good morning friends and family of YouTube welcome back to the Cascade loop
here in Washington State
it's a walking trail frenzy through here it's so pretty
look at all this beautiful Ivy everywhere complete with spiderwebs and
do still hunt some of them and look how they run up these trees wow I really
feel like I need to climb this rock though it's a slippery no not really
there we go vlogging from a mossy rock quick correction in my last video that
you guys saw when I was on the island and I went through deception pass I
referred to an accord as a still Whidbey Island technically deception pass it
switches to a different Island so right now I'm on the Fidalgo Island instead
still at the start of the cascade loop though and with keeping with that theme
of staying at different places different types of campgrounds and stuff there is
this is one heck of a beautiful Thousand Trails campground in fact my favorite
yet in the entire country this Thousand Trails campground yes so
it's still an RV park a resort you might call it but look at these big huge
spaces this is my site right here underneath all the Douglas fir trees
full hookups there's no pool here but we are on an isle we're not on an island
did I tell you earlier that we're on Fidalgo Island no I crossed back over
I'm on the mainland now but we have a view of the ocean right up here but just
like anybody in an RV I am gonna have to check in weekly or every 10 days to dump
my tanks and get fresh water and do stuff like laundry which I did last
night here in their laundry room and my annual Thousand Trails camping pass I
mean if these are right on the way on the loop then I'm taking I might as well
check out one or two this month right mmm barnacles on rocks we have a low
tide right now so I'm currently standing on a bed of barnacle rocks that would be
underwater half of their life right here and it beautiful doesn't smell too good
be thankful you don't have smell-o-vision smells kind of nasty out
here it looked like there should be a lighthouse right where that tree is
right there wouldn't that be pretty I don't know probably not a whole lot of
big ships or boats to come through here but still it's definitely pretty from a
distance but let's be honest up close I wouldn't really want to put my foot in
there I mean the resort has no swimming signs you can take your kayak or canoe
or something out there but and they have a boat launch
lots of people bring their boats on the trailer I don't know how that's gonna
work on an RV because you can't have the back of your RV in the water while the
boat trailers you know that means so you got to have like a pickup truck
separately from your RV or something oh I know something else awesome I am not
only chasing 70 degrees but today we're hitting 70 degrees 7-0 finally perfect
that's my my comfort high temperature only had to come out to the ocean and an
island to find it in the middle of summer and you know it's hard to capture
it on video and pictures sometimes but I'll give this Thousand Trails some
credit if there's one that you're gonna visit in the state of Washington I would
say come out to La Conner it's worth it you just you don't want to
be stuck in your RV watching Netflix all the time you know bring a chair out to
the water out here they got shuffleboard and volleyball
horseshoe pits they even got a mini-golf here at the resort as well and even
though they don't have a pool they do have a spa which yesterday was like
totally packed and now nobody's in there right now it's a really big campground
though so I actually went back to get the ebike which is a perfect tool to
navigate these big Thousand Trails campgrounds like that one in Orlando
nine hundred sites there you can go visit somebody actually got a note on my
door one of my viewers is down here I'm gonna I'm gonna go see if they're home
if I can locate their site
I think it's one of these cabins but we never get close
yeah they rent cabins here too well maybe the water out there these are good
sites actually they're not home they're right here and I can see they're toads
not there well I tried guys I'll try again later today too
yeah they even have an exercise room that sort of thing no no they have
permanent sites here but if you buy their permanent sites for like four
grand a year you can only stay half the year so you have to buy two different
permanent sites and nearby campgrounds if you really want to live full-time and
just stay here you can't see it but the view yeah sure yeah
we do have a view of the ocean out there it's pretty that door is really
deceptive a weird angle door right okay all right how do you play this again
okay no way
nope went to its oh you know honestly though that's why I don't watch golf on
TV anymore I actually went to the US Open in 2017 when they were at chambers
Bay here in Washington but I can't watch it anymore because of the idiots that
are in the stands every single time they hit the ball I just find the PGA Tour a
really childish and I wish they would I wish they would curve the idiots that
just get off on the sound of their voice getting on the TV till they don't you
get away to that stuff in baseball you run out of the field and make it to
yourself no they literally arrest you so why you get to say that dumb crap it go
it's golf I mean they're at there to dress up and wear it all yep this is
camping that's just like your opinion man yeah it is my opinion we all have a
different way to camp and enjoy life you know what I mean you know what I'm
saying this is how I do it right although here we are six or seven
minutes into the video and I still haven't shown Jax I better check the
comments and see what kind of people are threatening to unsubscribe because of
that he's sleeping literally sleeping in today mmm some thin crust
um this is Jack's pizza not JX but Walmart's Jay ACK s pizza it's cheap
thin crust my health plan mm-hmm and I figured out
why the hot tub was so empty the door's locked
I asked a maintenance person he said yeah it's closed every Monday it's only
open six days out of the week it takes a whole day to clean it which I have no
problem with I would I like the idea of them keeping the pools and saunas clean
so whatever kind of deep cleaning you got to do you do that today it'll still
be there tomorrow if I want to try it out right you know
and another thing this campground and all of the other northwest campgrounds
that I've been to so far there are only about 60 to 75% full here in the hardest
summer and some people might say well that's kind of strange I I would figure
it'd be totally full because everybody from the south comes up to the north and
people from Canada come down and use the Thousand Trails too it's just not the
case I've had zero problems trying to reserve any campsite in Washington State
and I'm talking like last-minute like less than a week in advance it's
definitely not the same as like down south and Florida and Texas and
California in the winter when everybody snowbirds down there you can't get
anything no in the Northwest like I said I haven't had a problem yet somebody's
building a little fort here of sorts okay fort behind my RV
alright I'll cut back in when Jax wakes oh you don't believe me I'll show you
he's still sleeping
you know the world's waiting for you Jax yeah they're waiting for you good more
afternoon oh so now you're awake and ready to conquer the world huh Jax is
that what you're doing you got some belly rubs from our new
friends huh yeah did actually didn't get a chance to sit down and chat with my
YouTube friends Lance and Trish that had the big RV they stopped over they also
have ebikes chatted for about an hour and they gave me some tips on the local
stuff on the cascade loop it's funny that I had never heard about it
apparently it's it's a thing and you're from Washington you're you're supposed
to know about the Olympic excuse me the Cascade loop I know all about the
olympic loop and they invited me to they have a really good camp site that they
had to like sign up for and get on a waiting list and they have like a
private little access to the water it's much closer than our public access here
at the park so I'm gonna I'm gonna go take another walk down to the beach
because I just love it so much I mean I could have just taken the bike but I'm
not gonna be able to get the bike through here and certainly I'm not gonna
get the bike over all these logs so I have spent a lot of time at my campsite
the last few days anyway we're gonna get getting right back on the road in my
next video guys I know this someone was a strange one but we're just kind of
parked getting stuff taken care of you know and I just want to touch on one
more thing because I have been getting like some some comments or feedback and
and and I want you all to know that that I'm doing really good like I'm really
healthy I'm feeling good I'm enjoying life I hope that you can tell that that
sincere about me that I really do enjoy life me and Jax have something special
going for us I am really lucky to have such an awesome pet he's like a son
sometimes I mean he's just such a character and he's so much fun to hang
out with and have on on the road and as far as you know doing all this alone
well let's it let's admit it guys I create better videos when I'm by myself
better content more creative I just I have more time to put together
things and to explore more areas now without getting into details I I have
mentioned in the past that I've never met a true compatible single Nomad in my
life I just never have they're they're either not what they say they are or
they change down the road and they actually don't want to travel at all
they just want to park for months at a time in the same place or they don't
actually like the RV life they'd rather be in a motel or hotel with room service
you know and it's one of those things it's tough for me to see happy people
all the time at happy Nomad couples but I don't know their story and most people
don't really know my story the truth is I'm just fine by myself if that's the
way it has to be to enjoy life and I'm making the most of it
look at this view it's just gorgeous I am lucky to be able to have found a way
to make money on the road and have a job that allows me to travel and explore and
also share that with you because I meet so many friends everywhere I go around
this country it's really fun so guys have a great night
Jackson I'll see you back on the road here soon from the Cascade loop good
night guys