good morning everyone Eric here from nomadic fanatic and a beautiful sunny day in Oklahoma
we are on historic Route 66 right now you can probably see I-44 parallel to us off to
the right a lot more people on that one than this one and right here it's well it's basically
five Lanes although underneath this road somewhere is original hand-laid brick road nine or ten
feet wide probably in the Middle Lane over there it's crazy sadly today is actually my
last day on route 66. we're going to be changing things up in my next video so let's have one
more awesome day in Oklahoma City today as we get into town thanks for joining me guys
let's get this day underway [Music]
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and now welcome everyone to Chickasha Oklahoma I need to be in the other lane Chickasha it's
got a nice ring to it like a shimichanga Chickasha
we need to turn left at the light looking to see if I can see it yet been wanting to
come here for a very long time I know a lot of my viewers watch my channel and they probably
get ideas or they they see a video or a picture on Instagram or something they say man I can't
wait to go see that when I'm in that area well I've been saying that for a couple years
now ever since this was brought into the town and I actually don't know if it's here year
round it might be a seasonal thing we might not see anything but I'm really really hoping
that it's here year round
oh my gosh it's right in front of us guys at the end of this road can you see this can
you see what I'm seeing here folks unbelievable the best Christmas movie in the history of
Christmas movies A Christmas Story and why not have a huge freaking leg lamp yes let
me find a place to park so here's the deal guys I just talked to a gardener here that's
working on the property here a couple years ago I saw the posts it was a giant inflatable
leg lamp and it was temporary however because of the popularity of that here in Chickasha
they now have an actual permanent giant leg lamp here in the park and they are adding
to the park they're going to behind me over here they're going to be opening up a gift
store here that opens in June in June you will be able to walk into this old train depot
building converted gift shop to buy souvenirs and magnets and postcards and things of that
nature they are also going to be building the property all the way back to the other
residents over there so this is not only a work in progress but because of its success
and tourism coming into Chickasha Oklahoma they are adding to it which is always a good
thing I look I'll bet you when they built this they used up all the it's a major award
please tell me that the leg actually lights up at night well actually I can see some lights
that shine down on it I just don't know if the leg itself lights up wow it is US fragile
a beautiful sight I apologize the sun is not out here in this part of Oklahoma yet so it's
a little washed out on camera here but all right but we still need to know yes exactly
why a leg lamp in Chickasha Oklahoma if you guys want to scan that on your phone so that
you can read the entire article so Nolan James the creator of this uh passed away in 2020
which was when the inflatable version of this leg lamp premiered here and it won several
Awards major Awards and got a bunch of international attention uh and so that's what inspired this
place to actually make the permanent version here however if the Grady County Museum was
open here in town we could stop in there and see the original prototype leg lamp that he
built for the 1983 movie it is here it is locked up the one in Cincinnati Ohio was just
a replica there uh at the home the actual leg lamp the surviving one is here we just
cannot see it today because the museum is closed still pretty awesome though I'm so
glad I made it here all right I'm parked in Oklahoma City and you know how I feel about
big cities and traffic and stuff I'm just glad the RV is now parked I've got the air
conditioner running off of solar right now let's see how much we're drawing well even
with the 1280 Watts on the roof we are still drawing negative 330 Watts which means this
will not last all day on solar alone it is slowly draining my batteries even with full
sun yeah 93.9 percent and that will continue to trickle down today but it's a relatively
free way to cool the RV and keep the kitties comfortable while I'm out and then later on
tonight if I continue to run it all day I'm gonna have to fire up the generator to start
back up ideally what would be great I'll show you outside as you can see I picked another
Cracker Barrel here in Oklahoma City and uh there's where tater tots at but remember what
I showed at Robert's place if I had a power station out here and my power cord was plugged
into the power station and then I had solar panels which were also charging the power
station giving me more power combined with the roof stuff then I could run my air conditioner
non-stop all day and my battery is inside the RV would stay at 100 but I I can't do
that in a public place like this because somebody will steal all my stuff that I leave outside
so we got to do it this way for now I want to go look at some fun stuff in Oklahoma City
riding around in my lifted smart car I've got it in automatic manual so it is it is
Shifting normally like stock normal manual shifting not reaching over and shifting it
to certain RPMs I'm okay with it it does shift at a higher RPM but I'm you know it still
gets me there it still works you know so what are we going to do in Oklahoma City if we're
not doing Route 66 stops well it's gonna be okay we're gonna freestyle it like I normally
do uh the front wheel wells of tater tot are still rubbing somewhere on really hard bumps
like it's compressing so much that some part of the tire is hitting some part of the car
on both the left and the right side so still got some trimming and investigating uh to
do on the car maybe we'll take care of that and get to Arizona but maybe a world's largest
roll of toothpaste and toothbrush with bristles this is a Small World Pediatric Dentistry
and uh I love it nicely done nice toothbrush and those bristles almost looks like they
could be like LEDs or fiber optics or something at night well I don't know but I like it what
are you trying to say though do I need to go see my my dentist I don't even have a like
a normal dentist it's hard on the road I need to I need to get some some more of that insurance
and dental stuff that's good for Nationwide PPO or maybe that's something I can take care
of this summer when I'm back in Arizona do something in Show Low Maybe got some health
concerns nothing nothing crazy but I've got a few health worries of my own that I should
probably take care of you know would love to get my weight under control Eric we need
to work on my diet number one diet I am feeling it guys yeah interesting we're at the India
Shrine Center but I could have sworn it just crossed over into ancient Egypt that got not
one but four swings statues here at this place they got this one they got this one oh there's
a plaque what does it say erected 1999. oh so it might not actually be ancient it could
be a little newer actually it kind of sounds like fiberglass and then they've got two more
at the other entrance down there but yeah very cool replicas then yeah there's the fiberglass
you can see it breaking through on the top there okey dokey don't know don't say anything
Eric because you're really bad at geography Egypt and India are they close think they
are I don't I don't get it I don't get it I feel like Okay Google hey Siri hey Siri
how far from India to Egypt
2954 miles by car so probably not anything to do with ancient Egypt good to know sorry
about that hey Oklahoma City University here beautiful University property um might be
something special about the water here or something because you wouldn't think it but
at least I wouldn't but this University popped out not one not two but three Miss America
Champions here and here's a little statue of all three of them their names this is Susan
Powell Miss America 1981 behind her you got Jane J Rowe 1967 Miss America and up front
here Chantel Smith 1996 Miss America and the date range is decades apart so I mean uh must
be something special about the uh beautiful women here in Oklahoma City nicely done whoa
on that big gold Dome over there that is I don't see anything written on it I don't know
it's art guys it's art oh man look at this huge uh bottle of milk here what it says Oklahoma's
milk Brahms but I know Braum's is ice cream so I wonder now I want some ice cream okay
one Route 66 thing kind of by accident I'm looking for ice cream but we're back on Route
66. it happens to be uh two lanes here of the Mother Road this is the 1926 alignment
of Route 66 it has an old theater across the way what is it called the tower nice and this
looks a little newer welcome humans to the Uptown 23rd District uh here 23rd uh takes
over route 66. for modern time that's a nice looking robot actually robots on 66 this is
the rt19 robot a tin toy replica from post-war Japan reminiscent of the 1950s and Glory Days
of Route 66. yeah I remember those old metal toys that's exactly what that looks like must
find ice cream it's too hot needs ice cream in my belly hey paycom Center that's where
the Oklahoma City Thunder have lost more games in that building than any other team has lost
in that building and they stole our SuperSonics from Seattle so
medium chocolate frosting thank you it's kind of ice cream they really like look at how
bulging the lid is and everything like yeah I love making some some windy look how thick
that is
now that smart screen heck I might need a fork with this nope spoon works [Music]
that's what she did every day is a cheat day on the road it's so hard to eat healthy on
the road it really is [Music] that's delicious all right that's enough for me it's enough
of Oklahoma City for me got to get back to Cracker Barrel check on the kitties and the
air conditioning uh the batteries probably it says 98 on my Dash it was not supposed
to be that hot today sometimes it's off by a couple degrees let me check I'll check when
I get back home sweet home well it emptied out here there's Freda ah oh missed Marvey
I miss those kitties let's go see how they're doing hey Opie oh you're staying cool the
AC is still on that's good news let's check oh yeah 64.5 we've lost a lot of that Sunshine
because it's 420 and we're gonna run out of sunshine anyway so let me check the temperature
also oh geez 110 degrees you can't see that 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the compartment
so believe it or not these fans are definitely doing their job they are blowing hot air but
sometimes when there's extreme heat you might want to pop this open for some more air the
only problem is then the fans are up here doing nothing essentially so I've got that
compartment dangerously full of stuff I'm gonna leave it open for like five or ten minutes
and just see if we can get that 110 to come down if it doesn't come down then it's probably
better with the fans you know I don't know if you can see this but 10 minutes later we
are now at 112 degrees two degrees hotter even though I know that doesn't make sense
at those two little computer fans can do that much 114 now it's getting hotter with the
door open so I'm gonna close the door and let the fans do their job and just trust that
it's gonna work Opie did you miss your dad man I slept the whole time it was okay and
stuff oh terrible hair I missed you too girl what a good girl what a good ham boy so goodbye
Oklahoma gonna be getting into Texas in our next video guys yeah be well I'm gonna take
a little break tonight we'll see you guys in a few days bye-bye [Music] thank you [Music]