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 yeah and good morning once again everyone vlogmas in july continues a video
every single day as we move into the second half of july i'm a little exhausted guys it's a lot of
work keeping up you know especially even with the bad experience in my last video you know
that whole section of time that i spent there those three videos normally i would have taken
the best from those and made one video you know but right now we're doing a vlog a day so so
thank you for joining me guys we're here at the wish ka river do you know what it's famous for
yep we're in aberdeen washington which i have a bunch of ties to uh it's my first house was here
in aberdeen over on the south side by the college but uh not only am i from aberdeen washington but
um a very famous musician uh has roots here especially on the lonely wichika river kurt
cobain from nirvana is from here and as a matter of fact he has an album titled after this body of
water right here he has an album along along the muddy banks of the wish river yeah that's that's
that's this river right here under this bridge right here which i know there's some controversy
over his drug use and other things like that but um the city still has this park
uh ooh sunshine in his remembrance but then up here at the top of the park and it's called
kurt cobain memorial park here uh they have this little picture of him yep from aberdeen washington
passed away on april 5th 1994. supposedly he od'd but a lot of people think he just chose
to take his life it's a tiny modest little park that kirk cobain kc park with little music notes
there on the garbage can and then over here by the river there's a a concrete guitar sculpture
uh i'm not thrilled about the idea of everyone writing on it but you know maybe maybe kurt
would have liked that only all the people showing support there the big old concrete guitar and yeah
love you kurt out here taking tater tot around even though um it is 74 degrees
in aberdeen one of the warmest days of the year and looking ahead at the forecast oh boy
we're gonna skip 70 degrees and jump right into the mid to upper 80s here summer will make an
appearance here in just a few days let's see if we can find any of uh kurt's old places where he
lived here it is reported and documented heavily that kurt was not a rich man uh growing up a young
boy kicked out of his house when he was 17 here in aberdeen we're gonna go stop by uh his very first
place he lived after uh being kicked out of his parents house here in aberdeen yeah so not in a
van down by the river but uh this house right here at 609 west 2nd street but not inside the house
back in the day this house was occupied by dale krover and he let curt uh live
in a refrigerator box here in the driveway of course dale crover became uh the drummer
for curt's band nirvana started right there in the driveway by the way this is not me trying to
compare myself to kurt in any way him and i uh did share some similar battles as far as depression
and being in a low place uh and kind of just being down and in the dumps here in the city of aberdeen
um this street right here is the location of my second house ever so since we're on this street
we're gonna go down four blocks and you're gonna see my second house and then we'll go across the
bridge to the south side look at my very first house and see how it's doing i haven't seen this
house for many many years uh it looks like the driveway might be open i don't i'm gonna park in
front of the house anyway there it is actually you know what i can see it sported up 815 west
2nd street and every window is boarded up there so it's not being occupied now in fact i see a tag on
the door i can't read it from here but i think i think they've deemed this one inhabitable as well
what is it about all the the actual homes i've lived and have all either been deemed inhabitable
or been torn down all right we're going over the bridge here to the south side this is a drawbridge
and back in the day you know getting across this would really be bad because they will draw it up
about 30 minutes before the boat gets there and keep it up 30 minutes after
the boat crosses it would completely shut down the entire city of aberdeen's
north and south sides for about an hour and a half it was not fun so you didn't know if you
were going to be an hour early for class or work or late it was really weird we are driving down
marion street now and this stop sign is new uh people used to just bog through here the stop sign
it it's you lady you were okay and there you go so we're looking for 1017
a little two-story house here there's a there's a nice bike you see here we're getting close
not this one 10 13 10 17 wow they painted brown i'm going to stop here for a minute there's
no one behind me little garage underneath there two story we had a pool in the back
really a big house it was it's a three-bedroom house when we lived here and then you may have
seen some pictures of me with the dolphin parked right here along the edge the dolphin was here
while i was moving into it the current owners just weighed me over there they're very friendly
very chatty they just don't want to be on video they purchased the house in 2019 and fixed it up
um so anyway nice to see that the house is doing really really well uh they said they that they had
rented this house up until the time they bought it and now they own it so uh anyway yeah 1017 marion
what i was saying before they came out was that uh my class c toyota dolphin was uh
parked right here i have i don't know if i have any pictures still it might be on my hard drive
but anyway when i decided to go full time for the very first time in an rv
not a van i'm unloading all my stuff out here and that's when my girlfriend jada had kittens
and jacks jacks the very first kitten waddled all the way down these steps came out all the
way into the road and we didn't know it and hopped in the side door of the class crv toyota dolphin
like there's a there's a kitten inside my rv so i wasn't even a cat guy back then that was 2010
and uh jax and i just started traveling together from that point and that's
that's where it happened right here in this driveway right here at this exact address
south side i want to go look at my uh college this isn't going to be one of those tours like
the evergreen where it's oh my god evergreen state college is just embarrassing let's go look at this
one because i did actually like this college this is where i got my aaa degree in business
management first though before we go to the college the aberdeen mall uh did not survive over
here on the south side i know most people usually don't like these old walking through memory lane
type things but for me it's really weird seeing this mall all closed up anyway i wanted to drive
through and see what the mall looks like but also somebody brought their fifth wheel here to try to
boondock it looks like and maybe left something on it burned its final resting place is here now so
whoops all right and here's the entrance to grace harbor college i'm gonna pull off here
because they're closed anyway uh you can at least easily point this out my two colleges
that i went to for my four years had some of the greatest funniest mascots uh of course
evergreen gooey ducks a total joke because the college is so liberal they they didn't like being
forced to have a mascot so they just picked gooey ducks because it's weird literally a big shell
creature clam in the water but uh grace harbor college here in aberdeen has been the topic of
a few little debates here and there but also a few of those top five worst college mascot names
actually that's because if you're a grace harbor college alumni like me i am a grace harbor choker
choker it's not what you think though that is charlie choker see the the rope
so it's it's actually an old uh boating marine term the uh chokers but it's also like choke like
well you know i don't know it's funny like i said i got my associate's degree in business management
here then i transferred that over to the evergreen state college where i got my media arts
bachelor's degree in video production and i think that is enough history of nomadic fanatic
in aberdeen okay i i am proud of my roots here in aberdeen if i were to even though i say i'd never
live in the pacific northwest again i still think that if the right home popped up that had a garage
or at least a shop area or property where i could build an overhang for an rv or something i would
consider coming coming back to aberdeen because i have lots of uh personal growth that happened here
ups and downs in my life and i still consider it kind of battles one whereas you get to the
bigger city olympia where the evergreen state colleges and all the stupid liberal laws that
they're passing and anti-rv camping paraphernalia stuff in your vehicle no never will never will
i consider anything like that again um i don't even know why i brought that up i'm not looking
at property i'm not but ironically um i did want to give you guys a little two little updates one
miranda is getting fixed my class a is getting fixed um i'll give you more details on that in
just a moment but i did get word that we are fixing the front not a new cap but
fiberglass and paint match repair is happening on miranda number two moving forward after here
the motorcycle i got an offer from a friend who has a transport company who quoted me and
it was almost like a wow they had an opening from here to get to illinois and it's like
i have to decide in the next couple days if i'm going to take this opening because the price
is right guys i initially got quoted 5600 in gas alone to get the motorcycle and trailer back to
my shop in east alton this time significantly uh less expensive than that and that's why i'm like
oh geez so anyway let me get back to the kitties at least dad could move some of this junk out of
your way because this is your seat huh this is you got igoobies again how do you just always
constantly get the eye goobers how you doing opie staying cool yeah good boy it's not a toy it's
a camera okay tara barbara's i'm chilling on the dash there huh yeah we're doing some urban street
camping you know yeah it works for what it is right you're adorable i got the two biggest
biggest cat hams ever yeah i mean when i can score a nice 75 degree summer day out here it's perfect
because i'm getting all the solar i need to power anything anything i could possibly want in fact i
woke up today and my batteries were at 72 by noon i was back up to 100 and i'm running the rooftop
fan to circulate some air i don't need the air conditioner yet i might need it in a couple days
and uh going to be leaving aberdeen uh here even though you know my friends have this house here
it's just it's a good midpoint and it's cool that i can do some street street parking yeah i'm
doing some street parking while i'm here so that's that's easy there's no room on their property but
this is also where black betty is at and i get it gotta get in touch with my transport carrier and
see if we can schedule that otherwise i mean it see if i if i leave this area then it won't be
as easy to pivot and trade the bike for the the car and i'll be honest with you guys as
much as i love that bike it's no longer really a tool it's turning into a toy you know and
it breaks my heart but tater tot is just so convenient for everything in my life
we'll see you guys be well i got to take care of a couple
things opie and tara and i will see you tomorrow have a good one
you