Solo Car Camping in a Slot Canyon

What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode. In this one we're camping in the canyons of New Mexico. Since the last time you saw me we've driven about 15 and a half hours to get to the canyons. We drove from Louisiana all the way through Texas and into New Mexico for this. Really excited to be back west. This is one of my favorite places of the United States, the American Southwest, and I'm stoked to show you guys and explore a little bit more of it. Full 360 for free. This is free. Guys, get outside if you can. Does it really get much better? I mean, I don't think so, personally. I'm super excited for the spot tonight. It should be a cool stay. We gotta get ourselves all put back together. Let's do it. Let's get to our new spot for the night. And we're back onto the pavement. All right, so apparently the directions here are pretty difficult, so I'm trying to figure out how to get there. This looks like I'm going the wrong way. I'm so confused, bro. We will find it. All right, I did my searching on the map with my slew thing and I think I have it figured out. This is probably what I'm looking for here. Yeah, definitely. Let's go. Yes, sir. I figured it out. So I just continue straight and we are going to be in the canyon. Cool. I'm glad we figured it out. Let's go, baby. There should be a bunch of different types of spots here. Some more in the sun and some really shaded. It is 101 degrees, so because of that, I'm hoping there aren't going to be too many people out here and I can catch myself one of those shaded spots from out in the sun all day. That is going to be pretty brutal. Yeah, you know, it's fine. I'm just going to go into the desert of New Mexico in June and camp in a canyon where it's going to be super hot because there's no elevation. Yeah, that was smart. All right, here we go. We're entering the mouth of the canyon. This is sick, dude. No way. I got to check that one out. Oh my gosh, it goes back further. All right, well, I am in the shade here. This is awesome. What? It goes further back, too. I probably shouldn't run either. I don't want to exert too much energy, but if it dead ends here, this might be it. Yeah, dead ends. Brother, that's so sick. I might back into this spot and then go on a little walk and explore more because this is probably the best spot and I don't want to lose out on it just in case someone else does come. Great success. I actually might pull my car up to the shaded spot right here just until it gets a little bit more shaded in this area. Keep it a little bit cooler. That'll be much better. I just can't get over how cool this is. I mean, look at this. Like, really? Seriously? That's insane. All right, before we head out of here and do some exploring, I'm going to grab some food. Be a little fancy. Needs a cutting board for this. Cheers. Yep, that is delicious. I made sure that I brought as much water as I possibly could, so like two and a half, two and a quarter gallons just for one night. All right, well, I'm going to go ahead and explore a bit. Walk around. Got my water with me. It is bright, dude. I'm going to see about possibly getting some higher ground up here. Gotta be careful of some rattlesnakes. I know they like to hide in cool shaded areas under rocks, so watching my footing, paying attention. I think I should be all right if I do that. Look at that. That's so sick. Rocks break apart super easily, and the last thing I want to do is slip, but good thing I have my hiking shoes on for this. We're going to try and climb up this, actually. Yeah, easy. Got tons of traction. Looks like I can go down and back up and probably loop up to the rim there, and that's what I'm hoping for. Yeah, I don't think I can do that. I can get from here to here to here. Once I get to this rock, I'm not really too comfortable with that, so I head back on down, but check it out, man. That is beautiful. Going down is way harder than getting up in my professional opinion. Before I started this trip, one of the things I wanted to do for a video was backpack rim-to-rim in the Grand Canyon, but honestly, I'm glad that it didn't work out because I would be doing it in the next week or so, and if it's this hot, that would be a brutal backpacking trip, and we're back. I'm going to explore down just a little bit more and see if there are any other sites that pique my interest, but I really do think that I got the best one here. Oh, that's cool. There's a cave in the canyon up there. I wonder what's in there. I'm not going to be finding that. I'm just kidding. I had to find out what this was. The shade feels incredible. That's sick. It looks like the canyon starts to end down here, so I'm pretty sure that I did indeed get the best possible spot for tonight. I'm going to head back to my car and try and get out of the sun for a little bit. Right here off of my campsite, it looks like there's a little slide canyon that you can walk through, so I'm going to explore that. That's cool. Look at that. Yes, a breeze. That feels so good right now. The car is around this loop and around the corner and then down a little bit more. I can't get over these views, dude. This place is so cool. This gap of shade is starting to close, which is awesome. It's just the sun literally coming through the slot canyon here, but I'm going to back up into this shaded part right here for now. It's only four o'clock. My body, though, is still on eastern time, so I feel like it's six o'clock. I'm just going to hang out down here for a little bit until the sun starts going down a bit, and then I'll probably cook up some dinner. Tonight, we're keeping it super simple, super cheap. You boys trying to save some money, so I probably should have cooked something a little bit better for tonight, but we're having a hamburger helper, but the taco kind because we're in New Mexico, so got to pay homage, right? We got the two meat for tonight. Hopefully, it doesn't take too long tonight because there's not a ton of wind back in here. The last couple of times I've been trying to cook, it has been a bit windy, so that definitely has a lot to do with it. Oh, yeah. It's cooking up way faster. That's good. Thank God. Probably thinking to yourself, Matt, why the heck did you just do that to your McCroy can? Watch and learn, ladies and gents. Watch and learn. Let's go. I've not gotten a cup measurement still since the last time I needed one in South Carolina. I'm just going to guesstimate, honestly. I think it'll be fine. Oh, she needs some milk. It's everything in one, and I'm going to get two meals out of it. My meat log was like six or seven. That sounds so wrong. I should not say that. My ground beef log was like six or seven bucks, and then the hamburger helper is like two or three bucks. You get two meals for less than 10 bucks. That's what we're talking about. That's how we do it, and I love hamburger helper. It's thickening up a bit and boiling down some of that extra liquid. It definitely put too much, but I think it's going to be pretty good. Corn chips on top. You can't even tell me that that doesn't look absolutely busting right now. I don't think I'm going to be tasting any of this tonight because I just burnt every day's butt off of my tongue, but respectfully, it was busting, so we're going to attempt this again. It's been a little bit. I ate well over half. I ate like three quarters of it probably, and honestly, we're going to have leftovers now, which is awesome. That's called economical, baby. Who wants to travel with me full-time and just clean up after dinner? I'll pay you in exposure, obviously. It's finally time. There's so sweat. My feet are disgusting right now. Oh, my God. It feels good to lay down. All right. I don't really have much downloaded. This liquid IV tastes amazing right now. It's about nine o'clock now, and I'm really, really tired, but it's so hot out still. I've been doing my best on fluids. I think I've had enough today, which is good. I think I'm just going to settle in for the night, and I'll catch you guys in the morning. Yeah. Wow. There's no breeze because we're in the canyon. I'm going to bed, so good night, guys. Oh, my gosh. Not the best night of sleep I've ever had. As you can see, the bug nets are not on the windows right now, and that's because I woke up at 1230, and it was so hot. Those bug nets block any and all airflow, especially when the air is not windy. Good morning, canyon. That's how warm it was last night. The grease still isn't solid. I'm going to have a little breakfast, and then we're going to head on out of here before it starts heating up. The heat really drains you. I'm not kidding. My lips are mad chapped right now. I don't know. They can't really tell on camera maybe, but they hurt. Let's have some yogurt. Now, that is what we call breakfast of champions. The sun is starting to peek through right here, and it's starting to come around the canyon walls and light everything up in here. Honestly, I can already feel it getting warmer, so I'm going to get on out of here. All right. Well, we're headed back out of the canyon, so if you guys enjoyed this episode, make sure you subscribe to the channel. There's a whole lot more videos coming. If you want to directly help support the channel and help me keep making these videos, you can go ahead over to buymeacoffee, buymeacoffee.com, slash Matt Maderick. I'd greatly appreciate it, but of course, your support in watching the videos is enough, so don't feel like you have to do anything else, but I would appreciate it if you did. That's going to pretty much be it, so I'll catch you guys in the next one. Just remember, live fulfilled.