still kind of settling down from the entire cascade loop because what an
amazing trip that was but things aren't going to change I'm still going to be
producing a couple more videos from Washington before I hit the road to head
east officially and I will give you some more information here later in August
about what exactly is the plan for the next four to five months on the road
later later want to keep you in suspense a little longer ironically where I'm at
right now I'm still on the cascade whoo I found a free camp area you can camp on
the river and come down here I got the RV park up the bank just near Monroe
actually I'm just taking one more day to just sit here and edit video and work
and then I have to get back to civilization
I keep coming down here because it's pretty it's quiet
I'll show you the area mainly what the area is for is for tent camping there's
a tent camping area that's really close to the water you just hiked all your
gear down the hill but if we go up here to the parking lot I guess you'd call it
well here's the information kind of kind of minimal it says we're in our national
forests and the camping limit is 14 days for free I think I counted four RVs
there's this trailer that's been dropped I am all the way back as far as I can
get and the bottom Jack's raised up to get level so that I'm off the road on
the other side of me or some more people that are comfortable there's a van and a
big class a south wind and another camper van right there this area unlike
some of the other you know real campgrounds that I found this one's
really being utilized and used and that's probably a good thing I don't see
any trash on the ground anywhere this place is clean for a packet in packet
out camp really really sure what that is but
no I'm glad it's really clean I just don't have access to the water here I
got to go back to the trail which I don't mind doing just as I was talking
the Sun like came out full force how about that nice still no service
nothing nothing Verizon AT&T nothing it's just that and I feel like I didn't
really talk about that very much in my cascade loop series but you need to be
aware you should be aware that cell phone service for all carriers almost
non-existent maybe five or seven percent of the entire loop has any service and
those are the big cities like Leavenworth Wenatchee and Everett so
just something to consider trying to stay cool man this is just a
day in the life of a nomad I guess yeah I've come out to one of my favorite
spots here in the northwest being the squally River down here under partial
shade still getting a little bit of solar and a view of the Nisqually River
down here this is actually the spot that has the rope swing there's a big group
of people over here I'm saying hog in the area but they've kind of blocked it
off for their own personal use and yeah oh well well you know every once in a
while on this side of the mountains it does get hot and I had mentioned that
Olympia Washington area averages 76 degrees in July for a high and 77
degrees in August for a high however to get that average there still has to be
some hot days that happen to hit 90 or so and you either go to the ocean you
find some shade or a nice body of water to Duncan and I got some friends showing
up later I thought well that's the tricky part is it also talked about
going to another spot I may be moving today but you got to get here early to
get the good spots so I don't know where we're hanging out for the day but
getting ready to make a little crock pot meal here finally it's been a while
I have another fun little update that's not Carmen electric this one's white
I'll be happy to hear that Electric is now shipping out all of their finalized
bicycles as you know I got the black version which was a prototype and they
took some of my criticism and help in trying to develop the final version
along with some other people who are testing out the other prototypes so
there has been several changes to the bike one being that now we have five
levels of pedal assist the other being the rear fender here has now three
points of contact total again I really appreciate electric sending me out the
newest version of the bike it's available in black like I had or white
like this I kind of prefer the white because it matches the RV a little
better currently right now my mom Carmen actually let's just keep
everything simple we're gonna call this one Carmen also so I still have Carmen
the electric ebike if you don't think that's funny
I don't know what's wrong with you I'm charging her up right now actually nope
we're fully charged right now and yeah so she'll go in the back of the RV where
the other ebike was that so I finally got a new crock-pot everybody a 10 quart
monster crock-pot and let me can see how big it is takes up almost the entire
stove here we're gonna make my famous Dr Pepper pulled pork this afternoon I'm
making quite a big batch here because I'm gonna feed some friends and I want
to have some left over so how many we've got 7.23 pounds of boneless pork
shoulder but roast mm-hmm just put the roast there in the bottom
of the crock pot this is my own easy little recipe but we're gonna add a
little bit of onion powder to it mm-hmm a little bit of garlic salt mmm and then
dr. pepper instead of chicken broth put this right around the pork roast and go
about half full around the pork roast I'll let that settle there and see how
that looks there we go put the lid on that guy set
this guy to high and in five hours this will be ready to shred but in no time at
all it's gonna start smelling good in here it turns out we're actually going
to be moving on to the other river small
that's the other thing about being here is that that train
we're gonna actually head back over to Pioneer Park Inn Lacey and hang out it's
just a little too busy here there's more parking over there and it's more
convenient with a couple friends I'm hanging out with so that's what we're
gonna do instead so I'll pack everything up get the ebike
on the back of the RV put the table away and we will get on the road again having
that lid with the secured lock on the crock pot that's that's a really good
thing what do you think buddy this is gonna be a good spot you want to hang
out today by the river yeah okay now we're here at Pioneer Park this is the
Deschutes River so it's a completely different River and I feel like it's a
little warmer but anyway let's be coming out here this place is going to get busy
this afternoon eventually I got the RV parked over in the Sun get lots of solar
cooking that pork and Jack's with me so that everything is good in the world
today guess what everybody checking temperature we're 160 we are
good it is time to start shredding this guy and I get to finally use my bare
paws that I got in winthrop tear this up oh yeah look how tender that is it's
just gonna melt and fall apart oh man I love it it's kind of warm still let me
get this all tore up here and then we'll add the barbecue sauce all right got the
pork all shredded in there we're gonna add some honey barbecue sauce not not
sparingly or anything just just like that dr. pepper pulled pork and grab
some buns and start digging in ooh there we go it's a sandwich time
oh yeah it's delicious you wouldn't like
and also this company best tech sent me an electric toothbrush from their
company wanted me to open it up and check it out so that's what we'll do on
the back here it says it's got 21 days of charging
it's got wireless charging well that's cool and it's got time settings of two
minutes two and a half and three minutes
Wow there's the base and get an idea for how it fits in my hand it also comes
with three toothbrush heads three total to get me started and if you travel or
you're in an RV like me there's this neat little carry case which is kind of
cool there we go I feel like this thing really wants to vibrate I didn't read
the directions but oh we're vibrating there we go been a long time since I
tried an electric toothbrush I'm going to set it to the three minute mark again
the wireless charging feature is really cool just like my iPhone you just set it
down and charge it overnight every 21 days fully waterproof obviously and that
supersonic vibration it's hard to explain I've never had my entire jaw
vibrate like you can actually feel this thing really working a lot harder than
they would normally be if I set a normal toothbrush so again thanks best tech for
sending this out to me with the extra two toothbrush heads I'll put a link in
the video description if you're interested in checking out one of these
as well Amy's got to pick up a few things clean the crock pot and Jackson
I'll be back on the road we are leaving Washington very very soon with some big
news announcements so hang tight see in a few days I guess
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