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
yeah hey everybody welcome back to another day of vlogmas in july tater tot at the beach
thanks for joining me everyone i'm going to be leaving ocean shores in the car today
going to be heading out to explore a little bit i'm really comfortable really happy parking right
on the beach i'm also really happy that the beaches got so clean after the 4th of july
it's one thing a lot of people are concerned about but you have to understand you know with
with all the trash bags that they hand out and the trucks i mean they are on top of it
i cannot find a single firework shred anywhere on any of these beaches here in ocean shores so
that's a good thing way to go people because if you don't take care of this land they're going
to shut it down they're going to shut down the 4th of july next year so we got to keep it clean
all right well let's go for a ride all right obviously this month is a little different
than my normal videos on this channel because uh putting out a video every day means uh you get to
really see what it's like for me as a nomad here and how i just go throughout each day and what i
kind of do some days there's not a whole lot going on sometimes i get on a plane and fly all the way
halfway across the country just just never know today i'm going to be heading towards olympia
i got to pick up a piece of mail that's being held there an important piece of mail so i may
stop off a few places along the way and then we'll be back to the kitties before it gets dark tonight
well came over here to my buddy's house got the bike out but now the roads are still really really
wet and there's a 35 chance of rain today so just not still not ready did bring the bike out just to
look at her oh i made one up update change because the radio itself isn't actually waterproof so
put on this little cover that's sealed on the outside around the fiberglass of the bat wing
and still plug in and charge my phone select things this closes locks keeps it waterproof so
really only it's just the speakers you know that aren't physically waterproof but they'll be okay
so she's ready for the rain but but i'm just not ready to ride in the rain for no reason
when i have my car so i gotta go run some errands in olympia so we'll uh take the car
uh east oh yeah now the sun tries to peek out i don't trust it
i don't trust it i know what you're gonna do as soon as i hop on the bike
i'll guess where i'm at guys
a familiar spot from back in the day kirk cobain's wish could river here yeah break
water and the seafood place that suspiciously closes at 4 pm every day right before dinner
got some snacks got me some northwest jojo's
good stuff you don't even need any sauce with these
they're very flavorful and i mean it's no casey's pizza 7-eleven pizza but
no it's definitely no casey speed so just being parked here in tater tot
it brings out all these strange emotions it was not necessarily a good time of my life
and it was before youtube slightly by like two years before youtube
but i made it through it that's why i try to make an effort to bring
all of my future vehicles whether they're new rvs or new cars or bikes i try to come back here
and at least reflect on it because i think there's a certain part of me that appreciates
the battles that i faced when i was parked right here and all of those problems that
i no longer have although i still have new problems um but you know you move forward
you fix problems you know a lot of growth happened in my life here at this particular spot and
it's always strange coming back
anyway anyway wheeling and dealing moving on got plans got lots of stuff going on in the background
uh this trip to olympia there are three things that i need to check on um as far as yeah so
i'm just gonna check on those few things and you guys are gonna come with me and we're gonna figure
this all out together sound good all right let's go for a ride tater tot tater tot to the rescue
i knew this was gonna happen i knew it was gonna open up on me on the bike
it doesn't matter what it looks like they just cannot keep the rain away in the state
what a strange summer now every time i'm driving in my smart car i literally
feel smarter i literally feel smarter for being in my car instead of a motorcycle i
really wanted the bike thing to work guys i really really wanted it to work but man
all right well we got a couple of stops to make here in olympia first and i think if we look off
to our right yep there's the state capitol there first stop we gotta check in here to olympia
supply and go talk to my favorite hardware diva sandy about getting some copies of keys
bummer she left early well sandy if you're watching this
i tried to stop by i'll see another time this summer i need to get some keys made so um
well actually we gotta make one more other stop yeah i've had keys made here always safe and
locked in fact i think one of my friends from high school works here still tim could not help me here
either this is actually the third time i've struck out apparently there is a shortage of ford blank
keys i just wanted to get some copies of the rv because it's always good and then i'm going
to send two to different friends in case i ever need them overnighted i don't do the whole magnet
thing underneath the rv because i lose those or people know to look for them they'll crawl around
and tweak at night with a flashlight and look for those little magnetic cases but um yeah we
having a hard time i was i was thinking that sandy might be able to special order the blanks for me
even if it's a month out she might be able to find them so i'll get with her later uh in the meantime
gotta go check in to my favorite rv store here in olympia not the one in chehalis the one in
olympia here's where we want to stop at coombs rv and olympia i've got a lot of rv service work done
here and you can get some propane right here um i just need to go and talk to john real quick all
right i got an appointment here later in july for a couple important upgrades on frida both of which
i had done on miranda but that doesn't matter i'm gonna make a phone call instead of driving down to
shahalas i'm gonna make a phone call first talk to lauren down there see what he can do for me
well that escalated quickly um i did not need to drive down to chehalis uh we have plans for
tomorrow guys really exciting plans gotta get the rv down to shahalas so cool don't have to wonder
what i'm doing tomorrow hopefully the weather holds out down there it's about 70 miles from
where i've got the rv right now 70 miles away so climate should temperature should be better
we'll see well that's exciting do i have any more stops yeah you know what i want to i want
to go see the water let's go to the water so this right here is the deschutes river
right before we get to tom waterfalls if you were tubing which i like to do and eventually will do
you have to get out of your tube before this point there's actually a bridge right up there
that there's a huge sign to say get out of the water now so it's calm right there that's the old
olympia brewery no longer brewing olympia beer you guys ever heard of olympia beer and here
is tom waterfalls see how there's no real warnings here i mean if you've accidentally
floated in your tube to here you're kind of screwed because there's no safety precautions
some waterfalls it's also kind of creepy as you're walking the trail the water also goes
through here this is uh see like little canals through there so the fish can come upstream
i know it's kind of hard to see through there
but yeah that's so the fish because obviously the fish are not going to be able to jump up the falls
you know it's 68 degrees by the way so i bet it looks refreshing to you on the
other side of the screen but it is cold had a brother get married right there got married
of course they're divorced just i'm just saying it's true i'm not anti-marriage i just i always
ask people why they're getting married and they get so offended here we're getting married why
what do you mean why i'm not insulting you i'm asking you a simple question
you should have an answer like because it's what you do okay
i mean why get married when you can just you know stay single and be happy
i'm so mean i'll keep an eye on the weather this month and august and uh when the time comes
um hopefully we'll be able to inflate some tubes and get some friends out upstream up river there
we usually go in at um oh i forgot the name of that park we've got to have a vehicle here
and a vehicle there so you can get back looking forward to floating guys for now
it's cold oh this little garbage can that's what a can of olympia beer looks like
you can still find it today you can still get it although it's not even brewed here
in this state anymore i believe it's brewed in missouri it's the water
it could be that's a cool drinking fountain it's the water good luck heck yeah
ah that is pure artesian well water freaking delicious water
pretty a productive day though really i mean i made two two pretty big plans you know for
this month of july to get some stuff done and uh yeah cleared my mind totally reset myself it's
time to head back to the rv and check in on the kitties maybe they want to go for a walk outside
yeah actually for a little bit here i'm going to drive with the windows down it's nice i want
to let some air in you know oh my gosh i just realized guys i'm committing a felony
in thurston county i have a pillow i have camping paraphernalia in my vehicle i wonder
how many other people are committing felonies like those little neck pillows you know a camping
chair maybe they were gonna go sit in the park over there they got their illegal camping chair
this state's so messed up we're only gonna enforce it when we need to but just
well that didn't take long it started raining as soon as i hit the main highway again
they're crazy right uh i just laugh at it now
i think it's funny to share with you all roasting in the rest of the country and we can't hit
70 degrees anywhere in western washington this summer it's like natural air conditioning outside
a little different than last year because i know this area broke a bunch of records
for like being in the hundreds a few days randomly not happening this year opie this is called trust
okay this means you stay close to dad because you're not on a leash
but i'm basically still holding you so you're safe and you're far enough away from the beach okay
you good you good man you want to flop you want to force flop and enjoy some grass you want to
eat some grass what do you think pretty good huh i brought sunshine back from olympia you happy
now i brought sunshine's back yeah i did okay good you guys are probably pretty hungry huh let me get
tara have some outside time and then we'll have dinner okay okay dinners you hungry okay all right
mia tara giving you the same trust i gave opie okay enjoy the grass but you can't go too far okay
okay you gotta stay right here because you're not on a leash yeah no you can't go far i'll have to
get your tent out okay i know you hear the beach don't you hear the water and the waves it's really
far away though really technically i was out there about the sunshine back honey all right hey
the sun's out it's not currently raining i don't get too many chances like this yep we're on the
sand now there's a coachman class c right there watch out seagulls watch out seagulls seagulls
yeah i'm gonna go over here and get a nice view of the ocean actually you know what
i just decided i'm gonna back it up so my rear of the car is facing the ocean how's that sound
heck it that's why i brought it right that's right
famous dugan's pizza of ocean shores got the meat lovers good grief just throw it on the beach
oh my gosh pretty rough guys pretty darn rough
wow wow did you see this view guys
of the ocean not not the pizza no bad seagull get no pizza for you
or you damn seagulls god i hate seagulls i hate them yeah you all you're getting get out of here
so i'm almost back to where the rv's at there at quinn alt and i stopped off saw this piece
of property for sale i threw the pamphlet back in there i got to show you this okay cuz
all right so this is what i pulled in for very very rundown it's got a little shack right there
and uh i can see power you know but i thought hey it's in ocean shores right it's obviously right
by the road here on 109 but um what's the price came over here to their little sign where north
beach realty mary gordon is selling this piece of prop here's my crumpled up one i just put back in
you read that 470 thousand dollars
boy you think they legalized marijuana in washington state you guys are high
i don't care how bad i hate illinois we're staying in illinois i would never live in
washington state though again i've done my time i've done myself i went to i went to
the evergreen state college i've done my time i've earned my right to be out of here opinomes
oh my goodness bearers oh my goodness dad's on a rant dad's on a rant uh tomorrow i check out
of here quinault and never come back the casino seventy dollars richer thirty-five dollars a night
that's still just delirious about that uh what's next well i'm really excited about
tomorrow i'm gonna go pick up andrew and him and i are gonna take the rv into town to get
something fixed and repaired on frida that needs it badly so i'm gonna go ahead and end this one
guys hope you guys are well uh opie and tara and i will see you back tomorrow for another video
these daily vlogs every single day of july thanks for joining me guys i'll see you tomorrow
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