welcome everyone to vlogmas in july that's right a video every day for 31 days presented
by nomad internet as a christmas fanatic this is a great way for me to be cheerful
and thankful all month long opie you better be a good boy this july santa paws is watching
tara no more sneaking into catnip sack santa paws will bring you coal
thanks for joining me this month guys and have a jolly old month of july yep welcome back to
vlogmas in july guys a video every single day of this month continues here on the channel
i've got a crazy busy day lots and lots going on but first of all a couple updates here
the famous don suture star wars shop here in iconic aberdeen washington i mean famous is gone
be honest with you guys this one here just breaks my heart so many memories here not
much left of it you can't even read suture and son star wars shop on top but uh inside
everything's gone his entire collection is gone moved out empty like i said it's hard for me
because i knew dawn personally uh him and i had some fun times we are here at the famous suture
and sons star wars shop in aberdeen washington there must be a car it must be a car show man
he fought the good fight uh and he was a hilarious man i love it man thanks for letting us look
around you know i went to vietnam thank you a few years ago thank you fight for this [ __ ]
and now the insanity's taking over we're with you man we're with you i appreciate it like i said
he got me into collecting so um i think he just got exhausted by it and just
quit and just moved out retired and said screw this it's not worth it hopefully he has far
removed himself from the state of washington dawn if you're out there i'll miss you buddy although
we do have a lot to cover today a lot going on some of this stuff just really saddens me but
but on the upside actually that brings us right to our video sponsor thank you upside
for sponsoring this video let's get back in the rv well first of all let's talk about upside real
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in other news as hinted at in the title goodbye to black betty yeah so i decided that tater tot
my little smart car here is the best moto transportation and keeps me happiest on the
road through all weather conditions that can be expected on the road my motorcycle is has turned
more into a toy than a tool lately and so that is why the time has come here on the back of frida
is my motorcycle trailer with black betty inside let's go take a look at her right now actually
yeah yeah you sexy beast and you know it too you know it looks chin scratches
yeah chin scratches for black betty what's going on black betty well this was the
million dollar question everybody wondering why i flew from washington state to illinois
to get my smart car and then drive my smart car all the way across the country to bring it back
eric what are you going to do with your motorcycle and your trailer well that answer comes right now
you see i started getting some price quotes for the cost to transport this back to my shop in
illinois where it would be safely stored inside and i wouldn't have to worry about any issues
with my alarms there and everything i got a couple quotes the highest quote that i got
was 5 600 to do that which is half the price of the motorcycle itself no that's not gonna work
um i just got a price that i could not resist because there's going to be a trip being made
from washington state right through illinois and i'm going to get black betty in on that
a little bit of luck involved in that i will just admit to you um the person doing this
works for an rv transport company and follows me on youtube and has offered to uh include black
betty and the trailer as part of that in order to do that i need to bring black betty from aberdeen
washington back over to i-5 area so they can take i-90 across to get black black betty safely across
the country for me so that when i get back in november i'll be able to have her there so i've
got her all strapped down and everything getting ready to leave in the morning there is one thing
i want to do because i will not be starting black betty up for about five or six months
i want to put some stabilizer for the fuel inside the tank so this treats 20 gallons so about
one quarter of this is going to go into the five gallon tank in here actually the good thing i just
realized this the tank is half full so 1 8 of this is going to go in the tank and then we need to
start her up so we need one full ounce this goes to half so we'll go ahead and do half there's half
put that half in there like that and turn it around and squeeze another half just like that
and then get that in there like that and then we're good put the cat back on then i'm going
to shake the tank around a little bit we got to fire her up it says run engine for five minutes
after adding the product to treat the entire fuel system that way it gets into everything
that's my kneecap oh god
it was recording i drooled
i hit my kneecap so hard i was drooling all right she's ready for it here we go
let her run in there for uh five minutes oh wow good night
all right girl you got a road trip coming okay um i've also got my suitcase full of
mickey harley and camel stuff uh just a bonus that cleared out a bunch of space on the overhead part
of the rv there um so the person transporting this is fully licensed and insured up to like a million
dollars it's going to take four days so the exact amount of time it took me to get tater tot from
there to here and i'm going to give them the keys and the registration entitled everything and uh
here we go um i'm gonna be cutting back in here in the morning with uh the the
trip because i still gotta go a little bit farther east to get everything set up but um
she'll be in good hands and she'll be safe there i'll be able to look at a camera
and see everything going on live and then we will embrace uh well tater tot life yeah all
right guys well i'm here just outside of rainier washington and uh black betty and my trailer which
why did i name my my motorcycle but not the trailer shouldn't the trailer have a name too
sorry maybe we should name the trailer ideas put them in the comments below but anyway uh
today is the day i've been hanging out with some new friends out here and the transport company
that is going to be taking black betty and the unnamed trailer safely back to my shop in east
alton illinois so i have i have unhooked and black betty is all hooked up and uh i feel good i feel
good because this is gonna mean that when i get to my shop in illinois in november my bike will
be there i didn't do anything crazy like sell my bike like so many people thought i was gonna do
and i get to enjoy the rest of the summer and the fall with my car which works for me so
uh anyway kind of kind of bittersweet but we'll go talk inside got dark and i forgot to give
you guys an update i've been hanging out with my friends here and right here and having a good time
um i feel bad cause i told you i was gonna give you an update and everything we've just
been hanging out and uh catching up and uh anyways that's the plan so hopefully in my
next few videos i'll be able to give you an update at some point let you know how
how black betty's journey back to my shop in illinois is going and uh guys
have you seen the weather forecast for olympia washington i'm gonna see you on the river soon
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