hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are doing fantastic look at this
sunshine and blue skies we'll be uploading this video with some nomad internet link below in the
video description man i have been driving like a maniac guys so we're out of wyoming although
look at the scenery look how beautiful this is guys look at the look at the rocks up there
freaking gorgeous i have never been in this state where it was this nice 84 degrees today guys
in utah there's no snow there's no snow skiing it is freaking warm and beautiful and i am loving it
gonna meet up with an old high school friend and then we'll be getting back
on the road probably gonna be getting into idaho here in this video all right here we go
well this ended up being a nice little detour after all actually so
got to hang out with my buddy ben from high school and he's like seven foot and i'm five foot five
and uh we're doing some call this this is urban camping this is almost like residential parking
but also one of the great things about living in your rv is that you can come to a friend's
house and there's the road right there there's the sidewalk and my buddy's house is right there so
um it's kind of the rv version of uh couchsurfing except i get all the comforts of home uh opie and
tara both went inside i'm trying to familiarize them and get them a little more comfortable with
strange smells you know so i brought them into other people's rvs before this is the first ever
house they've been into and and opie did really good tara just kind of stood her ground and stayed
by the door and that's okay too that's okay so i was looking at where to stay and i got to show you
this so this is in idaho um it's an airbnb yeah guys that's that's a tater you can actually stay
in this huge potato there's some pictures of what the inside look like
see the round walls there it's got an outdoor area as well there's the
roof there's when they brought it in and turned it into a little rental
how weird is that i really really wanted to do this they are charging 207 a night i went to
check in and every single day is crossed out here let's go forward there's june there's july look
july 26th is their next opening so unfortunately not gonna be able to stay a night in the big tater
of idaho but not for lack of trying all right and a good pleasant morning to you all we're
leaving salt lake city and utah today heading for idaho had a great time hanging out with my buddy
ben and his family and really good to catch up one of the bonus parts about living on the road
you know my old friends move away still a chance i might be able to see him on the road so that
was really nice idaho bound a boat being towed by a fifth wheel which is being towed by a truck how
times two this guy's doing it too that cannot be legal that's what oh my gosh look at this
guys speed limit sign speed limit 80 80 miles an hour i'm not the guy 65.
i'm not going to do 80 miles an hour we're close we are really close i can see it right off to our
right there is nowhere to pull off though so we're just going to do a little little drive
by here guys this big blue sign oh there is a place to pull off oh well welcome to idaho
i love love idaho it is 74 degrees today here and usually uh if i were going back home
i would have started cutting west by now we are making a detour we're going to be
heading up through pocatello idaho for something specific and i'll tell you more about it here
in a little bit all right so i just pulled off here at the idaho welcome center here figure this
is a good time to tell you i'm wearing my tater hater shirt right now and uh idaho is obviously
very very well known uh for potatoes however one of the biggest potato companies oreoda you know
i get all my tater tots pretty much orienta um does not exist in idaho uh true story oriented
potatoes are produced in oregon get it ori ida oregon and idaho so maybe they grow them here
and ship them there to be produced in oregon i'm not really sure how that works exactly
but uh i thought it'd be cool to go tour that facility that factory it's not even here however
the reason why we're going up through pocatello is we got the idaho potato museum everything potato
i am detouring about 90 miles to go see this and share it with you guys today i called ahead and
they are open so also got idaho brewers trail map you know for finding all the neat breweries and a
motorcycle idaho map specifically for uh riding perfect right so just stretching and
getting ready to head up north guys i just uh pulled off the interstate here real quick
wanted to park the rv and share this beautiful sight with you devil's creek
reservoir here in idaho beautiful color of water there almost something out of like key west
just gorgeous this is part of the reason why i love nature so much up here in the
pacific northwest it is stunningly beautiful and different than other bodies of water
pretty soon pretty soon it's going to be warm enough here that i'll be getting in a body of
water like that but right now like i said we got to get up to that potato museum before they close
all right well we got to drive back around to the other side of the reservoir over here in the
meantime i'm still working on my intro shots so this would be a good chance to get a couple more
drone shots maybe we can take a piece of idaho with us into our intro sound good all right well
we got a little bit to go here about 60 miles to get to my destination i'll let you know when we
get there guys all right hang on i gotta i gotta get back in the rv and drive away here's the thing
i remember this about idaho very very strange um we've all seen signs at walmart that say no
overnight rv parking or truck parking no overnight but what about just flat out no trucker rv parking
allowed any time you can't be here you can't shop here i'm talking the entire walmart lot there's
two other signs one there one there if you're in an rv you are not even allowed to shop at walmart
in idaho it's actually been several years since i've been back to idaho and for some reason i had
forgotten about that you do have to park your rv at home depot or somewhere else if you need to get
groceries at a walmart in idaho it sucks it's just one of those states where they really
i'm gonna go over here and see if check out this other lot you can try to get to me idaho
but you are not gonna get me down today i'm after taters so now i'm gonna grab a lot i'm
gonna take the bike out put on some long pants and uh we're gonna go a little ride
all right guys we're here the world's largest tater a baked potato with some delicious butter
on top in this case they're open and they got a cafe actually might start over in the cafe
first cause i don't know what time they close let's start there all right this is the potato
station cafe i got some orders in and i'm trying to sarsaparilla root beer here as well all right
went with tater dollars they slice up a potato and uh deep fried it there and potato soup there y'all
came up with a brilliant idea guys you dip the tater dollars into the potato soup
oh they better have somebody working the ground because i'm throwing it on all right
that was pretty good there's some potatoes right there check out the museum now so they got some
old equipment in here this is the millstone potato cutter used in the 60s you know this
this kind of stuff revolutionized potato picking and stuff where they used to do it by hand and
then things got easier okay so that was the potato cutter here's the potato sorter from 1890 to 1920
wow chain driven
wow look at this massive collection of mashers just nothing but potato mashers everywhere
so you call them yeah potato mashers holy cow here's some pringles flavors i don't remember
corn crisps remember those here's some of the normal ones originals so according to guinness
book of world records this is the world's largest potato crisp 25 inches by 14 inches and it will
have 920 calories and too bad potatoes aren't healthy because i love them back in the day when
they were getting people to make their taters at home the ever-ready tater baker there's two
different versions of the tater baker that's like 80s potato perfect yeah i actually remember these
the the tater mitts so you could just hold it under water and it'll take the peel right off
the the skin and i actually like the skin i like mashed potatoes i still have some skin in them i
do remember that though did you know there was an idaho potato comic book yeah there's field force
interesting oh look at that old license plate world famous potatoes from idaho
that and it's got the baked potato in the plate man that is neat old school hat there that says
idaho's world potato exposition blackfoot idaho that's where we're at okay this is the potato
lab well i got some old mr potato head stuff hey you can even build your own mr and mrs potato head
i think he needs some glasses yep there we go use a palm tree here you go buddy there's a palm tree
spudux scooper a spudunk loader from 1958. i don't even know which direction that goes
that's a picture of something new no that's it okay so it drops from that truck goes up there
rotates and then goes all the way up this thing
here uh-huh of course they've got a huge collection of mr potato head stuff
that's pretty cool i'm all a little jealous of that actually it's really cool
a lot to see and learn in here let's go over the gift store all right
lots of t-shirts we got hats oh look at that spud wars darth tator
oh it's a potato peeler with three potatoes on the handle
and look at all the magnets half a potato hmm pick one here all right so i did end up getting
that tater hat and magnet they also put this is the bag that you leave with a potato sack and
as a special treat if you're from out of state you get out of state or taters out
of stator taters for free also so fun fun stuff i'm gonna go back to the cafe and get
an ice cream then we'll go outside and find black betty i'm gonna eat my chocolate ice
cream outside behind this caboose here in the shade it's not too warm oh my gosh it's frozen
it's frozen you gotta carve it maybe i'll i'll set it on my bike in the sun for a little bit
it's gotta be kind of the piece yeah imma let the little bit all right uh done shopping brought the
cart all the way over here to the rv because i didn't want to carry you know coke and beer
and all the heavy stuff i got when i got done i went to customer service and asked to talk to the
manager and as politely as possible i asked her why this uh why this walmart has signs that say
rvs aren't allowed to park here why why why why are they alienating rvs and truckers from shopping
and she said that honestly she doesn't know why it happened she remembers it happening sometime
in the past year and it was handed down from corporate who manages these walmarts in this
area of idaho which includes she said twin falls pocatio pocatello and and this one here they all
were forced to put those signs up and say that if if you're in an rv you apparently can't park
here she also said that she doesn't enforce it she's the manager and she doesn't enforce that
so if you park your rv in front of a sign that says you can't park your rv here she's not going
to initiate towing it but it's still one of those things you know we've gotten to that point it is
enforceable it's kind of scary but you know don't be afraid to go in and ask management if it's okay
i certainly wouldn't overnight park there when it says you can't even park there in the daytime
but at least um she did say that you know people in rvs do still park there and their
customers and she has no problem with our beers personally just passing the information along
somebody in walmart has decided that arby's can't be in the parking lot and shop there
so that's where we're at with that no biggie opie dopes i have to say our magnet collection is
growing already for this short amount of time that we've been on the road so far in this little trip
five of them heck yeah i'm happy i'm loving it those birds driving you crazy out there
oh you can cackle at them you know you cackling at those birdies good boy get them oh you gonna start
a fight bird's driving you guys crazy huh sorry about that yeah they're driving you guys crazy
keeping you awake though well anyway i also wanted to mention that um i'm not crazy excited about
breaking rules i know there i probably have quite a few viewers who are like on the verge and want
to say something like eric i always park at those walmarts with those signs don't just do it anyway
but you're not ready to type it you know because it's like ah you shouldn't encourage
breaking a rule that literally says you can't do what you're about to do so you know usually
if i don't even go in and ask usually but i was really curious of why this walmart specifically
you know has those signs and anyway even she doesn't know however where i'm at right now
oh it's for sale so i well you know what i'm thinking about buying this
place i'm going to park my rv here tonight and think about buying it
kind of leaning towards not buying it but i still want to check it out
that's probably not going to fly but i will say that if you're traveling on the road if you want
to stay somewhere for one night and there is a for sale sign like that because domino's pizza
does not own this part of the law they don't even know in that building they rent that facility from
that building um so they can't you know even tell me to leave uh but the people on that sign
could come tonight and say yeah what are you doing you can't stay here we're trying to sell
this lot right here that you're parked on okay however that's my excuse
i think we could set up a little tater shop right here i think i think this area would
be perfect for a big tater fill eyes on me yep it's opie it it's opie he's watching me
okay got the bike put away and secured in the trailer so i'll get back to here when it gets
a little darker all right well it's a nice evening the sun has set and i always feel a little better
once the sun is set like a lego almost like a sigh relief like okay well i'm gonna be able to
boondock here you know uh domino's is coming in and out a big class a has also pulled in
like a big class a pulling of a van also i'm always a trendsetter people people see me and
they're like oh well he did it it's probably okay and also at walmart a built schoolie it's actually
a tc2000 bluebird over there short short bus almost nice nice family family of three traveling
i talk to them a little bit they seem cool they're they know about the signs too and they're just
gonna risk it over there uh since nobody owns this lot me and the bounder will probably be fine and
and uh yeah anyway i don't this video is carrying on and on i had a really good time at the uh
potato museum we got tara in the dash here's a good girl those crows have been driving her crazy
today but the good news is she's going to sleep tonight and not do those midnight zoomings on me
opie dopes keeping an eye on everything too yup nem's a good boy all right buddy so i'm
going to go ahead and close this video out guys i am going to go see my sister tomorrow in idaho
and take a day off maybe maybe two days but either way you guys will see a video for me in a few days
and then after idaho we'll have to pick which route to the pacific ocean
so thanks for joining me guys see in a little bit bye
you