good morning my youtube friends I hope you're all doing well and see off here
the silhouette of downtown Minneapolis and I am traveling on i-94 with the
Mississippi River right on the other side of the freeway here and 10:30 a.m.
it's wide open so let everybody have their morning rush and their five
o'clock rush and do all your traveling around that and it seems to work pretty
well I have mentioned that I am skipping going downtown I'm just not gonna do it
in an RV now if I had the motorcycle you bet
park the RV at Walmart I would go show you some quirky stuff downtown but I'm
still motorcycle shopping I am being a little picky the only TW 200 I want is
one with under 500 miles and it has to be a 2014 blue I am also looking at the
Honda Grom the Honda monkey and the Suzuki ban ban 200 as well
it's all four of those bikes and currently looking at but I'm in no rush
right now I'm gonna I'm gonna show you some more RV accessible places here in
Minneapolis today on our Great River Road tour
Oh see this is the Minneapolis I want to remember I want to go look at the water
I'm hearing like a really fancy ritzy neighborhood luckily it still feels like
fall here in Minneapolis that's right oh man and there is a beautiful walk down
to the water you guys here in this neighborhood to have an amazing little
trail this is called the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway with waterfront - and this
is not the Mississippi River this is Lake Harriet out here beautiful late
October day
so pretty here
of course we are close to the Minneapolis Airport
so since I'm avoiding downtown Minneapolis we are going to go find some
parking over and check out the largest mall in the world here in Minneapolis
hang on I have stumbled across something very strange I haven't touched any of
these letters yet but I did want to turn the camera on and show you what's going
on down here it says free bird on the rock and look at the bottom of the tree
there's a little lock on it what are we looking at here guys it says
from the cabin I have moved home to my castle you may write to me at mr. little
guy pijo bucks five zero three five eight Minneapolis Minnesota five five
four oh five I got a reading I'm sorry my curiosity is just I love you
this one says Rex my favorite sport is tennis and my favorite season is spring
yeah I'll bet
well this one's sealed I won't touch that one
that is pretty weird now I am gonna share a little bit of information if
you're in an RV and trying to park at the Mall of America you're gonna want to
take the Lindo Lane exit and park on the Lindo lane side by
IKEA I actually called parking security because obviously Mall of America has a
huge indoor parking structure that will not fit high clearance so I called
security and asked where do Arby's Park and he told me exactly where so you
could see the parking garage here it's massive but that'd be nice in the winter
when it's Blizzard like conditions in your cars and they're safe but yeah and
is it just me who cringes when there's low clearances that aren't marked at all
like
no no nothing written there so it's obviously a certain safe height but
still you just never know all right that was way too easy to be honest with you
I'm parked one block away from the Mall of America one of the entrances behind
me I think I said the largest mall in the world when I was driving it it's not
it's the largest mall in America so yeah park across the street from Ikea
in the Mall of America they have a patrolled area they go through and keep
everything safe also don't know what time of year you might be watching this
but here in late October the high is 41 I know it's nice and sunny but Jax is
fine in there I don't think he needs heat I think the Sun on the side of the
RV is going to keep it about 60 degrees inside wall I go inside I'm not bringing
my big camera set up I'm gonna bring my knee little GoPro set up it's a little
more discreet and I won't draw a whole lot of attention to myself so you guys
are welcome to come with me I'm doing some Christmas shopping and we're gonna
find some fun stuff in the mall to share with you so here we go first of all is
here four years ago real quick didn't get to spend a whole lot of time here
and I have to say where I'm parking that is the best way into the mall the
quickest easiest right across the street and here's the main inch well the main
entrance for our parking lot so let's go have some fun today
get my shopping list ready
I see a lot of football teams here looking for the one that matters though
where are they there they are them Seahawks go Seahawks
that's cool though where's the public restroom is this is this the restroom
this place is so big that they have their own counterterrorism unit inside
the mall yeah and you can fit seven baekje stadiums inside the mall complex
I know Scheels has a ferris wheel but the Mall of America has an entire theme
park inside the mall with the rollercoaster guys
oh my gosh I mean really a theme park inside them all it's got everything here
it's mostly three stories as well throughout the entire mall downstairs
I'm currently on the second floor and there's a third floor as well look they
have Mickey shoes Mickey vans these are cool I really like
all the natural light they let in to be a lot of snow and I'm kind of hungry
they have a wall burgers haven't been to one since I was in Vegas so I'm gonna go
in and get lunch I got my outdoor seat son it feels good checking out the menu
in here they got sports and flames in the food
arrived yeah burger fries
well I head up the bookstore got some gifts my bags getting a little heavy and
I may have to go back out to the RV you know there's even a Mall of America app
for finding the stores and just like my Disney experience you can track all the
stores and what's hilarious and get the gifts for someone else but I still got
to keep my eye out for a magnet maybe in the Minnesota not finding any magnets
but I have an idea how about a store across the way that's called the Mall of
America those are my options the really big ones kind of like those square ones
or there's the spherical ones like the Walmart one I have
oh no there's a Disney Store here just take my money just
I see I heard they remodeled the store that's actually Downtown Disney springs
so at least this one still has that colorful feel so far all right stocked
up I need to go back to the RV I want to dump off my bags and then we'll come
back in when I came back to see you buddy
to check on you make sure you're okay you're okay Wow okay
it's a kibble emergency okay I believe you
I did get some gifts for myself I love candles guys these are the Walmart ones
I've had the fresh-cut Fraser the warm apple pie in the evergreen spruce
they're Mia okay but I went to Bath & Body Works and got
marshmallow fireside which is roaring right now and mahogany apple and they
smell so good not sure why I let that one of them
going right back in is warm in there I feel like it's like 85 degrees inside
them all so I'm gonna put some shorts on I have to it's just too warm in there
and then blow the candle out and go show you some more all right we're back my
hands are empty now gonna have some fun look at Legoland pretty epic he's
thinking awesome I love it is it crazy that this mall brings just
about as much smiles as like a normal theme park yeah I mean yeah they have a
lot of kid rides here but I mean those were some pretty major coasters
especially for indoors go get some info
okay so here's how they do the little theme park in here for $35 you can have
unlimited rides in here but there's a bunch of kids rides I don't want to ride
so I just bought 12 tickets to go on two of the best coasters here I'm gonna
start with this one here so I think we'll start with this one guys a few
drops and twists oh my gosh looky-loos oh boy I think he's flying
oh my gosh so I don't know if you can get sick watching this from YouTube but
I'm gonna try to keep the camera as steady as possible and you can come
along with me
then there's the orange track toaster we're going to go on as well
right now that my head hurts I don't always do too good on rides let's go
look at this aquarium also I love the integration of these little kiosks you
just type in whatever you're looking for so I'm going to type query it already
popped up the sealife Minnesota aquarium great it says which way to go and then
it tells you how far to walk and where it's at okay here's the thing about sea
life like I mentioned I was here about four years ago and I said something
similar like what it cost extra now I'm just gonna skip it a lot of people just
skip it but because I don't know when the next time I'll be back I'm just
gonna check it out and share it with you okay look your stingrays down there okay
that's why I didn't get it last time it's an extra $25 like I said it may be
another four or five years for him back in Minneapolis let do it take you guys
with me all right here we go ticket holders
smells like an underwater cave
it's like a NASCAR race bunch of left turns
a super like the detail though mmm fishes
how you doing
like a starfish they're cool there's one there and
I think yep there's one there showing off his tentacles
all right the tour continues better these particles oh my gosh I am sorry
for the low light guys but this is a room full of jellyfish we cow that it's
creepy I love how they display them in the tubes
jellyfish first appeared 650 million years ago and they're now found in every
ocean of the world there are more than 2,000 species of jellyfish but only 75
of these can be harmful to humans
that's so creepy you guys are weird a cool cool so they've got this viewing
area you can see the little Nemo's in there there's a way to stand in there
you just crawl in here so I'm going to do that right now
we're really close to Dory Nemo that's awesome hey guys all right now we're
gonna walk through the Rainbow Reef uh-huh so there's fish on all sides and
above us
this is so pretty you been on into the shark Cove now oh my gosh really
it's nice to see the sharks getting along with other types of fish though
whoa look at this guy look at his nose Wow
maybe those teeth while he's smiling he's smiling for us guys Wow
holy cow that's impressive dude you're very photogenic that's what I'm gonna
know all right have a good day please don't need any little fish sorry
I didn't bring any fishing biscuits sorry about that next time okay okay
I will say I don't think they advertise this very well it's a lot better than it
looks just by the sea light logo it's totally worth it I'm glad I could share
a little bit of it with you guys but I am mauled out guys I'm serious so I'm
gonna say goodbye to Mall of America I had a ton of fun saw some new stuff
shared it with you guys then go check out on check in on Jax now alright I'm
back I had to take some motion sickness pills and some aspirin and I'm still not
feeling good I feel like I'm getting old man I can't even enjoy a good coaster
anymore so it is 422 p.m. in Minneapolis I just noticed the clouds everywhere
that's pretty cool I'm gonna wait here till about 6 p.m. I may even go back in
the mall and grab dinner and then gonna I'm not gonna mess with that Minneapolis
traffic and since I can't park here we do got to move it on down the road no
campgrounds that are free nearby I don't need hookups yet so just just wait a
little bit
see now we waited and the sirens are gone the traffic is cleared up the Sun
is set and I think the highway is going to be a little better to maneuver
without all the rush-hour stuff going on so still noisy while I was editing and I
actually realized that I parked right next to an airport no I mean right next
although it's insanely chilly and windy all of a sudden so all right I'm gonna
get back on the road and do some urban camping tonight with Jax and we'll be
back Jeep with you guys on Wednesday with a new video on down the Great River
Road so have a great night we'll see you on Wednesday guys
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