good morning everybody I hope you're all doing well found an absolute gem out
here just north of Barstow California this is uh it's a paid BLM campground
doesn't cost very much it's called owl canyon campground I'll
show you around a little bit we've got barbecue outdoor grill pits a
picnic table that's covered for the Sun and the rain and camp fire ring there
and every site has a neat view of the owl Canyon down here so this down here
is well I mean it's basically a wash at the very bottom there it's really sandy
and when it rains I bet there's a lot of water running through there the most
interesting part of this place was the wind so just so you know this is
actually day three here for Angela and I here at this campground and we had wind
gusts of 50 miles an hour the first two days and two nights I know that that
probably doesn't sound like much but that's darn near hurricane force
category winds but it's gusting so it's weird like it'll go from you feel
nothing to all of a sudden just getting slammed at 50 miles an hour
shaking the RV it was setting off my alarm it was intense and I couldn't film
for two days out here anyway so stuck to indoor activities get some TV stations
played some video games Angela and I hung out and relaxed out here that was
the whole point was just to kind of mellow out and this was a really perfect
spot just mellow out I doubt it's gonna be as vibrant as it is to the naked eye
but the mountains over on this side they literally look green to my eye
to you they probably just look gray but here in person that's probably the most
unique part about Owl Canyon here is the Green Mountain
in the background so it's a 14-day limit here on a BLM campground at Owl Canyon
and is only six dollars a night that's not bad that's basically free right they
are looking for some camp hosts at this one and a couple other ones I
wouldn't want to be here in the summer though and they got a little list here
talking about The Chronicles of chaos and up here it says what we can see is
colored sediments green brown white are Miocene Barstow formation that include
lake and playa beds conglomerate white volcanic ash and white limestone I'd
like to address with everybody a couple things some of you have mentioned that
the frequency of my videos finally first time in over a year has not been every
other day you are correct and the reason for that is a combination of it's tough
to find approved places to camp so I'm gonna be making the most of places like
this where it is an approved campground because so many places here whether
you're on private property or public property in California it can be
literally illegal to sleep in your RV or vehicle and I know lots of people out
there can get away with it I know lots of people ignore the Walmart signs too
you know absolutely no RV parking I'll just do it anyway there's other people
here I'm gonna be making the most of this and most likely once I get parked
you know I'm not gonna move for a couple days maybe take the bike out and explore
a little bit but I have mentioned to you all that there is an actual plan as
scary as that is there was a trip planned here and I have been delayed due
to mountain passes in the Sierra Nevadas that have been absolutely shut down not
chains required on every single piece of rubber but literally shut down go around
it you cannot cross so believe me every single day when we wake up here I had
been looking at the Sierra Nevada Pass here in California near i-80 to see when
it's going to be passable Angela doesn't have chains we can get
her some chains but ultimately every once in a while there's it's just bare
and wet and and it's there's completely no restrictions so we will be keeping a
very close eye on that and hopefully before the end of March I will be
announcing this fun trip to come and what I'll say about that is if you liked
route 66 you're definitely gonna get a kick out of the next three to four
months on the road but I got to play it right I've gotta play it smart they
usually have water here but it's shut down until the summer they're replacing
the water tank here at Awl Canyon so no drinking water available you
probably want to be in an RV or bring your own water in but they do have some
trash cans available here and little playground over there okay okay I
decided to come down here to the bottom of the canyon
you know actually in the in the wash here it's neat down here these uh
there's a dirt right and it's like a combination of dirt and rock pull one
rock and the whole thing falls mmm hopefully not different though in the
ground it's just just a sandy material you know gets a lot of water down here
though it's warming up so I would almost think it's got to be time to start
seeing some desert wildlife you know and never actually seen a scorpion or a
rattlesnake in the wild ever and I know one day it's going to happen I just
don't know when. Check out these canyon walls about 30 40 feet high down here you see
all the Joshua trees up there
yeah you think you got culverts back home?
No out in the desert they got culverts get a load of this thing there's two
There's two of them, massive and I can almost guarantee you we are gonna find a snake
if we go in here should we go? let's go Oh snakes or scorpions now I lost my
courage lost it had it and lost it hey I'm over here it looks like our two RVs
are kissing front noses so we're all clear March is
just going to be a different type of feel here on the nomadic fanatic channel
and then everything will be back to normal so just ask that you guys be
patient I'm gonna keep you guys interested and entertained as much as
possible throughout the month until we get back on the road officially and it
could happen at any time so don't go anywhere guys stay subscribed keep
checking in I will give you as many important updates as possible
check out these canyon walls 30 40 feet
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