Mountain Camping Road Trip In $400 Car

welcome to camden with steve i got away from the house and all those house renovations there's no way i could possibly get anything filmed if i'm out there just laboring away so beautiful wife and i are out here going to the mountains in a beautiful 1997 400 toyota corolla because i blew the differential in our suv so this was all i could get my hands on all the rental cars were sold out but i needed to get out here to be able to film some stuff in the mountains i have no idea what we're filming there's like no plan for this normally in my videos i have a general idea of what we're going to do but we've loaded up a few basic montanans of camping here and we are just winging it here so uh it should prove to be a fun adventure and let's uh let's get this party started guys well it's a severely hot day i need a haircut and we just blew the belt for the air conditioner thankfully that belt just ran the air conditioner there's nothing else we still got the alternator and the water pump and everything running so we're just gonna have to do the old-fashioned way gotta be the hottest day of the year of course uh but yeah we'll just hand crank the windows down in there and drive down the highway to cool us off but we're gonna get into down the road here as far as we can to see see what we can find and i'm gonna try to come up with some type of a plan super hot one today pulled off on this little side road and i don't know i don't know compact toyota versus sketchy oh not that sketchy i think we can do it all right this looks great stay on the high spots of the road here oh yeah okay yeah um yeah this car has no business being on a road trip let alone down a logging road or anything remotely like that but this is uh that's a cool spot i don't know if we have what we need to camp right here because we just grabbed some hammocks we don't even have a tent but uh yeah nice free little camping spot if if we had something other than hammocks here yeah i've decided we are going to camp here the hammocks would be a bit of a stretch but i'm going to go grab a cheap tent if the nearest local little town of is a village we'll see what they have because we're kind of just going with what we can get along the way let's uh go find a tent okay uh made it to the village they have a small camping section here and i'm gonna grab a big like six-man tent it's 120 dollars uh which is not bad i've never heard of brand before but uh for a small town store it's not bad find not a bad find at all and yeah grab this thing because we we literally left in such a rush we had to uh have to get out here and camping and away from the house so this is what we've got for the tent we're gonna set up we'll grab a few other things from here and we'll be out of here after about 10 different stops in this little village we've got everything we needed cobbled together and bits pieces from the various different stores they have between the drugstore the hardware store the uh gas station we got lots of lots of stuff we need so now we're gonna get back down the road about 20 minutes and back to our nice little spot that we found and we can set up start relaxing and finally have a hard-earned well-deserved step two next step is step two meet her back here we're gonna get camp set up here pretty quickly first things first though one word third masel this is the backpacking version i've come to really fall in love with this little thing because it uh runs off these butane or isobutane cylinders uh super small works just the same as those other thermal cells and some people ask about these like um if they work or not how they work this is just the same ingredient in mosquito coils except a lot more concentrated um it's desys oletherin is the chemical i believe and it just heats it up and it causes it to causes it to smolder a bit releasing the wonderful chemical and it's a derivative of the chrysanthemum flower not that being natural makes it any more healthy you know tobacco's natural a lot of natural things that aren't really that good for you we get this going because they have swarmed beautiful wife and i as soon as we stop moving and this is in the heat of the day it is about mid 30s celsius so fahrenheit i'll figure it out but we're we're getting we're getting up there in temperature so this has lit and i'm gonna seek refuge from these bugs until this clears the area out guess what's in here step two pass went over to beautiful wife here behind the camera and uh she doesn't like to appear on camera some people some people know that but uh that's okay i'm just glad she's here with me enjoying the scenery and enjoying the camping trip so cheers uh all you guys at home crack your step twos and uh let's uh enjoy your step twos together here oh it's much needed much needed so we truly have a weird assortment of gear on this trip uh i packed it such a frantic rush here's what i've managed to get from home a couple of camp chairs styrofoam cooler that we used i forget when we use this but a little disposable styrofoam cooler i grabbed my thermocell ah boy um a camp table some sleeping bags uh we brought the hammocks and uh we picked up just a few other odds and ends to get us camping from the tiny village like we went through a couple of towns and they were wiped out completely like the entire camping section it looked like grocery stores did three months ago if you know what i mean so it was uh it was remarkable everybody's going camping now and that's great but uh we we're in pretty remote places so we're fortunate with that there's an old sign here that i'm gonna move out of the way there are some garbage in the area i'll clear up but uh we're gonna grab some driftwood there just start up a nice little fire and yeah we're close to the train tracks uh the highway's right there so if there is an emergency we can get up there for some help but i really doubt that it'll stay busy all night i think we'll be in for a good relaxing sleep just the smell of the arrow here is gonna be the best sleeping pill that you could imagine no shortage of driftwood today we are blessed load up some of the dryer stuff and i just used the chair to bring it back little beaver got it this one and chewed it up and see so we're not alone out here that's enough to get us started that'll work pretty good so i always just form it into some type of a pyramid shape and you can dump on your favorite accelerant this is lamp oil it's kerosene based chop brick lid now that'll burn longer than gasoline in a light with less of an explosion so that's always good oh yeah you can really smell the kerosene all right then oh piece of birch don't burn like nobody's business ah this one was the only tent in the village of there was a few others but uh this was the best value and the best option and it's a tent we don't have this category of tent this is a six person uh brand i've never heard of 120 dollars my hopes are not high but i i got a feeling it won't fit in this bag ever again and then this may take a little longer to set up it didn't even remotely hint about being an easy setup on the bag as they normally do if you like fast forwarding time-lapse and stuff tent time no it's tall so that's good but it is cheap this is not the type of thing i'll be passing down to my grandkids let's put it that way i was never more scared of breaking a tent setting it up than this one here goes up a little quicker than a 40 year old canvas tent that's the the material uh the nylon here it's so thin it crinkles like a grocery bag like um definitely going to be a good uh shower shack changing shack or something but certainly not a regular camping tent but got a set of a pinch so that's what it's all about and i don't care if sparks get on it this came from somewhere and i don't know if it there's a there's a signpost there but this isn't a forest service road so it might have drifted down the river from somewhere i'm not sure all right just gonna move this out of the way this is what we found in the small town i've always wanted one adjustable in height so you can go right down on the coals lift it right up like in this case fully adjustable and they charged about 60 canadian for this i think that's fair considering it's a small village and uh i was lucky to find anything at all so this is what we're going to be cooking with put her on there yeah that'll be good i'll let the heat kind of sterilize and break this in because it was new in the box and there's probably protective oils or whatever on it and we'll keep this going and we're gonna make some sandwiches tonight grilled sandwiches right on the fire by the river it's amazing so i looked right over from our tent and we have inadvertently set up our camp on a oil pipeline the trans mountain pipeline it is uh a little bit of a well-known pipeline here in canada so we are camping right over there along it's um it's still crown land and and there are no signs that say we can't camp here but uh if i were down this clear-cut somewhere i wouldn't want to have a big fire i wouldn't be scared of causing a fire with the pipes but you know if if somebody drives along and say oh a bunch of fire coming off of the oil pipeline over there and you know we could get some fire uh response down here but i thought i'd just show you that that's kind of neat and i think it'd be actually pretty cool to travel down this uh this pipeline clearing and just uh it's it's a great great pathway actually animals could be walking through here and they probably are because there's not many people and it's a nice nice clear beautiful path with freshly disturbed earth and when you have that you have a lot of berries that come up strawberries blueberries gooseberries cranberries all sorts yeah time to prep up some food here before it gets too too dark or too too late and just simple hot sandwiches all i need today it'll that'll fill me up just nice i got some marble oh you call that a marble no no no marble rye i want a good marbled piece get the bottom there that's all this thing so on the outside of this one of my little tricks when i'm going camping is mayo always has to be refrigerated and if you don't have a lot of cooler space what we did is we stopped by an unnamed restaurant which we will not mention and we picked up some mcchicken sauce because that's the same thing as mayo so i'll put that on the outside of the bread and we use this actually if we're doing grilled cheese as well so we don't have to carry you know butter and a bunch of stuff mayo on the outside of the bread works just like butter so one little thing we do yes it's a beautiful wipe as mentioned using the mayo trick makes it taste like sourdough a little more so that is just good keep it simple today looks like one piece of bread i think it was a world world sandwich contest and one sandwich that won one year was the simple cheese and pickle sandwich so like a sharp cheddar a dill pickle and because today i want it to be a little bit more of a meal some hungarian salami oh that's going to be just great actually i'll put the pickles in you'd almost think i've been sitting here all day having step twos but i barely even finished my first and we wait i had to drop the grill down fairly low because uh it just wasn't browning up nicely but now it did look at that there we go it's gonna be quite okay it's the uh the kerosene burned off a long time ago so you don't have to worry about anything like that and give this a taste because it smells fantastic i can see why this would win a contest as far as like the world's best sandwich and i'm sure they're using way better ingredients than what i was able to find in the village this is great a charming little sandwich beautiful little river here so it is time for everybody to grab your step twos and i give my shout out to the list of the people that have made beer donations that also translates into gear donations like this from when we find ourselves in a situation where the shelves are wiped and we packed in haste so this is all good stuff i'm really glad to have one of these i'll see if i can find a link for that it's uh we picked it up from home hardware and the brand on the side of the box said rome r-o-m-e just from testing it it looks good folds up and packs packs nicely but thank you to all of the people who have donated i did get a donation from bill now this fellow said he wants to donate to the beer donation fund but he says he wants me to steer that towards getting a pair of those colored blindness glasses the enchroma ones because i've i've seen those videos they're those viral things where people put on the glasses and they start crying because they've never seen a color before and who knows you might see that from me so thank you thank you uh bill and i'm gonna start focusing some donations uh to that way especially if you let me know then we're all going to see me crying my eyes out in the middle of nature with a few colored balloons so this shout outs a beautiful wife just laughing thought of that right now and yeah i'm gonna eat this and uh we're gonna crawl into this uh tent because hard to believe it's uh it's our anniversary trip here and we want to hit the hay get to bed early because tomorrow's another day so the sooner we get into the tent fall asleep and have a nice quiet relaxing normal mom and pop meat and potatoes basic sleep out on the camping trip tomorrow we'll come early and we'll get breakfast going and everything is going to be just fine as i've said before yes i need a haircut all the places in the village were closed so that's what's happening there now i've switched out of my cooking clothes because we're in bear country and washed up in the river there a little bit and i'm gonna get to bed here with bear spray close in hand we're just not even putting the fly on this because the weather is so good for tonight not a not a drop of rain in the forecast that gives us a nice view of the sky nice ventilation and that's that's the goal there um yeah like even the zipper on this is super cheap i don't know what i'm gonna do with this tent um i'd feel bad actually even giving it away in a giveaway but uh let me know what do you think i should do i know there's some people that would love to try a tent out to just go camping so uh you know it's not best tent but you know it is something for people that would like to give it a try so we're gonna hunker down here then in the morning i'd really like to uh do a little exploring out there make a really good breakfast breakfast in bed for a beautiful life probably and uh yeah so till tomorrow we will see you guys then and it's time for us to hunker down i know well beautiful rifle join in here and then we're going to zip it up see you guys in the am good morning slept in a little bit it's more like early noon it was actually fairly easy to stay sleeping in that horrible little tent even with the sun coming through it because uh we didn't have the fly on the there was some breeze so that that made things easier and uh just gonna make a quick little snack here beautiful crystal clear glacier water and what's all that sparkling stuff in it no my friend you cannot make a ring out of that that is micah and it's everywhere out here sure looks pretty but it's not worth a whole lot ah perfectly marbled yeah that that little toyota actually does the job for card camping my beautiful wife and i are going to be out for a couple of weeks perhaps and uh we're going to see how it performs on an extended journey we may have to get one of those rooftop carrier things i'm not sure uh we're gonna probably change the tent situation here as soon as we can get to a real store somewhere but that is uh i i'm shocked i'm actually shocked that we got down to the beach here for the river because this is uh interesting terrain for such a little car as soon as we get the ac fixed we're gonna be laughing say what you will about the current state of consumer goods this three-legged thing is working wonders for us look at this i'm i'm very happy this was uh this was a real score the tenth not so much but uh this little thing is just just doing wonders for us now this campsite checks off every box of boondocker satisfaction free vehicle accessible got water right there the beautiful uh southern uh sky so you could set up your solar panels no i can't tell you where it is i'd love to but i had to keep a few spots a few spots a little secret front truly uh beautiful this actually is our anniversary today now we have a couple of anniversaries like we have our first date anniversary beautiful whatnot that was like july 15th and then we actually got married on today august 5th so we are heading into town we're going to pack up and treat ourselves to an actual brick-and-mortar building hotel instead of just so yeah it's uh it's going to be quite a nice street and yeah is there a bug it was a scary one oh yeah i know that one landed on my back earlier it's this locust looking thing um which is another nice reason to not spend the day of our anniversary over here getting swarmed by locusts so we were having a good laugh a real good laugh we were thinking what were we doing three years ago this time and before the wedding i went to go get like a haircut just trimmed up you know not scruffy like this and i walked into like the cheapest walk-in barber shop i could find and i'm sitting there and she's you know working on the hair and she says so what are you got any big plans for today what are you up to and i said i'm getting married and she stops and freaks out she's like you should have told me you should have told me so i could do a really good job i'm like you should always do a really good job and i didn't want to give her the yips or anything like make her nervous working on like they don't do wedding hair generally at the single pins right so i didn't want her to freak out and be like oh oh no all right uh but it worked out good it looked good did it it looked great yeah and then after the wedding we called the uber like we didn't have limo or nothing like that we actually rode with the photographers uh just the back of the car and you know we ended up a storm came during the photographs uh the photography shoots we ended up at mcdonald's uh hiding from the store just having big macs like the whole wedding party in there not a big deal just uh chilling at mcdonald's for a bit and uh yeah then after after the wedding we'd called an uber and you know just a regular uber none of the fancy town car things like just showed up and he saw it was uh there's a beautiful bride in her wedding dress there he freaks out he comes running around to open up the door and we're like relax do you want to ride with me yeah are you sure you want to ride it's just an uber it's like we we just have to get back to them come on that that's the most steep wedding uh most steve wedding i can think of whatever it's what we wanted i did my own hair you at least went somewhere everybody's favorite game when you're out here along the water is to pick up rocks that you think are extremely valuable and save them this is more of that mica i'm talking about but i could see how this could uh fool a few people into thinking they just uh they just found a mother load start the car so that's uh stuff like this all over the place and uh from my gold mining experience it ain't gold only one way to tell if you're ever curious is to bash off this stuff and if you know what gold does in a gold pan if you swirl it around and it stays put really well um then then it just chances gold but if it just floats around really easily it ain't gold but it's still coming home with us okay all right we're getting out of this blistering heat and into some air conditioning um we are packed up this was a good site not a great site but a good site oh who am i kidding it was great um this was a fun adventure thanks for watching uh we are gonna keep pushing this little 400 car see what it can do on all these logging roads and uh thanks uh thanks for watching please consider subscribing if you haven't uh and uh if you didn't like it uh please just don't be too mean in the comments um we are out here and back to enjoy our anniversary so thanks again guys and until next time hunker down

Channel: Steve Wallis

Views: 345,878

Rating: 4.9483151 out of 5

Keywords: camping, mountain camping, road trip, roadtrip, roadtrip camping, road trip camping, steve wallis, hunker down, camping with steve, steve wallis camping, cheap car, cheap car roadtrip, old car, old car road trip, old car roadtrip, car camping

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Length: 30min 32sec (1832 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 06 2020

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I love to see that he was willing to spend 400 dollars on a car because he wants to get out and make a video.

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