good afternoon everyone Eric here from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are doing well coming
to you from once again my uh off-grid base camp Homestead here in the upper mountainous
desert area 7 000 feet elevation near Show Low Arizona I am really happy because anytime
now uh we're gonna have some people coming down my driveway I'm finally finally having
guests friends come over tonight yay [Music]
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yeah guys I I had said a couple weeks ago that it was going to be a long time before
I invite anybody out here because I'm I'm just a little embarrassed you know I don't
even have a rock driveway yet I don't know I don't have my sights worked on yet I got
I can fit one RV over there where the trailers at but uh and I'm gonna have one RV coming
in today and but yeah I figure uh we don't have to have everything perfect just yet to
watch a movie on the big screen yeah it's really nice having a a permanent place here
where I could literally Mount this 13-foot movie projector screen here it I mean we've
had some really high winds in fact I'll stand back and you can look at how look at how much
that flag's a waving up there if I can get out of the Sun yeah it's it's windy here but
I have bolted this at all four corners everywhere you can see the yeah see the brackets right
there and it doesn't Flinch in fact it likes being against a wall like that it's not Rippling
and moving it around and everything so uh yeah we're gonna do it of course we gotta
wait for the sun to set otherwise we're not going to see anything projector is going to
go here gonna be powering it off my battleborn batteries uh what else I got my tiki torches
for citronella in case there's flies or gnats and I'm charging up my speaker for the movie
I really really love movies especially uh new releases even though I've already seen
it in the theater twice uh I would I would love for my first movie here to be John Wick
chapter four and oh and I do want to mention a couple you pointed out in my last video
that magically the cameras showed up yeah there I want to save that for another video
they're up and running they're already going to the cloud they're already saving to the
NVR on there but I want to make a whole security video because there's a couple more things
I'm adding to that system so yeah more more they are there thank you for pointing that
out uh yeah see why the portable panels won't work on the ground all the time the wind blows
them over so those ones haven't blown up but this back row these back two seem to go over
a lot it has been really windy in Arizona just fine see the wind does two things that
are really cool in Arizona one it keeps the bugs and the flies away they do not they will
not land on you they won't bug you when it's windy and and also in the daytime when it's
a little warmer this summer you know having that constant Arizona Wind Breeze is going
to feel really nice under one of these nice trees Additionally the movie screen that's
there well that's going to be a driveway because this Loop is going to go all the way around
and people when they want to leave they're going to go through there so the movie screen
is actually temporary right there where I really want to put it where it would fit perfectly
is right here on the side of this building right here facing this way of course KFC sign
will have to go somewhere else and I'll have to trim this tree right here but then we could
all sit out here and watch movies right there and it would actually almost it would have
like three inches on each side so yeah in the future but keep an eye on the first uh
friend coming down the driveway I gave out my address okay here we go yeah well until
they get here I will let you know that um as part of this video tomorrow morning we've
got to set an alarm because I'm going on a ride with some new friends that I met at the
bar down the road the Stanford General store which I want to show more of later but we're
gonna get an early early start like 8 A.M before the General Store is even open and
we're gonna meet there so I've got Black Betty on the charger and I don't know how much I'll
film but I'll bring my camera and I'll bring my uh phone so I can take pictures and stuff
like that it's going to be good to go on a good lengthy ride up the mountains on on the
Harley so yeah we got Big Bang Theory going on I'm just uh testing everything out to me
I got the speaker on Bluetooth and projector and laptop everything's hooked up I got the
volume real low but yeah just wanted to get the Focus right before we start the movie
here got the green lights going on free to the RV on tater tot the Smart car also and
around this bush Oh Black Betty looking good yeah still some wind up there though all right
well just about ready I'm gonna go make some popcorn get it ready all right just about
time to start the movie got all my friends here thanks for being here guys this means
a lot to me thank you guys this should be good try to keep the mosquitoes down all right
great movie great company that was uh really fun everybody's gonna head back over to uh
Kevin's Camp over there really enjoyed that I gotta put a few things away I think uh first
movie night here with guests was a total success and I will probably do it again and good morning
everyone the sun is just starting to come up on the other side of the shed over there
it's 8 A.M I am layered up for the ride but I have saddle bags to be able to strip a little
bit down as we go throughout the day depending I'm gonna put my gloves on I am gonna do uh
my half face helmet today uh because I got the fairing that's gonna deflect the wind
in the morning I think I'm gonna appreciate the half face and not wear the full face but
um as far as filming I'm not actually gonna bring this camera with me on the ride new
hard people and I just don't I'm not quite ready to say that I have a YouTube channel
and I might want to get some shots later but eventually we shall see I'll take you guys
on my little personal trips on the bike but for today it's going to be a me day I'll take
some pictures and uh I'll get back to you here later today on how everything went
thank you
[Applause] all right well I had an awesome awesome ride yesterday sorry I uh I didn't
take you guys with me uh but I had an absolute blast and I think that in the future I may
be recording some of these sessions and bringing my GoPro along with me I was hanging out with
some new friends of mine Danny and Kenny and uh and I told them I was I was on on YouTube
and they're like well that's really cool you should have brought your camera I was like
I did I did take some pictures though so we left at 8 A.M and went over to I think it's
called Springer building this neat restaurant called The Trail Riders Family Restaurant
and I had some breakfast and some apple juice and it was really good really yummy we then
kept riding up the mountains and there was even some snow off in the distance but we
found a ranch and actually there's a little plaque in front of this Ranch telling us this
was this is John Wayne's Old Ranch before he moved to uh Colorado out of out of all
the places in Arizona right we went to a really neat Overlook view that had a lot of volcano
activity and also actually a lot of fires in the last summer was a really pretty view
a lot of really neat things to see just a really good day to ride and of course we tried
out a couple bars we tried out the Lions Den with the kitties and they had an awesome inside
but it was more the outside even though they weren't doing live music when we were there
it was really neat out there to see all the trees and the stage and everything going on
at that place they even had a silver eagle tour bus a lot like uh the hype couple we
tried a hungry Buffalo finally and we had some food there some pizza and got their show
list to see what kind of bands are gonna be playing this summer at their outdoor area
just really really impressed with the uh quirky country Saloon themes here of Arizona it's
one of the things I'm I'm really happy about this location is that we have got some cool
country stuff nearby again it's the next day and you'll notice that there are some clouds
there's some chance of rain in the forecast so I'm glad I got the ride out of the way
I gotta talk to you about something else though uh I I don't want to have to take the car
to my mailbox or have all my stuff shipped to Kevin's house so I decided that I wanted
to try to have something shipped on Amazon here and it didn't work out today although
UPS and FedEx do drive right past my road and deliver they don't recognize my number
address here it's not a it's not recognized in their system so they're holding my back
Edge at their facility in Show Low uh but I did call them and I got through and I told
him what was up I told them this this new property it really is this address blah blah
blah and they said that they're going to update it in their system and get back to me and
call me back and I was like oh great so when I called uh FedEx to do the same exact thing
they they were a lot more helpful they actually looked up my parcel number and then they said
actually Mr Jacobs you live at so and so I was like I really because that's a different
address than on my paperwork on my deed to the property they're like no we can we can
confirm that this is your address now before when you type in my address into Google it
doesn't work it never worked I I have to give people GPS coordinates or actual directions
to my house but when I plug in this new address that FedEx provided to me and said this is
where you live at your lot and parcel number I typed it in Google went straight here right
it pinned it right here in my driveway I'm like so I have a different address now and
that's funny so on the back of this sign right here is my number and on that brick right
there and they're both wrong that is not my address so not to worry um I'm not squatting
on the wrong piece of property this is the actual lot and parcel number this is physically
it's it's it's in my name and everything's legit they even said you Eric Jacobs on parcel
are at this address and I'm like okay so anyway they want me to redo it they want me to reorder
and try something new with the new address
all right we're hunkered down I uh first time using the generator here at the property because
my batteries are down to 60 percent and we're actually getting some rain getting some rain
here on the property but everything's waterproof that's still outside even the movie screen
and everything but uh it's actually really coming down so I'm gonna be wrapping this
video up guys uh I want to get down to my uh storage unit down in Show Low where Reba
the rebels at uh because I wanna I wanna dump off everything that's inside the trailer which
means we are gonna fire up the RV and take it from camp and hook up the trailer and do
all that fun stuff so that'll probably be in my next video I'm guessing just looking
at the weather here we're still experiencing some thunderstorms here in in the area but
it's due to end here really soon and if you look ahead tomorrow the whole week looks awesome
Sunshine so looks like just one day of rain I can deal with that what I can't deal with
is every single day I'm looking at memories from last year in June when I was in Washington
state with Black Betty my motorcycle only if you guys remember 40 straight days of rain
started on June June 4th or June 3rd a couple days before my before my birthday and then
it just never ended until I lost my mind and shipped my motorcycle back to Illinois I can
deal with a little bit of normal rain but uh this this place right here does not get
a lot of rain and actually it has just stopped raining that's the generator you hear behind
the seat here but it's not raining anymore so that was just like one hour of kind of
heavy rain and that's it that's it you guys be well Opie and Tara and I will see in the
next one bye guys [Music]