the kitties are definitely over the rain we did not expect this much rain in san diego did we guys
uh hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic coming to you from southern california san diego
once again and i am here to finally tell you that i have to give up on san diego i had a wonderful
time at sea world in san diego but that was the only sunny day we had here it has been raining for
three straight days and i have been unable to go outside and film any of the stuff i wanted to do
on the beach so besides the very first time i was here it has been absolutely miserable
we got flood warnings high winds it has been some crazy weather in southern california and
y'all around here have been telling me for years that it never rains and there's always a drought
okay what anyway i'm just making light of it it's no big deal just letting you know
i had a lot of plans and i have not been able to fulfill any of those because of
this relentless rain in southern california uh up in los angeles it hasn't been raining
these last few days it's just here and uh it will not stop so i have to leave so i'm
packing it up today and heading out in the pouring rain i head up about 250 miles north
of here for better weather and uh we will do san diego another time all right thanks for joining me
guys we'll be uploading this video with some nomad internet link in the video description
hey ground's dry it's not raining up north everybody sun's getting ready to set and
look pretty cool over there in a little bit uh unfortunately i was driving and all of a sudden
my little google map said there is currently a 68 minute delay with for a crash on i-15
so one of the cool things about living in an rv having my whole house with me is that
i don't have to sit there in traffic if i don't want to so i just pulled off at this little lot
and although i've never been to one before uh there's a vons i think vons is to california
kind of like what publix is to florida that's kind of what i've heard first time in there and
guess what i found guys been a while guys the uh croissant crust digiorno's three meat pizza
really hard to find i'll take advantage anytime i can find one so i got the oven preheating in
there and we'll pop that guy in and then i'll just keep kind of checking on that crash on i15
no rush maybe turn on my satellite tv or netflix and just kind of chill and wait it
out no biggie i'm just glad to be out of the rain that was getting a little ridiculous in san diego
i just realized this so i'm watching the shield and this is literally takes place
in a make-believe place that's really near here they call it uh farmington but it's a it's a city
a make-believe city outside of a los angeles so uh it's actually really close to where we're at
here looks like uh opie stole my spot dara's chilling up here like a good girl and uh we're
gonna check on this delicious pates uh oh we're getting really close maybe like one more minute
yeah one more minute there oh yeah let's put some parmesan cheese holy cow that came out really fast
that's all right we'll just spread the love a little bit there there we go oh yeah
hi tara hi opie you guys are always my best friends when i'm eating good nummy food always
that croissant crust is something else it's getting dark outside so maybe after
i get uneaten and watching this episode it might be time to check google again and see if they
cleared that accident we'll see all right it's 6 30 p.m and you probably can't see where my thumb
is but it now says it's a 16 minute delay so it went from over an hour to now just 16 minutes
i'm gonna do some dishes and then we'll pack it up and get back on the road and do some night driving
all right well today and tonight's been a weird one you guys are just coming along with me for
the ride just a normal day in the life of nomadic fanatic and the kiddies uh living on the road in
an rv the uh camping world across the street over there which if you're a sam's club member you get
to ca overnight park at any of the camping worlds in the country they added a new gate that's locked
actually so the gate is locked and i can't get in so i don't know if you have to be
there before they close or what's up i'm gonna do some urban camping tonight and then i have some
some plans tomorrow so i'm gonna be uh parking here on the side of the road there's some semi
trucks down there so i think it's okay kind of risky in california but i'm in san bernadino
county i'm in the city of san bernardino and there are no city ordinances against
uh parking a vehicle that's all i'm doing parking a vehicle just like any car would park their
vehicle for 72 hours so i there's literally a cop that just pulled in that's a cop yeah did he see
me talking to myself out there with the camera and the light i don't know if he did really you
want to draw as little attention as possible to yourself while you're out here doing this kind of
thing and i didn't even see him over there anyway so you can also see this semi-truck in front of me
i hope i don't have any problems tonight i just gotta just gotta wait it out one more night
he's not a cop he's a security it says security on the side of his suv so he's just patrolling that
uh lot over there hey yeah while we're here doing some uh street camping some overnight parking in
an urban area let me show you that what the setup is a little bit for me it's been a long time since
i've done this and actually last few times i i had done this in california did not end so well
um so if we get the knock tonight of course i will be honest and share that with you later
but in this kind of a circumstance i close all of the curtains okay front curtain completely closed
everything back here closed these windows closed the back window closed and right there closed
also i don't want to draw a whole lot of attention to myself i don't want every car that drives by to
physically see that i'm living here overnight but i also don't want people walking on the sidewalk
to think that there's nobody in here so we have a few lights i turn on this one really dull light
in the shower which brings out a little bit of light this way it's still pretty dark in here
and then my security camera tv is on right now and i'll tell you again how much i love this if
if i'm sitting here on the computer or watching tv and i hear a noise i don't have to pull a curtain
open and make myself obvious or one of those curtains i just physically come out right here
and there we are right there and i'll look and see if somebody's messing look i can see right
into the car there or someone's on the sidewalk right here there's all the other points there
here's where my step is right there passenger rear camera so this is the whole side of the door right
there so that's how i keep a low profile while doing this kind of overnight parking um again if
someone walks up i want them to be able to see that there's a little bit of light through some
of the curtains and actually i'll go and show you what it looks like outside here so as you can see
you can't really see anything except you know if you were like looking you could look right there
through that crack right there see oh there's there's a light on i can see a tv right there
uh in the front curtain you can see the bottom part right there well there's terra in the window
but right under there you can see a little bit and then yeah over here it just looks normal
it doesn't look like anyone's uh living in there unless you get up close and you're
investigating because you're looking for a crime of opportunity like hey
i don't see anybody looking i'm gonna come around here well first of all hopefully they'll see a
couple things hopefully they'll see this sign right here and be curious and look up and see
that with the yellow infra or the red infrared on it um come over here there's one more sign
right by the door again reminding you you're on camera so you might want to look up and once again
there's those red infrared lights telling you that i have night vision on the cameras
um and lastly when i turn it on when i go back in the car alarm is going to be having a blue
blinking light and the front dashboard of the rv is gonna have a blue blinking light and lastly uh
before i get too settled in i wanna know exactly where i'm at like what i have always done in the
past ever since i had jax traveling with me i wanna know exactly what city i'm in what the
address is i want to know where the nearest vets office is where the nearest emergency room is for
me if i should need it or anything like that and also just to know the address is a problem
in case something happens like eureka california years ago um i will be able to make an emergency
call and say i'm right here and i'll show you how i do that all right so second from
the bottom right above uber is the where am i at app and if you open this guy up right here it's
gonna pull up a bunch of information on the top you've got your latitude and longitude numbers
then you've got your approximate address usually well this one actually says an address 2195 club
center drive i would just give that address is where i live san bernadino county san bernardino
california the zip code and a map it's a really helpful thing it also tells you the elevation
uh 995 feet oh and then for tv in case me and the kitties want to uh watch some tv what i will
do is turn the brightness down the tv because it'll actually be too bright um so in in the
settings i gotta turn my internet on too um and i'm i'm okay with the tv because while i'm awake
again it's one of those things with the changing lights and scenes of different shows it's going
to project different stuff uh throughout all of my window shades but i'm okay with that again because
it just tells people nearby that i am in here um and i guess i'm i just heard a door slam okay
i don't see anything it wasn't nearby but i did hear a door slam so anyway i'm just gonna dink
around tonight and uh unless something happens overnight i will cut back in in the morning and
we'll go get settled here uh in los angeles have a good night guys all right and good morning
everyone from a new spot as you can see i'm in a gated community here i did want to at least point
out i didn't have any problems there uh slept pretty good actually except for the really big
trucks that were passing in the middle of the night it did rock the rv back and forth like i
said i don't do uh street boondocking too often uh but what i'm doing right now well palm trees
um a viewer friend of mine here in los angeles uh somebody who follows me on patreon uh reached out
to me live when he heard that i was in the area and offered up this little side lot behind his
house as a place to securely park the kitties and enjoy los angeles so we got some palm trees there
there's uh his rig right there he pulled back so i could pull in uh we call this mooch docking mooch
docking is uh when you park your rv uh near a friend's house or in a friend's driveway with
or without hookups i do have hookups here so the kitties will have air conditioning
and i have a really safe place to not worry about the rv and the kitties while i go explore unique
los angeles this will be the second time i've been there was here several years ago and it was
a completely strange experience more on that later but but right now i got tater tots so i'm going to
go out we're gonna go out and we're gonna spend up to a week here in los angeles but let's go
check it out right now big city traffic though i mean it better really be worth it you know
i don't know how you guys do it i'm i'm just glad i'm not in the rv today
this sucks uh la traffic is exhausting i'm just not the guy i
i don't know how you guys do it i feel for you um if i had a choice though no i'm just gonna do all
my driving at night for now on so this place looks familiar lots of art these poor businesses just
get vandalized every single night i mean look at this this business across the street they
got the gate open now he's unloading stuff look at the wall their entire business is just tagged
and they just go on because they can't even stop it
that is insane they got these big huge bars that you can't climb and razor wire i mean they're just
so fed up with it look at the ground guys yeah i would not boondock here your whole rv
maybe colorful little area here of los angeles that i've not been to let's go for a little walk
here what kind of a waste of life do you have to be to tag the freaking railroad tracks i mean
really guys all right let's take a peek let's take a peek over here hey the los angeles river
you may recognize this from uh several movies actually the uh i don't know what you call it
like a concrete viaduct uh conduit area uh they filmed a scene from terminator 2
down here there was no water when they were doing the truck and motorcycle chases
also don't quote me but this looks like the same place where they film some scenes from greece
anyway as i've heard oftentimes there's not water
in this particular little on the map it says it's the los angeles river the la river but
not much of a river anyways um i've got a week here in los angeles and uh at least a couple more
trips out here just it's nice to be able to park and be comfortable and know that everything's safe
because it's just it's an unsettling feeling when you leave your rv in a place like this
and you know i got no shame looking back at the way things were back in the old days things were
just different for me um life is a little more comfortable and manageable now there's less stress
for me and that's a good thing although i've lost a lot of viewers who just i guess can't relate to
it now but it is what it is i mean i think we all grow or at least we all want to grow so
anyway um let me look on google and and look check out some reviews for some restaurants so
you can find somewhere quirky to have lunch all right well that's going to be really cliche and
eat it in and out burger wanted to eat with some air conditioning we got a kfc i actually pulled in
here to the ksc because they have free parking i don't want to pay for parking somewhere and then
i look at this place which i thought was a mexican restaurant it's not no this colorful building here
is king cole pizza beer and wine it's almost like a castle uh i think it's worth a shot right it is
super cool and quirky guys they're open really cool place they're going with the castle theme
with the shields and some neon lights and stuff there's the kitchen in there the ovens i like
the budweiser pizza neon sign there yeah oh but their touch tunes is out of order
it's a cool place definitely my first mexican castle themed pizza restaurant l.a
yeah holy cow guys look at this pizza i feel like it's been forever this thing looks delicious
don't worry you guys wouldn't like it
but you might love it
good food holy cow this is a weird area of la um
they have a 32-inch tv in there in the main room where is it there it is that camera right there
shooting on the parking lot so so that i can keep an eye on tater tot
it's los angeles you know that was that was a really cool restaurant i highly recommend that
if you're in the la where we east l.a east l.a right now but i've got several days in la there's
lots of los angeles it's not just graffiti stuff and stuff from movies you got anaheim you got
hollywood you got uh beverly hills and of course the ocean the beaches and stuff so i'm gonna make
the most out of it and making several trips in and out of my friend's house here in the car and you
guys are going to come with me until it starts to warm up a little bit farther north and then we'll
creep up the coast let's go check in on those kitties though terra bear i'm glad dad left the ac
on free girl how you doing no big stretches yeah i got the ac on hey you're getting my pillow all
all dirty with cat hair what's this what's this you did that you fuzzy butt you fuzzy fluffy butt
yeah yeah my sweet sweet opie you letting your sister get her beauty sleep yeah you letting her
such a good boy it's very nice of you let's see how your coat's looking oh it looks good nice and
sh you're so unique i love all your colorings you just woke up didn't you yeah dad get the light out
of my eye man where's your fluffy tail we want to see the fluff look at that look at that he is such
a good boy such a good boy itsy bitsy bites sorry i really love coming home to my kitties they are
they are the best part of traveling right now traveling with those kitties i love the snuggles
they're just the best they just make me happy i'm so happy with the kitties so anyway guys
got lots more coming from los angeles awesome weather this week please consider giving me a
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you're doing tara and opie and i will see you in the very next video from los angeles goodbye guys
you