just want to make sure black betty didn't feel left out
yep yep yep every vehicle i've ever owned is parked right here ever since the early days
all right so that bridge right there i'm gonna go over there and stay away from the highways
and uh take back roads to oregon i'll keep vlogging along the way welcome everyone to vlogmas
in july that's right a video every day for 31 days presented by nomad internet typically vlogmas is
done in december where vloggers on youtube upload a video every day for 25 days leading up till
christmas morning i borrowed this idea from the buffoons over at red white and buffoon they passed
the torch to me this year as a christmas fanatic this is a great way for me to be cheerful and
thankful all month long opie you better be a good boy this july santa paws is watching tara no more
sneaking into catnip sack santa paws will bring you coal thanks for joining me this month guys and
have a jolly old month of july yep good morning everyone welcome back to vlogmas in july day i'm
not sure what the date is necessarily but uh i'm gonna fuel up here in washington state and we
are gonna take black betty out of state for a long ride my very first vlog i've got my rode video mic
that's gonna go inside my helmet i've got this camera here so we can do a picture and picture
kind of like what we do when we're driving the rv and uh we'll see how this works first we got
some twists and turns through the woods in here thanks for joining me guys let's go have a fun day
all right hopefully we got everything tight here on everything and this is working somehow
magically to get her started up you guys still hear me you have no idea how frustrating this is i
sit down the end of the day it's dark time to edit all this awesome vlogging video and i get this
to make it even worse it wasn't peaking like that and distorting like that when i did my test this
morning yes i woke up at 7 30 to ride with all this to test it all out and it wasn't doing any
of this now i'm really frustrated because i've got a three hour moto vlog that's just got no audio
to it now it's really frustrating so so since i've got no audio for the rest of the trip i decided
to stay away from all interstates and highways i basically took state routes and back roads
the entire way into oregon it was a beautiful ride there was a little bit of sprinkle when
i was going through grayling there um i think i have a clip when i got to grayland well yeah
this is called grayland and it's literally gray that doesn't mean it's ugly out here
but this is all washington and then down here where it gets brighter is organ
and then i crossed the bridge into astoria and here is my first stop all right where's all my
goonies fans we're here in a story organ home of where they filmed the goonies classic movie uh out
here beautiful views too behind the camera is the astoria tower is that what you call it column yeah
the astoria column little uh tip for you when you first get here keep your eyes peeled for
uh a paper airplane yeah i don't see any right now i don't know which way the wind's blowing
but up there at the top people are throwing i guess they're wooden uh airplanes that they
purchase for a dollar depending on which way the wind's blowing though you never know where they're
gonna land i was gonna grab one or i'll go over to the gift shop and grab one and then you can
climb the column there yeah got black betty parked they now charge a five dollar fee to come up here
so um i was just going to take a couple pictures but now i'm gonna spend a little bit of time out
here uh in front of us there's the bridge that we just came over as we crossed over from washington
yep that's washington state over there and is it me or does it seem a lot sunnier and
nicer in oregon okay okay might get lucky and find a little magnet here in the gift center
but uh they're oh now it's two dollars for your gliders okay yep lots of magnets to choose from
hmm all right got my uh wooden airplane to take to the top of the tower and uh hope for some
good luck also picked out my magnet it's a it's a steel really long piece it looks like the column
it's really cool and it says the story on it perfect all right column here we come flying on a
climate on that it's a twisting winding staircase to the top long hike it's like being in a castle
cool cool all right we made it to the top finally finally made it
we're going to throw it off the corner because i think the wind's blowing this way
oh there it goes over there i don't know it's still going
a bunch of them in that field down there actually that was cool
and uh that's downtown a story over there that's where we're heading next because i am hungry i
mean starving i'm very hungry i need a berg right here the only thing i think they could work on is
this stairwell when people are coming up it's really tricky because nobody wants to walk on this
side and we finally made it back out again i am incredibly out of shape my thighs screaming at me
not as much as my tummy i'll look up some food look up some google reviews we'll find some
i'll let you know what we decide on actually got some other bikes here in astoria that's awesome
i'm gonna park the bike here and just kind of walk
and smell i was gonna go to rumors but they're not open so plenty of places to find food in
astoria though i won't have a problem all right so across the street we've got astoria brewing
that looks promising well science says they've got 16 local beers on tap
you know back in the old days i might not have gone to a bar for food but you'd be surprised
how good some of these burgers can be i'll give it a shot so this is the the brew house
yeah you think they uh brew their own local beer here in astoria you betcha uh no food
in this location i gotta go down the street to their restaurant but man i smell some good beers
oh yeah there we go this is the other side and actually you got the water right out there with
the boardwalk out there this is the restaurant bar i'll try the try this out i see goonies stuff here
i got some souvenirs i don't see any magnets yet it's a monster place i'm waiting for a seat
outside like the boardwalk out there but man this is such a cool place and they got all
their local beers listed up here so i'm trying to decide which one of those i want all right so
they give you an outdoor menu and then you have this view not too bad huh digging it i got the
copper goat this is called goonies beer goonies beer let's test it out now it's very goony very
unique they usually have tater tots here they're actually out that's okay still got french fries
all served on a wood platter there got a plain burger there and uh i'm gonna murf it right now
it's good not the best burger all month but it's good well my thighs are still a little jelly
it's good lunch i consider this a success here in astoria i do want to check out three or four
different thrift stores while i'm here in the astoria oregon area because there's no sales tax
here and uh collecting mickey camel and harley stuff so i'll get back to you then i got a long
ride back i'm just gonna jam to some music get this ride over with i'll catch you guys when i
get back to the kitties all right just uh traded black betty for tater tot put black betty safely
in the trailer here all locked up so i got tater tot we'll go back to where the rv is at
are you guys being cute snuggle buddies is opie hogging most of the seat tara
you want me to tell them to not to opie don't be a hog give taras moore's rooms i missed you guys
you guys i had a fun ride i made it back are you guys hungry hungry treats treats opie nose treats
opie's doesn't know hungary yet but he sure knows treats he knows that word tara
tara's never been much for treats she usually just gives her treats to opie
she loves her squeeze ups though don't throw him on the ground please wait wait oh you're gonna
eat them now on the camera no just smeal them and lick them i licked it so opie can't have it
now i'm gonna throw it on the ground dad watch him throw it on the ground just like you do dad
don't throw him on the ground give him to opie tara says you can have hers
she doesn't want him i think this has become my new favorite pastime just to end the day bring
the smart car out sit on the tailgate and watch the sunset out on the pacific ocean out there
it's really really pretty even when it's cloudy with a chance of rain because after this video
making a change moving on to a different part of the country
so anyways i got my little camping chair there because the wind blows this way sometimes it's
more comfortable to sit there with a little bit of wind block with tater tot but guys you
go ahead and have a good night tara and opium i will see you in the next one tomorrow night guys
you