hey everybody eric here coming to you from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are doing well just
wanted to come outside at night here in courtside arizona to once again show you how
peaceful it is out here i've moved camps now actually a dead-end camp over here at randy's
little compound compound out here and just kind of regrouping for one day been playing
some poker with mike of living free and stanley and gray and we've been having a lot of fun
today and tonight hanging out here but i am going to be leaving and going much much farther south in
the morning but just want to show you what it's like it's really beautiful out here let's peek
at the stars and then we'll uh head out in the morning i will be uploading this video with some
nomad internet link below in the video description let's look at those stars
all right just uh filled up propane and gas here in court site we got steve full tiny house and
dana's behind in the car and we got other people too but we're gonna be uh heading south today
i've got the rv a little bit in a mess don't know you can see it it's just kind of everywhere i
shoved everything to make it work for now is basically what i'm doing i'll
i'll organize it when we get there i'm just happy for the sunshine driving south we're going to be
pretty much looking at the sun the entire time so it's not going to be a great view i'm not going to
film a whole lot of this trip but i'll let you know when we get there and when we get there
we get to see a bunch of old friends and probably meet some new friends
i can't wait to show you uh once we get into the yuma area here places that i've
never been before this is all new territory i've been through yula before but i've never
camped in yuma or done any of the free camping or anything like that so this will be fun go ahead
all right now the scenery might not look that different to y'all right now
but i assure you we are uh 80 miles farther south in arizona uh i think this is the territory we're
gonna have a little chat here actually we yeah i think we're gonna pull over here and
come up with a strategy of where we're gonna go because imperial dam campgrounds down here but
just got a phone call and i need to i need to clarify a few things here real quick so
we're gonna have a little group chat here and then it's warmer here at least it's uh
at least eight ten degrees warmer here in yuma than compared to quartzite so
all right well we had a little group meeting here we're gonna head over to imperial dam at least
and go from there got a call from terry and scott yeah they're back on the road
in a new camper that we'll probably see later and uh aja's down there and a few other people but
uh looks like there's some people that may have gotten sick but may have left
and so um i mean i don't know i've already gotten the big thing and i've i i've don't
know if i've mentioned on this channel but i am fully vaccinated and i've got my booster
um that doesn't mean that i just want to go hang out with anybody and everybody
especially when there's already a couple confirmed cases you know um but i just
i don't know so let me just get parked and think about a few things i'm okay spending new year's
eve alone or with the people that i've already been with who are vaccinated and that i trust
but let's let's wait and see yeah wow look at that uh black hawk copter right there here at
the yuma proving grounds that's pretty cool hey sunshine sunshine in the winter 70 degrees still
a little windy down here too but but i mean yeah it is what it is it's not snowing it's not raining
all right well we're gonna turn down uh senator wash road here
and somewhere in the middle of this road probably probably right where the bridge is up here
this bridge is the uh divider here we we're we're leaving arizona right now
welcome to california my phone says so yeah we are just inside california but
however we're still basically in yuma we're like what 10 minutes away from yuma and yuma
has everything it's way different than quartzite there's people camping up on the hill there
yuma has like two or three walmarts they got a petsmart they got a they got a movie theater
much much different blm camping than courtside much much different and uh
steve was just telling me about mitchery lake is also nearby which i have not camped at
so yeah it's all new to me looks good got some people camping on the bluff off to our right there
a lot of a lot of hills a lot of washes just got to be careful you know all right we are turning
into here steve says this should be one of the long-term visitor areas so they're going to look
for the past that's on the side of miranda and the pass that's on the car south mesa recreation site
imperial dam long-term visitor area and oh this is cool i do need to dump my tanks and get water
this is really cool look at these these huge lanes and dumpsters over there wow very cool
all right let's undo the leveling jacks
i just dumped the tanks and i noticed it wasn't very even so i pop up the passenger side
so you can really make sure you're starting with some clean empty gray and black tanks
okay good to go it looks like steve's waiting for me over there in his class c there's the water
down there and we are gonna find out where we're gonna go here i guess they're not quite ready
so i'm gonna pull around whoa there's arby's down there look at all those rvs down by the water whoa
hey wait i want to be down there i really really want to go down there now
so
all right so we're up here on the bluff but we don't know if that we could all four fit up here
on the bluff and have a view of the water but we got a tip that there might be a place to camp
on the lake so dana's gonna go drive down there uh scope it out check for clearance
and also make sure that they're serviced down there because we get awesome service up here
with a clear shot of the tower there so just gonna hang back here and see what they find
i mean i'm open to whatever i just i'd rather be next to the water because honestly even in
january yes i will inflate one of my tubes and i will be in that water cooling off in january yeah
all right well we're gonna have a couple of other people join us here in the group right now but
let me get turned around and tater tot here real quick and show you what is up so i turned my rv
around the other way this is the way i should be doing it because the solar panels are on this
side and because i have a curved roof curved roof the panels that are on this side are a little bit
angled towards this side and that's where south is right there so i should be getting some better
solar here parked right here hey opie um there is this little road uh but our neighbors at the
end of the street told us that uh you don't want to take too much down here because it's uh pretty
rough and i can see there's some holes oh yeah and there's some bumps but i i want to take tater tot
down here to see what it's like on the other side of this monster hill it goes down even more and
there's that 75 dollar fee thing where and terry and scott and dave from dave's rv life are at
um but there's no room at least there's no room for miranda there's room for like
some camper vans right now but i don't know we'll we'll go see him soon maybe not in this
video right now i just want to see what's down here this this road is pretty rough
oopsie
huh if you could get down here
yeah i think this would be a great a camper van spot just oh wait look over here look at this
look at this a little path to the water down there that's neat and then you could just camp
right here i don't know about going in the water but look at this little site right here
that's kind of cool yeah i mean that is that is a walkway right yeah that you could you could walk
to the water which all i see is mud and crud down there the rest of it looks good out there though
yeah but the tribes over there on the other side of that island over there
you know so all right so the sun's just getting ready to uh set behind me
so we didn't get to go meet the tribe today but we'll do that in our next video i'm gonna
peek around lift up some rocks so you can find any scorpions maybe
oh
oh yeah definitely are you ready
i will admit california seems awfully beautiful and i feel like i should regret saying that as
long as you don't go too far into california by the way i i usually don't get a whole lot done
here when i sit at this seat so well this is my tv seat and ever since i brought opie home as a
kitten he must lay on me in my neck we watch tv here that's basically all we do we watch youtube
or tv here and i'm not you know picking favorites it's not like i love opie more than i love tara
it's just opie seems to have this really outgoing personality he loves strangers he loves other pets
and he will never leave my side and he sleeps on my neck at night i've never gotten a picture of
that tara she's a little different she's a little more independent female cat and that's okay i love
her to death um i don't you know i'm not hating on her because she's not in my lap all the time
like opie is opie is getting big though he's no longer a kitten but he's my sweet little guy
i'm gonna love zims loves him so much so glad he's in my life that tara here let me show tara
i'm gonna i'm just gonna show tara real quick no she's she's down here though look how
absolutely stinking cute tara is just loving her rv house yeah she's such a good girl yeah
i'm talking about you girl burn what's up girlfriend i was just snuggling with opie
he's just a different cat than you and that's okay you snuggle with me at night no i know all right
why did i even bring up the cat thing oh because every time i grab a camera and i want to film
something in this seat opie's always on me and tara never is again it's not me it's the kitties
they get to choose the life and how much of me they want me in their life cats are independent
you know i'm just really happy that opie is you know so in my face in my bubble all the time
and we're going to be working on getting him acquainted with on the outdoors more
also so i'm in california didn't quite get to camp where i wanted to camp however i'm with
awesome people and i'm really happy at this spot right now and i actually would probably
be okay right now at this point spending new year's eve right here and if i wanted
to i could take the car right around the corner and go see the tribe down there in the car but
um really happy and i'm really warm and there's sunshine and it's beautiful and can i complain no
happy new year guys uh tara and opie and i will see you in the next video here shortly bye guys
you