no idea what this guy's so happy about what do you oh is it the old sunshine up there
that's making you smile there mister that is pretty nice all right i'll smile with you
yeah it's gonna be a good day hey guys how you doing eric from nomadic fanatic
coming to you from michigan near lansing we're gonna go north today head towards flint thanks
for joining me guys i will be uploading this video with some nomad internet link in the
video description if you want some mobile unlimited internet let's have a good day
so i got a bummer of an email this morning as you guys know i need
new camshafts and i ordered a timing kit and everything from rock auto
uh 1900 order was just fully refunded this week after last week telling me that the parts were
all on back order they refunded me the entire purchase and said due to manufacturing shortages
there is no parts to send there's nothing they told me to check back later so i don't
have cam shafts coming i don't have a timing kit coming i don't have any of my engine stuff coming
i am feeling a little strange right now and uh what what can you do these are some very delayed
coveted specific related delays for parts that don't exist have not been manufactured yet for
the f53 chassis and what do you do some of my viewers would tell me that i have to park the rv
for the next few years until those parts are made eric you have to park the rv you can't do anything
you have to sit there and let your channel die i'm not the guy i do have some other plans in the work
i'm even considering getting a new f53 engine because those are available camshafts are not
going to used parts you know pick a pick apart i don't know man i've got a lot on
my mind right now but we are still going north today okay so anyway be on the lookout guys i
am still looking for cam shafts for a 2012 f53 6.8 liter v10 gas engine thank you and then my
buddy robert sent me a facebook marketplace ad for a schoolie bus for exactly 1900 and i went
no i'm not not jumping into it right this exact second did i say i was in lansing in
my intro that was incorrect lansing is farther i don't know where i was in the intro i'm in
fenton now full of artsy fartsy stuff guy riding a bike with a javelin yeah oh hey
this one's actually got a title it's called iron man by todd keim and it can be yours for 5 800
is marijuana legal in michigan am i driving okay i think we're parked man
little uh grateful dead monument here uh excuse me they call him the grateful fred
grateful fred here made out of metal complete with guitar strings
and his microphone uh-huh it looks like he's got a cigar made out of rebarb in his ashtray there
alrighty this is actually a really pretty city this is their city hall here
with water a little walking bridge over this little waterfall that's really beautiful
wow those blue skies guys i do have reservations in my next video too i gotta stay at a place dump
my tanks get water recharge everything up but for today going to another harvest host to boondock
it's a beautiful day getting lots of solar so um let's head on up and get checked into the brewery
that's every day in michigan by the way guys i don't show a whole lot of that i got my left hand
blinker on i'm moving into the turn lane this guy passes me on the left in a turn lane going
50 mile an hour in a 25 every day in michigan all right just going to pull into the gravel lot here
this is tenacity brewing a harvest host member that i made an online reservation with and i said
i could check in after 12 it's one but they don't open until four so i am kind of guessing is where
to park i'm just staying off the concrete and um i'll check in with them at four when they open
nice so as i was getting ready to unhook the car one of the distillers is that what you call
them someone who distills beer or brews beer he came out and told me exactly where to park here
on the grass line they also have a porta potty over there and a dumpster for garbage and they
open at four that's when i can officially check in we're gonna do that later tonight i'm gonna go
in there get some food and some and some local uh craft beers here from flint michigan and a little
trail to the flint river right there good old flint michigan and the flint river right here on
the back side of tenacity brewing you know flint michigan probably still gets a little bit of a
bad rap i think no matter what country you live in you've probably heard of the water crisis of
flint michigan that started in 2014 and actually i don't really think that crisis has ended because
they never actually prosecuted anybody but they have assured me that the water here is now safe
to drink a hundred percent so can't be scared all joking aside though because it really isn't a joke
it was a very serious tragedy that happened to this small little broke city here in flint
michigan in 2014 they decided to stop paying for water from the detroit river and they had they
used their own water source and what happened is people around this small area started getting sick
and getting legionnaires disease and they had 12 deaths that were directly related to that and then
over 100 more that were listed as pneumonia during the same time so there's speculation that there
were a lot more deaths related to the iron that was in the water people would literally open their
faucet and this is what their water looked like or maybe even more than that i just put a little
bit of coke cherry in there there were legal battles they were trying to get city officials
on manslaughter charges and then they brought in a new mayor and they dropped all the charges
and sweeped it under the rug and now we just forget about it flint michigan is is no longer
using their own pipeline for the water they have gone back to buying water from the detroit river
that is uh safe and i think they test the water a little more regularly at least i would hope so
because later on i'm gonna be drinking some beer from tenacity brewing that uses local water i hope
that didn't come across mean i'm not trying to joke about death and stuff like that it's just
interesting way to open the video about flint and say everything's fine now that's all i'm trying to
say everything's fine now no worries well let's go kill some time and explore a little more of flint
michigan we'll take old tater tot out for a little trip and see what we can find maybe maybe i'll hit
up a couple thrift stores and see if we can find anything else more interesting about flint hey
where'd my sunshine go don't do this to me i was in a good mood come on flint i've taken
the car out and i noticed a big like open commercial industrial lot over there it's
a good boondocking lot over there here's a weird one i'm at sit downers memorial park sit downers
all right here we go to the front of it the 1936-37 sit down strike
oh okay so from what i gather this was uh gm workers in 1937 uh here that just kind of decided
that they weren't happy with the way things were going so they sat down they all just stopped
working they just sat down and striked until they got what they wanted oh yeah they even made
their kids go on strike and people became homeless because they they refused to work smashing up some
windows yeah cops taken away people breaking all the stuff this seems like evergreen state college
back home like i'm really getting flashbacks the evergreen state college is so into striking
you're supposed to skip class and go stand out in the middle of the road and throw things at
all the drivers and strike and yell about how pissed you are about everything in the world
i don't mean to be selfless there if you feel like you need to go on strike that's awesome i'm just
you know if you think it doesn't affect other people you know like back home are our hippies
there they don't even know what they're do they they put the dumpsters out and block the trains
that are they're going out because oh that's encouraging military and we're anti-military
dude those train cars are full of food delivering to the men and women that are
out there protecting your freedoms all you're doing is stopping the food from getting to the
soldiers you're not stopping war but there's we got some stupid hippies back home and don't get
me started on that one geez eric how do you really feel oh look rain more rain everyone
this wasn't even projected but can i at least point out on this channel you've been with me
for quite some time this has been the strangest summer of my life i have not been able to find one
day that doesn't rain on any single day i travel no matter where i've gone it has rained on me
frankly i think if i didn't show you all of these videos non-stop all summer you wouldn't believe me
now does it rain all day no but it rains on me every single day and i'm just so over it
how how does it never stop raining like this that's insane man what a crazy summer it's been
i could be worse today's high is 75. it's not that humid really doesn't seem that bad
um there's places that are over 100 degrees right now watching this thing
gladly take that ring yeah okay but will you take it every single day all summer
it's getting old it's really getting old all right well i am back and the brewery is now
open and i had a lot of fun thrifting in the rain let me show you what i got a bunch of mickey mouse
scores that i've never even seen before this one his eyes move up and down it's a kid's toy i still
collect kids toys because it's mickey stuff little baby mickey there little round fluff ball mickey
another mickey this one's mickey mouse musketeers uh tambourine i just got one of these three days
ago a mickey mouse comic book that's pretty cool a chicago mickey mouse it says the windy city
on his shirt there in a chicago specific mickey also a doctor mickey i did get uh tom and jerry
here from my claw machine because i want to put unique stuff in my claw machine there at the house
and three new cds for my jukebox don't hate guys i'm working on getting that largest mickey mouse
collection going and i mean going going that lady in texas does not get to go to every thrift store
in the country okay i can i can pull this off that's hilarious robert would like that the
bush is free all right all checked in they got all their beer taps on the tile wall back here
so i'm gonna i'm gonna pick my favorite and then have a seat in here there's a food truck
outside the brewery also so i'll be able to go get something out of there i'm starting with a
flight just to kind of get my bearings and see if there's any of my favorites they serve it on this
really neat thick piece of wood that says tenacity brewing and flint michigan there i'm trying i told
her to surprise me and give me the labels first it's a the lawnmower there which i just tried
it's like a delicious bud light it's a good starter let's see also got the farmer's daughter
the bulldog the sassy lassie the milk stout dark and the honey blue blue by the way this
is definitely a fancier brewery than i'm used to and i was not expecting they have drinking
rooms as you can see it's like i feel like i'm way under dressed i should be wearing a suit and die
i picked my own little room right now so guess what good all right my favorite was the milk
stout second favorite was probably bulldog i'll go grab some food in that food truck that's a
that's a weird food truck there i didn't see anything on there that sounded even a little bit
appetizing so i'm gonna go back to the rv checking on the kitties plus i think it's their dinner time
hey we dried out again kind of what do you see out there tara you see the birdies or do
you hear the birdies those birdies are getting the worms out there that's pretty crazy huh we
gonna do about it i'm gonna sniff em dad i'm gonna sniff em into submission all right tara
you're right there's birdies out there jax did you even know that no there really is i saw him
you want some treats since you were such a good boy okay go ahead and have some treats
he's like man this brewery is a wonderful stay for harvest hosts
uh they're they're really laid back even though it seems really really fancy and stuff like that
their prices are a little high and it seems a little too fancy like i don't fit in like i
feel like everyone's staring at me you know when i'm walking through but but other than that it
seems like a really cool spot and it's been one of my goals traveling since i like beer so much
is to branch out and try more craft beer that's locally sourced that's my new thing so
i did that i tried the flight now i'm gonna hang out in the rv with my kitties for a little bit
so i'm gonna do leftover walmart fried chicken and mashed potatoes in the microwave tara always
thinks i'm making popcorn she this cat is obsessed with popcorn anytime i even just open this door
she comes up here and inspects everything i'm doing what are you doing dad what are we doing
up there dad that chicken and mashed potatoes was really good look at this parking lot y'all
how in the heck are they fitting this many people in there wow they must be doing something right
they have a very nice clientele here at tenacity and again this building i didn't show it but you
walk all the way around this building there's not one single sign anywhere that says tenacity
brewery it's just a random building with no signs so they make all their business by word
of mouth and possibly harvest hosts good for them i guess yep came back out for one more
jax has been a good boy so he gets to come outside this time hang out sunshine here got the sunset in
the cool place though really cool i love the outdoor area they're very pet
friendly
all right it's late now the brewery has all closed up most of the patrons have left there's one other
camper van on the other side over there you probably can't see anything it's too dark but
anyway it has quieted down i've been editing for a few hours and i'm getting ready to edit these
last few time lapses and everything and go to bed myself but wanted to talk about water real
quick i know maybe that's kind of awkward talking about water in flint michigan but i do get this
question quite a bit on the road i've been doing this for 11 years now as far as drinking straight
from my tap from water that i get from all over the country whether it's an rv park a rest area
or anywhere that has free water available i drink it straight out of my tap unfiltered not really
unfiltered i guess i do use the blue camco water filter that everybody else uses but i drink water
out of this main tank right here on my rv i drink my coffee i fill water bottles and everything from
this tank and i continue to refill it i'm going to refill it tomorrow when i check into my new rv
park here's the here's the thing let's go inside because i can't think of one rv friend like me
who drinks water from their tank from their faucet literally everyone asked me how do i drink water
out of this faucet through my water pump and my onboard water tank maybe it's just different for
me but i'm constantly traveling that tank that i just showed i'm constantly topping it off
therefore there is no water taste change that tank is already half full right now when i put more
water into it it's just going to add to the other flavor whether there's more fluoride or iron or
whatever else there is i don't taste a difference because i'm constantly just adding a little bit
different flavor water to the existing water now maybe i'm just lucky 11 years on the road i
haven't died of water poisoning or something like that but water's water i mean it's not that big a
deal to me however if you're different than me and you're like stuck at one particular rv park that
has a water problem or you were in flint michigan in 2014 throughout 2015 yet you may notice a
difference but i actually think that the ability to move and move and move and move every single
day and add a little bit of each city's water each county's water each state's water every single day
it makes it so that the water that comes out of my tap is pretty much just kind of neutralized
all the time if that makes sense it's not really a perfect science or anything but for some reason
it's it's essentially the same as switching your cat's food if you go from this food to this food
and then you slowly transition them into it the water that comes out of this tap is very
smooth transitioned for me on the road and i don't even notice a change the only time i've ever
noticed a change when i'm using city water hookups which i can't use anymore because my water pump
uh backflow system has now failed so i have to use my onboard water pump and my main tank for all of
the water that comes out of my faucets my shower my toilet and my sink in my bathroom right now but
there have been a few times hooked up to city water where i have noticed a significant taste
difference that's because i'm not going from my tank that has just changed a little bit i'm
going from my tank to whatever the city water is at that campground and that is that has affected
me a few times but but right now the system just seems to work really well for me and i'm sorry if
you took it personal when i was doing the fake water thing about flint that was literally that
was just me having fun and trying to introduce it clint's water system is safe now it's been safe
for quite some time so we're heading north i'm going to check into my campground and go explore
more of the north in our next video thanks for joining me jax tear and i'll see you soon bye guys
hmm