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good getting a fresh start on the windshield there but it'll get messy by the end of the day
hey everybody Eric here from nomadic fanatic we'll be uploading this video with some Nomad
internet link below in the video description we got to put on another farther into Texas today
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down in front Opie
all right and coming into view just off to our left here I call this boob Mountain
literally looks like a boob and a nipple it does uh Texas has named it get this squatique peak
famous little Landmark here a lime Stone Hill archaeologists have actually recently found
um some Native American relics dated like 6 000 years old because of the Limestone
I guess it was really fruitful to harvest food and stuff there
uh whatever it's boob mountain and I finally got to see it here in the daytime because last
time I was through here I was driving through at night could see much of it
all right but one hour of desolate driving and finally at speed limit 80.
finally come to a town this is Ozona so I'm gonna get off here because a billboard back there said
Ozona is famous for something somebody go check it out see if they got any parking here at the park
uh nope they're all diagonal slots here you know what nobody's here though I'm the only one here
I'm gonna take up four diagonal spots nobody's here right yeah so here in Crockett County Texas
a little Monument for uh Davey Crockett there he is there they put this up in 1939 in honor of the
1875 Texas hero and Alamo martyr Davey Crockett there is also an annual Davy Crockett Festival
here in Ozona end of August maybe the first week of September every year that would be fun to uh
go to if I ever find myself back in the area but they've also got the Crockett County Museum next
door which I'm going to skip for today but 18.75. man I tell you if they're one place that I would
one time in this world that I would rather be in than right now in 2022 it would be 1875 the old
west I would love it yes I know there wouldn't be internet and game systems and refrigeration
and air conditioning but it's worth it to me if I could go back in time right now 1875. the park
also has this other Monument here it looks like a cowboy and his wife and some cactus
it's called the tie that binds by Judy black but no other description about what it actually
represents just its title and the artist okay but I'm gonna make lunch while I'm parked here having
a banquet Mega meal salisbury steak and taters there in the microwave running my microwave off
my lithium batteries uh charged by solar on the roof you know what I still have not even
turned on my onboard generator once since I left Vagabond base camp not once don't eat it anymore
as long as we can get sunshine and recharge the batteries I can live unplugged indefinitely I'm
just gonna need fresh water and to dump my tanks at least once a week or once every 10 days but
remind me to start up my generator and actually use it under a load here soon at least to keep it
running well in case I do need it great day to be outside in Texas get a load of this Gourmet
banquet food guys actually the more I look at it the more I don't even want to eat it but
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it's not it's not better than it looks but it's not as bad as it looks okay okay
try the taters
mm-hmm there is a slight resemblance of a potato in there
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I think we can do better I think we can do better today let's get back on the road well
let's do back roads for a little bit here County Roads instead of the interstate for
a little bit and see what we can find off the beaten path a little bit I'm gonna hit up this
rest area because I do not have sleeping accommodations for the evening I have a
harvest host in two days but uh for tonight I'm about 180 miles from it's a free dump station
from San Antonio but I don't need to get there today is this a free dump station
yeah yeah score they didn't even advertise that well there's a sign
here that says potable water but it doesn't exist anything except for the sign indicating
so just just a dump station here yeah usually I don't really like to stay at rest areas because
of the fact that they can be really noisy with lots of traffic and the trucks uh air
brakes continuing to go off and on reefer units generators all that kind of stuff but you know
in Texas butterfly in Texas you actually do get to stay in your RV legally for 24 hours at any
Texas rest area in the state so it's really cool but I'm gonna look I'm gonna go ahead and look
at my free campsites.net so let me dump my tanks I'll get back to you all right we're gonna go a
little bit farther towards San Antonio instead I found a a neat looking free campsite that is
going to be a lot nicer than a rest area here but this particular rest area here in Texas is
pretty darn unique every single Little Shelter has a wagon wheel with a little lean-to roof on
it so if you wanted to uh camp and picnic uh with a wagon wheel you could do that here let's go to
the front see here even the walkway has more Wagon Wheels leading up to the entrance nice job Texas
otherwise not much here just two restrooms and a map okay well we'll get back on the road and
put on this last 28 miles or so to the park and I'll let you know when we get there oh that's
weird once I actually hit navigate to that place it changed from 28 minutes to 55 minutes but it's
all on Interstate 10 here I-10 so that should be fine the last thing I'm going to do is I go around
the loop is I'm just going to be looking off to my left just to see if they have a potable drinking
water where I could top off because really dumping the tanks is just half of it I still
need water to replenish what I'm going to use you know for everything there is a drinking fountain
wait a minute
wait a minute I see something oh what a score look at this on the back of the drinking fountain
let me do this real quick let me get water real quick because the more places that I can get a
free dump and free water the less time I have to spend an RV parks plugged in for
that service it basically extends me out another 10 days to Boondock which is what I like to do
now we just got into Junction Texas that's also where the free campsite is I'm gonna get gas here
at Pilot and check my gas mileage because I haven't run the generator uh looks like
315 a gallon it's through these trees you can't see but 315 a gallon five cents off means 310 a
gallon going to be some of the least expensive fuel in a long time I'm not gonna say cheap
but but yeah three three ten a gallon is going to be the least expensive in a very long time
big question is do they have RV pumps or am I going to be waiting here for a while
they do not have RV pumps so I what am I going to do I'm going to swing around
I try to get in line on the other side so that I have an easy way out okay I'll do my hard work now
getting in and wait maybe even have lunch while I'm waiting because sometimes it takes a really
long time and then when I leave it'll be easier in fact this one over here clearance clearance
I don't see a clearance yep we just gotta wait for this one Toyota to finish and then I can
pull up a little more or can we make it might be able to yep he's done anyway cool that was quick
all right 196 divided by 21.1 equals 9.2 miles per gallon not bad for a Ford V10 science a city
park that's just called City Park okay that's cool is that it's a river or a lake in front of us too
where do I park I was gonna say I I would park by the river but there's a sign on this tree
right in front of us that says no camping by the River from the dam to the bridge
okay so we're gonna have to stay off the river I don't actually know which side the Dam's on so
I don't know what that really means but through here seems like a nice little camping area right
um but I want my door facing this way so I might swap around here we'll see here
here we go yeah we got a view of the water right here okay
I still gotta fix that latch I've got it coming on Amazon just gotta wait till we get to Houston
to pick it up it'll be okay yeah so I did a little bit of research the damn is farther
up so that sign that said between the dam and Bridge is farther up these are all places where
you can camp and man this is a really really good campsite for free 99 thank you free campsites.net
what a beautiful little free campsite I got my own garbage can there got my own cupboard
area with a picnic table and a little charcoal grill there did I mention of you look at the
beautiful color of that water that reminds me of some Washington State Rivers like the satsop
and there's a dam right up there
wow thank you Texas now aren't we glad we didn't stay at that rest area with the truckers I love it
so what is Junction Texas known for famous for I guess this you see they keep their
Christmas tree up all year long except it's not a Christmas tree it is the deer horn tree of 1968.
a tree a Christmas tree with nothing but antlers deer antlers oh and your occasional little snaky
snake there and some Mardi Gras beads there we go guys welcome to Texas quirky okay let me grab some
lunch anything will be better than that TV dinner and then we'll take it back and have a little
picnic at our Campground there we go a little bit better than my TV dinner Sonic delivered with some
popcorn chicken some tater tots because there's no Tater haters here a Coke and a pretzel twist it
was for you guys look at this View hmm all right and as the sun sets behind me it's making the
sky over here a little bit Pink as well a little water over there nearly a full moon up there also
pretty nice hello Sunset was nothing I came out here to turn on my underglow for
a tater tot and Frida over there going with that uh green theme once again I
came out here to add some color to the park because I thought it might need some color
Well turns out they had the same idea uh no they are not decorating early for Christmas the park
keeps these up year round these are permanent Christmas lights throughout the entire Campground
and I got to give you guys a huge thumbs up here I love it back in fact we'll step back if you look
closely treat a tree you've got the Romex Wire kind of covered in some Garland to try to hide
it and that way they could wire up all these trees from tree to tree throughout the park
and then leave them up year round I don't know if it serves another purpose like to deter criminal
activity here or maybe it's just to make people smile if that's the case it sure worked thank
you Junction Texas it's beautiful y'all be well I'm gonna watch some TV with Tara And Opie and we
will see in the next one hopefully getting into San Antonio in a few days be well guys bye-bye
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