 Boomers, the larp continues. I'm back here again. Since the last time I was here this place was filled with water, but within the period of a day or two it's actually dried up. So I've just been sort of exploring the area. I did decide to actually put on a shirt before I turned the video on. I don't know if this channel is quite primitive technology tier, but I'm not gonna do that yet. So I'm going north on the river. To what? I don't know. Just sort of making my lay of the land. I don't know, you might hear the wind blowing? I think it's definitely about the rain, and I don't have any cover so I should probably eventually get back towards my where I parked. But anyway, so it's February, but it's still relatively warm here. I don't know, it's definitely in the 70s. So I think it's abnormally warm for this time of year, but yeah. There's like this really cold breeze moving in, and it's definitely bringing some rain clouds. So I don't know how north I can go without running into someone else's property, but I'm gonna keep trying. Actually, I haven't seen much wildlife around here. Earlier today I saw a couple deer, but that's just normal stuff. I don't know what kind of, let's see, oh there are definitely mosquitoes this time of year. They come pretty early. Again, it's only February. Let's see. Okay, I don't see anything up here, but you know, that's half of the fun. I actually brought my backpack because I brought my hammock, but I realized I left a carabiner. I have one carabiner. I need two to attach my hammock. I could just tie it up, but I don't know how. It's one of those Eno, what is it, double sack, double something, I don't know, whatever for two people, but I don't know if it, I assume the material is good enough to hold one person's weight if it just tied to what it, you know, tied down, but I don't know if I want to take the risk. I'm gonna wait to get a carabiner, but I was gonna set up, set it up, but again, it's about the rain probably, so I do need to get back to the car eventually. Yeah, there's nothing out here. I was sort of hoping to eventually run across a neighbor's house or something, just to see that it's there. Now up the road there are a couple neighbors, but I don't know if they have lake or not lakefront, riverfront property. They may, they may not, I'm not sure, but there's nothing out here. So normally when I'm doing Boomer Rants and Woods videos, I don't run into people, like when I, ironically enough when I'm closer to the city, I'll usually go to a relatively, in fact some of them I've recorded on a forest on the campus near my house, which you'd expect a lot of people would be in, but it's actually not the case. So I usually don't run into people when I'm doing my Boomer Rants, but yeah, recently there are a bunch of people, I mean they're usually workers or something who are in a place like this, I mean less in a jungle area like this, but if you go maybe half a mile west or something like that, you're gonna run into organized pine trees and there are a bunch of people farming them this time. I mean I guess it is its president's day when I'm recording this, so it should be people's vacations, but I think I almost fell into someone's hole there. That's the other thing, there are a bunch of, he probably can't see that, a bunch of animals that build burrows and stuff, you got to be careful not to fall into them, but I jumped over a log and fell right into it. So let's see, I think I'm I'm pretty sure I'm actually not on our property anymore, I'm probably on someone else's, I should probably turn back, but I'm gonna see what's up here. It's actually really hard to get a view of the river, which is right right there, so here is sort of one. You can see how it's actually moving, it's actually moving really fast today, I don't think you can really see the speed, but it's probably because of the wind. Now I thought about doing canoeing on this river, but I've never actually done it, I don't have a canoe right now, I think maybe a relative does around here, but you know canoeing, as a pastime it takes too much organization, if you're trying to get back where you originally started, you got to have all these cars and stuff like that, I don't do that kind of stuff, it's not the kind of thing that a boomer can just do while he's ranting in the woods, unless I just intend on going all the way down the river, sleeping in my canoe or something. Let's see, I think I'm gonna turn back south now. Oh yeah, so the thing about places like this is you either have these wimpy, you know, virgin pine trees or like chad, I don't even know what those things are, but those things are enormous, I'm not quite sure what kind of tree that is. You'll see a couple of them toppled over within a hurricane every once in a while, there's some kind of animal moving around up there. Yeah, so they actually have a lot of wild boars here, they can actually be dangerous, I mean they have coyotes and stuff, but I think boars are supposed to be the biggest danger to humans, I mean they're not so dangerous, but you know wild boars, they'll mess you up, but during the night pretty much all you hear is coyotes, I mean they're very soft, it's not like loud, but if you listen for them, you'll see nothing, but you'll hear nothing but coyotes. Now I have never run into one around here, but I guess they're nocturnal or whatever, but I don't know where they are during the day, it's probably a log, but I'll check it out anyway. Yeah, yesterday I was walking around and I found an abandoned house, or at least cabin, it was obviously, hadn't been touched in probably decades frankly, it had, you could tell people had been around it, but there are a bunch of thistles and thorns growing up in top of it, or I mean in front of the doors and stuff, but I weeded through them, which was actually sort of painful, because I didn't have anything to snip them through, I didn't bring my multi-tool, or what is it, what's the word I'm looking for. I usually come with a, you know, the blade thing that you hack through tropics with, whatever, I usually bring one of those out here, but I didn't bring it on my trip today, yeah that's just the log, so there's nothing really that interesting over here, so let's see. Anyway, so when it comes to building, building your uniboomer cabin, this might not be the best place, just because it's so close to the river, I think I said in the last video, you know, during hurricanes and stuff, you know, you will have a lot of flooding, like this whole area will probably be flooded, I mean you'll see the river's over there, and then there's, you know, sort of elevation after that, and this area, if the water level gets high enough, it'll be totally filled out during hurricanes, and there have been a couple times, I mean the road, the highway, I don't know how far it is, it could be a couple miles that way, but a couple, in a couple of the big hurricanes you can basically see the water from the road, which is, oh it started to rain, which is a big deal, so if I were to build something here, I wouldn't want to build it in an area like this, I sort of like this area, but you know, it's a little, it's a little goofy and tropical, but it's also sort of a danger when it comes to hurricanes and stuff like that, so I'd probably build it closer to land, let's see, I don't know if I've gone far enough, or too far, or what, but we'll figure it out, oh I see my car, never mind, never mind, I'm super close, although it is, it is like, it's not stiflingly hot, but it's like uncomfortably hot, that's why I had my shirt off before I started the video, but oh yeah, this rain feels good, it's gonna start raining hot, listen to that, oh man, so one thing about a place like this, and this is true in a lot of rural areas, is sometimes they don't have the best, they don't have the best like water, drinking water, a lot of people will get water from wells, or if there's municipal water, you know, they won't, they won't clean it up as much as you might anticipate in the city, I mean they're not gonna pump all the fluoride in there either, sometimes, but you know a lot of times it's sort of expected that you're gonna distill your own water, or have some other kind of purification system, if you're drawn from your own well, so if you're a city slicker, or as we call them on my channel a bugman, if you're a bugman and you come to a place like this, you'll taste the water, and first off it's not gonna be purely, you can't see through it, because there are gonna be some minerals in it, so it's gonna be a little murky, so that'll scare you, and it'll also taste different, but over the years the taste has changed, I guess when I was a kid it was really strong, you know, we really didn't like drinking it whenever we came around here, we would bring basically our own like gallons of water, but yeah you know it's gotten better over the years I feel like, and it's different from house to house as well, since there's not like public water, it's pretty much just people using their own wells, or you know, there's an aquifer somewhere around here, alright, so yesterday this area I'm on right now, or a couple days ago is all water, there are a couple pools in here still, but it's drying up pretty quickly, so let's see, I don't know why I'm still recording, but again this is a vlog portion of the channel to make you feel like we're best friends guys, because we are, we're best friends, oh crap, I'm like totally stuck in here, I could just go through the water, but you know, I only brought a couple pairs of pants, and I don't like using the washing machine, I went to church without cleaning my pants yesterday, but I don't think it really stuck out, I mean I sort of brushed them off, but you know, I didn't put them in a washing machine, let's see, okay, man that that rain feels good, anyway yeah, I brought up the water because I'm really thirsty, and I didn't bring enough water out here, just because I feel like a, you know, I had a gallon of distilled water that I was going through, but I didn't want to waste it, I guess, or I didn't want to overuse it, I have a tendency to do that, drink like a gallon within the course of a couple hours and just, you know, pee it all out, which is good for you, but not if you don't have that much water, let's see, it's sort of hard doing this with one hand, okay, all right, now we're back, we're back, we're home free, oh and there have been a, so there are a lot of spiders around here, this one particular species, I don't really know what it is, it's a brown one, it's not a brown recluse, which would be dangerous, I don't know if there are many brown recluses in, you know, Georgia and Florida and stuff like that, but um, yeah, some spider that I keep seeing over and over again, I saw like a couple, when I was climbing up the hill, I saw like a couple of them within a short sequence, so I don't know what the deal is with them, shoot, almost there, almost there, all right, boomers, all right, I got to get back, so oh, the other thing about living in the country, which I guess is a problem, if you're not used to it, is there has to be some sense in which every house is a homestead, meaning you got to pretty much do a lot of the, a lot of basic stuff yourself, you know, you can't just, there's not like a fast food restaurant down the road or something, if you want to go to a Walmart around here, you got to drive nearly an hour, not that much, but like those kind of stores, they're not very common, so um, yeah, it's basically just, you got to make a lot yourself, you know, the people I know who live around here, they usually will go to the store every couple weeks, you know, to get big stuff like meat, they'll just throw them in a meat freezer and eat them gradually, that's pretty typical, but it's all about minimizing your use of grocery stores and stuff, and of course they process a lot of stuff at home, you know, they make a lot of products, depends on who you, who you're talking to, you know, the old people will do more that kind of stuff sometimes, but yeah, okay, now we're back, now we're back to the safe, safe area, the clear area, see what I got on me, I'm always worried about ticks, that's what I'm, it's the only bug I'm really annoyed by just because, I mean I'm not like scared for my safety, but yeah that can be a big pain to pull off a tick, you know, they are tenacious, there's one time I had a tick and let's see what is that, it's one time I had a tick and I took a bath and I didn't know it was on me and I drowned it, and you'd think that if a tick is dead it'd be easier to pull off, and that's not actually the case, so I still had to pull it off, yeah those things are penis, all right kids, I'm back, back at the car, so I'm gonna see you guys next time, next episode of Boomer Larks and Woods, I don't know this might be the only one, or the last one of them for now, but anyway, so that's it.