TRUCK CAMPER LIFE: From REINDEER to SALMON and SEA LIONS in VALDEZ, ALASKA// CtW S1:E34

Name: TRUCK CAMPER LIFE: From REINDEER to SALMON and SEA LIONS in VALDEZ, ALASKA// CtW S1:E34
Uploaded: 2019-05-28T04:00:00.000Z
Duration: 23 min 33 s
Channel: Called To Wander

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2 Video Views·May 28, 2019 #Valdez #4x4Camper

#Valdez #4x4Camper
Valdez, Alaska is one of the best places to view wildlife in all of Alaska! From salmon rushing the river at Solomon Gulch to the sea lions, otters and bald eagles that feast upon them there is no shortage of wildlife in the area.

If you are fortunate you may even have the opportunity to watch a grizzly or two run down from the hills and make a meal of the salmon.

Valdez is most associated with the 1989 oil spill of the Exxon Valdez tanker in the Prince WIlliam Sound nearby. And, as the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Valdez as a town is quite industrial.

However Valdez does have the quaint look and feel of a quiet Alaska town. And if you venture out to Solomon Gulch you are bound to be impressed by the wildlife. There is a glacier nearby, great for views as well as for camping.

And, fortunately for us, there was a NAPA auto parts store (yes, another breakdown!).

Because Valdez is located on an "out and back" drive from the main highway in Alaska it is possible (and encouraged) to stop in the town of Palmer on your way to/from Valdez.

Palmer plays host to the Williams Reindeer Farm. Here you can get up close and personal with a few dozen reindeer!

While none of the reindeer we saw seemed to know how to fly, you could definitely hear the "click click click" for which they are known!

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Lindsay's making work now. She's good now. Let me get it with my hand then. Sweet. Yep, I got it off. Alright, let me jump in and help you out. Cause I'm badass yo. She's bad. Weep. I was, we've been watching way too much Breaking Bad. Way too much. I really just want to say, cause I'm badass. You just said it though. I did. We stayed just outside the town of Palmer. Had a really classy spot camping last night. Inside of the road. Kind of tucked away. Gets a little shady. There's a couple guys that live with tarp tents down by the river. We're not going to look at them. This river is hauling butt. Remember the name of it? The what? The river. Nick River? This one? Yeah, K-N-I-K? Yeah. Of course yesterday, Everest decided she wanted to jump in. And fortunately she got into a place where she could get out really quick. Cause the way it's moving through here and that tree scares the heck out of me. She'd get caught in that. And so would I, cause I'd be in after her. All this is breaking off. Where are we headed? We're going to check out the Matanuska? Glacier? Oh no, we're going to the reindeer farm. We're doing that first. I've got glacier on the mind. Cause you wanted to go to reindeer so bad. I want to go see reindeer. And you just forgot. I was looking at glaciers and I thought glacier. They're everywhere in Alaska. There's nothing special anymore. It is special. Special. Mountains and glaciers, no special. He's so cute. Hi. I'm Chris. You just want me for my food. What's up homeboy? Or homegirl. Do you want a picture? You're so cute. Yeah, you can follow me around. Okay, okay. We're getting attacked. We're going to get whacked in the head. The last thing I think is that everywhere we've gone has been beautiful. People ask us, where are you going next? And we tell them. They're like, oh, that's going to be amazing. You're going to love it there. And so we just keep running. Well, we've slowed down quite a bit. But literally every place we tell people. Valdez wasn't really on our list either. Until we started telling people our route. They're like, oh, you're going to love Valdez. Yeah, everyone said you got to go there. You got to go there. On to Alaska. Drive to Valdez. Moose? No, bridge. You got me. We got that on camera too. You got me. There's a big difference between a moose and a freaking bridge. Hey, there's a big difference between a horse and a bear. Yeah, there's a big difference between a sign and a living animal. Oh, yeah. Go get it. You see where he went? There's a sea lion out there. And now he just disappeared. I'm glad to see this. Yeah. And now he came up pretty close. Now he's way out there. But he was jumping around. There he is. He's having a ball. Oh, he's got himself a fish. It's in his mouth. Oh, the seagulls are going after him. Oh, they know. I wonder why they don't just catch them themselves. Seagulls? Yeah. You see how big these fish are? They're taking his meal. He works so hard for it. He's sharing. Oh, is he? Yeah, he's throwing it around. Oh, there's another one out there, Chris. See him? Jumping around out there. Either an otter or another sea lion. Definitely a sea lion. Look, they're all coming in. See them all? The camera's moving on its own. Bring him out of the rain. Oh my gosh, there's like three or four or five of them. That is so cool. Hopefully see a bear in a couple minutes. Bears are always a good sign. You know what they say? Red sky at night. Sailor's delight. Bear in the morning. Sailor's what? Sailor's... I don't care about bears. What's bear in the morning for then? What rhymes with bear in the morning? Bear in the morning. Um... Nothing rhymes with morning. Mornin', warnin'. Hornin'. Dornin'. Hornin', gornin', hornin'. So anyway. Hornin'. Bear in the morning. Sea lion hornin'. So we're on our way one more time to Solomon Gulch, which is where we spent yesterday. And we're gonna hang out there for a couple hours. It's supposed to not be raining for the first couple hours of the morning. But I don't think the weathermen in Alaska are any better than the weathermen anywhere else in the world. Because I woke up to rain and it's still raining. So we're gonna give it a shot. Looking for a grizzly. It's about the only animal we haven't seen for sure on this trip. We saw a brown bear but I don't think that was a grizzly. So a grizzly's like the only thing that we haven't seen yet. And uh... Maybe we'll get it. Check in the box. No coffee yet. It's too early for coffee. But we gotta get there. So... On we go! I say that a lot. On we go. Maybe we should just change our name to OnWeGo.com It's probably already taken. On we go. Look it up. We spend a lot of time outside of auto parts stores. Thankfully we haven't slept in a parking lot of one yet. Oh, a truck. What? Please don't laugh. Unless that's a good thing. No, George can probably fix it in no time at all. Problem is George isn't here. We've got a fuel link. We don't? Yes we do. It's the pipe that comes out of it is not attached. No way! So when I put this in there the pipe jiggles around. So it just bounces loose. Yeah, but I don't know how to secure it. Maybe somebody in there would know? It's worth asking. So they make this fuel filter with a hard rubber cap. One inch. So the stupid thing is that if you torque it too much you strip it. Which is what's happening. Try to see how dirty this thing is. Can you actually grab a towel off the box over there, babe? Yeah, I can. I'm not going to open it until I have a towel to put it in. It's definitely full. Well, hopefully that's all it was. I think that's all fuel. I think that separator only takes the water because water is probably heavier. Yeah, this all should have drained out. It doesn't though. It's just a water separator, Chris. It doesn't drain everything. You're right. Now I'm pretty sure when I change that filter before... Or I could hit it again. And when I hit the thing? You need to remember that the gasket's on top. Okay. Because it needs to come off when you put the new one in. Go change out this little part. The little valve on the back of the fuel bulb. It's a pain getting the bolts out. Just because of the location. It's pretty easy. We'll assess that. After the fact, if it's hard taking it apart, it's going to be harder putting it back. So if I've got the camera and the truck foot is up, that must mean Lindsey's being the mechanic. Her little hands are getting back in this place where I can't get. We know now why mechanics are worth so much. Well, we knew. We've always known. Could be a crappy ratchet. Which is a craftsman. By the way. Supposed to be the best. Could be that we're just not smart enough to know whether we can take some things off without causing more trouble. If we could create some more space, maybe it would be easier to do. There's a whole lot of ifs, but Lindsey's making work now. She's good now. I'm going to get it with my hand now. Sweet. Yep, I got it off. Alright, let me jump in and help you out. Because I'm badass, yo. She's bad. We've been watching way too much Breaking Bad. I really just want to say because I'm badass, bitches. You just said it though. I did. Parents don't watch this with their children. PG-13. Children don't watch this. Or rated R. We're hoping the culprit is that this gasket right here is raised and nice and there's virtually no gasket right here. That's what we're hoping. It's bad that it's something bigger. In Valdez, Lindsey was the master mechanic. She swapped out that water separator valve. And we've been driving for about two hours now. We left Valdez. We just went past Glenallen. We're on our way to talk. We just pulled over to make some coffee. Probably a little too late at night. Made some coffee and checked underneath and everything looks good. Let's hope it works. The mentality we have is doing alright for now. We'll just keep on keeping on until the next thing breaks down. Try not to get too worked up about it. Hopefully for a while. It's never anything we predict. It's really never anything we predict. We always say, well, we just fixed that. We know that won't break again. It's always something else. This truck has served us well. It is 461,314 miles. Everybody who sees it says, that's a great engine. Every mechanic that's looked at it said, no blow-by, blow-back, blow-by. No blow-by. Everything looks great. So, we're proud of it. It's our little Red Rocket.