welcome everyone to vlogmas in july that's right a video every day for 31 days presented
by nomad internet typically vlogmas is done in december where vloggers on youtube upload a video
every day for 25 days leading up till christmas morning i borrowed this idea from the bethunes
over at red white and buffoon they passed the torch to me this year 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
yep good morning everyone welcome back to vlogmas day 4 a happy fourth of july to
you as you watch this my videos are on delay so i'm getting ready myself to enjoy the fourth of
july which is why we gotta book it back to the pacific northwest today thank you for joining
me guys i will be uploading this video with some nomad internet link below in the video description
i also never got the courage this morning to take a shower in that shower that's nasty in there i'm
not gonna make the bed that's somebody else's job i'm just gonna hit the road you guys sunshine we
do blue skies and sunshine let's do it well the nearest starbucks is uh 55 miles away west of
here so i went with a mcdonald's beverage and i just had to stop by here at this really cool
almost kind of restored gas station themed 30s uh turned into a custom upholstery shop now pretty
good idea because you're using the existence of what it once was as almost extra advertising
there's what it kind of looked like back in the day probably or what a lot of the sinclairs look
like and they got an old phone booth over here with a a super superman outfit in there there's
actually a phone in there too interesting i almost didn't notice the dyno sticking out of the roof
over there but uh over here little steps that go up the front of a 50 56 chevy truck i think
somewhere in there 50s cool though i wonder if these lights light up at night how cool would that
be there's a bulb in there i don't know remember that view i had that view i didn't have from my
hotel room hello to that beautiful landscape here in wyoming when you can actually see it
so let's get on the road put on some miles horse today wow look at these views guys
looks a lot different out here out west beautiful day i'm going to clean the windshield next time i
stop for gas i didn't mean to harp on super 8 motel all that much but it's saying something
that that was that was the worst one of my life although i don't stay at a lot of motels i live
in my rv generally so it's not the norm for me to do that kind of thing however that was
bad and i stated that on this little drive on this way back i i just needed places to lay my head
down that that's all i needed was just a place to sleep because there's no way to comfortably sleep
in this car in stealth camp there's just no way to do it so i went with the cheapest had i gone
with some of the rooms that were 115 150 a night stuff like that they probably would have been
a lot cleaner but i wouldn't have even really enjoyed the amenities that they offer at those
places because again i just need a place to sleep overnight exactly what a motel was made for right
i miss my rv and i really really really miss those kitties we're gonna see them hopefully in this
video all right wyoming is in the books once again a sign coming up over on the right says welcome to
utah with the snow skier there up until about this point right here all this was a new route that i
didn't take six weeks ago on my trek to the northwest but we're gonna be bypassing the city
of salt lake city because there's a easy little shortcut up the hill to get into idaho and at
that point we'll be back on the same exact route following the columbia river all the way back
to well aberdeen washington this time because that's where the rv is at currently i'm not
stopping at all my friends houses on this trip because i'd want to get back and see those kitties
my sister in boise idaho is actually out of town so i can't even stop by and see her on this trip
that's fine but we started in wyoming now we're in utah we're gonna do idaho oregon and eventually
washington in this video that's right tater tot does pass some vehicles sometimes not too many
because i don't i don't really overdo it too often but it is possible to overtake a vehicle
in a smart car just so you know uh so we're on i-84 and i was wrong this is a new area of idaho
that we're entering because i went to pocatello last time i was here so we're coming into idaho
a different route and right up here i can already recognize it off to our right is a sign indicating
a welcome to idaho nomadic fanatic and tater tot well thank you very much just stopped here
at this idaho rest area to stretch my legs and unnumb my butt interesting sign here we can't
see it because there's a bunch of trees back here but lake bonneville 20 000 years ago where we're
standing was underwater and it became the largest lake in north america until finally the lake
rose high enough to overflow into the snake river well we are of course very familiar with the snake
snake river it's one of my favorite places to camp that runs along idaho and oregon and parts of
was it washington state i can't remember actually anyway i'm ready to put on some more miles and get
into oregon now well still in idaho actually uh should have been in oregon by now but i've
never seen this section of i-84 with traffic i actually i'm assuming there's probably an accident
this is just an open stretch of no exits for like 22 miles nothing out here so there must be
an accident up here it's only i can think of got the ac on because you can read that down there 98
degrees today it's a warm day in idaho all right finally something happening this car is moving
over so i can only assume that that the left lane is possibly closed up here for an accident
this big semi-truck's blocking my view though yep i see lights right there
might be a car in the median again that's a popular place for people to go off the road
yeah so all in all this is almost a two hour delay here for me
look at these skid marks right here you can see heavy brake marks right here with rescue vehicles
and then it looks like the whole truck just kind of went off the road over there
at least they're on the scene hopefully everybody's okay
that truck down there is pretty mangled i think that's a driver standing outside he looks like
he's okay truck pretty bad though actually over here there's another car in the ditch
i don't know how she's involved these truckers probably uh pulled over to help well hopefully
everybody's okay but that was a huge delay if i'd been in the rv i could have made a pizza
all right we're a little late what are we gonna do here well i got one more notification got a pop-up
alert on my google maps so that there is currently a 72-minute delay for an accident uh uh near the
columbia river so um i guess i was okay booking it and getting uh back to the kitties by 2 am but
pushing that past 5 a.m is not something i wanted wanted to do but in the end i'm kind of glad that
i kind of forced myself to come off the road and take a break because i found this little gem
the oregon trail motel and restaurant talk about quirky this is the powder river down here
and uh although now look it does say no vacancy there was a couple rooms when i checked in i
guess they're full right now i love the neon i'll have to come out later because you can
see the it's spinning up there the wheel the wagon wheel really cool so to put this into
perspective uh motel 6 was 62 bucks super 8 was 79 this oregon trail motel is 55 bucks a night
and it includes a free breakfast at their restaurant right over there so you get your
room key which is not a modern day key card but an actual old-school key room 146. here's the
restaurant the oregon trail restaurant uh the two eggs two pancakes two bacon two sausages
got a voucher for a free breakfast tomorrow morning it's just a really cool small family-run
motel uh here's the heated pool and it's very popular and busy over there i'm already checked
in let me show you my room don't ask me why but i just feel so much better at this place
than any of any of those name brand hotels got tater tot right here i'm gonna show you something
i'm a little embarrassed about this this is seven states worth of uh bug guts okay guys it's bad
tater tot only looks good from a distance well let's go uh check into our room here yeah that's
old school right there guys all right check it out it's still uh very basic and everything however
i've got my table and my laptop a microwave i've got some uh busch lights up here in the
in the freezer that they weren't cold but but they will be cold here in a little bit got a tv
got a little mini split air conditioner heater there the bathroom i am happy to say is clean
yeah i can prove it only thing is that light is out so there's a light there
but this bulb is out that's no biggie i just wanted to point out literally no pubes guys
no pubes yes so i'll make up for yesterday i'll take a shower tonight and i'll take a shower
in the morning speaking of the river down there my side window look at this view when i first came in
there were some people floating on inner tubes down this river right outside my uh back window
there's some rapids right there they were like screaming and yelling when they hit the rapids
and uh i don't i think it's too late probably it's still pretty warm out there it's still 91
degrees out there right now but probably too late but nice view of the river really cool otherwise
yeah so i was going to roll in 2 a.m to see the kitties and then and then rush to get everything
ready for the 4th of july and now i'm just going to say i don't want to sit in traffic for another
two hours i mean this is not fun for me so i'm gonna get my sleep early i'm gonna go like this
turn off all the lights make make it really dark in here get eight hours of sleep i'm gonna wake
up at six am we're gonna start over there at the restaurant and have a yummy breakfast and then it
is five and a half hours so by noon by noon i am hoping to get the rv with the kitties on the road
over to the beach hopefully for the fourth of july but uh man i can't stress enough how happy i am
with this room i deserved it i finally hit a jackpot and it was the one motel that i didn't
pay for and plan in advance it was a spur of the moment thing was i tell you eric you need
to stay more spontaneous okay i'll pause this video we'll get back to washington state when
i wake up in the morning okay guys good night all right good morning i'm up i'm ready and
refreshed ready for some coffee i'm gonna take my voucher over to the restaurant over there
go get my meal check out and then we're on the road heading towards the cats yep i smell bacon
and eggs let's go try this out i got my order in i love the cup stolen from oregon trail restaurant
it's a really cool really neat restaurant my order's in there's the cooks right there
it's such a cool looking cafe restaurant though i love it so this is the eggs bacon hash browns
toast looks ridiculous breakfast was amazing there's just a lot of people like every booth
behind me was full and i didn't feel like taking the camera out and filming myself stuffed my face
but believe me it was really good food and i even got a to-go coffee score loved that place really
nice stay now we are driving and look at that we found the columbia river again guys such a
beautiful route and such a gorgeous flipping day out there on the water too bad i'm not out there
all right made it back into washington state look at this greeted by a little bit of rain a
little bit of drizzle of course so let me get a few things taken care of i don't think it's
going to rain all day we'll have to wait and see what it's going to do with the ocean but
we got to check in on those kitties don't we let's go see how they're doing
do you guys even recognize me opie hi i'm your dad you're looking at me like i'm crazy
it's been four days man i need to miss you so much opie yeah you're so happy dad's back
yeah but jada and andrew took good care of yous okay where's your sister tara bear i'd coax her
out with with the idea of a squeeze up do you guys need to squeeze up from dad i missed you tara tara
i missed you so much girl thanks for thanks for running the house while i was gone yeah i gotta
give you one of these though don't i you guys want some all right opie try somes they're good stuff
huh okay territory try some stairs turn oh you need a turn too okay okay now let's try this turn
see terry gives you a turn but but you tend to just kind of steal her turns sometimes
i noticed did you notice that yeah i sure missed you guys you ready for the fourth of july
yeah there's gonna be some fireworks today okay okay missed you guys
like i said it drizzled here this morning there is a little bit of the of rain in the forecast so
i'm not gonna be bringing black betty to the beach for the fourth of july
i am gonna hook up the car to the back of the rv and uh we're gonna cut this video off here
and start tomorrow's video off right where we left off after i take a shower and go hang out for the
fourth happy fourth of july to you all tara and opie and i will see you tomorrow from the beach
you