and a pleasant good morning to you all believe it or not this is BLM land the
camping on here yeah actually found this little lake
here on free campsites net it's about nine miles from downtown Yuma but sure
beats a parking lot right all the Ducks and birds and heron and now they make
the weirdest sounds out here it's just so nice slept really well last night
still camping and hanging out with Angela she's got a little kitty cat
dressy sixteen year old black cat does pretty good on the leash there remember
we Angela and I met in Texas on my way west hung out and met back up at RTR and
we've been hanging out and camping together since so I just love the South
down here the the heat is starting to make me feel a little bit sensitive to
the cold I mean it was 50 degrees overnight and I had to turn the heater
on didn't have to but wanted to so this is this is strange being so warm we're
gonna hit 73 degrees today and I'm gonna go take the bike out really a pretty
good example for why this TW 200 dual-sports gonna come in handy I mean
we are we're camping on sand guys you might not be able to tell this is not
dirt this is word we're camping on like sandy dirt here so the Arby's and two
wheel drive vehicles do okay I also added a decal to the front there but
there's got to be some good exploring around here so I'll keep the panel's
tilted Jack's won't be too warm keep a window cracked and take the bike out and
look around you might see what we can
find
so this is pretty much my maiden voyage in the t-dub and I'm not off to a
terrific start learn some lessons I swear by these magnetic holsters ghost
things that are sold at Walmart they've worked everywhere in my life in all
different applications but was riding my bike back there and it vibrated off and
hit the ground and shattered my iPhone I'm really sad about that but it still
works fine but it's shattered and the front-facing camera is completely Noor
'old I'm gonna have to find a different way to mount it and I freaked out when
it happened because I'd wanted to go back and grab it on the dirt and I hit
the front brake too hard and then when I came to a stop ix
I laid the bike down already and actually broke off the nub here for the
clutch I mean I can still see on my pinkies right there
it still works but missing the nub that's frustrating that's okay I'll
replace that later and I'll try to find maybe when I'm in next big town I'll try
to find a iPhone repair place or I don't know maybe I can live with that until I
upgrade later but guys I have found the official bridge to nowhere that's what
Google Maps says this is it's a big huge gnarly old one lane bridge over the Gila
River here does say no trespassing and they have it all fenced off did a little
bit of research online and this bridge was actually replaced by a newer one on
a different span of the Gila River which in like the 60s I guess it actually
flooded and took out the new bridge so the whole idea for not maintaining this
one and fixing it was to build the new span which ironically the new one went
down and this one survived that flood you can kind of read it up in the
concrete right there it says Mick Paul bridge I guess that's the name that it
had but yeah Google Maps is calling it the bridge to nowhere
it actually does lead somewhere it's just closed off so that's cool it's
obviously my hope that the bike will get me around to even more neat out there
spots and the scooter could do so we shall see
see guys I've already taken this route 95 and now I get to see all this
different stuff from the perspective of a motorcycle like possibly the world's
smallest roadside chapel church the sign out in the highway says pause rest
worship yeah appears to be open to the public it's an open door huh that is too
strange it's like a tiny house Church it's a guestbook yeah well guestbook
here I'll go and sign it I like it it's like a like a Vegas sized wedding chapel
and even though it may sound quirky and uh I'll probably never get married but
if I did it would be in something quirky it would have to be right
yeah guys I'm here at the Yuma Proving Ground here I know there's a bunch of my
friend youtubers who have already filmed this that's not going to deter me from
checking things out I mean I still want to see it with my own eyes and you know
if I share something with you guys there should be something in there looks like
I'd like to see that in person right I'm not gonna go in but I will just say oh
she went in and I forgot her friend who went in there was really knowledgeable
about what's going on in there I just wanted to stop off and see the roadside
cannons here they've got one on each side of the road kind of like your
entrance can't miss them right right off 95 here
so yeah the US Army Yuma Proving Ground and both these cannons RM 65 280
millimeter atomic cannons nucular cannons but they were actually never
used in any war they never fired any nuclear missiles in in any US war so
there's probably a lot of these relics around the country here's the sign with
the information that I got the gun length is 40 1.8 feet okay I know it
doesn't go pew pretty cool though had to I had to get
on the bike and test out and find my weaknesses I got a better find a better
way for a camera the one I'm showing you today is on the top of the helmet the
one I did when I introduced the bike two days ago was my chest mount right here
which was too low so somewhere in the middle maybe I need a chin mounted
helmet strap once I get my blue helmet or something and I started looking at
the clutch lever it's just the same as the brake these are really easy just
replace one bolt swap it in so next time I get to a Motorsports
place I'll just I'll be able to fix that nope no biggie
but I got to find something that will allow me to attach a phone up here
permanently you know we'll see I learned a lot today
I'm gonna head back to camp and see Jax though
got back here and got a little bit of an unfriendly welcome as like last thing I
expected to go on the other side of my RV like the little three foot between my
RV and the water and have two people fishing using my RV for shade like I
asked him about it and they're like well we've been coming here for over 25 years
and we always fished this exact spot even though like there's a bunch of room
all around the lake um I finally talked to one of them from moving right behind
my RV because he went to cast out and hit the side of my RV at the top of his
fishing bowl so to give you an idea this is the tiny little section 3 foot
between the water and here and I'm trying to do an oil change ducking
underneath them I don't mind sharing but this is BLM land and I don't care if you
come here I I do care I don't know just I asked him if he could please stop
hitting my RV with a fishing pole and that was apparently them he finally got
it that maybe you should bring his own shade I don't know
lots of room over there though so yeah can I do my own and generator then I'm
gonna do the Chevy oil here and then I'm gonna do the Yamaha bike engine oil as
well do all three of those so then we'll be good to go for another three months
at least now I'm doing my Yamaha for the first time and I'm pretty sure
that this is the first oil change this thing has had and it's 800 miles life so
a strainer here is still good on that I did get the new gaskets all the new
rubber to go in this one and on the other side all new rubber just in case
on the other side over here got to take this guy off here I did get a new oil
filter just in case I'm gonna do it anyway and there's a couple there's a
gasket in here that I got as well and so we'll look at that later half of the
oils done drain there we go all good to go just got to dispose of everything
clean everything up take it with me I obviously didn't show you to do
everything but if you do have a TW I will post a link in the video
description where I got my information from tee dubs
kid there on YouTube where he is really good got a lot of in for informational
videos about maintaining your TW so that's where I got my information check
that video out if you want well well I'm sorry buddy
I was working outside I was yeah I'm all done now I'm all yours okay
how's those ears are they doing pretty good ready for some more meta so they
look so clean it's like don't touch my ears don't touch my ears dad okay I have
a foot well you weren't using it can I just have one I just want one now this
one he bites he bites he bites okay then I was hoping to maybe get a good sunset
but the Sun is setting on the opposite side from where I'm parked here at this
little pond I highly recommend this spot it was really quiet last night I'm gonna
be spending it tonight here as well and then heading out in the morning to prove
to you that I am making this up as I go I just tonight decided what I'm doing
tomorrow land up I invited Angela along she's gonna do her own thing and kind of
leapfrog with me here as we head west yeah
gonna head west but this is a really pretty spot BLM besides the dogs barking
and stuff no it's it's really nice really peaceful really nice sunsets and
sunrises and obviously stars at night so anyway guys have a good night and
Jackson I'll see you on the road here in a couple days