ROADTRIP: Super Cub goes to MotoGP 2019! (Part 2) - Setting Up Camp at COTA

I finally made it to COTA around 4:00pm and started setting up camp as quickly as possible. This is a long, slow video, so skip to the end of the description for clickable time indexes. It's late afternoon, and I'm getting hangry (hungry-angry). The COTA dry camping grounds are packed full of motorhomes, car campers, truck campers, and moto-campers. I managed to find a relatively quiet spot, and I started to unpack around 4:15pm. I'm rushing to get camp set up quickly, so I can head out for a very late lunch. I'm also trying to hurry because I don't know when the weather is going to turn against me. The forecast showed storms sometime around 8:30pm, but it didn't really hit until almost midnight. Setting up camp today was much longer than normal because the Super Cub is an attention magnet! Everyone loves it and wants to stop by and chat about the bike... it's a real conversation starter. I met dozens of really nice people that were very enthusiastic about the Cub, and they were all in complete disbelief that I actually rode it from Houston to Austin! Their expressions were priceless! It seems that everyone has forgotten how to take it slow and easy on smaller bikes... everyone is fixated on bigger, faster... hurry, hurry, hurry these days. There was a lot more talking and camaraderie, so the tent and camp setup took a while. I finally cut to the end pictures of the completed camp setup with a tent, tarp, and a complete DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATER! The theater kit consists of: Anker Nebula Capsule projector Nebula tripod 60" rollable/foldable vinyl projector screen tent guy lines with tensioners (4) short bungee hooks to keep the screen taut and allow some wind flexibility without tearing anything I was able to stream a new movie ("Ant-Man and the Wasp") from Netflix via my cellular hotspot, and also an hour or so of my YouTube channel content for people that were interested in the channel. Unfortunately, I had to tear down the theater and tarp around midnight when the wind really kicked up... the 30+ mph wind gusts were straining the tarp lines and threatening to break things (again). It's good that I took things down when I did because doing it later would have been a real problem... the weather turned really nasty. The storms that blew through Austin that weekend were part of the same system that spawned deadly tornadoes throughout the south-central and eastern US states. The rain blew out around 1:30-2:00pm the following day, but the wind never died down... it was a real challenge! Time indexes: 0:00 : I finally made it to COTA, and the dry camping area is almost completely full! 2:10 : Setting up the Goal Zero Sherpa 100 power pack for charging batteries 3:25 : Let the unpacking begin... the DrySpec D38 holds a LOT of gear 4:45 : The first of many Super Cub admirers arrives... the Cub starts conversations everywhere 9:45 : Lost my rhythm... where was I? 13:20 : Setting the ground cloth and tent, staking everything down for wind resistance 21:00 : Another neighbor stops by to help me set up camp and to chat... he just finished an Iron Butt 1500 today... WOW! 31:15 : Let the disbelief begin... people can't believe that I actually rode the Super Cub from Houston to Austin 36:20 : Finally setting up my chair, which is usually the first item that I unpack... I'm off my rhythm today 38:00 : Realizing that I left 8 tent stakes at home... CRAP! 38:40 : Unpacking the GSI aluminum camp table 40:50 : Unpacking the roll-top camp table 41:00 : Another neighbor stops by to talk about the Super Cub 44:05 : A little shameless QuasiMotard channel promotion 52:00 : The talking continued for a while, so I cut to the final setup with pictures of the full camp deployment and the DRIVE-IN THEATER in action! -- QM [email protected] #honda #supercub #c125 Music score: Start of the New Day by Ilya Truhanov Licensed via Artlist.io: Unlimited License Number - 138964 / License owner - QuasiMotard