morning everybody in the capital state forest beautiful forest
here in olympia washington where the rainier beer just grows on trees heck yeah
i don't know what it means but there's a smile upon your face
and i see something shimmering in your eyes
and they say if you wanna glimpse the future you need space
and you said you put down your morning guns would you follow me to wonders
take my hand
when you look at me this way i find it hard to not give in
so the days became weeks it felt just like the night before you were slowly fading in my mind
when you left i was so completely gone but now i'm sure you were some of the best
i find it hard to not give it
hey everybody only my second day in washington and um already had to come out today cover up the bike
didn't didn't want black belly to get wet um i've gotten i've gotten caught quite a few times on
my honda rebel when i had it here when there was zero percent chance of rain and then it it still
rains we're we're here in uh a familiar spot but it's a new spot what does that mean yeah
i'm here at the inside the capital state forest of margaret mckinney campground
um an actual designated campground but i'm in a new site yeah now this one actually surprised me
quite a bit um we've got c loop over here which has a couple camp sites that are occupied right
now c loop one through nine well they we got both kitties on the dash can you guys see them
both of them are up there uh they carved a little path here dropped a bunch of rock and uh created
c10 which was open and available and i didn't even have to unhook my trailer
got room out front for the bike it's a long sight it may not be a great sight for tent
campers because they put down all this gravel so you got rocks and stuff uh you know what i should
probably put that away because it's not waterproof it says so it's not to leave it out in the rain
uh yeah lots of rock and then uh i unloaded my bike right here look at all this open space
uh-huh they did tear up a bunch of the vegetation which i'm not in love with but give this a couple
years and all the green will come back it'll start looking like this i believe camp host steve said
that you know usually you're not even allowed to gather anything here inside the park you can't
even pick up a stick this is illegal usually to pick up a stick and try to burn it but right now
because they did all this you know destruction and tearing things up to make some new campsites that
they said that they're gonna let us burn the wood that's around here the problem is they just cut it
uh give it a couple years for that to season and that'll be some great firewood for now they
nailed this sign to this poor tree indicating the new site c10 there's also you can see the
class a up there that's also a new site in a loop right across from where the old bathroom
and handicap spot was i used to camp in the one next to it um so maybe they added these
sites for rvs specifically and not 10 campers is kind of what i'm thinking because again wouldn't
be too comfortable putting a tent down on all that rocks but uh worked really nice for me i was
pleasantly surprised when i came in yesterday and i'm going to check the forecast here and see if uh
maybe we can go take a ride out and go look at the crick yeah good old margaret mckenney they need to
mow this middle spot here the grass is really tall there
so there's three sites there there's one guy in a car and cargo trailer there this site's open
um like i said there is some rain in the forecast this week so i think that's probably going to keep
people away but i got my discover pass for the rv also had to get a second discover pass for the
motorcycle because it's a it's another vehicle it's strange being back in the northwest got a
little emotional putting that intro together you know because this campground specifically you know
jax and i share a lot of memories here we go again good memories we share good memories here
and we're going to create new memories with opie and terror there they both are up there on the
dash there's the discover pass for the rv discover pass for the motorcycle because it was raining and
i didn't really know what to do about it the the warden did come through and he said that's fine
just he just wants to see it so i got him both there hey opie hey tara what good kitty is
excited about the woods yeah well let's see the ground is drying up shall we venture on the bike
yeah that's good let's go try it
heck yeah so glad i took the bike out i wasn't going to with the slick roads but
it wasn't that bad and i was really careful and slow through there anyway this is a bordeaux and
you can see all the moss and greenery this is the uh cedar creek coming from up there about
two or three miles up north there's a bunch of signs about cedar creek correction center
randomly in the middle of the woods is a correction center so don't pick up
hitchhikers okay we won't we won't do that looks like somebody may have tried to make a little camp
don't know about the legality of doing that but they definitely had a fire right there look how
pretty this is under the bridge are there any trolls under the bridge no okay beautiful though b
e a utiful heck it if the rain's gonna hold off i wanna go check out this little
small town saloon up here down here down back by the road see if they have any food grub
maybe a rainier beer draft haven't had a draft of rain here since i've been back
and i love the green it's tough for me because i grew up from these places so i'm used to it
but when i leave and come back just it fills an empty void after traveling and don't get me wrong
i love traveling and seeing new stuff but there's also some reward to coming back and seeing home
you know so yeah let's go ride into little rock all right i'm going to venture on into the little
rock saloon here i don't know if i'll film in there but uh get back to you afterwards yeah so
i did sneak my iphone in and here's their menu i love it quirky little bar i got one of their local
draft ipas there they got pool tables in the back and dart boards and of course i
went with chicken tenders and those are jojo's jojo's folks i got me some jojo potatoes yummy
i'm still really glad i stopped in there because i know what it's like on the road for locals they're
always looking through that glass as soon as you park whether it's an rv a car or a motorcycle
they're all staring at you they all start saying something i have no idea what they said about me
before i came in but i am really glad i did not bring this camera and that microphone and
this handle inside because i was definitely the odd man out in that bar that is the first every
single person in there was called by their first name by the two bartenders
and servers every person in there on the other hand before i left they knew me as eric which
was pretty cool didn't even know i was making a youtube video of sorts with my iphone there so
looks like the rain may actually be done for the evening although you never know in the capital
state forest it could always start raining on us again so i'm settled here got some things
to do got plans with my dad for father's day so we'll keep those videos coming guys
and uh i just want to spend a little bit of time and let it all sink in so from opie and tara and
i we will see you in the next video guys thanks for joining us from washington state bye guys
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