what's going on everyone a beautiful day in texas
texas yes
[Music] i'm here in abilene texas i believe
i'm in texas yeah i'll be uploading this video with some
nomad internet link in the video description if you need some unlimited
internet i'm up to like 550 gigabytes or something crazy this
isn't going to be the last hottest day of the the year here either
as texas is having a little bit of a heat spell here in late october
91 degrees for halloween
okey-dokey abilene's pretty quirky we're gonna peek right up into the sun there
can you see the the dino and the beetle up there it's actually
dinosaur bob it's from a 1988 children's book called dinosaur bob and his
adventures with the family lazardo i never actually read that book but good
to know all right what do we got here is that santa claus
i think that's santa claus y'all isn't that what the s on his cane is for
yeah possibly don't know what he has to do
with abilene but reminding us of the warm hot christmases
around here in texas maybe this building says chocolate all over it
it doesn't appear to be open right now i don't know but
here's another sculpture from a children's book the easter bunny the
creepy easter bunny you like his glasses i don't know that book either oh you're
going for a little bicycle ride there mr goose mr geese are you a duck
i think those are actually duck feet that is really hilarious actually and
look what a good moody's in i mean can't we all just smile like that today
be as happy as this duck riding a bicycle check out these antlers
that was a good rack everything is bigger in texas yes
little uh welcome to abilene plaque here that says home of awesome hunting and
the world's largest barbecue okay wait you had me at
barbecue which a lot of barbecue in texas you're
gonna have to be a little more specific abilene
abilene i gotta stop singing that song so we are near a library
i think that's why we're finding all this really neat metal artwork
sculptures here where you guys pointing to is there
something over there yeah that's the sun it's pretty hot yeah
yeah are you still mowing your lawns a week before halloween in late october
where you're at do you even have green grass i am just
melting with sweat here it's harm did you know that abilene texas
has some roots of dr seuss i have not figured out the connection just yet
but how about cat in the hat i love the umbrella there
looking good there dude i recognize this happy elephant it's horton here's a who
[Laughter] that's fantastic have you had breakfast
yet how about some green eggs and ham
awesome i love it
nice beautiful little fountain here say it with me closed for covid
and my favorite dr seuss character is how the grinch stole
christmas with the grinch looking all festive with his evil grin
and of course poor old max hey maxie how you doing we got
girdle the turtle yeah hey buddy sorry for all the ambient
crazy sounds you got motorcycles and lawn mowers and it is what it is we got
the lorax i love all this dr seuss stuff thank you abilene texas
walk on back to the rv at a different route here and then get on to road
a pink flamingo with some awesome shades looking really good there mr birdie bird
all right dude have a good day no shortage of quirky so far in texas and
everything being larger than life yeah check out the old durham tobacco
advertising preserved obviously it's been touched up
since 30s maybe early 40s um
and i'll let you guys know it's been a long time since i've been able to even
see a thrift store we've been in some pretty remote places together
since we left idaho pretty much i i got one listed there's uh there's a
texas goodwill up if i find anything i'll include it at
the end of the video yeah i got pretty lost there for a second
guys i was walking the opposite direction and then i'm like oh
where's the rv i forgot that my directed smart start
app shows me exactly where miranda's parked all the time
so if not for that this could have been a much
more interesting day should be right around this corner
there we are let's go see jax that's the spot huh you like that air
conditioning huh i'm going to be leaving that on all day as soon as the batteries
get down to 20 i'll fire up the generator if i i will
have to but yeah okay you lick some paul i'll do some driving okay
okay glad you agree well apparently we need to clean this windshield every
single day now it's amazing how how much bugs get on this massive
windshield in just 24 hours driving through texas
back roads but still that time of year where the
mosquitoes and bugs flies butterflies everything is just
it's just a big old windshield and they run into it it's not my fault right
but the reason why i installed this this hose attachment from my shower thing is
to keep the windshield wet while you're cleaning otherwise when
it's this hot you're just going to have a completely
like by the time you scrub one little spot it's going to dry and leave a nasty
streak because it's so hot outside so the trick to having a
really clean windshield is to have the running water
and you know i'd probably use about a gallon a day just on cleaning this
windshield but it's it's worth it i try to give you
guys a good view but by the end of the video this will be completely
covered in bugs and people start complaining again but you know i do what
i can do right had a pretty good day here at a very
unusual uh goodwill in west texas the pretty
pretty decent day actually right in front of us
i guess this would be the off ramp to interstate
20 that goes east to west we're going underneath it south taking back roads
all day and what was it 52 miles we are going to drive today so
let you guys know when we get there sure are a lot of
tractors and and farm equipment out here yeah we're out there actually
don't say i never take you guys places i take you all over the world
we are in dublin that's right dublin texas yeah
uh we're on st patrick street now look off to here i'm gonna pull off
right here actually the bank you know what it is about
every place i've stopped today has had some sort of a tractor
lawn mower or some sort of machinery going on
i guess that's just texas for you check it out across the street
the dublin 1891 bottling works got that texas feel but check it out
guys dr pepper what where's my dr pepper
peeps this is the very last bottling company
that bottled the original dr pepper the last one i guess this is bill
closter here handing a dr pepper to a young girl
instead of the sticker says i'm a pepper [Music]
i guess it was called old doc soda shop before it turned into a dr pepper shop
it's another really cool mural there on the side of the building
uh-huh i'm not much of a dr pepper fan as you guys know
i'm coke all the way in fact if you go to a restaurant ask for a coke and they
say is pepsi okay no just give me a water
like i'm a coke guy okay but no i like history too
and your texas historical commission sign if you want to pause that and
read up about sam houston and dublin texas
and here we are at the soda shop museum and gift shop where you could get a
magnet face mask must be warned closed face
masks required okay okay but also they're closed september through may
monday through thursday so they're closed today today's wednesday for me so
off season so no magnet for me dublin texas is also home of the world's
largest root beer bottle here i love root beer actually
it says made with real pure cane sugar that's awesome i wonder if i could go
into one of these stores that are open and and grab an old dr pepper or a
dublin root beer i don't know i might try that before i
head out of the area you know a passerby just told me that they do
still bottle that famous root beer here let's take a peek see if i can get rid
of the glare here a little bit yeah you can kind of see in there
it's a working bottle bottling plant keep going in the other side here gotta
get close there you go at least we can see in there can see
some of their older vintage bottles there
too bad too bad we couldn't check it out get a soda get a magnet
another time though yeah i'll come back to dublin yeah
it's about that time to start looking for a place to camp what do you think
skeletor yeah you're scaring people back there as
they drive by all right all right yeah we'll go look
for somewhere to camp or or boondock today because i i
might need to cool off and hop in a body of water a texas body of
water i stopped at one last little convenience store before heading out of
dublin and i scored i did get one of their
famous root beers pure cane sugar that's brewed
right here that's bottled right here this is not alcohol
it's root beer but uh yeah i'm gonna put this in the freezer and enjoy it later i
don't drink too many sugary sodas anymore because i do cook
zero sugar but i'll definitely enjoy that later tonight once we get parked
i had to make a u-turn in old miranda a stop for quirky i need that bumper
sticker today we're on a everything is larger
than life you know it really fits that whole
texas theme
it's not coveted i swear the world's largest
spur yes that's great i'll bet you that's made out of some
good steel oh yeah that's awesome oh it's like a gate that
would be really cool at base camp at home base in illinois
don't you think should i go get a price quote on that
one i think i might have to i like that a lot quirky yeah oh i know
i said i was getting my new uh gopro here in texas but it's not gonna
be on this trip i gotta get closer to where lollapalooza is
yeah that's where we're it's where we're heading next y'all
oh you wouldn't like it it's delicious
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did you want part of it too i figured you could probably use the bottle cap
because you usually play fetch with them and send stuffs with your pauses
yeah with your pauses did you want it man what am i gonna do with that that's
right you're just gonna flick it on the ground huh
must be nice to be a cat if life ski if light gives you lemons or bottle caps
you just flick it on the ground right all right
man this ever happened to you guys
been here over 20 minutes train just stops
just stops like they're like they're refueling or
i went ahead and uh fired up the water heater i think i'm gonna take a shower
because i can hear when it when they start to back up i've never seen
anything like this outside of aberdeen washington though
they used to do this and then switch the tracks and do a bunch of stuff
we're going on close to 25 minutes of him just parked here though
and pretty strange texas back roads though you know
come on texas you're killing me with your beauty quit rubbing it in
i called the caretaker waiting for him to come unlocked my unlock my electric
box you can probably hear the the fan in
here blowing for the inverter it's getting hot in there uh it's 11 to
camp here like i said he's got to come by and
unlock the 30 amp box there there's water there
i think i counted six little campsites you got a little covered gazebo
which is really nice in the shade and oh what lake is this i really don't know
i'll bet you all magically put some information somewhere here you guys end
up knowing more than i do really i could get a texas fishing license
because i'm going to be back here next year also so you know i'm a texas
resident so i could uh i'll have water look so
inviting how's the water guys is the water pretty
nice then you want to tell me about it no you
don't want to talk about it all right have a good day oh that guy's
dunking over you got the right idea man that's a good idea i would basically say
texas is mostly uh wide open all their state
parks and public areas are open to the public
doesn't matter if you live here or not you're allowed to use these facilities
so that's a good thing the water doesn't
look too clean and refreshing more like a inflatable kayak or maybe my
little inner tube or something look at these guys just having a ball in
the water i'm jealous guys i'll meet you in there in a little bit
okay all right yeah now you're just showing off
all right all right you ain't right i'm in my groove
texas has definitely uh put a new smile on my face so
that's a good thing uh not gonna be here very long though
like i said we got we got lolapalooza coming next okay
well wait i gotta go okay i'm gonna close this video out officially however
those of you that want to see my mickey and christmas updates from thrift stores
let's go inside and i'll show you that real quick otherwise uh i'll see you
guys in two days all right you ready to show them jax
admit this is your problem not mine you're the one who's after the mouse no
first one is a cash register it is missing something i'm gonna have
to search online and see see if i can find that missing part but it still
looks cool it's clearly got the mickey ears it's a
mickey cash register for 99 cents give me a break guys
secondly jax's favorite actually i think this is a lower back like lumbar support
pillow it's got mickey and a different couple
couple different poses there again 99 cents and lastly but not least
i mean space doesn't really matter right now because we are going to illinois
soon and i'm dropping off all this stuff it's like a mini
spongy bean bag mickey chair it's pretty cool it's got his hands it's
got his uh stomach buttons i guess you call him and his ears and everything and
i'll put something on it but that's our mickey collection now i also
want to share with you that i have been collecting
christmas decorations lights and accessories
and stuff like that because i look forward to going all clark griswold this
christmas in illinois at base camp at the house so let me show
you a little bit of what i have here there's obviously some still at the
house that i left behind all right these i didn't put away very
well this is the twinkly lights these are the expensive christmas lights that
you can make those designs that i showed at august property out there these will
be going on my christmas tree i didn't put them away very well but
uh those are the good ones these and those this bag and this bag are the
icicle lights that hang from the gutters however
everything i'm gonna show right here everything right here is not
led lights so i don't know for sure yet if i'm going to use these or if i'm
going to get led blue icicle lights instead but there's
that 25 feet 25 feet there this bag is full of
what is this a bunch more green christmas lights
a lot of christmas lights there you're gonna fall if you're not careful jacks
this one is led these are all led in here
okay so there's some led lights in there these are the ones i purchased on ebay
so i've actually got what 10 yeah 10 packs of c7
led 15 foot lengths these are great for around
like the roof line and around the edges of the house possibly even the porch
along there so i got a lot of those and then these ones i
have 20 yes count them 20 boxes
of b2s the small mini lights these are leds
these are the more traditional style christmas tree lights that you'll see
but i'm also going to be putting them all around the facades and maybe on some
bushes around the property and on the ground i'll show you
actually we'll move right over to that actually got this at goodwill for four
bucks this thing is full of check it out ground stakes huge ground stakes that
you put into the ground and then it holds a bunch of different
kinds of lights but up to a c7 light there
a whole bin of these for the yard that is going to be really fun to put up
i've also been collecting a bunch of these shingle roof tie
c7 c9 clips there's some more gator grip clips and another 100 pack
of the gutter clips there as well can never have enough of these i'm still
looking for more of these i do not have enough to finish
the actual roof line of the house and to go around the
actual siding of the house and everything so i'm still looking for more
of these they're really hard to find when christmas hits
so and like i said that doesn't even include all of the christmas lights i
left at the house and my wreath and i've got some of my inflatables with me
here it is gonna be awesome at nomadic
fanatics house this christmas i cannot wait
i will do my best to hold off until december 1st
but don't hold me to it guys thanks for watching jackson lc in a few days bye
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