look at my happy boy feeling so much better you gonna eat some grass jacks i doing big guy
yeah what do you think about it that's pretty good you should eat some grass actually i did
have to cinch up his new harness pretty darn tight there my little baby kitty him such a good boy
yep you got the green light to travel buddy you got a you got a clean bill of health we
just got to stay on your meds okay yep because pills are good huh pills are good pills are good
hey everyone eric here from nomadic fanatic and we're back on the road well we're in a parking
lot right now but we are back on the road uh tonight will be my last night in illinois
but you know i'm really looking forward to the future especially this trip with some new stops
we're going to sleep here overnight and then we'll continue this video on in the morning
and get into a new area of indiana which i am so excited about so uh thanks for joining
me guys i will be uploading this video with some nomad internet there's a link below in
the video description if you need some mobile unlimited internet you guys want to see how jax
is doing let's check him out hey jax hey tara how you feeling jack's a little better maybe
you ready to you ready to chillax yeah should we get the harness on we're going to tighten
that harness because you've lost so much weight my little 11 pound kitty and get the harness on
and we'll eat some grass okay he's such a good boy eating his good healthy foods such a good boy
he's like man i know you hid medicine in this food dad you're right i did that's good for you guys
tara's how's yours no medicines in yours right
yeah i feel like i feel like tara's getting a little chunky
get a little chunky there tara it's all good it's all good him is a good boy enjoy your
dinner keep eating all the medicines good job so remember what i said in my next video about
organizing cleaning and preparing the rv yeah i did five loads of laundry and for the last few
days i just had all my clean laundry on the bed back there unfolded so i'm gonna take care of
that we are going to watch the sunset here and try to have a peaceful night even though we're
really close to the highway and and truckers using their engine brakes it's very loud but we'll see
how it goes hopefully i can get refreshed and then we'll get into indiana coming right up
we got quite a bit of traffic here as a knight fell at cracker barrel and yeah the semi
trucks they're really super loud i don't think everyone's staying because there's a few boats
and now that that rv is leaving right now so not everybody's going to stay the night cracker
barrels are usually not a top option for rvers traveling but i find them so much better than a
walmart because like i went in there earlier and had an awesome chicken dinner their sunday home
style special with two sides it's boneless fried chicken it's so good and just a little different
than walmart kind of mixes things up and it's free i mean except for the dinner the meal that you
pay for but yeah i'm gonna pack it up tonight and we'll wake up in the morning and head on over into
indiana well good morning everyone that is a very muddy river off to our right there
we got rained on pretty bad last night and that is the reason why i didn't get very good sleep
last night not because of the highway noise but because of the fact that i had to wake up at 2 a.m
shut all my windows turn off all my pants i had to shut off my main fan exhaust up top and it got hot
in the rv here we go welcome to indiana crossroads of america lincoln's boyhood home so yeah it got
it's no fun for me when it rains at night especially when it's still warm like it's
still 80 some degrees today and there might be a chance of showers later just have to wait and see
we're in indiana and about five miles we're gonna get off the interstate we're gonna go
find something quirky yeah all right come on rain hold off just a little bit longer
you can rain all night once i get parked for the day there have been signs all over the interstate
and billboards and stuff letting me know what's here in the middle of indiana you guys
know how much i love christmas i am a christmas aholic how about the hometown of kris kringle
santa claus there's actually a place in this country called santa claus indiana
and apparently the entire town embraces the santa claus christmas feel and it's right down this road
right here i cannot wait i love christmas it makes me so happy santa you're looking
good there buddy also i am noticing some leaves finally starting to fall on the ground possibly
possibly autumn's finally on the way here in the midwest just met some subscribers here they're
also visiting santa claus here and they're hoping that jax is doing well drive safe guys
so the town is really really cool i'm going to zoom in here a little bit we've got
what is that a holiday foods over there i see a pizza place the santa claus christmas store and
gift store i'm sure they got a magnet in there as visitor information another santa claus but first
we got to go check out the most famous post office in the country now santa claus indiana has
a population under 2000 however they draw over 2 million visitors a year and it's not just because
they have a christmas themed town they also on the other side over here have the country's oldest
theme park holiday world it is the oldest theme park in the country and it's funny because it's
nestled in between a bunch of corn fields it was actually established nine years before disneyland
in california and uh it's just very strange that it exists out here in the middle of a tiny tiny
little town but this tiny post office here in santa claus indiana there's the zip code santa's
holding it 47579 this post office receives more mail than any other small city of its size because
every letter to santa claus gets redirected to the city of santa claus indiana and it comes
to this tiny post office there's the address if anyone needs to write a christmas letter to
santa claus officially uh it does say that this one's not in use outside so we're gonna go inside
check it out so this is the santa claus indiana post office there's another room that's usually
open but it's closed right now but they do uh accept and i guess display some of the the
lost letters to santa claus also but there's where you uh drop your mail to santa claus i'll write
the old fat man a letter and uh send it to him let him know i've been a good boy this year and so is
jackson tara all right i'm gonna go check out the visitor information center but i really want to
find a magnet and they might have one in santa's ornament shop all right we'll go check out all the
ornaments in here all right we're inside they do have a lot of custom ornaments and they're playing
christmas music in the background oh yeah this may be the kind of place you would see nomadic
fanatic retire in christmas year round and even they're burning some pine candles and stuff oh my
gosh this place is huge look at the whole wall up there on the shelf a bunch of ornaments and stuff
and they have a huge helicopter up there with a cow flying around he'll zoom in that is great i'm
sure they got a magnet here wow look at the all the different christmas town decorations and stuff
all these detailed little houses that are lit
wow i had no idea there were so many of these
wait a minute i see a trailer i see a neat little trailer could be yours for a hundred and forty
four dollars hey again santa claus geez oh all these cool uh night lights that light up that are
christmas themed wow all right then the merry christmas store which also has some halloween
stuff yeah i guess we got to get through halloween first right gotta give halloween a little bit of
love okay well unfortunately after searching the entire store for a magnet that says santa claus
indiana on it i went to customer service and they did say that they are 100 out of stock of santa
claus magnets so i may just get something else a different kind of magnet too bad that tree's
not lit up that would be cool but i may just get another magnet that symbolizes my stop
in santa claus indiana because it's pretty cool here all right let's go find a couple
other things here in santa claus indiana there might be another museum that's open
i'm going well i was thinking about parking the rv and taking black betty but it is sprinkling
and raining and the motorcycle is not going to work all the time that's okay so bummer behind
me is the lake rudolph campground and rv resort and i pulled in because it looks like they've got
lots of spaces open looks like they only got about one quarter capacity in the campground over there
and she said absolutely we do have some openings it's 138 dollars a night and a three night minimum
i'm not the guy looks like you could use my business for one night even at 138 dollars
i could walk around and see everything but when she said three night minimum
500 bucks i'm not the guy that's okay i'll just park in a public free spot instead and walk around
santa claus see everything's santa related even santa's storage although some of these places
are just taking advantage of the opportunity but i like it that's right santa claus even has its
own police the santa police oh nice and then in front of the town hall of santa claus indiana
they have a replica of the first the very first santa claus statue i guess this is just a replica
there's another one supposed to be somewhere else in the city look at this even their benches
say santa claus on them see that santa claus benches that's cool all right looks like i
have one last chance to find a santa claus magnet here at the santa claus candy castle i love what
they have done with the place as the rain is now actually picking up it's probably time to
go inside and check it out interesting little sign out front here it says welcome to america's first
themed attraction so not theme park but santa's candy castle established 1935
is america's first themed attraction very interesting oh my gosh you walk in and
they've got a monster selection of different themed pez dispensers and of course they have
a couple mickey mouses that i don't have i have to have that one i love the blue hat mickey
and i do have this one score for my collection then our options are the full castle experience or
shortcut for drinks i think we need to go into the castle right okay lots more candy weird
huh this appears to be yup this is a jelly bean section that's definitely a candy castle i'll
give them that oh my gosh the best gummy bears in the world i took you guys to the albany's
gummy bear factory actually i believe that was here in indiana i could be wrong i think it was
though oh they have a monster okay okay hang on we're not done one more stop good thing i asked
he had some really good tips on this place and i almost missed a big stop here in santa claus
indiana the santa claus museum and village is open only on saturday and sunday yes there's
even a couple things to see outside before we go in but first the original santa clause post
office established 1856 is here it's been moved this is the original one it says they're open
oh creakly old door wow okay these are some really old wooden desks it looks
like they even left us some paper where we can write to santa dear santa please
make jax
better your friend
nomadic
fanatic
thank you santa all right here we go last chance for a magnet the santa claus museum
only opens saturdays and sundays currently look at this we finally found a santa claus indiana magnet
and that's the statue that's out front so i think that's going to be the winner
so there's some information here in the room talking about how santa claus got its name
and there's a little write-up right here that says it was originally known as santa fe
and then in the 1850s their application was rejected because it was too close to santa fe
that's funny so yeah why not just call it santa claus in 1856. they're showing a little film here
on the tv of them moving the original post office also that's pretty cool ho ho ho there santa claus
who's ready for christmas i know it's not even halloween yet but i'm ready for christmas it
makes me feel so much better and happier about things checks man you are looking so much better
so much better and i know you're loving this all canned food diet huh say yeah dad i should
have got sick a lot earlier no he wants you to be good he's a good boy yeah what do you think about
everything tara you want a toy to play with want a little kitty toy to play with you should get it
that's a pretty good get you can put your leg down show some class you are a lady after all
want a different toy put one on the bell do you like build toys but is that a better one
you should get it good get good get and get jax to play with you yeah bring him down
all right well we're starting to put magnets down here because i'm filling up the top but we'll put
my santa claus magnet right there i just got parked over here at walmart like i said the
rain's been been light it's just been ongoing a little bit all day i'm really glad that i have
the trailer for uh black betty because i don't have to worry about her getting dirty and muddy
and having to worry about polishing it you know roxy the rebel was okay on the back but this
bike i care a little bit more about so i'm glad that i can just keep it enclosed and when it's
raining i don't get to ride it but then again the whole first five years of my life on the road in
tilly i didn't have a tow vehicle at all so we we will use black betty hopefully in the next video
i'm gonna get settled and i'm gonna break out some of the boxes that are under the bed because
i can't wait any longer tara tara are you excited about your first christmas okay well i gotta break
the news to everybody okay before you guys say anything crazy about me putting up a christmas
tree in october before we've even experienced thanksgiving and halloween it's my life guys
and you guys know what makes me happy so um i set up my christmas tree in the rv next to my leg lamp
and i've got all of my neat ornaments collected and gifted to me since i've been in an rv
so every ornament here i have either gotten on the road or has been a gift by someone to me
on the road they all bring back awesome memories and make me a little homesick sometimes
but that's okay cause i get to take it with me on the road everywhere i go and uh this being
tara's first christmas with me technically it should be her second but first christmas with me
a little goober uh we have to wait and see how she does
with the ornaments that's why i'm not putting any below where the nes controller is right there
but hey in my defense at least i've got the halloween lights programmed on the twinkly
app right now so we're doing halloween lights i'm gonna wait to do the christmas lights later but
it's up you're gonna see it in my videos now and i really don't care don't hate just live your own
life and be happy if you only get one chance guys i really enjoyed santa claus indiana we're gonna
do a little bit more indiana in my next video and then move on over into another state on this
crazy fall trip so thanks for joining me guys jax tara and i will see you in the next video bye guys
hmm