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 yes good yeah it's 11 58. good morning vlogmas in july continues a video every
single day hope you're doing well guys we're going to take a chance going to take a risk going to
be a high of 64 degrees today with a 25 chance of rain that's okay i got tater tot in tow behind me
we're gonna go up into the hills today we're doing it
and by the way you know scouting this out with tater tot a couple days ago
really paid off because i kind of know what to expect we're going to be taking back roads
like this for about 30 miles until we get to 101 for a little bit and then we'll find that forest
road but i also wanted to say that my google maps did the same exact thing as last time
put me out in the middle of nowhere randomly it's not good i don't know if it's a google maps issue
or a verizon issue or an iphone issue but man i've really got to keep paying attention because
it wants to take me to the middle of nowhere and just dump me off in the middle of nowhere
ah come on sunshine burn through those clouds whatever i film today will still be uploaded
tomorrow because i'm i'm probably either going to take the car out or i may only stay one night up
i don't know how can i say that i have no idea what i'm gonna do yet but either way i'm not
gonna break the video a day routine somehow we will find a way all right he's slowing down
the pavement ends here and my oh my that's a big pothole down there full of rain
now the adventure begins at least it's a little wider right here but
holy cow there are a lot of potholes to avoid it's full-time job avoiding all these uh-oh
i'm not gonna be to avoid all these you just gotta go really slow whoa nomad internet
holy cow good stabilization on this camera but the rv is rocking like crazy holy cow
hopefully this ends soon look at this mess it's like a
minefield out here there's no way to avoid it poor tater tot back there
gonna be a long drive today
just taking it uh slow and easy through all these potholes don't know how i feel about
this guys i've camped here you uh get the feeling they don't want us back to camp in here anymore
get a little motorcycle through here maybe but uh look at this i mean i've camped back
here guys yeah i had miranda back here but um well you know what it could just be a staging
area like they just dumped a bunch of loads of rock to fill up all the potholes and fix the road
out there eventually but uh yeah no more camping in this spot let's not jump to conclusions and say
that it's going to be like this at all my other places i've camped along the wainuchi hopefully
fingers crossed that's not the case and they're just getting ready to fix the roads soon one day
in the future yeah all right back in frida i love this combo it looks so funny and it's unique i've
never seen a class c towing a smart car all right just checking out this bridge down here
i hear water trying to see the creek i think that's the wainuchi river go over the edge
yeah right there i see water way down there but anyway reason i stopped on this bridge
beautiful little view and uh look there's the lake down there guys glorious beautiful
somebody got it somebody got my magical spot looks like they're going for the day exploring
but um oh my gosh bummer well um never been up there
i want to go down here but i don't trust it and i don't
i'm gonna unhook tater tot and go scout it out
i'll just take the car out of tow mode here real quick turn the battery back on foot on the brake
turn the key on wait for neutral to reset on the dash there
it says neutral put it into park take out the key close the door and hit the lock button
now we're good to go because i know there's a campground down here of sorts i've never camped
at it but i know i've i want to say i've taken my e-bike down here and looked at it and basically
decided that oh this isn't going to work like i wouldn't be able to fit or something we did
just pass a sign that says discover pass required it's not a dedicated like actual
campground though it's kind of like a dispersed campground and what do we got here a big lake
uh-oh
it may not look like much to you but good thing i brought tater tot down here because
there's a huge dip see that and then my these tires would be here the other tires
would be here but the rv would be tilted at like a 10 percent lean going through here
darn it because there's a tent camper in there i see the orange tent
a couple other roads here that go through i'm still gonna bring tater tot through
i got frida frida would not do uh this would also be a no-go right here
otherwise once you get over here if you can get your rv through there's a nice sight right there
with a little fire ring and a rainbow rock if you're into that sort of thing actually i'll
be honest this little campground area here these kind of sites aren't nearly as good as that one
free campsite with the view of the river where that teardrop thing is but wait a minute
wait a minute what about back there although there's nothing pretty about it
i could i could walk from my rv to here wainuchi river down there just
yeah okay it's tricky though so i'm going to drive back to the rv
no no no okay try something else because i was thinking if we drive back and then another rv
passes me while i'm hooking up tater tot they're liable to just take this campsite right
so i'm gonna park the car right here so the rv can still get around roll the windows up
lock it up and walk back and hopefully hopefully that's enough to say that i'm
i'm gonna be there um but the cool thing is as i walk back i'm gonna get i'm gonna get credit
on my apple watch for uh steps and stuff and then if i pass anybody i'm just going to stop
them if there happens to be an rv or a camper van or something man that water looks great
i'll just tell them hey hey just so you know i'm i'm camping down there where
where the little smart car is at i think that'll work i think it's worth a shot
all right as we get closer to the bridge that you first crossed out look at this campsite here
see uh two tenths down there that is an amazing campsite on the river i'm gonna
go up to the bridge and peek down here look over the edge here oh there's somebody down
there that's the guy that was walking i don't see a vehicle down there but he is definitely
definitely occupying that space and he's right on there hey bud
right on the river there look at that view a little campfire right there all right well
we got frida right around the corner here let's look over this side and see how clear the water is
definitely very very clear and clean all right i finally get to use my new awning out here boy
that is exciting huh right deja vu over the bridge we go with frida yeah that's a good campsite down
there he's lucky i'm gonna keep an eye on that one in case i start seeing him pack up and leave
there's tater tot and we're still good nobody came from this direction and stole it
let me decide which way i want to have my door facing i'll get back
to you once i get parked and comfortable over here
all right
three
and three there we go somebody left a little small fire here but uh this kind of stuff
well you want to know what gets this place shut down guys this trashy crap
let me catch you leaving stuff like this in a national forest let me catch you you scumbags
well looks like there's a little trail up here probably just going to find more garbage but
let's go see what's on the other side here wow wow it is so green
man and mossy
we're not in a rain forest but it sure looks like we're back
in a rainforest you know all right let's go check and see if i have any service or internet but
even if i don't i'm still gonna stay here a few days i'll just take tater tot to town to upload
i just keep the battery out of it i don't use the battery too often unless i'm traveling with it i
just plug it right in without a battery that'll start up here in just a moment we'll find out
and just covering up my password there if you can see at the very top of that circle
there's a little x through all the bars there's an x there so um unfortunately no no service but
i've got the rooftop air not air conditioner on i got the fan running on the roof if you can hear
it behind me but um you know without service it uh just makes everything so much more peaceful
and uh yeah i mean i'm gonna take tater tot out probably tonight to go upload today's video for
tomorrow i think i don't know yet but let's look at the river again see if we can find a way down
there's literally a path right i was standing over there there's literally a path right now
it might be kind of slippery if it rains a little muddy down here
but there is a a nice path and it looks like a deep section over there too
walk out onto this log right here sure why not yeah look it's got that green tint to it
uh-huh not too bad guys look at this place look at the fog up on the mountains over there
it's ridiculously gorgeous man thumbnail picture
i know opie's out already let's go see if terrorists come out from underneath the chair
i see tara i would say she usually takes about 10 minutes after we stop and i pull the key out
she has to really know that we're done driving before tara really pops out
hey opie hey deretera i know you meowing yeah we'll go outside we will yeah we will opie
well i've been editing this video and i didn't think this is going to be a very long video if
i were to leave right now and go upload what i have but i'm already at 15 minutes right now so
actually i am going to load the car with everything and uh we'll record a couple clips
and i guess go try to find some internet to keep the daily vlogs going yeah okay all right we're
all alarmed all cameras are on uh yet there is still some trust involved here and um i can't
stop anybody but um i've taken enough precautions that um this is the risk involved in uploading a
video every day i'm bringing a nomad internet and my laptop with me to upload on this first day here
we're just going to have to find out how far i need to go uh before i can upload a video and
hopefully not all the way back to monoceno right so i may pull off a couple times and check my
nomad internet and verizon just to see at least tater tot is so nimble that it's much easier to
avoid the potholes and it's not as rough either so i can drive quite a bit faster on these back roads
i believe it's about 30 miles to concrete and again i'm going to keep an eye on this one here
because they may not stay long if they leave i may pack up and grab this spot on the river i
might i don't know it won't fix my internet issue my connectivity i wish i didn't i wish i didn't
have to upload for like three or four days but um i'm gonna also want to share this with you and i
don't think i can just stop posting on instagram patreon and youtube for four days i don't think
that would work after i've promised that i'm gonna do a video every single day so if nothing else if
this video won't upload if it's just taking too long i may just have to post like a community
post or something and say i might not be able to do a video every single day wool bottles careful
this way that way okay cool all right we're off the dirt road now and i'll just keep driving
keeping an eye on nomad internet plugged in and then we got so a t there verizon there and just
keep checking maybe one of these high points over here find some service there's the road i was just
on i pulled off because all of a sudden it popped up one bar of verizon lte however nomad internet
att still disconnected let's try this do a speed test here uh oh it can't even find the provider
may not really have service and they gave us the error code that was false
it still says we have one bar of lte but that is false figured that was too good to be true just uh
uh 22 miles away from camp so hopefully going to go to all the way to montecino but keep checking
oh is this oh my gosh well this is probably on its way back to camp in the rv with the kitties
okay here we go messaging with my buddy andrew here with still one bar of verizon and no
at t nomad internet so this one's not working but i'm gonna be able to use my hot spot on my phone
and upload this video just off the road there's a little berm right there i'm gonna get this video
uploaded all right i just did a little test i was actually uploading an older video but i wanted to
make sure it went to two percent it just went to two percent so i know i've uploaded here i'm going
to pin this spot it's about 40 minutes from camp plus that 10 or including the 10 miles of potholes
there so let me add these clips to my video here and then we'll get this uploaded and then i'll go
back to camp okay so you guys be well i'm going to start my next video off as soon as i get back
to camp so it will include some night stuff tomorrow and uh we'll see how this works you
guys be well from taranopia and i we will see you again tomorrow from the olympic national forest
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