Day two of volunteering at the RTR 2020. Yes, I'm
a volunteer, which is why I'm wearing the tee shirt.
This is weird for me to have on a tee shirt,
but I've got to wear the tee shirt cause people have to know who the volunteers
are. I'm wearing it over my dress. See, so it's a little bit lumpy, I guess.
It doesn't matter. What matters is it says I'm a volunteer. When I'm working,
when I'm on my shift for volunteering, I also wear an orange like a day glow,
like a construction worker kind of vest over it cause I'm in the traffic
department and ain't nobody gonna run over this girl.
I did have a little bit of reservations about the traffic department because I
remember from last year, from the 2019 RTR,
it seemed like anybody who like was putting their complaint about some bad
experience they had at the RTR on YouTube,
it seemed like most of the complaints had to do with people that were in the
traffic department.
Like somebody telling them where to park and maybe giving them wrong directions
or you know, somebody telling them, Hey you got to move your rig.
It's in the way. Or you know like, Hey you can't idle your truck here.
Stuff like that. Whatever.
Basically it was like people complaining about people in the traffic department
doing their jobs.
So I was a little nervous about that cause I don't really want to be like the
one that gets blamed for things. You're kind of on the front lines, you know,
and I will felt a little weird about that. But
if Bob Wells is the face of the RTR,
then I would say the traffic department is like the handshake of the RTR,
you know, and I figured I would just try to be as good a handshake as I can,
as friendly a handshake as I can and everything will go fine.
You can just walk right across this field and up those stairs and you're at the
handicapped parking lot, which is where my station is.
I didn't walk over though.
I drove my bus up there and I parked it in the parking lot right in the middle
and I have this little red popup awning. So I took that out and set it up.
I put a little chair under it and yeah,
it was like having like a little parking station for myself.
So when people drove in they pretty much just drove right up to me,
I didn't have to go chasing anybody. So that was kinda cool.
The job is, you're basically, if people are looking for the handicapped parking,
you're telling them what rows they should park in,
and then there's this other road down at the other end that nobody's supposed to
go down unless they're a volunteer. It leads to the backstage.
So you're not allowed to go down there unless you're, um, you know,
you have a special pass or you're, um, a speaker or a volunteer. So,
you know, you have to keep people from going that way.
So as people are heading that way, you kind of have to stop and go, Hey,
you got a pass? I'm not going to wrestle anybody to the ground, okay? I'm sorry.
No. It went pretty well. You know, people would come up to me and I'd say, Hey,
park over there.
And then really nobody tried to go down the forbidden row except for people who
had the right pass. I'm not a person who likes to sit still a lot, you know,
I'm kind of like a constant motion kind of person. So it was a good spot for me,
you know, because there were plenty of people to greet and interact with.
But then also my rig was there, so if there was nobody then - like,
I made my lunch at one point, made a pot of coffee at another point.
And Brad, who's, hi Brad. Brad's one of our viewers here.
A subscriber, right Brad? Um, but Brad, um, came to visit, you know,
he was at the RTR and we never met in person. We've only met here on YouTube.
So Brad came and hung out for a little bit and that was fun. So I got a visitor,
I had lunch, but I also did my job, you know, I greeted everybody,
I did everything I was supposed to do. So it was fun.
And it was a good day and I wasn't bored.
That was day One. Day two, different vibe entirely.
I don't I think. I have ever been this bored.
They decided that I should sit um, behind the line, you know,
behind the perimeter where people aren't allowed to go,
like in the backstage area
because it's so important to keep people out of the backstage.
I was going to sit back there to make sure they didn't come in,
except the problem is you can't see them coming in from back there.
Like you can from the front. You can't see them coming in.
So really what you're doing is you have to throw people out once they already
come in. So basically my job went from saying, Hey,
don't drive down there to saying, Get out. Kicking people out. Okay.
I'm not super comfortable with that.
I have to sit in this chair and watch for people to come this way and then tell
them, Hey, get outta here.
But the thing that's weird about it is there are no signs. I mean,
there's no sign that says, don't drive down here.
There's no sign that says authorized personnel only or like there's literally
like, there's no signs. So I'm basically functioning as a human sign.
I am, hi, I'm volunteering for the RTR and my job is,
I'm a no trespassing sign. So yeah,
that's what I'm doing.
I'm not saying you wouldn't need somebody to make sure that people followed the
instructions, but you're not giving them any instructions.
And I think most people, there's a sign that says don't drive here.
Most people are not going to drive there.
I think that they probably could have used the human resources a little better.
You know, like the warm breathing people. Okay,
that's what you need me to do that's what I'll do.
So I sat in a chair at one point, I said, Hey, you know,
it was working a little better when I was out there and I could see what was
happening cause you know, I could help the handicap parking people too.
And they said, don't worry about them. They'll park themselves. Okay.
So yeah, I'm sitting here, I'm bored. Yeah.
Not one person. Not one person came through,
like not one person even tried to get backstage.
So there wasn't even anybody for me to wrestle to the ground and I didn't have
any phone signal so I couldn't use my phone.
I couldn't eat my lunch cause my lunch was at my rig,
which was way over at the other side of the parking lot.
It wasn't what I call a fun day.
There's going to be somebody out there who's going to grab onto that and turn
this video into some scathing indictment of volunteering at the RTR. But no,
I've had a really good time except for that. Okay. And that's,
yeah, they have a suggestion box and you know,
I mean basically I've only got one suggestion to put in there and that is that
next year maybe they invest in some signs so that they can use the human
volunteers in a little different way. That's the fact, Jack.
So I'm saying goodbye to the tee shirt for the night.
I know I said I was going to go over to the par tr and I'm still,
I still want to go over to the par tr.
There's still a couple of days left and I could do that. But you know,
I've kinda gotten attached to my little neighborhood here and to my neighbors.
This is Danny.
NO! Selfie.
He drives that big fancy,
expensive Mercedes Winnebago's sprinter thing there.
It's all built out and out of my league, that's for sure.
And then there's Diane, who - I wish I had footage of Diane,
I don't really have any footage of her or of her rig and I wish I did because
number one,
she's got a super cute little dog named Imogene that I'd love to have shown you,
but also, she's got antiques in her van.
It's not as big a van as Danny's, but it's a big, it's a high top.
And she's got, she literally has a secretary desk in there.
It's like a family heirloom.
It has the glass China cabinet on it and everything and she's got it in there
and it's working. So I'd love to have shown you that. So you know,
I'm not the only crazy person in the world who fills up their rig with antiques.
This is Tom. He's in the scamp.
And this casita belongs to Bill. Next to Bill is Diana.
Not to be confused with Diane. Diana,
she's staying in her car and the car is right there parked next to Bill.
Behind her we have Tom,
who's got this cute little trailer conversion thingy here.
The larger group of neighbors, I mean, everybody's great. Okay.
I had this crazy little project, not little, it's kind of a big project.
I made this awning because God forbid I should actually just buy an awning,
right?
The deal was I wanted it to be as close to the stripes on my bed as possible.
So I found this fabric that was, you know,
in the right range and I fused it onto this really heavy canvas cause I thought,
Oh, it's not heavy enough to be an awning. But it didn't work at all,
but everybody chipped in.
You think that people would just sit back and watch me making a fool of myself
because I made this thing way too heavy. It's not gonna work. Everybody helped.
Everybody just kind of pitched in. You know,
people were even pulling out sewing machines. You know,
I didn't know people had sewing machines in vans. They're like, what can I do?
How can I help? So there's a couple of days left and you know,
I'm comfortable here but I'm just having major FOMA fear of missing out,
no FOMO.
I'm having FOMO about what's going on at the Par tr that I should be part of.
My heroes of YouTube are over there that I could meet them,
and there's probably a lot more to shoot because there's just a lot more rigs.
There's thousands of people over there so there's more fun stuff I could shoot.
So I just keep thinking that I should be over there. But I dunno,
I'll go tomorrow.
Guess what happened when I showed up to volunteer today? They
gave me my spot back. Yeah, in the middle with the rig. With the canopy. Yeah.
They gave me that spot back because yesterday I guess the fire marshall showed
up and he said, yeah, there's no fire lane here.
Cause the handicapped parking people see they were not leaving a fire lane.
So they figured out that there needs to be some direction,
which is what I said and so it's perfect. Much better.
Had a lot more fun today. Yes. I'm still here in the volunteer camping.
No, I have not gone over to the Par TR yet,
but I was all set to go tonight and then Danny said, Hey,
let me cook dinner. He's making salmon steaks. Okay.
It's been a long time since I had a salmon steak, so
I'm going to stay here one more night. Okay. A little um, change of plans.
Diane just came by and she said that there's a carload of people that are going
over to the Par TR.
So I'm going to jump in the car and go over because there's room for me and just
seems to like line up, you know?
I can go over there tonight and scout it out and you know,
figure things out and then tomorrow I'll just pack up my stuff and be ready to
go. It'll be perfect. I was kind of looking forward to that salmon steak.
But you know this just, I don't know.
I've been wanting to go over there and now there's people going over there.
It just seems to line up, so - ready to go.
Turn your hazards on so she'll see something unusual.
So we pulled over here on the side of the road because I guess they forgot about
somebody. Somebody got left behind.
We could turn it around and we can meet her. Yeah.
She starts to leave and we turn around.
She knows where we're going. We can, we can meet her in Quartzsite,
she knows where Quartzsite is. What's this road? 95? Yeah. To Quartzsite
and we just pulled over when we're like, wait,
did we leave the baby at the rest stop?
He's, no, I.
That sunset is really pretty.
well,
by the time we got over here and I'm excited because there's this big tent,
it's really cool.
There's usually live music or karaoke every night and I don't know what
scheduled for tonight, but I'm sure it's going to be fun.
Okay, well what's scheduled for tonight was movie night.
I was hoping for something a little more active.
They showed this Robin Williams RVing movie. it was oka.
It's really cold and I don't think anybody wants to sit through another movie.
We're heading back.
well, I'm glad I got to see Skadden wash at night
and check out the party are,
I'm not going to move over there. Doesn't make any sense at this point.
While I was sitting there watching Robin Williams,
I was just kind of made me start thinking about... I
don't know. I think I need some balance.
I think I just have to figure it how it all fits, you know,
that's the issue. How does it all fit? You know,
the whole time it's been here in this campsite,
it's like I haven't even really been here because I've been so preoccupied with
what I'm missing. Like what I'm missing out on over there. You know,
with the other camp site,
and like tonight I passed up - not just salmon steak,
but I passed up like a really nice new friend who wanted to share a meal with me
to go and chase like whatever was I chasing, you know,
I don't even know what I was chasing. I'm
tired. I'm going to go to sleep.
If you're not tired and watch some more videos,
you know you haven't seen this one
and I'm going to see you on the next one.
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