good afternoon everyone eric here from nomadic fanatic starting our day here in yuma arizona
probably gonna end up crossing over into california but uh first i'm gonna grab some
lunch something's famous here in the southwest and just get a load of all these palm trees guys
you guys know i love the sight of palm trees it just means we're in good weather so yeah
thanks for joining me guys we'll be uploading this video with some nomad internet link below
in the video description if you need some mobile unlimited internet let's go get lunch
that's right y'all in and out a beautiful staple of the southwest here
um i was gonna say it's been a while but actually uh jason and candace and i went to one they
have an in and out up in kingman arizona where their house is at where their property is at so
uh anyway let's go get a burger all right we're almost up there they're pretty busy here today
figured i'd uh eat outside view with some palm trees around here pretty pretty basic menu
there's only three things on their menu this one with their regular plain burger there 98.
and then you know i'm to throw it on the ground no i'm not enjoying it
in and out is to the southwest what like whataburger is to texas
two great burger chains not my favorite uh burger chain um my favorite burgers are from five guys
and they're pretty much everywhere in the country where these ones are just here and whataburgers
are only in texas well that was scrumptious i don't know when the next time i'll be in this
particular area will be probably february um i want to go a little bit farther into california
dave was telling me about another one of these campgrounds that's included with my ltva
a little bit farther into california though about 45 miles on i8 so i'm gonna pack it up
check on the kitties and we'll uh we'll head west okay we're in california now on interstate
eight uh heading west it's uh plenty of sunshine that's close to 75 degrees today um but i don't
really like california very much and i think i've been pretty vocal about that in the past
it is what it is they just they think that they're their own country and that everything else that's
okay in the rest of the country is illegal here including now you hear this generators
on your rv your own in generator is going to be illegal uh i think next year starting next
year portable generators illegal known to the state of california to be illegal
uh five dollar a gallon gas most places i mean it's just that's why i don't spend a whole lot
of time here it's a very uh not rv friendly state and the interstates i'm on interstate 8 right now
a little tip to you if you're coming from arizona arizona um if you're towing a car
your speed limit is 55 for everybody else it's 70. but for some reason if you're towing even
just towing a smart car you have a speed limit of 55 and they are pulling over people all over the
place on this interstate like this rv that's going to fly by me right now he's not towing
he can go 70. i can't go more than 55 i think that's really dangerous because the cars those
cars aren't going 70 those cars are going 85 90. they're going double my speed but it is what it
is that's what california chose to do so i will go 55 because that's what california says it's safe
and i will not use my generator because that's so harmful to your estate okay really what
they're doing is alienating all rv travel for the future and oh but wait it gets even better they
have checkpoints on the interstate we haven't even left the country and you got checkpoints
it's at their discretion who they want to stop they just waved me right through that time
there'll be more there'll be lots more well i'll tell you this much don't uh drive off the shoulder
here on the interstate look at all that sand it's just it's literally like sand dunes everywhere
in the middle of the or on the outside of the interstate oops and interesting um
when i pulled into the border patrol stop up here he told me to turn my camera off
at first i was going to argue with him because like like police interactions and stuff they can't
tell you to turn it off but i think it's different with border patrol because they don't want you
broadcasting like how the operations work at the border crossing stuff so i don't
know i didn't turn my dash cam off though so like and most truckers have dash cams
but he did tell me to turn this off at the border checkpoint order checkpoint we're not even
okay all right we're getting off the interstate here exit 131 we're about 45 miles into
california now so yeah road's a little bumpy now but the name of the city is hopeville and
uh if you have your sticker this guy just flashed his lights you know what i know whose rv that is
that is dave's bounder that's too funny
i'm gonna slow down because there's nobody behind me and open up the window here
what's going on dave and bella hey guys well that was fun so dave just gave me some information
about the hot spring ltva and then he saw my post about going in and out so i told him where to park
to go get some in-n-out burgers and then we're going to meet up in a couple days and do something
else it's fun hanging out with friends you don't always have to camp with friends you can just
do your own thing and then get back to them and you know so yeah let's head up here to the
entrance of the ltda oh look at all the baby palm trees being planted it's just like back home it's
instead of christmas trees just rows and rows and rows of baby palm trees oh i want one i want two
okay so bathroom over there there's some parking here for day use hot spring is right over there
where all those palm trees are i guess is where the water's at but we're actually going to be
camping here for the night so i'm gonna head on in here it says hot springs long-term visitor area
awesome i see dumpsters off to our left but i don't see water or a dump station here but lots
of room to camp back in here so we're gonna have no problem all right opie you want to check it
out they're changing the dumpsters out over there um this place is pretty wide open i've heard some
stories that this place can get super super busy and popular this time of year but
not not the case right now in january you don't have to park anywhere near anybody and
i don't even have to own up the car because i'm right across the street is the hot springs so
i don't know about filming over there or in there so i'm gonna put my swimming trunks on and bring
the camera over and we'll go check it out i'm gonna feed the kitties some treats real quick
tara hasn't woken up from underneath the couch yet how come your sister takes so long to get ready
right right get ready sister say tara it's time to come out territory tara
i know you're under there somewhere there you are we're parked you're good to go little scaredy cat
yep now you're gonna go sniff and smeal all right go sniff and smeal
it's okay baby we're not going anywhere relax we're done
poor girl she's getting better but you don't need to go hide again we're done
do you suppose that uh years down the road tara warms up and i don't know some people have told
me that you know girl cats are just always a little more timid and you know i i don't know
any of those all i know is i'm basing it off what jax was like and opie is very jax like he's just
all over me and all over exploring and not scared of anything and tara's the opposite i have two
like kitties that are at both ends of the spectrum there and it's okay you know i'll take what i can
get yeah let me get my cement trunks on all right let's go check this out see how popular
the springs are see how warm the water is i don't even really know if i'm gonna get i'm gonna i'm
gonna decide once we get over there we'll see all right and again for reference there's interstate 8
up there traffic noise really desert-like feel and everything this is the parking lot over here with
the restroom and if we continue to pan over all of a sudden it's just dense with tropical palm trees
everywhere it's so randomly weird there's no palm trees anywhere else in this area it's
just right here there's the interstate where that car is going so this is the holtville hot springs
let's go peek between these trunks these are huge palm trees by the way look at that yup
water doesn't look too clean in there
it's pretty though let me see what this sign right here says it says no swimming oh
using soap prohibited please help prevent damage to the pond okay so my mistake this isn't actually
part of the hot springs this is just the pond that's different okay okay so this is the only
area where you can swim by the way so this little square part right here and then there's three
guys over in that little part this is the only area that you're allowed to actually go in and
it looks like the water's kind of steaming see how clear it is down there so yeah all right
they weren't hidden when they said hot springs this is like a hot tub it's not warm it's hot
jimmy is up to his neck and he's standing on
something there there's a brick right there i might be able to i'm a short guy there's
a brick over there i'm gonna try it i'm gonna try it wow this water's hot all right water's
up to here on me standing on the brick if i here i'm gonna go all the way down like this
yeah it's up to my neck up to my neck it's awesome and then over there they've got like a
trough or something with some water falling also maybe that'll just cool you down a little bit
whoo that's crazy and a little spraying water and sit down right there let's feel that
that's still pretty hot water actually well that was incredibly refreshing and i can knock another
one off my bucket list i did a hot spring there's there's people that say that they stay here for
the full two weeks i mean this is the cool part about that ltva pass is you are not just stuck
in the desert every one of these is different you know the the lake that i was just at senators wash
hot springs um you know so you can spend your two weeks here and then you got to go to another one
that's 25 miles away it's just perfect it's so good and you're i'm camping right next to us so
so now what do i do kitties i said all that bad stuff about california and then i went and had
an awesome time in california yeah it was really cool tara they had hot springs and they did they
really did man girl man fine i'll eat my words i like parts of california i just don't like
the politics and how the states run but there are some pretty spots okay fine i said it see
hey it is time for a litter robot update i swear i will keep this short if you're not interested
but i also promised my viewers my cat people out there that i would be updating the litter robot
3 connect tara what do you think about it man it's great and everything dad it really is awesome guys
after i realized um that you don't have to unplug the thing when you're driving you just push the on
and off button right there yes um basically it's i just don't have to do anything i used to have
to scoot my litter box three times a day i don't touch this thing except one time a week one time
a week once a week the only thing i do oh you see that got the step put on i was telling you guys
about the extra step once a week i removed that i popped this guy out and i empty the tray that's
all i do there's no scooping once a week i empty this and it's probably due right now at least
shake it and make it go down so it doesn't go up too high but this device is one of the greatest
inventions of our time just and i know there are other versions of automatic litter boxes
that do not work but this one is amazing um i do need to wash the walls not frequently but
maybe every couple weeks wash the sidewalls and stuff like that but it is truly a blessing having
this and in the rv and having more time to do stuff other than scooping litter for two cats
if you have cats in your home if you are traveling with cats like me and you have the room for it
guys i cannot even put a price on what i would pay again for one of these in my life i will never go
back to a manual litter box there was even a time where i had two litter boxes i had two i thought
that was a good idea now i don't even scoop anymore literally my job is done by a robot
and i love it and i highly recommend it also cool little thrift store find i got a tripod for my
cameras for 99 cents um those of you that are into tripods and videography and photography and stuff
like that usually when you find a tripod in a thrift store it's complete junk because it's going
to look something like this looks awesome but it's missing this piece up here there's nowhere to hook
a camera that's why you find these because people lose this important device right here that has
the thread for the for the camera that i'm holding right now this piece is gone throw it away why not
just throw that away no they put it in a thrift store and so you find 20 of these useless things
at a thrift store but i always go to that section and look anyway because i just found something
truly amazing for 99 cents in this guy right here i literally don't even care about the brand but
it is a velbon cx-300 and guess what guys there is no clip that comes out when i saw that was there
i was like whoa you never see these and i'm like oh my gosh it's permanently attached the thread
itself moves but there is no plate which means there's no movement also i've had some time lapses
like well like the one i just showed you outside with the sunset and stuff like that if it's
too windy the actual plate inside here will move around and click and you'll you'll see the horizon
change a little bit but this is priceless you just put this camera on here and when it's on there you
twist this you will never lose it because it's always attached the only thing i don't like about
this one is it doesn't have a hook for a weight like this one this expensive one that i have right
here that little hook that is in case you have a kitty who's moving the bottom of the tripod
um or if it's windy outside it adds weight to the center pulls it down but i already have a fix for
that actually i can just put a bungee around this part right here and then hang my one gallon jug
from right there and it puts the extra weight on it you know because you've always got kitties that
knock over tripods and stuff but we don't do that opie because we're a good boy that's not a toy i'm
going to be leaving california in my next video and doing something quite a bit different that
you're not going to expect but if you follow me on patreon you'll find out a couple days
early if you follow me on instagram you'll find out 24 hours early and by the way well
let's test out this tripod actually i finally got my don't be a tater hater nomadic fanatic hoodie
and i love it if you ordered one thank you so much guys i know these came in different colors
also got my coffee cup i went with the black handle and black inside so awesome and i've
already seen quite a few people already show me or tag me on instagram with their merchandise
thank you guys for supporting the channel i'm announcing in this video here today friday that
i've actually opened that back up actually the old links will still work but if you go to the video
description below this page there's still time to get your nomadic fanatic don't be a tater hater
t-shirt coffee cup uh hoodies um you can also get a bigger coffee cup on there we're gonna do
that for a couple weeks here i might not talk about in every video but it is opened back up
a lot of people maybe didn't have the funds in december but something changed in january so i'm
just opening that up back up to you guys and thank you for supporting the channel i'm gonna enjoy one
extra day here without filming without watching tv news social media i remember i did talk about
on tuesday i'm taking a social media break maybe i wasn't totally clear about that i'm still going to
be uploading videos to youtube um i'm still going to be uploading content to instagram and patreon
i may not be interacting on those platforms but i'm still going to be uploading my content
on those platforms i'm just not going to be following all the social craziness at least until
next tuesday and then i will reevaluate everything and see how much i want to bring back in my life
okay from opie and tara and i this is the first time i've ever held them both in the same shot
we will see you after the weekend guys have a good one bye-bye
you