Stealth Camping In Seattle | Made some Clam Chowder

new england clam chowder made on the streets of seattle we got this spot oh crap so i've been in seattle for about two weeks partially by choice partially because my girlfriend fought to visit me and we hung out explored the city for a week and now i'm just waiting for a package so i have to stay here until next monday so i figured why not get some stealth can be done in the city so uh that's what i'm gonna do tonight i found this spot on the map that's like right in the city right next to the space needle within walking distance on south lake union and based on the photos it looks pretty nice like it's right on the street in the city uh i looked at the area it looks like it's a nice area so that's where we're gonna be camping tonight it's about 25 minutes away from where we are right now because i'm in eastern seattle so let's get going [Music] there we go we got the last spot right on the strip where the free parking is so it's free parking all the way down that way and then all the way down that way and there was no response other than the one that i just backed into so this is where we're camping for the night always got to make sure my car is fully closed when i'm parking in the city because i don't want anyone to know that i'm living back here so this is it that's what we're saying tonight we got this spot oh crap oh i'm in front of a loading dock i might have to move my spot i just realized that i'm kind of in front of this loading dock right here let's go see if there's any other spots open so this spot that has free parking kind of goes all the way basically down to the end of this road from there all the way up to there where you don't have to pay for parking and you can stay for i think it's up to 72 hours so we're good where we're parked for at least 30 minutes it says i'm in a 30 minute loading zone but um i'm gonna see if i can find anywhere else real quick looks like there's a spot right there oh never mind there's a fire hydrant you can always tell in the city where there's free parking because there's other camper vans there like there's an ambulance camper van there's a van there's another promaster down there a tacoma truck camper so if you ever go into a city and you need free parking just look for camper vans usually that's where it is yeah it doesn't look like there's any other free spots down here they are all 100 filled up but it looks like all these buildings with these loading docks where people are parked in front of they are spray paint all over them and they look like they're abandoned i don't know if the one that i'm parked in front of is but worst case we might just have to move the van a little bit later tonight but i think we're fine where we are for uh for right now looks like a spot might be opening up right next to me i might take that spot right there because that's not in the loading zone right here they're quick though all right so we should be good here i moved over from that space to this space so i'm not blocking a uh a truck loading zone for the entire night so we should be fine here but even this spot is kind of sketchy because it's in front of one of these like little cutouts but it doesn't look like it's an active door like that one's like an active door this one's not the only reason i might be still a little bit worried is because technically i'm in this like loading zone box a little bit but the door is right there and i'm not blocking it so i feel like i should be fine but anyways i think tonight for um for dinner i'm going to make some clam chowder because i'm in seattle and when my girlfriend was visiting we went to uh this climate charter place at the uh pike place market and it was really good and ever since then i've been craving clam chowder so i'm gonna go get all the ingredients for that luckily there's a whole foods market right next to around park [Music] all right groceries secured now we just got to get back to the van so from what i can tell based on that short walk kind of around the area is that this is actually a really nice area of seattle there's a whole foods there's a nice hotel an apartment complex right across the street it also has an asian market in the bottom that i'm probably gonna hit up tomorrow and grab some food but i actually do feel pretty safe parking here for the night safer than i felt in other cities so that's good it's really hot in the back of the van let me get these fans opened up turned on the only thing that sucks about shooting these videos when i'm in the van and it's hot when i have to have these vans on is they really mess with the audio because it sounds like i'm in a wind turbine especially when i have the front one on and the back one back there on just gets super loud but i got to turn them on it's so hot it is 94 degrees i don't know if you guys will be able to see that but it's 94 degrees in the back of the van not ideal but seattle has been perfect weather almost this entire time i haven't had to worry about it at all it gets hot during the day it's perfect for being outside um and even during the day there's always a cool breeze and if i'm parked somewhere where i can keep the door open i'll just keep the door open and it stays pretty nice back here but in the city obviously i can't do that so my only option is these fans and then at night it always gets down to like 60 degrees so i never have any issues sleeping when i'm in seattle that feels so much better listen how loud it is though and that's not even full power [Music] all right so we're off to a great start first thing i got to do is drain these clams but i don't have a can opener and they don't have the little tabs on so of course you have to cut them open the old fashioned way one down two to go kind of smells bad i love clam chowder though i just realized i forgot to get a bread bowl so i don't want to start cooking this before i have that so i'm going to run back to the store real quick grab a bread bowl and then uh start preparing these ingredients all right bread secured i don't know if it's too big but it's the only one in the store that they had that looked like it could be used as a bread bowl so it's gonna have to work there we go all the vegetables are prepped and ready to go oh remove this one onto the uh back burner back there let that cook while i prepare the rest of this meal on the uh on the other burner so i'm an idiot i just realized i need a uh quart of half and half and i only have a pint so now i gotta go back to the store and buy some more half and half but before i go i'm gonna turn this off so it doesn't overcook i think those still need to cook for a while so i'm gonna leave that on and uh go get the rest of my half all right now that i'm properly sweaty we have a quart of half and half it's a really good thing that that uh store is only a block away or else this whole recipe would have been shot but luckily it's not i don't know if this sauce pan is big enough for this i should use the other sauce man the recipe says to pour this into that but that will not work so i'm gonna try to pour this into that without spilling it which probably won't happen but we will see told you i really need to start taking these recipes and kind of having them because i always end up making like enough for four people and then having a bunch of leftovers when i really didn't need to but at least i'll have a clam chowder for the week and then some sea salt that my girlfriend's mom got me for my birthday to make this dish taste really good and then some fresh ground pepper look at that that looks so good so i'm not sure what the proper technique is i'm making a bread bowl i'm just gonna cut the top off and hope for the best i think i gotta scoop out some stuff though to add more uh and more space in here and this is called the uh the rip and tear technique it's actually a uh an old french technique for making bread bowls there we go that's a bowl now let's fill it with chowder look at that that is beautiful okay so now all i got to do top it off with some parsley to make it look pretty and there we go that is the final product new england clam chowder made on the streets of seattle [Music] all right let's dig in because i am starving cheers whoa that's good i think clam chowder might be one of my new favorite dishes full can fresh salted water that was delicious very good i am absolutely stuffed um so i don't know what i'm going to do with this bread bowl i guess i'll throw it away because it's kind of just tainted with leftover uh clam chowder um 7 30 now so i don't know what i'm gonna do for the rest of the night but for now i'm gonna get the van cleaned up and then i'll figure it out all right so i've got the van cleaned up uh i made some sodastream diet root beer and um i do feel a little bit gross because of how hot it was today it's a little bit cooler now so it's not as bad so i think i'm gonna take a baby wipe shower and then uh just wash my hair in the sink because there's no plan of fitness is nearby and my gray water tank broke the other day one of the tubes cracked and i don't want to take a shower and spill water all over the pavement outside the van because that's just not a good look also i just want to clarify the pipe that is broken is the one from my shower pan over to my great water tank not from my sink to my grey water tank that's why i can take a head shower in the sink and not have a leak also quick self plug this shirt that i'm wearing is actually my merch i know you might be thinking to yourself why is it blank on the front and that's because me personally i like shirts with a blank front and with a design on the back like this because that's the way i like them and i wanted to make merch that i would rep myself so this is just a trial period to see if people actually like the blank front t-shirts with the design on the back you can find these shirts on a bunch of different colors along with hoodies and stickers on my website ryanthenumber2me.com also let me know what you guys think in the comments of the plain white t-shirt front and then just having the designs on the back i plan on having new designs every single month but yeah go check it out um i'm gonna take a shower huggies simply clean fragrance free yeah i'm going to do my other reasons real quick so i'll check in with you guys once i'm done with that all right now that i got myself all wiped down it's time to finish it off with a little head shower in the sink there you go that's how you take a van life shower in the city also this is what the merch hoodies look like same design on the back playing on the front nice gildan hoodies so yeah if you want to check them out check them out on my website link to that will be in the description i know that wasn't much of a shower but it does feel good to be a little bit cleaner but i think for now i'm just gonna hang out in the van for the rest of the night um if it was a weekend i might go out to the bar and get a drink or something but it's a wednesday and i'm pretty tired so i don't feel like doing that hopefully we don't have any issues tonight but i've been staying in seattle for two weeks and i haven't had any issues so i don't expect there to be any tonight but when you live in a van you never know [Music] all right it is 10 30. it's time for bed the place that i'm in is actually really well lit and there's still a lot of cars in the area a lot of nicer cars than my van that i hate to say that someone would probably choose to break into first before they chose my van so i feel pretty good about sleeping here tonight i don't think anything should happen also i'll turn my lights on real quick show you guys what the van looks like from the outside when i have all these bright white lights on so you can see what people see when they walk by the van when i have all these lights on so this is what it looks like in the front you can see i didn't close the curtains all the way in the middle so you can see a little bit of light through the middle but pretty much nothing coming through there other than that um i just got to pull that middle curtain closed and then you should be fine you shouldn't be able to see any light coming through i don't know if you guys can pick that up but there's a little sliver of light coming through uh the middle of that curtain there but other than that you definitely would not be able to tell that someone's staying in here and in this spot i'm backed up against a wall over here on this side so so even if there is light coming out my back windows which there is a little bit right here because the window shade is folded wouldn't matter because i'm backed up against a wall pays to have blackout curtains anyways i'm going to bed i will check in with you guys in the morning unless something else happens in the middle of the night the morning we made it through the night nothing really happened like i woke up by some um power washers a bit earlier this morning but other than that i actually got a pretty good night's sleep secret thing it's a good thing i moved out of that loading dock there's a truck in that loading dock right now backed up to the thing wow good thing i moved all right i think it's time that i head out of here i appreciate you guys coming along if you don't already make sure you click that subscribe button and i will catch you guys next time

Channel: RyanTwomey

Views: 336,915

Keywords: stealth camping, vantour, truck camping, vanbuild, travel, camp cooking

Id: zNXw2-C_cus

Length: 16min 33sec (993 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 25 2022