yeah hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic i know it's been
a few days since i've uploaded a video i still haven't moved i've been really comfortable
uh it's been incredibly warm and i'm about to fix that very very soon
actually let's hold off i'm not quite ready to show you the new intro i realized that uh i'm
not traveling with the motorcycle trailer anymore so you just got a sneak peek of
something i've been working on definitely a change as you can see we're going to an animated version
of my intro and also back to the original theme music a lot of people are happy about that but
let's save that for a future video because that's still a work in progress i'm working on a new
intro and outro for the channel let's go check on that fire like i said the pacific northwest
at least the west side of washington state and oregon is usually not that hot we average
77 all summer long in july and august average uh at least on the west half of the state
in eastern washington it's been 100 every single day and now it's been mid 90s for several days
enjoying a campfire here but like i said we are going to be getting on the road here soon
i still need to make sure that we actually fix the brakes and the steering issue yeah
but the only thing going on right now is burning this wood gotta burn the last of it and i have to
yeah i have missed these tall trees of the northwest it's kind of a muggy evening
otherwise i probably wouldn't usually have a campfire when it's warm but hey i'm doing it
i'll go ahead and uh cut back in in the morning
um yeah you okay there opie what are you doing i know but you're being weird again i wonder
what breed opie is i might have to do one of those dna tests i'm pretty sure he's like part ragdoll
he's such a character he is a very unique boy like no other tara you're an angel
you are yeah you're a sweetheart you are good girl but opie
like this is why i don't watch much tv anymore it's just constant entertainment
from these two little fuzzy butts okay i'm packing it up we gotta go all right high
fives high fours how many you got you got four okay all right terry are you ready all right
yeah these two these two are my world good morning everyone i've got a lot of anxiety
i wish andrew were here i'm gonna be pulling out after we did the brakes and bled the brakes an
entirely new braking system on the front um when i when i finished vlogmas in july we talked about
the fact that i had a rock and a caliper and the steering was off so we got to figure that out
um i already talked to management and told them what's going on because there's a one-way downhill
you can't go uphill but i told them i'm not comfortable after putting brand new brakes and
bleeding those brakes to go downhill as soon as i leave so uh as long as there's nobody coming
there's really only three sites where it goes back to a two-way road there so it's it's a very short
period of time where i'll be going the wrong way but we're gonna be okay uh once the sun comes out
here gonna hook up the car drive off the leveling jacks and we're gonna see how the brakes are
you guys don't have to worry though i'm gonna take care of it all okay i'm gonna do it all you just
lay right there all right all right i'm all packed up and ready to go just wanted to share this with
you because the northwest doesn't usually get this hot but i will pop up the weather here in olympia
96 today 98 tomorrow then 101 degrees uh it's very rare to stay that hot as you can see in
the 90s and 100 for five straight days uh so what's the plan for today well hopefully
i'm gonna be meeting up with an old friend visiting and uh then i'll pop this other one up
well that's the ocean that's ocean shores guys now i don't have a place to boondock over in ocean
shores anymore and i'm not gonna pay forty dollars a night at the quinault beach resort to boondock
but i have another friend you have to wait till the end but you can see these differences it's
it's crazy how different it is we're going to the 60 degree summer yeah lazy kitties goodness
right new camera angle slightly different angle for where this one was before and then
of course we've got the one shooting out the window there so uh in case you missed my last
video we did a complete front brake job on frida here and had to bleed the brake lines
and uh i haven't even started this thing up since so i need to get down off the uh tri
levelers those little orange levelers i'm on right now so turn the ac off start it up
see what the brake feels like different it definitely feels different okay
okay well let's try this i'm gonna hold the brake and i'm gonna release the emergency brake
so far so good put it into reverse
i'm going to hit the feels good feels
really good well that's exciting let me go move the leveling jacks
nice okay so i'm still plugged into power for the moment right now so i can't do a whole lot but
let's put it back into drive
we definitely have brakes that's good pedal doesn't feel
like overly soft or anything yeah i'm gonna go ahead and uh hook up the car
unplug let's get on the road the only way we can really test this out all right i got eyes on tater
tot here on the camera back there i only had one of them click again one of the blue ox things so
gotta figure out which one still needs to be clicked i'm gonna go a little bit to the left
is that it i think i just heard it actually it looks like we're good
so see we're supposed to go downhill right there steep downhill but uh nope i'm gonna be going up
it right here but right here at that road right there is where it turns to a 2a it's not a two-way
right this second but right in front of this ram truck we're good now we'll get to the top
of the hill up here and then i'll do a couple more break tests real quick but i think we're good guys
you know what it's been a while since i've made a video of a little out of sorts i am uploading
this video with some nomad internet linked below in the video description let's get back to normal
here since vlogmas the real test is going to be out here on the highway so we know the brakes
are working good but do we have steering back at the center point here at the steering wheel
going to find out right now on highway 12. get up to speed here so far guys perfectly straight
here well a little bit to the left because we're a little curved here but yeah i'm hearing some
rocks come out of the trend of my tires from that dirt gravel road but yes man that's a good feeling
we are golden we are good fixed it all right we need to get some gas
need to get some gas what are we going to pay for gas all right i-5 is just up here
i really wanna avoid trying to get gas in thurston county the state capital olympia there
bummer part is it's really difficult to get a pump with the rv towing the car doesn't matter i
don't care how far i hang off the back but just getting in with the rv is physically difficult
it does say 475 a gallon so really cheap i'm gonna go ahead and do it anyway
i'm gonna do it 475 a gallon we are finally guys actually i can say this is the first time
i've been back this summer where gas is under five dollars this is huge uh man that's awesome so i'm
gonna have to wait for both the truck and the car in front of him to move because the gas tank on my
rv is on the back so we got to be really patient that was nice 470 and i did go in and pay cash
because if you look closely at this board it costs 10 cents more per gallon if you use your debit
or credit card it's kind of a unique thing to the northwest it's always good to buy your gas
with cash some just have like a 15 cent surcharge to use a card here in washington state it's 10
cents more per gallon and when we're talking an i think i have a 70 gallon tank that's that's a lot
10 more cents per gallon than advertised all right we're gonna get on i-5 here as we do that uh let's
take a moment and talk about miranda my class a rb i know i mentioned last time i was in aberdeen
i brought it up and it just sparked a bunch of questions uh i want to tell you guys that
i am very very happy with this shorter easier to maintain system of this class c and um as of now
this is my rv uh i do not have my class a anymore i won't be writing my class a or using my class a
it's going to be me frida tater tot opie and tara that's that's the way we're moving forward end
of story no i won't answer any questions in the comments about it it's not available but i don't
have it anymore let's go up north one more time into thurston county gonna be meeting up with
a long time friend all right we're here in lacey washington got the ac rolling in there uh on solar
it's tough for me i hate this city and their propaganda i'm committing so many felonies right
now because inside my rv is nothing but camping paraphernalia all kinds of camping paraphernalia
but as lacey police say they will they will only enforce it when they need to all i can do is
hope and pray that today is not the day where they feel like enforcing it it's a stupid law
anyway rant over oh wait for carolyn to get here man it's always these white vans rolling right
up on me wait who do we got here look we got here carolyn and ron long time guys i guess so here in
this part of lacey there's a newer restaurant that's opened up over here it's a hawaiian
barbecue place that's new over in this so we're going to check that out for lunch yeah so i used
to uh work freight over there at that home depot right over there this is the new l l hawaiian
barbecue chain restaurant that moved in let's go try it out so carolyn and ron here got the chicken
two katsu chicken big old plate of food there not bad and they are really busy
here every every table is filled up so they're having no problem getting people in here all
right and then i got the chicken barbecue platter with all different kinds of chicken
oh yeah oh that was great catching up with carolyn and ron there they're going to be
hanging out here for a couple weeks and then she's gotta go back to phoenix it's just funny because
she's in the hot phoenix where it's like 110 degrees she gets here to the pacific northwest and
ironically we're going to be in the upper 90s for four straight days just a little little heat wave
that carolyn brought um i texted a couple friends to see if they wanted to float and nobody's ready
to float today so i guess we're just gonna go to the ocean and go cool down right now yeah
all right that was fun did not get in trouble for having camping paraphernalia in my vehicle
thank you lacey for not enforcing at this one time and look at this guys it just opened right
back up most of that traffic stayed on i-5 to go south towards portland here on highway eight
uh west towards the ocean it's wide open and beautiful no traffic i do need to clean this
windshield i've got even more bugs showing up right now all over it's like a daily thing
so what does the science say aberdeen 35 miles so we've got about
44 miles to the ocean pacific ocean they're in ocean shores and the temperature is going to drop
33 degrees from 97 to 64 degrees in that time so almost a degree every mile or a degree every
minute as we travel and it's gonna be chilly when we get there all right and uh it's chilly guys we
lost the sunshine just cloudy here this is the first time i've ever taken frida with tater tot
this is the first for the combo out here let's go find a nice place to relax on the beach uh
one thing i can tell already is the tide's high because i i never usually make this turn
and you know what i'm not gonna do it no i'm not going down there see what i usually do let
me see what's going on over here yeah i just uh walked out there um it's not too bad see this
usually there would be even more people out there and then there'd be one more road that's out in
the water this right here this is hard pack like i walked a little bit just to make sure so we're all
good right here get out of the way seagull kit this seagull's like right there in front of me
i don't know what seagull tastes like but we might have some free dinner
yeah see there's a there's a lot of people out here and there's a lot of different
places i don't like just being right there by the entrance so i'll find a spot out here
here we go right here where these seagulls are at that's gonna be my spot i'm gonna back in though
freaking burr got old glory waving high up there plenty of wind here at the beach what a change man
how awesome is it to have a home on wheels and be able to i mean there's a lot of people out there
you you might be one of them sitting there just roasting right now thinking i'd give anything
for just one day break where it was 40 degrees cooler 64 degrees and a lot of people can't change
the weather where you're at but ocean shores washington is a really special place we did pretty
much lose the sun again so it's uh cloudy and overcast chilly and windy and it'll be like this
all week i don't i'm just going to wait till it cools down back in the rest of the state um i
got to figure out somewhere to camp because you can't camp on the beach a couple rvs down there
but i've been through this before so you can't overnight here and sleep and camp on the beach but
you can enjoy it for the day time but i got three things i want to share with you real quick guys
first of all some sad news don't know if you heard about felix bigdogarbier staying over there with
camper van kevin and his base camp felix recently got diagnosed with cancer spent some time in the
hospital to figure out what was going on and what they could do uh i'm happy to report this time it
does sound like felix is going to be able to get and get some treatment started at least he's got
a long long long road to recovery i'm really glad that camper van kevin is there with him
those rolls were flipped a couple years ago so uh anyway my heart goes out to felix but i also just
wanted to mention that there was a a gofundme set up for felix because those medical expenses
are going to be outrageous to treat cancer so i will link that in the video description if
you want to contribute and help out felix and felix just know that if you're watching this
you have a massive amount of people praying for you and rooting for you and i miss you buddy
i'm going to come see you soon more on that later though and also some other bad news my buddy wayne
rv pepper wayne got hit by a semi truck while he was parked and sleeping inside his rv it appears
that his rv is completely totaled and he lives in his rv just like me just like any other nomads
he's also away from where he's used to in in florida i think he's in kentucky right now
just uh cannot get a break and uh he did not have full coverage on the rv so he could also really
really use some help in the video description below i will link his paypal direct link or
you can go to his page to get that link and if you can help out help get him back on the road back to
fixing rvs and helping the rv community you guys know he's done so much for this community as well
it would mean a lot to me if you could consider if you can't send good prayers and send good vibes to
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follow on august 1st well i'm gonna stay here until it gets dark but uh i have a place to camp
an approved place to camp in ocean shores uh-huh score up until this point guys i have
never had a place to boondock in ocean shores and it's a very difficult city
they are very strict about having rvs here in this city uh i'm very thankful to some friends
who i will let you know more information about in my next video but for right now i have a spot
with a deer walking by that's that's that's my friendly dear friend right there
yeah there's a lot a lot of deer around here it's cold right now it's 59 degrees guys
i love it i love it uh so yeah getting ready to take the flag down because it's getting dark
you can't really tell if the sun's set because you can't see the sun here
and i may have to run my generator a little bit we'll see but anyways guys you guys have a good
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