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 all right yeah everybody vlogmas in july continues this video literally
starts off exactly where my last one ended after i got the video uploaded i'm now heading back to
camp to see the kitties i'm not going to speed but um i do have a vent open on the rv and uh it
is quite possibly pouring back at camp so i am uh just trying to get back at this point and uh
we're going to get a towel and clean up some water that probably is on the floor of freda
i was hoping this summer was going to finally make an appearance this weekend
just more rain eric more rain any other summer it would have been 80 degrees by now and i would
have gone tubing floating rivers multiple times by mid july but it is just never ending this year
in the pacific northwest we may not get a summer it is it's crazy guys 72 is the high today
all right slowing down back on the dirt road full of potholes uh you know and it did tell
us that there was a 25 chance of rain but we know that even with a seven percent chance yesterday
or with a zero percent many other times it has done nothing but rain all single day it's just it
that's just the summers you get here you don't you don't get sunny days you get you get rain breaks
where you you really appreciate a pause uh in the rain this road is garbage i cannot wait until they
fix this road just miserable miss those kitties i know it's raining at camp it's even wetter up
here all right what do you think think somebody invited themselves to camp right next to me
it looks like wow we still have our campsite to ourself kind of surprises me actually
my gosh look up in the hills it's so cool how the mist i mean we're
way up there in elevation that's probably clouds actually that's crazy
oh ah that's why you need an awning not for sunshine for the freaking rain good grief
what a strange summer man
how did tater tot fare on that trip well
goodness she is filthy poor tater tot hey opie dopey well yeah that's not too
bad there's moisture in here on the clock a little bit on my zero breeze there but i gotta
gotta close the window which changes things cause like every other day since i've been back
if it rains you can't open the windows because you can't let air in you can't open the vents if it's
raining and it's been raining ever since i got back to the pacific northwest but man i will plop
my chair down right here under the awning and i'll sit out here and not get wet underneath my awning
hack it yeah i got the kitties eating dinner there
and i'm i totally almost forgot i can open this window and this door
now that i have a working awning heck yeah so we are getting a little bit of air through
well this this door provides plenty of air i'll bet you if i got one of those used window awnings
from uh west coast rv recycling you know i could open this and the rain would go off the awning
and then we'd have nice air flow through here while it rains all summer hey uh summer summer
no no answer again and on this episode of cooking with nomadic fanatic i'll show you how to prepare
the best tater tots ever some papa's kitchen yeah powder on top there heck yeah some garlic salt
and some onion powder good and then you chuck them in there that's the hard part right
well the hard part is waiting it has quit raining for a moment here and it's nice it's
a perfect temperature although i need some solar i'm going to have to run my generator every day
i'm out here because if we're not gonna get any sun solar then my batteries are gonna go dead
even though i'm not streaming any services there's still other things i need to use
so my tater tots are done and a lot of people look at my tater tots and always say oh they
look so different what'd you do to him well now you know i put those three uh
salts on them and they're delicious i love ice cold ketchup with my tater tots i don't like room
temperature ketchup but cold ketchup out of the fridge yes you better not be a tater hater geez
throw it on the ground
for the birds and sorry tater tot no tater haters oh yeah i'm gonna turn into a tater tot
oh gosh look at the fog mist and clouds rolling through the top of those trees
wow i'm gonna enjoy my tater tots here and then watch this
the sunset no i'm gonna watch the clouds set i'm gonna watch the clouds set
and see if it gets dark tonight and i'll get back to you guys tomorrow
good morning everyone having my coffee out here i slept really really good last night except for
one little bout of like some really really heavy rain that woke me up
just because of the sound it made on the roof of the rv it was brief and uh
hopefully we're drying out cause what is that strange bright orb up in the sky
i know you guys are rooting for the sun just as much as me out here we all need it we do actually
it's really blinding i'm not adjusted to the sun's i'm not used to it let me get my sunglasses
that's better wow oh my gosh i need the solar actually you know i parked there for a specific
reason just in case the sun did come out because if i'd park back in the woods like
that just like liar river i wouldn't get any solar but out here the sun see it right there
it's gonna go like this and i'll have solar all day to recharge my batteries on the roof of the rv
so this is a good good sign out here went away again it was just a tease
love drinking my coffee out by the river out here good ol winoochie why nuchi
i'm gonna try something today with the kitties giving them more freedoms trust
in a place like this where you know there's no other campers near me and i can see i'm gonna
let them both explore off leash today yeah one at a time though looks like looks like opie's ready
tara i'll come back for you girl hope he's gonna he's gonna go explore on his own
but under my close supervision here without a leash or a harness what do you think gopi this
is pretty crazy huh you stay close though okay you keep up with me okay all right let's go good boy
opie reminds me so much of jax he just he has the same speed the same the same slowness you
know where he'll actually slow down and just sniff everything you know
here he goes
good boy a little more room outside compared to inside the rv huh
a little more room don't eat everything you don't know what that is i don't even know what that is
tara is like a little bobcat out here
she doesn't make as many stops as opie usually does on the leash and anyway
she doesn't need to sniff and eat as much grass then she stops to eat some grass you two are so
weird what is it with you and grass you don't know all right just come up here
this way oh and also last night i got some really good unique pictures that
you just can't really get when you're in the city life or you you definitely cannot get when
you're at a campground and there's somebody parked right next to you in another rig so
i got some i turned on the underglow lights of both the rigs and got some really cool pictures
i'll show those with you right now um it's great being able to change those colors when
i need out here but just having the green and all the different mossy colors in the background and
just really made the pictures pop out of course i edited them a little bit just to just to make
them look even cooler i'll i'll probably be putting those up on instagram today when i
go upload this video but i want to take tater tot for a trip up that road that we haven't been to oh
that's not true i know i've been up there because the big falls trail is somewhere through there or
is that what this road is never mind well anyway we're going to take tater tot out here after i
make one more cup of coffee and go falls chasing see how this is more of a one lane road up here
but tater tot is soup wait a minute wait a minute check this out real quick in the tot
more grass to tickle the undercarriage a tater tot here um no matter what this is
freda's not gonna fit down here so this is just us testing it out
i need to carry some loppers i'd be able to lop that down whoa this is a neat little campsite
whoa cool yeah if i carried around some some some loppers in the rv i could trim that back
and use this well here we go more trash tents and chairs and canopies but much more secluded um
however the problem is people might do what i just did just out of curiosity drive down here
get to here and then realize that there's people here unless i put two green cones at the entrance
or like i said i was talking about getting one of those signs even if i have to have it
custom made because it doesn't exist a sign that says site occupied something that you could put
out there just to let people know not to waste a trip in you know however this trail i know does
not lead to any body of water because we got really far away from the river up this hill so
no no pretty views of the water but i like it i'm gonna go ahead and pin this one just in case whoa
it's a it's like a banana slug because but he's got black spots on him i've never seen him with
with black dots like that interesting there are less potholes on this road
but it's narrower oh it's getting noisy it's getting noisy folks oh
wow i had to turn the car around so i could get some pictures for uh
instagram it's a modest little waterfall over there but it's our little waterfall look how
clear that water is and it's deceptive how far it really goes up over those rocks there's that
level and then above there's another level of water falling behind it wow
really pretty and relaxing tomorrow uh weather permitting we are gonna go hike
the big one yeah but i gotta go back to the rv i gotta edit what i've got and then
we've gotta go do our little tour back towards montecino to upload this video for daily vlogs
so um so i'm gonna go ahead and close this video out right here at the falls and get
back to you tomorrow i hope you guys are doing well please pray for sunshine see you guys later
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