welcome everyone to vlogmas in july that's right a video
every day for 31 days presented by nomad internet as a christmas fanatic this is a
great way for me to be cheerful and thankful all month long opie you better be a good boy this july
santa paws is watching tara no more sneaking into catnip sack santa paws will bring you coal thanks
for joining me this month guys and have a jolly old month of july yep welcome back to vlogmas
and july a video every single day it is still raining in the state of washington uh what were we
just talking about in my last video we were even joking about getting tater tot lifted guys look
i figured it was possible that is one sexy smart car i love the black
and yes they've got the tires let's see here we can see something yep they got
some spacers on there it's got a winch on the front price tag i'll just point out 20 grand
i love the wide stance and then they cut the plastic so that you could fit the wheels and
then put on new fenders that is really cool i would love to talk to the person who did
this mod because man that looks awesome oh they even changed the exhaust in the back
look at all that extra room that is a really cool looking smart car guys
and look at the front look how much extra room you have for for high clearance there
man that's really cool it's got a bra on it i didn't know you could get a bra
dang that looks cool well uh stopped here at my buddy's house i had considered grabbing the
motorcycle because there wasn't a whole lot of rain in the forecast but i'm gonna go ahead and
uh stick with tater tot today gotta go meet up with my dad and my brother today so i don't know
if i'll film anything i i tried to tell him it's gonna be a washout up there in seattle but uh they
still wanna try this um i'm just glad i don't have to ride the motorcycle so um i'll take you with me
and then i get back to elma and it looks like
it never rained at all there's like one puddle right there
what an insanely crazy day today guys
let's share with you how my day went 61 degrees today in the middle of july in the northwest uh
i'm at a a rest area truck stop so if you hear an idling engine that's they can't stop running the
engine it has to run the the entire time so that's what's going on there usually i'm here all alone
there aren't too many truckers that overnight here but um when they do they park right next to me
hilarious um if i weren't doing daily videos right now i would probably just scratch
everything and just chalk this up to another rainy fail but um it's 5 p.m
and this is what happened today so we went up north my other brother barry texted dad about
10 a.m and said hey um it just started raining here it was a seven percent chance for one hour
yeah no uh the clouds the heavens opened up and it dumped in seattle for four hours up there
so much for seven percent of course uh so i've got pictures uh dad and tyler and i here's us arriving
to pacific raceways there with rain not a whole lot of people in there uh here we are standing
under under a tree trying to enjoy some uh shade from the rain falling and uh we got to see exactly
two hot laps this is one of their full-size cars going around and wasn't really into that
but when they did the these are the formula ones the old school formula ones they were zipping by
until everything got shut down they announced that there would be no refunds and there would be no
races today and everybody packed up so before they packed up we went and looked at this really cool
ford powered formula car i was really surprised at how small this the seat is and like it looked
it looked really uncomfortable uh this car was supposed to race today in fact
um there's the uh ford engine there uh v8 would have been great to hear these on the road but it
did not work out oh got to see a couple rvs this gmc see that formula right next to it on the side
in this next picture this is how he hauls it he's got a hydraulic system that pops this up
into the storage bay and that's how he hauls it in his i found a wander lodge a really old school 80s
uh diesel pusher wander lodge it was beautiful out there then my brother tyler saw the go-kart track
it was pouring rain guys and we were looking at these guys just getting soaked don't know
if you can see the fish tail coming off the front and rear tires there but we decided somehow that
this is gonna be a good idea for us to go go kart the three of us in the pouring rain oh my gosh
so here they are undercover as uh dad and tyler and i decided to uh gear up forty dollars a person
there's tyler in front of me leading the way had we known how soaking wet we were gonna get
dad behind me here in the number 12 and our our our whole face shield would just fog up
like crazy because it was so rainy there's the end of it we were soaking wet don't know
if you can tell my sweater my hoodie is soaking wet it was miserable we were we were so frozen
uh tyler had the fastest lap out of the three of us and i came in second but i was 11 seconds
behind my brother tyler and then dad spun out and actually went into the grass we were like limping
back to dad's car just nothing on us was dry and uh we're just laughing hysterically it's like
what the what is going on around here just cannot escape the rain
and uh it i i guess i could say i'm losing it but you guys already knew that i'm losing
it we made some memories i will never forget that go-kart race with my brother and my dad
um it was still a lot of fun as soon as i got back to the rv the very first thing i
did when i got back here was take a hot shower and change my clothes i got my shoes drying out
and uh that was the day um i realized after we crossed that sign for the track that i wasn't
gonna be filming anything i pretty much actually what i said is okay well so much for daily vlogs
i'm going to skip today because this camera is staying right in dad's car i'm not even bringing
it out it's literally pouring rain and now i have a video to share with you anyway so i'm actually
glad the streak is going to continue here that was close just something i've had to deal with
in the state of washington is rain every single day even when there's only a seven percent chance
dumping dumping rain but i also want to point out and oh you see that right there more on
that in just a moment here that i realize the rest of the country is just completely under
a heat spell still and this state just cannot hit 70 degrees or stop raining it's hilarious
i think that's why a lot of people love washington state because you don't get a summer
you you get a fall or or spring it's it's free air conditioning um we'll go outside again
with that said though there have been plenty of summers here where we have hit well into the 90s
especially by now this is ridiculous it has never happened in the pacific northwest it is cold and
raining every single day all summer and this is strange you guys know i'd be out there too but
i'd be floating the natchez river or the nisqually or the deschutes and for whatever reason it just
will not stop raining or heat up it's got to be at least 80 degrees in order for me to
jump in the river and float the rivers around here sunshine no no just clouds just clouds
crazy i tell ya are any of my viewers still here in the pacific northwest this summer
this isn't normal right this is not normal
holy cow i'm looking at some video from three years ago when i was back here and uh no i my most
famous series the cascade loop which was 18 days around the loop of 101 beautiful absolutely
stunning views in july it never rained once this entire series um actually it's one of my very
underrated and underviewed playlists of videos and it was one of the greatest moments of my life and
it simply is not the case this year the sun just won't come out the rain won't stop so um here
at the end of the video i'm going to share with you a little snippet a little highlight reel of
2018 yeah 2018 cascade loop and i'll also uh link the playlist itself up in the top and in
the video description below in case you want to check out some of that i'm going to because
i miss that and i'm just tired of this rain but first okay i did go to two antique stores i found
nothing mickey if you can believe that i got this awesome camel lights cigarette clock for
20 bucks this is so cool i love my joe cool camel collection i'm also collecting harley stuff
and that collection is growing like crazy uh harley 100 year anniversary tin there
this one has a 3d harley motorcycle tin with two decks of playing cards
and inside this guy another 100th year anniversary i can't do it one-handed harley-davidson pen
freaking cool just a little bit at a time but by the time i get back to base camp in the shop there
these two collections are going to start looking like my mickey collection so like i said i want
to leave you with something i'm going to watch it as i'm posting this actually but a little end
cap montage collage of the cascade loop from three years ago there are a few shots of jackson here so
i always get emotional when i see him and remember him and how what what what a part of my life he
was on the road i'm just gonna warn you if you're emotional like me he is in this clip but um this
was a beautiful beautiful trip here in washington state when it did not rain for 18 straight days it
did actually happen may never happen again i'll leave you with that and tara and opie and i i
will show you them we will see you in a tomorrow i was going to say three days tomorrow we'll see you
there's the opie dopes he's the best fuzzy butt good boy ever and there's the terra bear she's
the best girl ever okay see you guys tomorrow morning it just never ends it's non-stop july
can we get to summer hey hey hey summer summer no answer that yeah straight to voicemail
there he is you want to stretch your cat paws i'm gonna go snip around all right man
him is a good boy you're not gonna do it are you he's gonna do it and he did it you did it
we all knew we were gonna do it kim's a happy kitty that we're parked now no more hills and
curves and elevation you know make the kitty tummy upset okay man okay we'll be done i really want
to thank each and every one of you for following me on this cascade loop this has been one of the
best summers that i can remember and pretty much 99 all new so this was really exciting
now you know about the cascade loop it's 440 mile uh two national parks you gotta go on an island
to do it and you can start anywhere you want i just chose everett and i'm about 20 miles
back to where i started there in everett right now where i'm parked right now so
this is uh we're gonna we're gonna call it quits here guys jax and i are gonna enjoy our night
make some pizza have a few barley pops some kitty barley pops some catnip maybe
catnip for sure to celebrate the loop yeah and then we'll be back here soon with uh some more
news about what's what's to come i've got a few more things i got to take care of here
in washington state before we head out officially you guys take care jackson i'll see you later bye
you