 Okay, I'm doing it. I know I said I would never do it, but I'm doing it. It's done. I'm going to be sharing all of my personal camping spots with you from my five years on the road and I'm gonna be doing a live view cue for you guys where you can ask me anything and I will answer and I'm going to give you all of my YouTube videos past and future ad-free. I'm sharing the secret sauce people and I'm really excited to tell you about it. Happy Sunday birdwatchers. I hope everyone is doing well out there. As you can see I am jazzed because I get to tell you about a big project that I have been working on for months. Starting today you're going to have more access to my real full-time RV life, ad-free content and lots of other goodies. Now YouTube is great and I'm grateful for everybody that watches but over the years I've discovered that it's not a place where I can share everything that I want to either because it's just too personal or because I want to give you guys some thing that I can't send you through YouTube but also I wanted our core group to have a more interactive friendly and supportive place you know where we can really talk because going out on the road full-time is a big deal. So today I'm announcing a new Patreon group where I can give you all of that and more. Now this is not your mother's Patreon group. Nope. In my group I'm giving you a ton of juicy content that you can't get anywhere else. I'll explain all of it in a second but first let me tell you what Patreon is in case you haven't heard of it before. Patreon is a website or a platform that takes the idea of patronage into the modern age. You know if it wasn't for patrons in the Renaissance we wouldn't have Michelangelo or Shakespeare or Da Vinci because back then those artists were supported by one or two wealthy people. Well now Patreon.com has taken that idea and crowdsourced it so instead of somebody wealthy supporting a creator a whole bunch of individual people can do it inside of a group. Now you may have heard of Patreon before because it seems like everybody on YouTube has a Patreon page and a lot of you have asked me why I don't have one and I'll tell you in the past I looked at some other pages and they seem pretty basic and you know it was a place for people to support their creators that they love and that's great and I'm all for that but it wasn't for me at the time. But this year I discovered that through Patreon I can do so much more than I thought that I could and I can give you so much stuff like I can actually chat with you. You can message me in Patreon and I can message you back so your comment or your question won't get lost in thousands of YouTube comments. I can also share stuff with you like exclusive videos and the map and live streams and classes and all kinds of stuff. Basically I've discovered that Patreon can be everything that I always wanted YouTube and social media to be but never could be. For example like with the travel map I've been keeping these detailed notes on my favorite locations for years and I know a lot of you are on the road and would love that or are in the planning stages and would love that. I mean heck I would love to have someone else's travel map but it's not the kind of thing that I could share with you through YouTube because I don't want to give my personal actual locations to 250,000 people but I can and I am sharing it through Patreon with a lot of other stuff. If you go to patreon.com slash creativity rv no space you can see everything right now there are posts up there ready to go for you and three different membership tiers that are affordable and each one has its own benefits so let me tell you about them. Here are all three membership levels and they're all great but as you go up from bird watcher to bird lover to the aviary you get more benefits so you can decide which one is right for you. Okay let me start with the one on the left it's called bird watcher with that one you get to see all my future videos without ads my throwback Thursday videos without ads and you can message me directly I will message you back and you'll get updates for me all year long even when I take my winter break. The next membership level is called bird lover and with that one you get all of the benefits that the bird watchers get but you also get access to our new private CRV insiders Facebook group where we're going to have our live patron only view cues I am taking that off of YouTube because here I can actually hear your questions and respond to you live you'll also get free copies of both of my best-selling books which have hundreds of resource links and I'm going to be hosting a bunch of other stuff for this group including virtual meetups and finally the third membership is called the aviary and that gets all of the benefits you saw in the previous two memberships plus access to my personal constantly updated living travel map so as I go down the road I'm going to be adding locations and showing you images and videos that were shot there so you can go there too you'll also get an invitation to an in-person annual meetup and original painting from me and sneak peeks of my upcoming RV themed suspense series too much did I overdo it I don't think so I mean our community is full of amazing people like you that make what I do possible and I want to give you a no drama noise free space where you can go to ask real questions and actually get real answers and you know meet other people that are on the same journey that you're on and you can you can do it right now if you go to patreon.com slash creativity RV everything is up you don't have to be a member you don't have to join to see everything you can just go over and check it out and if you do want to do it it's super easy and the second you join you'll get a welcome letter from me via email that explains all of the benefits again and how to access them right away otherwise I'll see you guys back here next week with an all new youtube video until then everybody out there have happy travels and be free