what's going on everyone good morning eric from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are doing well i
am barely in texas right now i'm actually at the midway point of route 66. it's exactly
1139 miles to los angeles and back east 1139 miles to chicago here at the midpoint cafe
last time i was here the cafe was closed at i think 2 p.m so we're going to try some earlier
breakfast today but i'm also very excited to get into new mexico today because my plans
well when i was coming through the plains of texas the first time ever there was literally
no wind at all i have never seen the entire crop field of wind generators not moving at all however
there's a little bit of wind today you can see the windmill right there it started up a little
bit but i think we're gonna be okay here we go mid point cafe it does appear to be open it's about 10
30 in the morning so i'm not sure if they're doing breakfast or lunch but we're gonna figure it out
oh burger fries and drink that sounds really good doesn't that sound good look at the artwork on
the window of this car hot to trot route 66. oh i love it tomater and lightning mcqueen on the back
i think they are going to be serving lunch today look at this place and this a cool diner cafe
and you'll notice here in just a second so license plates up on the wall you guys remember i was here
maybe five six years ago right up here in the back corner is my old plate from washington state
signed by nomadic fanatic and it's still up there
how cool is that got me a nice cold coca-cola and a glass and my orders in gonna have a burger look
at that magnet route 66 midpoint cafe adrian texas cafe and gift shop look at that burger guys holy
you know where that's going
back on route 66 west towards albuquerque i'm going to be uploading this video with some nomad
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just checked my voicemail had a voicemail come in while i was eating and they
have cancelled my thing for today i'm frustrated but why am i not surprised there's no wind here
but i have to go four hours west in like towards albuquerque new mexico and they've already left
me a voicemail saying that liftoff has been canceled today for high wind in new mexico
so i have some options here here's the tough part is you want to go in a hot air balloon
you have to plan it out you have to carefully schedule it in one of the slots
i had to pay 79.99 to book my spot and then you gotta wait and then they cancel it um
it's like hang on let me call them back a little update they had a slot for tomorrow also which
is very rare to have a slot for the very next day so i am rescheduled for tomorrow pending
no high winds and i am going to go check into a place in albuquerque and spend an extra day
problem is i just did this like four or five years ago and the same exact thing happened
i went to the the casino there and they canceled it i waited the next day
high win they canceled it i waited a third day and booked another day they canceled it on the third
day what is it about hot air balloons like it took me 11 years to go on the one at disney springs and
just can't get on a hot air balloon here in new mexico so i guess get comfortable i'm only gonna
do this one day though if it's high winds again tomorrow gonna get i'm just gonna say
screw it but i'm gonna be pay i'm gonna try to be patient for one extra day
all right just up here we're gonna go underneath this little sign this uh welcome to new mexico
land of enchantment there we go it already looks different that's crazy i'm only five minutes into
new mexico and look look at look at these wind generators they are going again well i came off
the interstate their i-40 back to route 66 even though well this is this is off season
i mean route 66 is usually abandoned anyway but um here in the winter not much going on
i love refrigerated air well maybe not so much in the winter i don't see anybody in the motel
here that's kind of sad but look at this if it were nighttime this would look so much cooler
the blue swallow motel 100 refrigerated air oh my gosh this is my seventh time here actually
and um i just i can't get the timing right they'll be back at three it's noon now
honey i don't even want to know if they have any magnets of course they do i can see magnets right
in there yeah but yeah here it is another day perhaps route 66 is awfully quiet today
you call these uh motor courts right and then what they called them back in the day a motor
court i believe yeah i don't necessarily uh need that i need some place to park the rv and plug in
well i gotta get water i gotta dump my tanks there's a lot of different ways to travel
i choose an rv with a smart car other people like to just take their car or their vehicle and
check into all these quirky little motels and hotels each room this is room 14 has our little
garage in here with custom painted murals and stuff uh-huh very colorful chairs out front
i love it but yeah as we get closer to uh albert quirky i'm gonna be going past albuquerque but uh
remember i do have a neat little video series all the filming locations of breaking bad one of my
one of my favorite videos to make i'll link that up top if you didn't check that out or
want to check it out again otherwise we'll put on some miles get back on the interstate and head
towards my final destination for the evening it's not just uh a little bit of wind either
um the wind is coming right at me with huge huge gusts of wind um i'm actually in third gear and
that's all i can do i'm going 55 miles an hour now and now we're slowing down even more in third gear
rpm's at 2 500 and it's all i can do just to stay moving on the interstate
with this crazy wind now we're now we're in uh second gear second gear on i-40 nothing but
ridiculous wind boy they were not just playing it safe with the hot air balloon
i don't know new mexico seems like a really weird state to be famous
for putting hot air balloons up in the air every time i'm here it's insane wind out here
but what i don't know is it really worth waiting until tomorrow thinking it's gonna
be better than this boy it is windy i don't know guys i don't know i have never seen this
this is not traffic there's no exits within 20 miles this way so something happened out here in
the middle of nowhere it is really windy and i've been seeing people doing some really stupid stuff
uh we are now going 15 mile an hour stop and go or less oh geez
well hopefully everybody's okay oh you're gonna cut me off that was cute
uh we're getting to the crash site guys i hope there's nothing nasty to see here
i will tell you to look away if you need to oh my gosh that it looks like just a one car semi
that's this whole reefer unit oh there's another truck right there that's ripped up
i can almost guarantee you i know what happened it's probably directly related to the wind but
when you've got 60 mile an hour gusts of wind coming at you and you're compensating for that
you know steering into it when a semi truck comes next to you there's no more wind and
it rips you to the other side real quick it's a it's a constant adjustment and you really got to
be careful out here especially when it's windy but also especially when the semi trucks are near you
you got to know where they're at and you got to know that the wind's going to stop
i'm in no rush anymore though we'll just get parked tonight and try again tomorrow all right
we're finally here see the hot air balloon there route 66 probably a reason why it never goes up
all right i'll let it go i'll let it go my little forecast app here
is showing the wind icon on for tomorrow here in albuquerque so
yeah i mean i'm i'm not just trying to jump to conclusions say it's it's going to get canceled
tomorrow also but i'm not going on a hot air balloon there's no way there's no way how long
would you guys wait like i know there's people that wait weeks like every day every day they
just keep cancelling and cancel and cancel and then that's why the hot air balloon festival is
two weeks because you may only get one day where they actually put the balloons up in the air and
people sit around and wait i'm just not the guy i have 45 minutes until they close the gate here at
the resort they lock us in that's uh i've had that happen at other casinos that had campgrounds on
them too because they don't want you leaving they want you to spend money here at the casino so they
have a gate up here i'll show you yeah this gate right here will close in 45 minutes at 6 00 pm
uh the only in and out is through the shuttle to take you to the casino over here which you can
just walk to but i guess that's way too much work they really don't want you having any freedom here
i'm gonna go to this little grocery store up here and grab something for dinner oh i know where i'm
at that's so weird there's a video of mine from the past there it is there it is i put my foot
into this cactus and i had such a bloody foot back to the scene of the crime here just
brutal cactus man i bled and it stings it it hurts so bad we need to see that again and have a good
laugh don't we yeah i'm gonna dig that one up because right next door you have this awesome one
little convenience store right over there i'm gonna grab a pizza head back to the rv
can i salvage this day in new mexico i'm gonna do everything i can to do that
i found it's been a while guys the croissant digiorno's meat pizza i've been looking for
this ever since i loved this like a year ago and they just stopped making them they're back on the
shelves here in new mexico at least there's one good thing i can say that's in the oven
hot diggity man
oh yeah oh heck yeah start with a cold coke zero here and then i'll move on to a different kind
of delicious beverage look at that croissant crust digiorno's pizza i'm to watch an episode
of the shield here and then i'm going to switch over to some some christmas movies probably yeah
throw it right on the ground terry you wouldn't like that pizza it was delicious
you totally would not have even liked it no you would have thrown it right on the cat ground
yeah you would have thrown it on the cat ground pretty sure opie's getting better about giving
me my space when i'm eating now he used to just like he would hop up in my lap any time he smelled
food and no matter how many times i set him down he would just climb back up he's getting better
we're training you are you training me you're training me can i have that foot you're not using
that foot i have the foot well you need it okay tomorrow morning i'm not even gonna wait for the
phone call at 9am when they tell me there's too much high wind and my hot air balloon is canceled
again i'm just going to leave at 7 am and try to put on some miles and get into arizona and
i'm going to be in a much better mood in my very next video but right now i'm going to down a few
delicious beverages of the adult variety and i'll get back to you here in a few days
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i will be in a better mood in my next video i guarantee it bye guys be well
you