Alone Deep In The Woods | Solo Truck Camping

Here we are, down that road. Welcome back to the channel. Today, we are headed deep down a dirt road in order to find the perfect truck camping spot. If you're new to the channel, hi, my name is Becca. I live and travel in my truck camper with my dog, Skye, and we go on some crazy adventures and always bring you guys along with. And today's episode is no exception, so without further ado, let's head down this dirt road. One of the main reasons I wanted to come this way, down this road in particular, is because there's a bunch of pullovers for free camping, whatever, but if they're taken, they're taken. And I've been down this dirt road probably for about 15 minutes now, maybe 20, and I passed two campsites and both of them were occupied and I didn't think that there was going to be any more, so I just kept going. And I was super nervous because the GPS that I have on right now says there's only two more miles of this dirt road and then it kind of just comes to an end to a walking trail and I thought I was, you know, out of luck to put it in a term and I wasn't gonna have a campsite. I think we just found an absolute hidden gem. This is insane. I'm gonna back the truck in, get it looking all nice, and then I'm gonna show you guys what I'm looking at right now because you're just not gonna believe it. I love New Hampshire. New Hampshire has my heart and soul. This is so cool. I mean, I can hear the water flowing clear as day. If there's one thing New Hampshire has, it is crystal clear, creeks and rivers, any small stream. It is so breathtaking here. And the air temp is so much cooler the second we turn down this dirt road. You got that? You're good. You're good. Good girl. And this is our backyard, believe it or not. I don't see any fish. I'm gonna get closer and try to get a good view. There very well could be fish in this pool, but I don't see any and it is crystal clear. I feel like I'd see one if there was any. Doesn't mean we're not gonna give it a good old shot later. Oh my god, what? Skye! Okay, go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can go. That's fine. I look away for two seconds and she's in the water. Get a golden retriever, you know? Can't keep him out of the water. Go get it, girl! Man, I love the woods. Well, we scouted out the spot. Skye got to take a quick little dip. I'm gonna head back up to the truck. We have to, A, set up camp. B, see if I have my fly rod on me. I think I have my fly rod. If not, we will have to use conventional rod and reel to try to catch these fish, which I don't think would be our best bet, but I'll take what I can get. Let's go figure out our situation we got going on here. Set up camp. Make this place a little bit more homey. I'm a little too excited right now. The queen is being fed as we speak. I've actually seen maybe five cars come down this road, and it's funny because most of them have been Subarus, so I guess Subarus are really getting into it today. We have a nice fire pit right here. It looks like that's a great spot to head camp. I know I didn't really give you guys much of a tour of where we're camping, but it's pretty cool. I really enjoyed that. It looks like this spot could fit a decent chunk of cars if need be. I mean, this is my truck. Could fit a couple more. Okay, and then that's definitely for tent campers over there, which has a massive fire pit as well. Definitely both, you know, made by people, but this one's really, really cool. You can tell this one took a while. A lot of big rocks here. That one is a very, very nice fire pit, and I love how there's no trash anywhere. Shout out to everyone that camped here, or has camped here. I haven't seen a slick of trash, which is what made me nervous about coming here, but people in New Hampshire and people that come up here usually respect this place a lot, which is amazing. And then if you come over here, this road ends two miles down that way, leads to a trailhead. I don't even know what type of trailhead, if it's a long one or what, and then that's the route that we came. Took us probably like 20 minutes. I was going really slow, to be fair. I didn't really know what this road was like, if there was potholes or anything, so I was a little bit nervous. You guys know the last dirt road we went on is is not very friendly. The one up in Maine, those potholes come out of nowhere, and they just kind of blend in, so I was super nervous going slow. Slow and steady wins the race, but yeah, that's a full tour, and then of course we have the beautiful river literally right there. I mean, I can see it when I was just hanging out in my truck camper for a little bit. I have a perfect view of it. It's so sick. It is just unbelievable. People keep these little slits along the road pretty hush-hush. The fact that I found anything online talking about it, it's pretty funny, and it was only from this one guy saying, it looks like people could definitely camp here. I saw a fire pit or something like, I don't even remember what he said, and I remember reading it and being like, oh, I gotta head down that road, so shout out to the guy on that. One of the camping apps that I use, it was actually an off-roading app that I have. Pretty cool. So that's how I found this spot. Was dinner so yummy? Did you just burp in my face? You just did it again. You did a baby burp, and then she just let a big one rip. Jesus. Grabbing the good old five weight. Gonna head down to the river. It's five o'clock now. If there's no trout in either of these pools, I don't think there's really going to be trout right here, maybe in different parts of the river, but it's also that time of year where it's a little bit tricky. Trout fishing will probably get pretty dang good in about a month as, you know, the current time of me filming this, so I think I'm just missing it because it's been so hot. The nights are finally cooling off. I think tonight's going to be 48 degrees, but that's still not really enough for these mountain trout, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna try. Well, I wish I could say we're about to go make dinner and have a victory meal, but we didn't catch anything. I haven't even seen a fish or any sign of life, which is not good. You can tell the river is down quite a bunch, so it's the water levels are low. It's a fisherman's job to make up excuses, and that's what I'm doing. I'm making up excuses as to why there's no fish here and why I just put so much effort in. Nonetheless, we're gonna go make ourselves some dinner. I have a good dinner plan for tonight that I'm very excited for. Picked up some stuff earlier at the grocery store before we hit the mountains, and it's time to eat some dinner. Well, make dinner, then eat it. Welcome. Welcome back. How was that? We're gonna do a little bit of a taco bowl. This is what I've been eating and craving pretty much 24-7, so I'm making it and showing you guys how I make it. This is 90-10 lean ground beef. I usually like 97-3. That's like the best for dieting, which I am on my grind as we speak, but this is all they had, so we're gonna go in. I'm gonna probably only gonna do like half of this. I have a very bad spice tolerance, and this says spicy. We'll see just how spicy it is. So our water is boiling. I have heard amazing things about this product from other people who can't. It's called boil in a bag. Boil in a bag rice, and then you do that for a good 10 minutes. Some onions, tomato, of course avocado, most important part. Some shredded iceberg lettuce. That's a lot. Red taco hot sauce. Basically taco sauce, but hot sauce. Oh yeah, that's what I needed. You know what? That rice is not half bad. I really just felt like I needed to try it. I see a lot of camping channels use them, and I always thought, no, I won't do that, but I've never even looked for it in store, and then today I looked for it in the rice aisle. There it was. Sure enough, it's a real thing. It's just a weird concept. Hey, it tastes good. It is getting quite chilly out, but I don't need, like what do you do? I'm almost too scared to go out there because of bears. Right now, bear activity is pretty heavy in the area. I've never complained about being scared of bears because I'm not usually nervous about bears in the area, but there were a few spotted over here recently, so that just makes me a little bit nervous to hang out out there when it's dark. I'm gonna let Skye to go pee, and that's probably going to be when I go out there, but for now, I think I might just grab a book, maybe read a little bit. I know. I'm gonna go read. No, maybe I should go outside just, and then I can read to go to bed. I don't know. I'm having a literal crisis. You gotta make them know you're here. Come on, Skye. Whoa, no way. Wait, I was just about to sit on this. Look what's on my chair. Look at him. Look at him. He's so cool. I don't know if I've ever seen a caterpillar like that, so I don't know if he's poisonous. Fun fact about, whoa. Fun fact about, whoa. Fun fact about me. My parents will corroborate this story. I used to be obsessed, obsessed with these guys when I was a kid. Not this exact caterpillar. There's so many different types. I've never even seen this one before. It's so weird growing up, and like, when I was a kid, I really liked bugs, and then as I got older, I realized more new bugs are coming to the area, so with, you know, the earth warming and whatever. You don't have to agree with that. I don't really care. That's not a political statement. It's just saying, like, especially when it comes to fishing, fish all the way from Florida are making their way up to Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and people are catching these fish that are native to Florida, and it's so weird. I never thought as a kid I would have an opportunity to catch some of the species I can now that I'm, you know, however many years older, and the same goes for bugs. Like, there's so many bugs that I've never seen when I was a kid, and now I'm seeing them, and they're just, like, new to the area or whatnot. Not claiming this bug in particular is new to the area. I'm pretty sure I've seen this type before. I haven't seen many of them, but yeah, it's just weird. So many fish are appearing in New England, and bugs are appearing in New England that kind of shouldn't be here, but they are, and it's weird. Anyways, I used to love caterpillars. I don't know if he's dangerous, so I just need to put him on my stick. Look at him! Oh my gosh, he's so cool! Little Becca would be so proud of me right now. See, this is why you don't, you're not scared of bears, and you've got to go outside. This is cool. I think this is a better place for you than my chair was, bud. No, stop. No, no, why are you walking towards me? I don't know what kind of bug you are. I'm scared. I'm scared of you, sir. Okay. No, just go on the tree! Please. Thank you. He's going. He's on the tree. Tell your friends how cool that was. He's so beautiful. I don't know, I've learned that anything too colorful in nature is usually scary, and you should not touch it, so. I wish I showed you guys the one that I saw earlier. He was really, really cool. When I was a kid, the one that I would always get the caterpillar, it was blue. I don't remember what type caterpillar they were. A lot of them, the colorful caterpillars, turn into moths, and then like the really ugly caterpillars turn into butterflies, and it's just like, so weird how that works. But yeah, anyways, that was the caterpillar I used to love as a kid, and I ended up seeing one earlier that was all black, which was super cool. I wish I showed you guys that. I don't, I don't remember why I didn't show you guys the one I saw earlier. Now I kind of want to go tree hunting for caterpillars. No one's gonna stop me. Oh, that's actually a caterpillar in a cocoon right there, I think. I'm gonna leave that alone. Whoa, look, look, look, look. I swear this is not the one we just put on the tree. There's another one. I'll even prove it. Ready? This is the, this is a different one. Way less yellow, like vibrant yellow than the one that we saw. Hold on, hold on, hold on. And then we're gonna walk over here. I'm not gonna clip it. I'm not gonna clip it. Please still be there. Oh, yep, there he is. And here's the other one I just put on the tree. So this is actually the one that I saw earlier. Maybe not the same exact one, but see how he's like black? I'm just gonna poke him so you guys can see. I don't want to bother him too much. There he is. That's him. He's like black and, and gray. That's a cool caterpillar. Trees like this you really won't find too many caterpillars on, but trees like this where they have all the crevices and cracks in them, you will have a better shot of finding them because that's where they like to hide. Like this guy right there. He might even be building a cocoon in there. I'm not quite sure. I'm having the time of my life right now. We're just running out of proper trees to check, so I think we might have to call, call this hunt. Two species. Didn't see the species I used to always catch when I was a kid, but, or capture. I don't know what you would call that. Either way it's fine. We, we saw two different species. Hopefully I popped it up on the screen. Future, uh, myself editing so I can know and you guys can know what species they are. Caterpillars are just so cool. Text Lila, say good night. Give me 30 minutes to type this out. It's going to definitely take a second. It's so cool. I can hear the waterfall. I mean waterfall, but it's, you know what I'm saying. It wasn't like a waterfall, but it was a fall of water. I actually read a lot more than I was anticipating and it's already nine o'clock, which means my bedtime. So I'll see you guys in the morning. Good morning. It is absolutely freezing. I threw on sweatpants and a sweatshirt. Well, a sweatshirt. Summer is almost over. I'm pretty sure, summer is basically over. I mean, it's, it's 48 degrees right now. Look how pretty she is. Oh my goodness. You're so beautiful. It is so cold. I'm so happy. I haven't felt this type of coldness in so long and it feels so surreal. Oh, I got to clean up my fishing rods and I'm cold, but I'm, I'm embracing it. I just got to let my body get used to this cold again. I downloaded offline maps. You can download offline maps, like for the section where you're going to be going, if you know you're going to lose cell service. And I had one made for this section. I made that before I lost cell service. And I was bored and I was looking on it last night and I realized I had two miles until a trailhead, but if you veer to the right, it looks like this dirt road continues on for quite a while, maybe another 10 miles. So if you guys want me to explore it more and keep heading down this, this dirt road and yeah, let me know. Maybe even in the winter, that'd be cool, but that's something you guys want to see. Let me know. I'm definitely interested in doing that and seeing what's all the way down there. I know there is a pond. I don't think it leads to a pond though, but it would be still pretty cool to check it out. Nonetheless, you know, but Skye and I are going to end off the video here. Hopefully you guys enjoy it as much as I did. I had an absolute blast. It was so much fun. I got to read a good book. I got to hang out with you guys, make good food. I don't know. It was just like honestly one of my favorite nights. It was just so nice to relax and like I did catch a fish. It would have been picture perfect if I caught a fish, but that's not how life works. Anyways, I love you guys. I appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for everything. I'll catch you guys on the next one.