who needs chin scratches chin scratches who's a good boy a good boy
I found my little piece of paradise here up in Texas even a day without any rain
finally we have broke the consecutive days of rain record here in Texas
finally broken it up this is the remnants of an old campground on the
river Holly bluff trying to capture its beauty was a little tricky when I first
got here it's kind of kind of messy and dilapidated out here unfortunately I
hate to say it it's kind of just becoming the norm out here in these
really pretty spots it sucks when you get here and that's the first thing you
see glass bottles all over to run over tampon packages gross I know but I don't
want to camp here in garbage and I always leave a place cleaner than when I
got here that's why I travel with a grabber and I'll admit I have picked up
some nasty garbage in my travels I will not tell you all the stories but you
know you want these free campsites to remain open we got to do our part right
well you know getting my campsite clean is a good feeling out here I can't pick
up the whole park I just don't have enough way to carry that much trash to
the nearest dumpster so can we just take a moment and just listen
it is peaceful as heck out here thank goodness or some natural beauty right
I'll also pop some GPS coordinates up here on the screen because this isn't a
approved campground dispersed camping here from free campsites net I really
appreciate that resource down here on the river the water's up right now but
you got me over there in that site you know you're not gonna get level right
here but there is another site right here and then you can even drive down
this way and go over there towards the water if you want without leveling jacks
like I've got you're gonna have a hard time getting level down here otherwise
back up the road before the campground ends here at the river there's some
other spots up there to camp but yeah it just saddens me with the amount of
garbage and as much as I want to try to film around it it's like everywhere you
get to the point where you start feeling like am i the only person in the world
who respects the land like I'm not perfect by any means but I mean I just
we have trash island out here and it hurts my heart so much to see this much
trash just piling up at a free campsite I mean the truth of the matter is it's
gonna be shut down and I can't reach that stuff out there sometimes I get to
filming places and I purposely do avoid filming all the trash but here it just
frustrated me a little bit a little bit more than normal day one here I walked
7.5 miles through trails mostly along the rivers Bank actually I call it the
rivers Bank because this is where the rivers bank is right now but we are so
flooded that I mean it's way up here actually can see back there it just
keeps coming in and rising and the water so dirty because of all this
unbelievable weeks and weeks of rain in this area but still no shortage of fun
walking trails through here I also had a doe moment on one of my walks I didn't
bring a camera didn't even bring a cell phone just had my watch an armadillo
went across the walkway up there I was like gosh an actual real armadillo if I
get a chance to go back on another walk with the camera
I'll try to film I think I think I know where is his homes add up there well we
got clear skies 60 degrees for highs here
it froze last night it was 30 degrees overnight last night tonight it'll be
like 38 really not not too bad you know and apparently this is offseason right
now up at the booth you're supposed to fill out a registration form they don't
have any registration forms in there and it's about 1.7 miles walk from here I've
checked throughout my stay here it's a free campsite so think of any free
campsite that's deserted and neglected that's what this is but hey we're not in
a Walmart parking lot tonight no no no and the river water is still flooding I
have a flood warning until tomorrow morning the road right now ends right
here that used to be able to camp out there in fact way out in the distance
there's pictures on free campsites of people camping right through there well
not right now it's beautiful it's exactly what I needed
well Oh break from everything been going on with the rain thanks for the sunshine
hey by the way it is day 3 out here I know I'm gonna be combining three or
four days of video into just one video here no matter what but I wanted to let
you know that I've spent a good amount of time out here and I have really
enjoyed nature and this place particular something about the peacefulness of
boondocking really makes me a more creative person but also just a happier
person and I unlike almost every RV friend I have I really really enjoy my
my alone time you know Jax and I out here so most
people might go stir-crazy after just a couple days of not seen a human of any
kind where I it works for me also I have decided to go on another walk because
it's the the best way to get my exercise around here and I love nature well I
really really want to find that our medulla again I'm gonna I'm gonna bring
the camera and go try to find him but um I think as our veer
we all have a different level of what makes us safe and secure as far as
leaving the RV you know I actually have quite a few RV friends who are really
uncomfortable staying in a Walmart parking lot and not to say one way or is
wrong or right it's just we're all different and to be honest with you in a
place like this for me when I'm completely alone and I don't see any
other RVs it can't it is actually the most uncomfortable feeling oftentimes I
won't even be outside by myself after dark when I'm literally alone and I mean
alone as heck I hadn't seen a vehicle for for two straight days and then
yesterday on my long walk back like I said it was a seven and a half mile hike
and most of its on you know the road that ends here back up there but as I
was going halfway up a truck came by and passed me I'm like it really made me
feel uncomfortable I'm like dude my RVs at the end of the road and nobody else
is out there you know however you know I have a couple tricks up my sleeve and
I'm not paranoid or anything but I've got my security cameras that are
recording all the time and uploading them I can't watch the security cameras
from my watch so I probably should always have my phone with me so I can
check real quick and I could have seen exactly what they did when they got to
the dead-end turn around or anything but also my alarm system is gonna notify me
directly on my Apple watch it's gonna tell me exactly when my alarms going off
over here again emphasis on not being paranoid or anything I can do it from my
watch but I I'm holding the camera so I can't do it but if I see something in my
view like if I've been on the trail yesterday and I saw something and they
got really close to my RV down here obviously I'm not gonna be able to run
back in time but I can just hit the panic button on here and in a couple
seconds if I just need to scare somebody off or let them know maybe that'll be
enough for them to look up and say oh I'm being recorded to the cloud it's not
necessarily false security because everything is very very secure but it's
not gonna it's not gonna stop somebody who just doesn't care
you know if anybody ever does try anything stupid near my RV well they're
gonna be YouTube famous and somebody out there one of my two hundred and seven
thousand subscribers is possibly gonna recognize you so I mean if it's that
important somebody might still try to do something bad but I do try to be as
careful as possible yeah let's go on a walk and see if I can find that
armadillo I keep stopping to go here wrestling in there and every time it's a
squirrel
every time squirrel well that is going to do it for this leg of the trip one
point eight miles to the front of the campground there's the sign
Holly Bluffs a fourteen days but I'm assuming it's 14 days campers like I
said you're supposed to register but here I'm gonna I'm gonna carefully peek
under here and there's still no registration forms available on day
three oh you think I'm paranoid by using a stick to open something no if you
haven't had the pleasure like I have of having a scorpion sneak up into your
swimming trunks and sting you on your whoo-hoo that's all it takes is once and
that was here in Texas even that was that was a Texas thing so I am very
careful looking for scorpions and snakes and tarantulas and everything these days
I don't take any chances but I got a good one point eight miles back and I've
already closed both my exercise and my move ring for the day so we'll get on
back to camp I'm gonna show you some some nature
stuff so I'll put the other lens on my camera and we'll look at some some
nature around my campsite down here and then maybe have a little campfire
tonight
and good morning again everyone it's fun to be able to finally get some clear
skies at night and play with the old star lapse feature those are long
exposure pictures that I have my GoPro taking like 30 second pictures overnight
and then I put together six or seven hundred pictures to create those seven
second moving star lapses as I call them I don't know what you really call them
night time lapses but you know just to see how they rotate and everything at
night it's really cool and it's fun to play with the LED lights are that so I
haven't had too many chances this winter you have to have a night that's clear
and not gonna rain you know and the other thing about coming to new places
is it can make me feel a little uncomfortable cuz I don't know what to
expect but when I make new memories I'm gonna have a really hard time leaving
this place cuz I really loved it but like I said real time three nights and
four days have passed for me here yeah even though it's just one short little
video that I just threw together no effort at all right yeah got plants I
got a friend up north I want to go see and it's gonna stay in Texas though for
a little bit longer so Jackson I'll see in the next video bye
guys