well good morning youtube family today is a new day eric here in nomadic fanatic hope you guys are
doing well i'm doing better than my last video for sure i'll be uploading this video with some nomad
internet there's a link below if you need some unlimited internet yourself we're uh watering the
pavement and they got two more sprayers inside the covered area watering the concrete in there
yeah i did some urban camping here last kind of urban kind of residential actually well it's urban
because it's a park but there's houses on the other side of the street i thought it would work
it's about two blocks away from the highway over there unfortunately there was there was a bunch of
party animals that came in i think it was like 2 a.m in the morning they started drinking and
having a party here in the park woke me up a little bit went back to sleep today's plan
put on a happy face and kind of like skeletor just smile at everything and no matter what happens
today the only thing i can think of to do is just just laugh hysterically at everything you know
i think that'll make me in a better mood right yeah let's go a little walk again what do you
call this sirocco siraco new mexico is i think what we're calling it yeah look
at the architecture of this house they got wagon wheels as like windows to their stucco
it's kind of cool still a lot of random space alien type stuff all over the place you got a
cactus tree over there and a nice little nuke bomb here and whatever that is there art yeah
it's a muffler that's art art guys art well that's cool somebody hand made a little metal
ufo spaceship here too but he's not smiling at us what the heck
oh it looks like it lights up too there's some green lights on the side
huh that would be cool what's the back side look like okay what does that say recycling center
oh okay it's for the tire recycling center over here okay gonna put on some miles gonna head uh
straight east today and uh not to get my hopes up or anything but hopefully something is open if not
we're just gonna laugh just keep laughing just keep laughing that people are staring eric
well jackson i found a little uh another roadside picnic area this one's a lot
cleaner than the one in my last video so we decided to take a little break have
our lunch outside today right jack's man dad takes care of the good kitty
no you yours i'll eat mine you ears too bad new mexico doesn't allow you to stay overnight
i don't i don't call it camping you know it's just overnight parking but still
hey you didn't finish your lunch he's like well i'm just gonna eat yours dad no
is that pretty good then okay we've got about 50 more miles to put on eat yours
having issues are you having cat issues okay and then we'll get back onto a little bit
see now the good thing about playing with yourself you're always a winner
double ringer six pack baby yeah moral of the story always play with yourself or
by yourself play by yourself and then you're a winner wow eric well
just been doing a little bit of freestyling today and came across a little
national park area that also has a campground so kind of a bonus nice big sights
only 18 bucks i got my water hook up here i am plugged into 50 amp there got the water heater
on so i can take a nice long hot shower i mean skeletor these are big sights huh
yeah they gave us a a monster uh backyard here we got a covered area with a table we got our
own garbage can there's a burn ban right now and a barbecue grill over there and i'm going
to hike and explain to you what we're looking at you it might just look like it's like black
rock or something like that it's actually a little more interesting there's a lot of uh
native cactus plants i don't know the names of any of these but they're about the size of my hand you
also got this funky doohickey cactus okay but to get to the walking trail we got to walk up around
the entrance to the campground to get over there so let me grab a water all right i'm ready for
this we're up here at the start of the uh nature trail up here and as we look off into the distance
again it looks like black rock maybe to you and actually it's funny this shirt and this hat smokey
bear is is very fitting to to today's unplanned stop because this is all part of a lava field out
here the information center's closed so we can't get a map but i'm going to use google instead
this place is called valley of the fires yeah about 5 000 years ago little black
peak erupted and flowed 44 miles into the tularosa basin filling the basin with molten rock
so this landscape out here is actually one of the most recent lava flows in our earth's existence
actually here's a sample piece of flowing lava which cooled into a rough and jagged surface
called a a oh aha and we might find a collared lizard out here or a big eared bat i don't know
i'm down to find some new mexico wildlife make sure my apple watch counts this as a as a hike
lots and lots of switchbacks here i know gopro doesn't show you how stupid and everything is
lots of switchbacks on the way down it'll be easy the way back up i'm going to break a sweat
because i know i mentioned in my last video that the temperatures are starting to cool
down here finally for me nah nah they jumped back up it's 87 degrees in new mexico in october y'all
i will say they did a really good job with making this trail seem like it's really flat
i mean the switchbacks really definitely help it oh we'll take a break right here
check out this molten lava rock yeah 5 000 years old it's really not that old though
and it just falls and stays wherever it feels like back then that's something else so sticking
with that theme of valley of the fires and smokey bear the theme and everything tomorrow we're gonna
go do something else smokey bear together so we'll sleep together tonight and then
i keep saying things that sound wrong we will overnight together here virtually through youtube
and hit the road as part of this video to go see something else in new mexico i know i said this is
my last day in new mexico but we got we got we got one other thing to do isn't it weird how the lava
chooses to rest in certain place and have these cavities
and they put a lot of effort into building this trail right over it
look at those swirls in the lava looks like a big ol paul bunyan cow pie
these trees are cool they're one of my new favorites this one even has a
little yellow butt at the end but that's a prick that is definitely a prick there
you do not want to fall off your bicycle and land in one of them
man why don't they put some bud light vending machines on these trails to keep us hydrated
oh this is a juniper tree i finally know that now i called it a a bonsai tree a couple weeks
ago that's a juniper tree and for whatever reason i'm probably never going to forget that now very
interesting curves and definitely the green wait is that a huckleberry no these are these do have
juniper berries which apparently you're edible i don't know i'm gonna stick with huckleberries very
interesting okay i'm gonna head back to the rv and go check in on jax real quick doing some
cat chilling under dad's desk huh well i'm gonna have to do some editing so you may have to move
a little bit and he's like man make me make me oh all right fine i'll wait to do some editing
hey wayne jackson they're gonna chill and maybe watch the stars go over the lava fields over there
tonight that'd be nice and then we'll get another jump start tomorrow and head east together okay
okay
all right guys good morning slept really well out here it was very peaceful very beautiful
out here i'm just topping off my water tank before i leave do a last little check here right across
the street is the uh dump station here so i'll do this on the way out and then we will finish
new mexico here in a couple minutes okay all right we are officially in capitan capitan it's
not captain it's i think it's capitan new mexico home of smokey bear that's right we've got the
smokey bear restaurant with a wooden carving there smokey bear the smokey bear hotel with a big
that's like a 20-foot wooden bear uh-huh and look across the street over here something quirky guys
gosh what is it it looks like a smokey bear antique shop
it does say sorry we're closed right here but some interesting stuff here guys roadside america
you know what i mean salt creek mercantile i love all the coke stuff out front this is really neat
and yes they are closed they even got a skeleton in there and just they wrote closed all over the
place but it's pretty neat to look at pretty cool just another half mile down the road though is the
smokey bear state park i know smokey bear is more like a national national park type thing but they
have a they have a estate tribute to smoking we're gonna go find out some information about that
okay it's kind of quiet here in the tiny little quaint town of capitan but the smokey bear museum
and it says the nearby lincoln national forest is the birthplace of smokey bear
let's go see what we can find here there we go the smokey bear museum gift shop it's closed
perhaps there's another entrance but it says smokey bear historical part this part commemorates
smokey bear and describes his the history and development of the national symbol of the forest
fire prevention the original smokey is buried here within sight of the mountain where he was found
orphaned by a fire raging in the lincoln national forest the park offers extensive historical
exhibits as well as a trail that identifies native plants i love that wood sign smokey bear
so if you look at this sign new mexico is only letting new mexico residents and so when i tried
to open the door a nice lady came out and told me she's not happy about it either it does say that
the inside's closed but the outside part over here which is over here she's only allowed to
let people who have a new mexico id driver's license walk over here and look at the park
and that's just the way the governor has decided it so um anyways guys really sorry about that i'll
get a couple pictures with smokey bear and i think it's i think new mexico has been an
absolute joke except for the first time i came in in that one small little town there otherwise um
i strongly recommend that you just stay out of new mexico for the time being because
they are very anti-tourists right now and uh that's too bad that's too bad i don't want
to end this video on a sour note but obviously uh today is today has turned out to be nothing
like i planned another time perhaps another year another lifetime maybe we'll get our rights back
anyways i'm leaving new mexico i'm putting on some miles today guys don't know when my
next video to you might be but from jax and i we wish you well hope you have a great week
don't like i said i don't know when we'll see you so bye guys bye