Sorry for the delay in getting a video out, but good internet access has been difficult to come by on this trip! In this video I head to central Utah’s Little Grand Canyon and promptly break my main video camera. Great. I also cook up a couple of easy meals. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

I leave tomorrow on a monthlong road trip and couldn’t be more excited! In this video I talk a bit about the trip, and I also ask for your input on places I should see and things I should do along the way, particularly in northern California (east of I-5), southeastern Oregon, and southern Idaho. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

In this video—the second of a two-part series, the first one being here)—I take my little inflatable raft up to a high mountain lake and then hike up a mountain, giving me some incredible views of the Great Salt Lake and more. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

In this video I head up into the mountains of northern Utah and find the most beautiful campsite I’ve ever stayed at. I talk about some changes I’ve made to my camping setup and show off some new gear, including what may be the world’s most compact camp toilet! (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

This video is part 1 of the adventure. Part 2 will be up on Thursday or Friday.

Relevant Links

• Campsite Location: 40.968556, -111.796334
• The Walmart chair
• The inflatable solar lantern
• The other solar lantern
• The cooler
• The tie-downs I use as hammock straps (They’re much cheaper than “real” adjustable hammock straps and work great.)
• The privacy tent
• The windshield mount I use to attach my fake GoPro

(Note: This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links.)

One of the problems I’ve had with my little solar camp shower bag is that I’m not always near a tree to hang it up. Plopping it on top of my SUV doesn’t work well because it’s not tall enough. This video covers two solutions that I’ve come up with. (Click here if you can’t see the video.)

Here’s the shower I have (affiliate link), and here’s the link to the “poor man’s drone” video mentioned.

In this video I head off into the mountains of northern Utah to enjoy some peace and quiet and to test out some new gear. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

Here’s some of the stuff I go through in the video:

• My new kayak (was $179 when I bought it)
• The kayak roof rack holders (Amazon affiliate link)
• Coleman Xtreme 52 qt. Cooler. The lowest price I could find online was at Home Depot.
• Akaso EK7000 fake GoPro (Amazon affiliate link)

And here’s the map of the adventure (click here if you can’t see the map below):

In this video I take the little solar camp shower I have and figure out a way to strap it to the top of my car so that it can heat up while I drive. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

Here is the shower I use (Amazon affiliate link), and here are the hot springs I go to in the little bonus clips at the end.

In this video I head into southeastern Idaho for a quick overnight camping trip and see a handful of interesting sights along the way. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

And here’s a map of the trip that includes everything I saw and did in the video:

These are the places I go to in the video as shown on the map above. Links to relevant information elsewhere online are included where appropriate.

1. Bear River Massacre Site (Lower) – Learn more about the Bear River Massacre on its Wikipedia page.
2. Bear River Massacre Site (Upper)
3. Pretty campsite I didn’t use
4. My campsite in Caribou National Forest
5. Standing Rock in Weston Canyon – More info here.
6. Weston Reservoir
7. Oldest Department Store in Idaho – More info here.
8. Samaria Cemetery – Home of the “One Man, Two Headstones,” which you can find more info about here.
9. Davis-Jenkins Cabin – More info here.
10. Washakie “Ghost Town” – More info here.

Other places

There were also several things I saw and did on this trip that did not make it into the video. This is for two reasons: 1) The video would have been about 45 minutes long, but more importantly, 2) I felt that the video footage I had of these places wasn’t very interesting. But for reference, here they are:

1. Casper’s Ice Cream Factory Store (Richmond, UT) – This company makes the supposedly famous “FatBoy” ice cream sandwiches, and the store has factory seconds and other cheap ice cream. I got an ice cream sandwich for $0.84, including tax. More info about the company on its Wikipedia page.
2. Franklin, ID Historic District (Franklin, ID) – Franklin is the oldest town in Idaho and has a nice little historic district.
3. Oneida Stake Academy (Preston, ID) – A neat old Romanesque building that used to be a Mormon school. Get an overview of it here on Wikipedia. If you want even more info, here’s a website dedicated to it.
4. Napoleon Dynamite House (Preston, ID) – Napoleon Dynamite (Amazon affiliate link) is a weird cult classic comedy movie. Much of it was filmed in and around Preston, so I drove out to where Napoleon’s house is.

I decided I wanted to make better use of the shelf space in the back of my Toyota RAV4. I was originally going to build slide-out drawers to put on top of the shelf, but I instead ended up simplifying the concept by just attaching bins to the top of the shelf to create “drawers.” (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)

Warmer weather equals hammock weather! In this video I go over several ways to hang a hammock from your SUV, van, truck, or other vehicle. One side has to be attached to a stationary object (a tree, pole, another vehicle, etc.), and the other side attaches to your car. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)