all right i may have taken this a little too far
snow eric no eric
wait for it wait for it oh wow yeah guys the mighty columbia river
see the train going by over there on the washington side over there oh
about as close to washington state as i've been in a while this is exciting good morning everyone
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yeah looks like a monster lake out there no that is the columbia river so we are now
only 140 miles away from portland oregon uh i'm gonna see my mom finally tomorrow
you know it sucks that i missed mother's day but i had so much going on with getting frida and the
motorcycle trailer and everything ready uh we got father's day coming up next week so i'll be
hanging out with dad but first i'm gonna go see mom tomorrow and uh give her a big hug and i mean
i've missed my family so much so anyways today we're gonna be following this river we're gonna
be following this river and i got a boondocking spot from a harvest host place and then we're
gonna be getting on black betty and going to do something that i've wanted to do my whole life
it's kind of hard to get to but a motorcycle will work perfectly stay tuned guys let's go for a ride
also i feel like we need to at least point out i don't think i've ever come back to the northwest
and seen weather quite like this granted i am coming back quite a bit later than i normally do
and maybe that has a lot to do with it really uh the weather's fantastic blue skies sunshine warmth
no none of that liquid stuff coming down i can't even say it right now so um see the smile oh yeah
guys doesn't it just make you want to grab an inner tube and just float all day just float i
don't know if you're allowed to float this river because i know there's a lot of dams and locks and
stuff probably not we'll get there calm down eric good morning just and can we at least give frida
some credit here what an epic trip across the country this has been we're almost there guys
and good frida good girl yeah incredible i am i am blessed i man i'm blessed period
is
sunlight
i tell you what an absolutely gorgeous drive that was just i think the main reason why it's
so amazing is because it's so flat because it's hugging an actual river which has to have a
certain amount of slope you know in order for the river you know so the road is just
perfectly smooth and almost really really straight the last time we stayed at a harvest
host guys we were at a church this is a uh museum or attraction as they call it and just remember i
know we've left all those really tall beautiful evergreen trees but it will be back this is just
a different part we're almost like still in well we're in central washington oregon
right now central oregon right now on historic route 30 okay and um this is just temporary
the trees will come back don't worry but this is perfect harley riding weather today
yeah i'm excited a little terrifying with the cliff over there but okay oh my gosh
this is this is great this is great all right it's our turn columbia gorge discovery center wasco
county historical museum that's a mouthful come on blue clearance nothing written here ah that was
kind of a surprise we're fine didn't hear anything kidding okay and the directions are for me to park
at the left corner of the lot it says rv's straight so we'll go straight but that's
where arby's visiting i'm staying overnight i'll have to figure out what they mean by left corner
is it my left or their left you know well i'm gonna take a wild guess and say they actually
meant the right corner because of these long rv slips here and uh i'm gonna park as far away
from that rv as possible way over here at the end with my side door a view of are those sunflowers
oh they are they're sunflowers nice we aren't level so i'm gonna pop the rear end up
we're glad you monsters are awake now yeah hi opie hi tara tara you guys are so good that's
all good yeah i think i got a good good parking spot there there's a sunflowers oh i see some bees
scattered throughout there pollinating them yeah they're pretty happy i bet
all right let me lock everything back up get the ac cranked on
inside for the kitties and the rv get all my alarms and everything set um i'm gonna be wearing
my jacket and my full face helmet for this ride this will be the longest ride i have ever done
uh it's going to be about an hour and 15 minutes one way and then i got to come all the way back
and we're gonna be going up into the woods and it's gonna be beautiful hopefully but
my full face helmet doesn't have a doesn't have a camera mount for a gopro so we'll make stops along
the way well i am seriously regretting finding a way to mount a camera do you guys see the freaking
snow-capped mountains that's mount hood over there it's beautiful guys that is incredibly beautiful
that's where we're going ah i keep stopping i am never gonna get to the top of the mountain guys
this is why motorcycles were invented to go places i i would never have made this trek up mount hood
some 50 miles in my rv look at this that is some cold mountain snow melt going down river jeez
and there's not a lot of traffic up here either i can't stop smiling
i just can't quit it i can't quit it all right well we got a ways to go i better put some miles
on it was gonna get cold on our way back all right i may have taken this a little too far
snow eric no eric
we're gonna go back down around the southern half of mount hood
well this is probably as far up north an elevation that i want to get right now
i'm actually a little cold uh but this is the best view of mount hood up in the distance guys
man it is pretty i did find out actually that a friend of mine is camping uh on the other just on
the other side of the mountain at a thousand trails so i'm gonna try to go stop by and
say hi to amber while i'm here from story chasing there there is still but this is snow it's really
dirty snow but this is snow there's snow over there and uh man look at that it's beautiful
here look out of the way yeah get behind the camera so that everybody can see it eric
mount hood very popular area for uh snow skiing and snowboarding and uh still a little cold here
late in the season it's crazy so i need to find a gas station because we are getting low on black
betty so go find a gas station and then when i get service again i'll message amber and try to
get some information to what campground in sight she's in all right bite mountain hood all right
came down the mountain got to shed a few layers because it is no longer close okay i'm gonna be
honest with you i was a little chilly up there a little cold what's amber from story chasing
so illinois and then i saw you in arizona and now oregon oregon how you been and maybe washington
good maybe washington loving it on the west coast awesome having the greenback is amazing she's been
dealing with a lot of rain so i'm a good luck charm yeah well let's hope i hope so that's a
nice place up here tall trees i'm gonna grab a bite yeah they got some outdoor seating here too
amber's over there vlogging on our new iphone oh they got fish and chips but we opted to uh
sit outside so we're gonna we're gonna order here but i'm gonna go show you the inside of this place
it's kind of cool so it's actually an authentic uh log cabin here has some history inside look at the
inside here guys in uh 1925 it was a general store and then it turned into the barlow inn
the stained glass up there it's really cool
and the lampshades a really cool log cabin with lots of history it's not fake all right i went
with their fish and chips since it's uh on the board out there it's got to be good amber got
a burger tater tot we definitely got tater tots there's no tater haters here ready cheers cheers
really good home style halibut fish and chips there that was good say goodbye to
amber one more time i may see her later on the road she may stick around the northwest
we'll have to wait and see i still got to go back to the mountains though
let me get my sweater on i'll get back to you guys when i go see those kitties
holy now i missed this turn off on the way up the mountain i just wasn't ready for it and i looked
over and saw what it was but i couldn't stop in time i made sure to stop here on the way back down
the mountain this is sherwood campground and i've got all the feels going on right now guys you can
see all the trees you remember back home sherman campground they got closed in washington state
this is sherwood looks pretty familiar though i mean we even got cedar trees we've got big
stumps with green moss all over them it is just incredible i feel like i'm in the sherwood forest
you know it's just a little campground let's take a peek at one of their campsites here they do have
that big log they don't want you to drive too close to the river that's right the river guys
picnic table fire pit looking you can you can roast your hot dog right next to the river oh my
is this real life this this is all i want
i'll quit youtube right now and just park right here forever i'll do it
i don't have my rv though
this is a good spot this is a this is a
primo good spot i will come back to sherwood campground in oregon one day
but i gotta get back to the kitties the sun's setting it's getting a little chillier
yeah we gotta get back do you even remember who i am opie it's been all day with south securities
what's happening some mischievous yeah put the food in my bowl dad put it right here in my
bowl dad oh wait oh wait dad okay all right all settled in for the evening the sun has
set it's starting to get dark i got frida in the trailer lit up a couple more rvs pulled in and uh
there's one more behind that class a also nice that we all just kind of
respected everyone's privacy a little bit and spaced out evenly throughout here
so anyways uh got more traveling to do tomorrow so let me get some sleep finish uh editing some
stuff up and then i'll take you guys with me into washington state here in the morning
good morning everyone now we've got the tall evergreen trees back on both sides
of the road here and we're still following the columbia river i made one little mistake though
guys uh the museum doesn't open till 10 and i need to leave at nine in order to keep my plans
to see mom so i'll to visit that museum some other time we're 185 miles from my hometown
where i went to high school and college and grew up to where my mom lives olympia washington so
that's where i'm heading now i'm just going to be doing some driving and i'll let you know
when we get into washington state officially all right guys i put my sunglasses on to help try to
convince the sun to break through the clouds here trying to motivate motivate the northwest
i'm going to pull off here exit 74. we're only 30 miles from olympia going to get gas finally um
guys gas here is 559 a gallon i think i think it's worse than california i do by the way
well we're in shahelis and you might be thinking eric what about that rv recycling place
west coast rv recycling yeah i need to go there i have a huge list of stuff i need for this rv
that closed today so i'm going to have to do it another day and i'll just keep adding to my
list and we'll do that in a future project right now let's go pay 560 a gallon for gas
i pre-paid 200 and it didn't even fill it up guys this is just this is uncharted territory for me uh
i don't know how long this is gonna last in this country but it's this really this is just painful
you know when i started this 11 years ago it used to be so much cheaper to live in an rv
um and you know we never expected five six dollar gallons of gas to be the norm to be something that
we don't even bat an eye at anymore a dollar per mile a dollar per mile think about that every mile
you travel that was a mile from the gas station back to i-5 north that was another dollar burned
it's just it's rough it sucks it's just i chose this life i i chose this life
one more stop to make up here before moms see sunglasses helped it's sunny it's sunny
well this is uh the last stop here uh if you don't know you just don't know but if you're
in our beer and you've spent any significant time on interstates in washington state
you know how awesome it is for an rver see this semi truck staying to the far left lane well
if you pick one of these three lanes it looks like that one's actually closed so we'll pull
up to this one free rv dump there's one here in olympia there's also one 50 miles north in seattle
actually i believe it's called federal way right before seattle free though to dump your tanks and
right in front of us fresh drinking water to fill your rv with drinking water as well
3.99 guys i'm gonna go ahead and uh i'm gonna go ahead and close this video out guys because
i'm gonna be driving to my mom's house and don't want the whole world knowing where her private
little spot is so i'm gonna go hang out with mom for a little bit and then in my next video
we'll get things sorted out for the summer sound good y'all take care be safe hug your
family members enjoy the time you have with them i'll see you in the next one guys bye-bye
you