 Good morning from a very very wet rest area outside Baylor. Looks like today I'm gonna be headed down to Austin, Texas. Earlier this morning I had a nice hour-long conversation with my psychic, so for those people who believe you know what I'm talking about, for those who don't go ahead and laugh all you want. Very interesting, very interesting phone call. I'm not sure how much or if any I will include into this video, but we just might. Alright, well the plan is I'm gonna see one of my friends tonight. We're gonna catch up and chat this evening. So it looks like I'll just go to Alice's place, formerly Chris and Alice's place, and I have some packages there. It'd be nice to catch up and see her and also if she is so kind I would like to take a shower there. I didn't take a shower outside in the rain at the truck stop. It's not the most incognito place to take a shower, which is a little business discussion about a potential online show. So that is barbecue, so you guys are probably not gonna come along for this one, so I'll check in with you in a little bit. Thank you very much for joining Patreon and also someone who actually I met a long time ago in Austin, Matt Jackson. Thank you for sending some gift over via Venmo and also we got Brent as well. He joined up on Patreon. I'm just blown away that people are finding value in the videos. The people are finding education with some of the mechanics, how to live on the road, some of the build stuff and the earlier ones and little fixes here and there, and then you know others just find an entertainment in it and enjoy the travel part of it. So there obviously there's different components that each person likes more or less and I'm honestly just trying to show you what it is like to basically just say screw it. Let's chase some dreams. Let's take a perfectly good school bus. Let's turn it into a home. Let's travel around in it. Let's meet people with it. Let's go to different events like tiny house festivals and the RTR and you know other things like that. Linking up with other YouTube people and go to YouTube events and just trying to spread the message of yeah of what I'm doing both in practicality and as a financial like a financially smart move for other people like me who you know are just saying audios to the rent you know. I wasn't real estate before this. I feel very strongly against paying rent. I feel very strongly for paying a mortgage or acquiring an income property, a two-unit, three-unit, etc. If you can. I know everybody's budgets are different and yeah even like those like Seven and Tyler from Jamie's Van Build, two property owners who are choosing to use that part of their income to travel full-time. If you are a travel lover there are various different ways to make money and and perhaps this is this is a way to free yourself from from some of the constraints of just everyday life so I just want to say thanks again. I'm still blown away. I can't believe people are you know are helping out in this sort of way. I yeah I'm just I'm very touched and means a lot so thank you very much. So I've been parked out here for a bit and I've been going through the comments and I gotta say pretty pretty amused and entertained by some of the comments. I realized I don't really give you guys a good explanation of what exactly I'm planning and that's on purpose. I'm not gonna tell you guys exactly what I'm doing exactly what my plans are. You guys are just gonna have to be salivating going crazy wondering what I'm scheming up. How on earth is Jack's gonna cash out of this and save money by having a bigger bus? Well I don't know is it gonna be a bus is it gonna be a moped is it gonna be a van an equal sized bus am I gonna put some kind of aerodynamic feature on the front to get 30 miles per gallon I don't know you're just gonna have to wait and see. But on a serious note there are several options and although I was joking about a moped I would absolutely get a moped before I had to stop the channel because what I tried to do was take all my savings and use that to get myself a career on YouTube traveling because I love traveling and I love sharing my adventures in my videos so if I have to adjust something to keep going well I'm gonna adjust something and keep going because the videos to me are number one most important thing I don't want to be I don't I don't have to stop I'll just have to make adjustments with the way I travel who knows maybe a hitchhike one day I don't know but the most important thing is consistency with the channel and also to to just keep on just never give up so that's what I'm doing I'm not giving up and what else do I want to say also I do appreciate comments concerns questions even if I don't disagree with them the one thing I ask is that I treat people with respect and if you jump in the comments that's all I ask of you just be respectful you don't have to agree you can say I don't like the mechanic videos fixing things up that's totally okay I won't block you for that but if there's some nasty trolls my fingers on the block button so just warning I'm definitely happy open to talk to every single person about all sorts of things and I don't want anyone to feel like they can't say something because oh I might not like it it's just a respect factor now it's time for a little hike I have my new toy here I've already used it multiple times actually many more times than that previous camera lens lens which I essentially traded out for this similar price and yeah we're just gonna take a walk around here I forgot the name of this place it is Mayfield house and natural nature preserve looks like that's where I am so we'll just kind of walk around a bit and perhaps down to the water and then after that I have a dinner barbecue dinner with a very very kind friend of mine who actually met at my previous job and just yeah we've just been friends forever he lives here in Austin and he is in the movie business so I'm not gonna say who it is he's a rather private person but if you guys have seen pretty popular films you've seen things he's worked on I'm not really sure if peacocks attack but I'm about to find out alright so we got this thing in slow motion let's get a little bit closer and see if these guys are friendly in shorts weather I'm guessing it is 80 percent which for me Southern California guy it's a little bit too much actually there was a mosquito that got inside the bus today while I was driving and that killed them I really don't like mosquitoes and I really am not a huge fan of warm swampy weather which I may have mentioned before so this hike so far is pretty easy pretty chill pretty short I did almost roll my ankle a little bit ago but yeah it's a nice piece of nature in the middle of a big city Austin Texas by myself a nice little parking spot right I guess that will do it for today just want to say thank you very much for watching I might snag a couple barbecue shots inside but yeah we'll see you on the road tomorrow you know even for somebody who is a pioneer as you are and sure as you are trying to do with it's quite difficult and you know you're doing it people are hearing tell of this of the truth to boot that this will culminate in public nests you because you'll use that in place to the extent that you someday will set others free and make other and bring others spirit even because what you're doing is not quote unquote just exploring but it's also a spiritual journey and at some point there should be a way in which you speak about what you're doing and you you know you it's kind of like the old you know in the old west when somebody got to town they put up announcements on the polls you know show tonight you know where you where you go the way that you speak about it whether it's to go to colleges or to go to high schools or to just show up in the town and say I'm gonna be in that church basement showing videos and talking and just look for the crazy boss and so there's another aspect of this that will develop because you are setting yourself a leader and people will say oh that guy's in town and yeah he's coming to your town and you gotta check him out so there's another aspect to this that can happen that will seem a bit not who you are at first gather a new audience and it might not be a YouTube audience it might just be an audience who comes in for the night you know hundred people pay ten bucks and you're in the church basement and you're saying hey here's what here's what I do and and you're in this phase now where you're beginning to understand or you have for a while but it's getting to have more clarity and what you're here for and wisdom is still sifting through you you know and falling on you like like multi-colored rain you know it's it's it's it provides life and it provides beauty and it provides insight and you're beginning to understand this is who I am this is who I am not this is who I simply cannot bear to be this is who I must be and as a an extension of that I want you to promise you made at birth or before birth on heaven or whenever your consciousness distilled and you knew who you were I want you to figure out the promise you made and write it down finally exact words I promised God this I promised myself this I promise my higher self I promise the world I promise my essence I promise everybody I love and I want you to find the exact words in that promise I promise to honor you know nature I promise to turn over every leaf you know whatever it is and to serve you know blank insert here you know I want you to figure out what the ultimate promise you made is what your soul has pledged to to do and I want you to keep this promise once you figured out and you might think you've got it in 10 minutes but it might keep editing itself for 10 months and it might just start as one phrase but it could turn into a paragraph