In this video I do some more adventuring in Nevada’s Gold Butte National Monument. I hike up to the top of Gold Butte Peak, find 18th century (or earlier??) relics from Spanish explorers, and check out the most incredible collection of Native American petroglyphs I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot!).
(Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
Follow along as I head into Nevada’s Gold Butte National Monument. It was just made a national monument less than a month ago, and the place is absolutely spectacular. I visit the Devil’s Nostril, the Devil’s Throat, Little Finland, some sand Dunes, and Gold Butte itself. This is the first of two videos from my time in Gold Butte. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
In this road trip vlog, I climb a big, scary, dangerous, remote, and beautiful mountain out in the Nevada desert. I’ve climbed close to 150 mountains in the western United States, and this was definitely one of the best. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
In this video chronicle of my road trip adventures, I leave Utah, cross the northwest corner of Arizona, and end up at a remote and incredible campsite in Nevada. Along the way I check out some awesome cliffs, caves, and canyons. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
Another day, another vlog. In this video, I go over the mobile Internet setup I use, show you some of the food I eat, and talk about how I store that food. (If you can’t see the video below, click here to watch it on YouTube.)
In this video (#4 in my UT-NV-AZ-CA series of travel vlogs), I head over the border into Arizona and test out my new pop-up shower/privacy tent. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
I went on another world-class hike in Zion National Park and saw some unexpected wildlife along the way. (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
This is the first vlog video from my current trip through Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. Enjoy! (Click here if you can’t see the video below.)
This video (embedded below) by Bob from Cheap RV Living is an interview with Dave, a retired Greek Orthodox and Episcopal priest who is now a Buddhist priest that leads clients on vision quests in the wilderness. He took the back seat out of his 1991 Isuzu Trooper and laid a wooden platform in the back, and that gives him a surprising amount of space inside the vehicle. He also took out the passenger seat to give himself and his dog even more room. He has a metal divider between the front and back sections of the vehicle that he uses to hang gear. I love the headroom and large windows that the Trooper offers.
Dave’s approach to living in his SUV is very minimalist:
“My style and approach to living from … the Isuzu Trooper is more of a mountaineering/backpacking approach, so the gear that I use and the mindset I use tends to be a mountaineering/backpacking/expedition-type mindset. So I cook outside as much as I can. I tend to use backpacking equipment, and so the Isuzu is what carries it from one place to another. But I like being as close to nature as I can and having really good gear, so that if it is blowing a blizzard, even if I’m in a tent, I’m warm, I’m safe, I can make hot coffee, I can cook.”
To which Bob replied:
“Instead of having to fit it all into a backpack, all you have to do is fit it into an Isuzu Trooper.”
As a mountaineer and backpacker myself, this is definitely something I can relate to. If backpackers can spend 5 months walking with everything they need on their backs, you and I can certainly fit everything we need into any vehicle.
The first half of the video is Dave telling his story of how he came to be living in an SUV. If you want to skip all of that, the SUV talk starts at 16:35.
(Again, click here to view the video on YouTube if you can’t see it above.)
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I was going to leave on my trip this morning, but there are snow storms a few hours south of here in the mountains, so I’m putting it off for one more day. Ugh. But I am definitely, definitely leaving tomorrow (Friday). Definitely.