What in the hay have the Hanks been up to? Well, hold the
phone. We're going to get into that in just a minute. So, how
about that tsunami? Well, we just got a tsunami warning
11 o'clock at night. This is terrifying. I'll tell you what,
if I ever felt like I needed to call family and say goodbye,
that was the moment. It's one of those scenarios where you
see those warnings come through and you're just like, I don't
know. Is this serious? And when you talk to the locals, which
we did, the camp host called us and we also talked to a state
trooper. They were like, you know what? It's not really
going to affect us. It's far away. We're keeping an eye on
it. Listen for those words. When you talk to a local about
any emergent disaster. I don't know if you've ever seen the
video of the guy who's mowing the grass and there's a tornado
behind him. Uh probably somewhere in Kansas or Oklahoma
and the wife is like Frank get inside. The tornadoes right
behind you and he's like I'm keeping an eye on it. You
Florida people like to keep an eye on those hurricanes. Mmhmm.
Death and destruction happens a lot all over the country when it
comes to like nature forces. Um back where I'm from in
Pennsylvania, floods happen a lot especially in the summer
and they kill a lot of people but do we take it serious
enough when there's flood warnings? We do not. People
still go out and drive because they're like, oh I'll be fine.
I don't, you know, it's okay. There's always flood warnings
and then that's the moment that something terrible happens. I'm
an ER nurse so like I'm in action mode when it's like
here's what needs to be done but when we got that tsunami
warning and reality hit that this is affecting us and this
could be like a really serious thing. I kind of froze up. If
you refer to the footage I kind of just sat there and when
everyone had to make a decision on where to go I was like...
Terrifying stuff. I'll tell you what. I think we did the right
thing and I know some of you guys in the comments are
going to be saying that we panicked and that's okay. I'm
okay with you saying ah we're from Alaska. We get that all
the time. Well you know what? I want you to go to Tornado alley
and see how much you panic when there's a tornado warning that
just boom, out of nowhere. And a lot of you guys reach out and
say I want to full time but I'm nervous about going somewhere
where there's bad weather, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods,
tsunamis. I hear ya. It's kind of part of the adventure. With
that being said, always go with your gut instinct guys. I am
not a weather professional. I'm barely an RV professional but
you still choose to watch. I also want to say thank you to
our camp host Leanne. You called us. I answered the
phone. I was probably like... hello.
but you gave us good reassurance
and you like made me feel really good and safe and I
appreciate that. Gosh, I have so much to tell you guys but
once again, we are running behind when it comes to checkout,
okay? So, we we gotta go but I will update you when we're on
the road. Hey, Carl. Are we ready to go or what? Ready,
Freddie? I ain't complaining today because you know what?
It's not too bad of a drive day and we get to stop and take a
hike halfway through. Take a hike halfway through the drive.
Hanks, what are you up to? Well, we'll let you in on that
secret here in just a minute.
It's going to be a good one.
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On our way to Seward. On the way to Seward today, we are
going to stop and do a hike. We've never done that before.
We're hoping that there's going to be enough parking for
both RVs at the Trailhead. I don't know. You guys are
basically along for the journey to see how this works. We don't
usually do this like if we go on hikes, we take the RV to a camp
ground, we get set up, make sure Dexter's got plenty of
blankets and, we fluff his pillows and he's all good to go
and then we go on our hike. Speaking of Dexter, he is being
such a good little boy. I mean, he does put up a tiny bit of a
fight when we have to put him in his cage but then, he gets
in there and then he just rocks himself to sleep. Well, the
truck rocks him to sleep. Thanks, Dee. A lot of people
said that we should just let Dexter run free in the truck
and not be in a cage and I'm like, do you even own a cat?
Do you understand what claws do to leather seats? Dexter really
enjoys his cage. We won't call it a cage. We'll call it a carrier or
a crate. He really likes it because he wants that safe
space and for those that said we should like put him up so he
could look out the windows. We've done that before.
He don't like it. He doesn't want to see what's out there.
He's not a dog. So, I just want you guys to know we do see your
comments when you're concerned about Dexter. I'm telling you,
the guy's doing great. The goal today is to see a bear. We have
not seen a bear yet in the flesh. Now, we don't want to
sneak up on a bear. That is a no no. That is not being very
good bear aware etiquette, whatever they call it. We just
want to see one from a distance and then be able to like zoom
in and get some cool footage. We just want to see it. We're
not trying to go and hug it. Can I touch on that for a
second? I want to see a bear snatching a salmon out of the
river, put it in his mouth, and run away like this is something
I've always want to see in real life. Let's make it happen.
Well, we maybe be in luck because supposedly right now, the
salmon are hot. The salmon are popping and hopping and
flopping. We need to talk about Starlink in Alaska and we'll
talk more about this later on but I just want to give you a
little update on Starlink. It is not as resourceful as I
thought it was going to be. Now, Starlink works but for
some reason, it'll be like every two to 3 minutes, the
signal will just cut out and there's no obstructions
whatsoever. It's got a clear view of the sky and I think it
just has to do with not that many satellites being around.
There are satellite stations or whatever they're called in
Alaska like Fairbanks and whatnot. Oh my gosh, we're
going to. Sorry, I'm trying to talk to you guys but you know
how the drivers are up here. So, with all the RVers being
here and Starlink becoming popular, it's just not very
good and it's 2023 right now. Maybe next year, the year after
will be better. Something to think about. See, the weird
thing about Alaska is they actually have these turning out
lanes where slower vehicles can pull over and that's not the weird
part. The weird part is it's actually illegal to have more
than five cars backed up behind you and that's why these
turnouts are so frequent. So, just keep that in mind in
Alaska. I don't know how strict the cops are when it comes to
this but according to Alaska, it's illegal. Utilize those
turns. Here we go.
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Made it to fill up diesel here real quick stopped 384 a gallon.
Not too bad, I'm not complaining. Ney went through all the CDs
that she grew up with going through high school and it's
like reaching into a jelly bean container you don't know what
you're going to get with these burned CDs. Welcome to a throwback
basically, if you don't know what a CD is, I'm just kidding,
are are we in that generation now where people don't know
what CDs are? We were joking because I don't know if new
vehicles even have CD players anymore. Huh. We're going to save
a lot on payload gettin rid of these. Do workouts with these
bad boys. Alright, enough diddly daddling, Carl. Let's fill up.
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You see that diesel price?
Yeah, not bad at all. Look at these old CDs that Ney
grew up with in high school. You jammin out? Yeah, look at that.
Classics, what do you got? Uh we got Phantom of the Opera
Nightmare Before Christmas. What? It is like you don't know
what you're going to get. Wizard of Oz. Who is this
human? I don't know. Hairspray? Hairspray. Wicked. Now five.
Yes. I swear by now they gotta be on like now four hundred and
thirty-seven. I I don't know. What is this one? Oh that is
Hanson. Hanson? Oh, I remember Hanson.
Now, 18. Renee's been at this a while.
Alright, now we're going to save a lot more
gas mileage without all those CDs in the truck.
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Five miles away, it's almost bear time. Oh my gosh. Biggest
struggle is going to be finding parking for two big rigs. Just
looking to park for the day and head where are we going? Do
like a hike? Hike. Hike. Okay. Um if you guys want, you guys
could, i,s are they with you behind you? Okay, if you guys
want to, it'd be cheaper just to park in here and less of a
hassle because you have to unhitch if you want to park
closer. Okay. If you want to just park here, it's $5 per
vehicle. Okay. Um and it's a mile though from here to the
trail head. Okay. That's probably our best bet because
we don't want to, because the the trailhead parking lot is
too small for us? Yeah yeah yeah they are. Okay. Five
buckaroos. Thank you ma'am. How much did he say within fourteen
or just the five? Just five. Um he recommends that we because
of our rig size we park here and then it's like little less
than a mile to walk to the trailhead. Howdy. What up?
Nothing. Okay so here's the thing. It's like almost three
miles each way once we're at the trailhead. It's almost a
mile to the trailhead. Yeah. I would rather drive up and not
drive an extra we'll walk an extra two miles. That sounds
good. But I just think I think the 40 minutes to save. I know
that sounds silly but I think it's worth it because we have to
drive another hour, don't we? Yeah. So, I think we should.
Plus, it's already two thirty. I think we should unhook.
Alright, Stinky, you ready?
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You get to come in and hang out. How does that sound?
Alright, much smaller parking lot but doable. Sorry for
making y'all unhook. The things we do for you guys. The things
we do for love. 2. 3 miles. Let's do it.
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That is incredible. We just saw bears finally. To be able to see
the fish jumping out of the river. These guys are trying so
hard and they're failing a lot too. I gotta give them credit.
They are giving their all. I'm like, go buddy. Hang in there.
I feel like I need I need a like a cheerleader like that
for me when I'm driving the RV. Somebody like, yeah, Carl.
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Finally made it back 5 miles later. I'm really glad that
Keith and Raini came up with the idea of unhooking the rig
before we started the hike or else we woulda had to tack on
additional 2 miles, one each way. So, they're getting hooked
back up. The hike was well worth it. Plenty of parking
here if you want to go check it out, the Russian River and go
see it for yourself. The Hanks approve this. Hanks approved.
Go do it. We got an hour left. Let's get back out on the road.
Stop your yammering Carl. Let's get it done. My Ney Ney energy has
just like it's depleted because today has been such a fun and
exciting day. We got to see bears in the wild and we didn't
have to pay like a thousand dollars to do a tour to see
bears. Like there they were in the flesh. But you know because
we did this hike in the middle of a travel day. We still have
to drive another hour to get to the campground. We're going to
Stony Creek RV Resort. And I believe we'll have full hookups.
If you're salty and you know it, clap your paws.
That is not how it goes. That is... We're going to have to work on that.
We are pulling into Stony Creek RV Resort. Is it a resort or is
it an RV park? I don't really know. We don't know because
every RV park labels it as a resort to attract more RVers.
Yeah and I'm not calling out any specific place but there's
a lot of ones we've been to that will say resort and I'm
like, where's the swimming pool? Where's your resort
application? I'm going to pull, I wanna pull the file on that. Yeah.
Does anyone know that out there like do you have to have a special
permit or a license to be called a, a resort? Um he's
crying because it's almost seven o'clock. That's his
dinner time. Yeah, that's the thing I'm learning too is all
these RV campgrounds. We'll just call them a campground. Uh
they're like on private property like you the owners
like live right next door which I love because that means it's
like family owned. It's cute. When you come to Alaska and you
pull into these RV parks and you're thinking this is
someone's house, you're right but just keep going. I do
appreciate the office this way signs because that's another
thing. If you guys are thinking of opening your own campground,
please don't hide the office. Coming in, we're drifting.
Where's everyone just? Is that is everyone's. Looks like there
is. Also, the trailer wiring again. I gotta put some more
dialectric grease on it. Is that the answer? Yeah. Of
course it's the answer. It's the answer to everything.
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