hey everybody good morning eric here from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are
doing well coming to you from seattle it doesn't look like seattle lots of
nice cedar trees behind me but uh as i mentioned i went ahead and got a place to park frida my rv
so that we can take the car out to seattle and tater tots up for the adventure
yeah so we're approaching seattle from the east traveling uh west on i-90 right here and
look luckily it's wide open here it's good good cruising speed sunshine and blue skies
it's definitely been a long time since i've been back in seattle and the last time i did it
i was stuck in my class c rb moving around not the case today i'm happy to be moving around in
seattle speaking of seattle how about the mariners i think the drought might finally be over guys
over two decades since they've made the playoffs they are currently right now uh in one of the wild
card spaces there it looks like this may be the year for the seattle mariners baseball team i've
been watching all the mariners games uh live from my rv even the home games here in seattle
yeah i've not been getting blacked out because i have a vpn actually once we get stopped at our
next destination up here i'll uh tell you how like i get through that little loophole i want
to get to the water what's that sign say newport yacht club all right well let's join a let's join
a yacht club then oh oh i want to see the marina over here before we go check out the water down
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now let's go outside and take a look at this looks like a really old uh tiki structure here i
mean i'm guessing it's really really old let's see here yeah and it's actually weathered pretty well
gotta love it sitting right next to these uh tall evergreen trees here
yeah tennis courts go walk over the water here never actually been to a yacht club
there's that country song redneck yacht club but yacht clubs are a real thing now the idea
behind it has always fascinated me since before i even got my first rv 11 years ago
you know living on a boat i don't like this idea where you live on it at the marina but being able
to go out like gone with the winds they traded in rv life for a sailboat they're on their way to get
a brand new custom one built actually as curious as i am about that lifestyle uh i know me uh i'm
a i'm a rubber [ __ ] nomad uh i like having the wheels on the concrete or the dirt roads whatever
but i only had one cup of coffee today and i feel like i might want to get a snack too so uh let's
head a little farther into seattle hey tunnel seattle is just on the other side of this tunnel
there we go well there's that seattle skyline over there all right got parked a lot of construction
there's a big old hole in the road there i am so glad i don't live in a big city like this
and deal with this every day all right this is the place guys a lot of people told me to go to
top pot donuts and coffee go try it out well that was a little underwhelming there's no place to sit
inside and they only have two tables outside and they're both taken uh i did get a copy
and a donut so we'll go eat in the car i guess there's probably better locations of top pot
this is just a just the first one i saw i got a piping hot delicious beverage down there as
adam the woo would say and uh a strawberry frosted sprinkled donut one piece of chocolate on there
i don't know why the presentation's not amazing but here's the real test
open the window throw it on the ground it's good oh nice edgar martinez drive here is
t-mobile park where i guess i have to say it the seattle mariners have lost more games
than any other pro baseball team next door you got lumen field over there where the seattle
seahawks have also lost more games in that building than any other pro football team
of course they play all their home games there i think i found a pretty
legit place to uh park tater tot here next to uh three other smart cars here little auto shop here
integrity automotive these are their loaner cars so if you're getting your car worked on
it's called a uh smart loaner and all the plates this one says loner six there's loaner one there's
loaner four it's pretty cool plus it's great advertising for their company while these cars are
out on the street they've all got their logo on it pretty good idea i love it it's a root beer stand
see the giant root beer barrel that says xxx i believe that's supposed to be xxx for like liquor
hard liquor not the other stuff you find online a really cool themed uh root beer stand here
with outdoor seating actually very colorful and uh very comfortable here under the shade look at that
root beer yeah they got some coin operated stuff an elephant um ride muffin the horse okay
then it looks like uh donald duck here wow check out the inside of this place guys
this is crazy i love the diner with the seats here it has that really old school feel like coke clock
there this is the kitchen they got ice cream and i love all the plates license plates up there
man it's a neon mobile gas sign back there an authentic barber
shop pole there that's an old-school one almost looks like a pee-wee's bike here
man pretty cool joint here i may come back and have lunch here on my way back to camp but
first of all gotta go over here because there's a bus there's a bus that's catching my eye over
there it's an oldie ah it's a kenworth seattle to vancouver british columbia
1958 tour of the stars
what a little opening here at the side door i can't get in but you guys can get in
well what's it like in there you guys got to see i'm going to see it when i'm editing
i'm going to look this up real quick oh my gosh guys this is it this was buddy holly's last tour
bus the story says that the bus broke down which caused holly to rent a plane to make it to his
next gig the plane crashed and burned causing the death of buddy holly as you know by now
but this was physically his last tour bus that didn't make it and that's why he got on a plane
and that's the end kind of sad i got a little bit of goose bumps right now just seeing this
i'd love to see somebody fix it up and kind of fix the paint brighten it up a little bit he should
have never gotten on that plane you should have stayed here in washington state and and fixed the
bus right oh man so i was going to park my car off to the shoulder but they won't let you park there
so you just got rows and rows of semi-trucks down the turn lane they're all waiting to get
into the seattle port actually so we got downtown seattle there if the trucks can park here i can
park here i want to go check on something here so this is uh east marginal way i feel
bad for these truckers because they get paid by the mile not by the hour and they're just
sitting here uh waiting to get loaded on the other side of the fence you can see the cranes that'll
that will lift uh all of these trailers off the semi trucks and put them on the boat
but what we are coming to look at is this thing right here this concrete thing with a plaque
yeah okay so site of the world's first service station okay let me let me do some fact checking
here real quick hang on well hey this might be legit guys here's something that you will never
see on any other channel but hey maybe possibly some history here here in the spring of 1906
an odd but ingenious contraption was erected by the late john mclean of standard oil company
of california for the unprecedented function of dispensing gasoline and oil directly to a motorist
so you might be asking yourself what makes this spot right here and i may have a picture i'll
post something up if i can find anything online later but what makes this spot the home of the
first service station and is that true well so just a quick google search here this is 1907.
apparently the dispute is that in 1905 uh the first gas station was opened in st louis missouri
and then somebody else in pittsburgh is saying that their 1913 station was really the first one
that all this was what that was a was a gasoline pump and then a hose for water for your radiator
and that was it so that doesn't really make it a service station we don't have any pictures of
what was stood here so i feel like it's kind of hard to dispute it but there is a plaque
i mean there's a plaque so it has to be true right i don't know what do you guys think is
was this the side of the very first gas oil service station in seattle washington i don't know
i feel like i would believe it more if there were a picture of what the service station looked like
because if it's just two hoses one for gas and one for i mean i don't know i may have
to give it to st louis or pittsburgh but hey we don't have to wait in this slime because
we're not going now overseas i'll just dart over here and go right around all these semi-trucks
speaking of service stations i know for a fact this one was an operation i'm gonna give it uh
second place for world's second largest cowboy hat and uh a pair of cowboy boots actually uh this gas
station opened in 1954 but frontier village as it was supposed to be called a service station uh it
never really developed and so uh they turned it into a a park now let's go up here and check out
the boots up close pretty good detail for 1954 and there's a little door on the side
that's pretty cool i'm glad they left uh part of the service station there's a bunch of people
hanging out underneath the shade of this huge cowboy hat over here but yeah frontier village
you know in the 50s i guess service stations were starting to get really good competition so maybe
that's why it didn't quite work all right and at this stop here at a seattle public transportation
uh bus stop we have well i think i think seattle is just coming in second place with everything
i haven't seen anything that's the world's largest yet but i'll give them world's second largest
shovel although it's beautiful it only stands 44 feet tall and i took you guys to the tallest
shovel in the country and i think creedmoor texas but this one's prettier i guess because unlike
the one in texas that really looks like a shovel you would use this one is very very artsy fartsy
it's three-dimensional with leaves and flowers and it's just it's very beautiful
it's a nice piece of art but it's not the tallest it's not that's okay coming in at a
strong second there nicely done seattle and i'm having such a great day in a big city this is
so unusual but it's so nice having the car uh i'm hungry i want to go find a 4pm early dinner
late lunch spot and i don't have to think too hard about it i know exactly where i'm going back
to that root beer stand this is so cool let's go eat there all right let's sit outside or go inside
yeah i like the atmosphere in here it says grab a menu grab a seat grab a burger and grab a float
all of the above yeah it's such a cool place i think you gotta come inside for the atmosphere
little mini jukeboxes up here and uh yeah little nomadic fanatic seat right here i gotta
get their famous 1930 original recipe root beer obviously and then they have the xxx burger but
i just don't know i think i'm going to go i think i'm going to try the 58 impala
which is the double bacon cheeseburger all right got my order placed and i love it you
can just look over to your side there's an old uh hood ornament i don't know what car this is from
old bottles there's so much to look at old records 45s there i got the large root beer float and um
holy cow
oh my gosh that's good
this is ridiculous
all right huge root beer float you're going to move over
taters how big this bun is guys bacon cheeseburger
hang on let me try to pick it up
it's as big as my face as big as my face
i'm really glad i didn't get the big burger i'm going to be taking this half my size face to go
and that root beer float still working on that too good stuff i'm really glad i came back and
stopped here and go back to the rv and check on the kitties i missed you tara but i didn't want to
stress you out and bring you to seattle in the car so you got to stay here and sleep how'd you sleep
did pretty good all right i missed you should we put the harness on should we grab the tent
you want to smell everything and go sniff some cedar trees yeah i think we need to bring opie
out and say hi yeah and we get opie there's my king boy what do you think colby think big guy
yeah you're my guy man yeah i'll say hi to everybody tell him you slept all day yeah
now we're gonna play well dad needs to edit some video we gotta get this uploaded tomorrow okay
all right all right thanks for joining me everybody i'm gonna be busy so uh
i'll uh go ahead and see in a few days from opie and tara and i we'll see in a little bit bye guys
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