of that comment but still to this day I remember
how she worded that because I have now found a way to travel and experience
life and make videos and make an honest living and she was absolutely right I
don't want to say life is perfect but it's working man it's working just fine
I'm skipping doing a video tour of grandi Creek Thousand Trails campground
I'll go show you where I'm parked but I'm we're gonna get back on the road so
yeah this is my campsite here full hookups but like I stopped I didn't even
put the slides out I'm just just gonna park here for one night and then and
then leave in the morning and get back on the Cascade loop trail I do have the
awning down here because well we finally hit 80 degrees in western Washington
that's hot for Western Washington that is above average already for the first
time and now all the Home Depot's and Walmart's they'll sell out of the window
air conditioners to today only I do have quite the collection of Thousand Trails
green towels now I stated quite a few even if for just one night anyway yeah
gonna pack up everything in the morning and I'll cut back in when we hit the
room actually I changed my mind I got to get out of the campground a can I can't
stay there I'll stinking day so I got a tip from one of my neighbors said
there's a good good burger joint down the street in Lyman so yeah it's a nice
day seriously who wants to sit at camp all day smell the fresh air all right
let's get trucking now oh that's cool no ducks don't see any
blackberries on those bushes yet though it's coming probably another couple
weeks we'll start seeing some BlackBerry's wait a minute it's across
the highway
but I have other tavern food in mind some 319 gallon whoa prices went way
down I was paying 389 in Thurston County well more reasonable here in the
mountains okay cool across the highway here don't kill me
all right okay we check out Baker Lake I had made a detour off the Cascade
highway to come look at this park but you need a Northwest forest pass that
maybe that's the only other weird thing about Washington State is the the DNR
Discover Pass does not work for everywhere because that we have like
eight different agencies state and federal one I don't have that pass and I
don't know how to get it right now so we'll continue on to get some food and
we have arrived to the Lyman tavern the I'll just let you guys read that that's
what it says or doesn't it going with a local amber here this is LaRossa brewed
right here in Washington State and I already got my order in you can see the
theme in here with all of the horns quite possibly the most horns you're
gonna see in any tavern whoa look at all these deer heads dark in here but
there's a moose so now you see where it gets its name the horniest okay well
then waiting for my food hey have an outdoor beer garden it's early guys I
mean then I'm the only customer thus far but of course she pits back here they
got the Ford part right but everything else here is just completely wrong hey
look it'll rain your can this might be one of my favorite little spots and they
do karaoke here too this is this could be a happenin spot on the Friday or
Saturday night that's pretty cool sterben there we go you know
say don't be a hater hater yes she is bacon it's ten it's definitely a 10 okay
so now I will stop recording and I will cut back in tomorrow when we get on the
road guys and good morning everybody comfortable
over there Jax oh you're gonna bathe he's gonna bathe I'm gonna drive
leaving thousand trails now we can go find some more natural setting type
spots for today I don't know if we're gonna see any sunshine but Oh actually
you know what I actually want to fill up that gas station right there that's 3:17
a gallon that's the that's literally the cheapest I've seen in this entire state
this summer so we're gonna fill up about two hundred fifty dollars worth right
now well filling up gas can sometimes be a
half hour wait just to get into the small town pumps because my tanks at the
end of the RV the other thing about small town gas pumps is you don't have
to prepay like I was so confused there's like no just just pump and pay why
wouldn't you do that why didn't know usually have to prepay when you're
pumping three hundred dollars worth of fuel there we go she finally stopped at
70 gallons two hundred and twenty four dollars would be worse I've paid over
three hundred to fill this tank up checks yous gonna sleep all day how come
I gonna do all the hard work around here and all you do is look cute okay well
now things are gonna change here guys because we are now currently starting to
pass the north end of the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State
which separates Western and Eastern Washington totally different climate in
eastern Washington it can hit upper 90s a hundreds every day in July and then
not even hit 70 degrees on the west half of the state so
yeah like I said things are gonna change we go four or five thousand feet higher
into this and then part of this loop is coming back over the mountains back on
the west side later on in a couple weeks so I'm excited to see a change in
scenery although I love the evergreen trees excited for a change
grants we're gonna see a lot on the scenic little loop here oh all right I'm
gonna detour off of the Cascade highway here in concrete do I happen to have any
viewers from concrete Washington I mean it's a very small little town apparently
but they do have a high school up here and while I've taken my viewers to some
pretty strange places I've never taken you underneath a high school I guess
concrete high school expanded and now it's over the roadway so we are driving
underneath the high school don't say I never take you guys places it's true
it's very true also I still have not been able to find a magnet anything
signifying cascade loop I really wanted there to be one of the horniest tavern
whoa look at the welcome to concrete with the concrete
remember that's world's largest six-pack that was in Illinois or was that yeah
they should paint that make that an eight pack and it could be that then it
could really be the world's largest eight pack but ya know uh no magnet so
far
hey I get controller man Jax man do you want to be a river dweller today I know
our view is just terrible huh this isn't gonna work dad this is too beautiful I
don't know what to do with all this yeah are you being a dashboard cat getting
your fur all over the place okay man whatever you're into I'm gonna check it
out okay go check out our digs yeah I think oh
it's the wd-40 that's nasty I should have wiped down the excess now
curiously enough another common theme that's been happening here on the
cascade loot for me is that I'm not getting as far as I had planned or hoped
each day that's because I keep finding hidden gems like how about camping on
the Skagit River yes please I mean don't get me wrong I understand RV parks and
resorts and campgrounds that's what's fueling getting people into RVs now but
there is a secret life of Awesomeness that exists when you escape all that and
you put solar on your rig and you become more self-sufficient in the RV where
it's a little prettier a little quieter and for me just a life enjoy it a little
more and yes I have a ketchup stain on here that I didn't catch when I woke up
this morning I figured I would just not shower and wear the same shirt but I
kind of got caught there how about that water temp I bet it's pretty cold it is
not warm not warm at all there is the Cascade highway going over that bridge
right there so we're really not boondocking too far away from it right
so I think this is a good place as any to call it a night and relax so thanks
again for tuning in to this cascade Lube trip guys checks and I will be back in
our next video going to be using my America the beautiful national parks
pass in my next video so don't go anywhere
see you in a few days guys