VANLIFE Camping on a river | Made Fresh Poké & Fly Fishing

There she is, home sweet home. Alright, we are back in Boise and back in the van. I guess for you guys, I never really left, at least as far as you knew on my channel. I did fly home because if you didn't know it, my family, especially my dad, is a huge Washington Capitals fan. And if you follow hockey at all, you know Ovechkin, who is the greatest hockey player of all time, was getting close to passing the all-time scoring record. And it meant a lot to my dad and my family and everyone was going out there to meet out there. So I couldn't miss it, so I parked the van at the airport, flew home, well I guess not home, flew to New York to watch the Islanders game. And luckily, Ovechkin scored his record-breaking goal while we were there, which was pretty cool to experience with my family. What was that process like when you knew we had a chance to break in today? I decided to come out here last night at 10 p.m., met them at the hotel, drove here. I've had three hours of sleep, but it was 100% worth it. I wouldn't change it. And also, my dad owns this crazy Jeep that has Ovechkin diving for a goal. He puts different stuff on top of it. He has a Stanley Cup, he's got an Ovechkin mannequin that he mounts to the top, and drives it all over the place to all of the games. But yeah, he's a huge Caps fan, so we all flew out. But now, I'm back in the van. We are back in Boise, Idaho. It is 11.45 p.m. I did not feel like driving anywhere. I have no food in my van, obviously because I emptied out most of it before I went home. But I do have my $30 dinner of a turkey and cheddar sandwich, and then a ham and cheddar Lunchable, and Doritos. So yeah, this was $30 at the airport. We're sleeping here tonight in the airport parking lot because I don't feel like driving anywhere. And it's only $10 a night, and I've been home for a little while, so what's another $10, honestly? Plus, it's a safe place to sleep, and I don't have to go find somewhere else. I've got a long day tomorrow. I'm going to enjoy my dinner, and get to bed probably pretty quickly after this. This looks disgusting. Just straight up no sauce. Oh, I have mayonnaise. Nice. But I'm going to enjoy my not-so-appetizing-looking dinner, and yeah, go to bed. So I'm checking out for the night, and I will see you guys in the morning. I actually got a pretty good night's sleep last night. I'm kind of used to loud noise being around me while I'm sleeping, so the planes didn't really affect me much. But it does look like it's a semi-nice day out. There's definitely some clouds in the sky, but hopefully that'll clear up. But there is one thing good that I do remember about this specific airport parking lot, and that is that there is a bathroom here, which, before I do anything else, I'm going to go take advantage of. Much better. 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And if being fashionable is something you've ever worried about, just like I have, try them out and it might be easier than you think. Link will be in the description below. But I have got to get all of this packed up, or at least put away in my cabinets. But I really don't feel like doing that right now. Because I have no food in the van, and I'm starving, I need to go find somewhere to get breakfast. So, let's get out of here. Pay for this airport parking. And I think I want to go to this spot that I looked up. On my way here, there's supposed to be this hidden gem breakfast spot out here in Idaho, so we're going to go try that out and then figure out what we're doing the rest of the day. Please insert the parking ticket or present credit card. It wouldn't accept my ticket, so we've got to go to the front. I'll check back in with you guys when we get set free from our parking lot prison. We're free! Let's go find some breakfast. There we go. There it is. So this place is kind of supposed to be an old school, no frills restaurant that just has good food here in Boise. And I ended up finding this place on Reddit, looking up places to get food that you can only get here in Boise, because Reddit is kind of the best place to find that kind of stuff. And I like finding places kind of off the beaten path that you wouldn't normally get to unless you were looking them up. And you would definitely never find this place if you hadn't looked it up. We're just in the middle of this indiscriminate business park. No signs other than that one sign that says cafe, and this sign that says congratulations, you found us. Cool vibes in this place, it's almost like an old timey diner. What's your guys' names? Tara and Lori. Tara and Lori, nice to meet you, I'm Ryan. I drive around and I do travel vlogging videos, camping and stuff. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Yeah, it was nice meeting you guys as well, you guys have a safe one. That's the good thing about always coming to places like this, you meet cool, interesting people that want to talk. Cheers. That is so good. And if you know anything about me, I love cinnamon rolls, or anything cinnamony. Like churros and apple pies are my favorite desserts, so this is right up my alley. Cinnamon roll was a good recommendation. Yeah? It's really good, yeah. Yeah, when people are always like, can I get one to go heated? I'm like, I'm going to eat it real quick because heating it right now and not eating it in the next five seconds. Makes no sense. There we go, I got a pork chopped eggs toast. They warned me about big portions and this is definitely a gigantic portion. I might have some for lunch. That's the best thing about places like this, you're never going to leave hungry. That is so good. But, I'm going to enjoy my meal and then we're going to get out of here. If you're ever in Idaho, make sure you check out Chef's Hut. They have a nice, large, home cooked meal. Have a good one, thank you guys. I love going to places like that. $25 for all that food. So good, everyone in there was so nice. The staff was super friendly. It seemed like they knew every single person that was walking into that restaurant. And it just made you feel like you were at home. Great first stop for breakfast. I think now, we got to figure out one, where we're camping tonight. And two, what we're doing the rest of the day. And I think, I do want to get more kind of into fishing. Especially being up here in kind of fishing territory, river fishing territory. But, I don't know how to fly fish. And I'm kind of done using I don't know how as an excuse to not do things. So, I'm going to head over to the fly fishing store. Get myself a fly fishing rod. And see what we can make happen over the next few weeks. Camping out by some rivers. So, let's get it. Alright, made it here to this fishing store. Head inside and see what we can get. How's it going, man? How's it going? What can we do for you? Just looking to hopefully get set up for like with a fly fishing rod. I just drove up here today. I want to go out somewhere. I'm not really too sure where. I'm going to be here for a few days. So, drive around. I might take a like a class or something. Or like book a trip just to like get the basics of it. Yeah, we've got a bunch of classes and trips we do at the shop as well. Okay, cool. Okay, we'll do that one then. Sweet. On your recommendation. And then whatever else you I would need to like basic set up get started for just getting out there and go fishing. So, there's like your dry fly fishing. And then there's going to be another way of fishing called nymphing. Which is probably primarily what you're going to start doing. Okay, so you're kind of letting it hit sink a little bit. Exactly. And you've got like a little orange bobber or something going. Okay. So, you're just kind of watching the bobber. Is there any other like piece of kit I would need? Obviously, maybe some waders or something like that. Just like a little spool of tippet. That's really good. And what is tippet? Tippet's just like that line you're going to be adding on. Spool of tippet. Definitely essential. So, if you bob that guy, you get some free leaders. Sweet. Yeah, I'll just do that then. Sweet. Appreciate it. And what was your name? My name's Dalton. Dalton. Ryan. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, man. Have a good one. You too. Have a good one. Got our rod. Got everything we need, hopefully. I might do some research tonight and do some practice and then come back tomorrow morning and take a little fly fishing class. So, that's why I kind of like coming to these specialty shops whenever I have questions or something that I need to do like that. Because there's always someone there who's super knowledgeable about it and is willing to help out. Huh? Appreciate it, yeah. Did you build that out yourself? Yeah, I built it out like two years ago. Well, let me get your number if you ever want to go out and camp or something somewhere near here. Sweet, yeah, I'll definitely hit you up. Yeah. That would be sick. It was nice meeting you. Yeah, nice to meet you, dude. Yeah, have a good one. Thanks for watching the clips. Appreciate it. Have a good one. You too. But yeah, as I was saying, it's always so much easier and they're always so helpful and happy to help most of the time. So, it's always good to go to places like that to get information. But we've got to go find a spot to camp tonight and get some dinner. And I think I've been on a weird poke kick for some reason recently. I normally, I thought I didn't like poke, but I've had it. I tried it for the first time like a few weeks ago and just haven't stopped thinking about it. So, I'm going to go see if I can find somewhere where I can get some fresh fish and then find a place to camp tonight and hopefully cook some poke. I guess not cook, but make some poke. I think this is where we're going to call home tonight. Just kind of on the side of the road here by the river. And I think you could pull all the way down there if the water wasn't so high. But since it's so early in the season, I'm based on what the guy was telling me at the store, the water's super high right now. So, I don't expect to pull all the way down there, but the spot's good enough. It's beautiful out here though, especially early springtime now. Everything's all green. I actually personally don't mind the road noise. I think it's kind of soothing. As long as there's no trucks using their engine brakes. Yeah, I bet you when the water's lower, there's like a nice beach down here that you could pull down on, maybe even park at, but right now it's definitely not possible. Excited to start learning how to fly fish though. I feel like the guy at the store was super helpful and it seems a lot less intimidating than I thought it was. This water is moving crazy fast. Let's get back to the van, get started on seasoning up that fish, and then maybe break out that fly fishing rod and get some practice with it. Alright, so first things first, I think before I do anything else, because I know I need to, I'm going to get that raw tuna that I picked up on my way here, cut up and seasoned, because I want to have it marinating for as long as I can before I cut it up and make my poke bowl. And there was only pretty much one store. It looked like the entirety of Boise that had fish that was good enough to be in poke. So I'm lucky enough that there was one, but we'll get this all chopped up nicely into cubes and get it seasoning. And you really could very easily make your own seasoning for poke, but I went the easy route because they had some at the store and just got some pre-made poke seasoning. I'm pretty sure it's just mostly soy sauce anyways. It does say shoyu poke sauce, which I think is soy sauce. Beautiful. And all we got to do is throw this in a bowl, add in the marinade, and I'm going to let that sit in the fridge for like about an hour and a half. I'm also going to throw in some of this sweet sake bonito, kind of like furikake. It said it was good for fish. Throw some of that in there with the seasoning. There we go. We'll let that sit for about an hour. And honestly, while I was letting that marinate, I was planning to unpack, but I really just don't feel like it right now. So I'll do that later tonight. And I think I'm going to open that fly fishing rod. And honestly, the whole reason that I got this fly fishing rod is just because I want to stop not doing things just because I've never done them before. And have that be the only reason that I don't do something, because I feel like that's a crappy reason not to do something. Especially being out here all the time. This makes sense. It's a beautiful rod. It is very weird not having a reel. Look at that. Beautiful. Now I'm probably going to take the next 45 minutes watching YouTube videos figuring out how to string this thing up. Some kids across the river shooting guns. Got all the trucks out there. Which is fine, as long as they don't point in my way. Alright, so I think I've got it all set up after watching a few videos. And also this thing is so long, it's so hard to adjust things. Because you have to reach so far. I've at least got it set up where I can cast it a little bit. And I was watching some videos on casting as well, and it does feel really weird to have to like kind of fling it back and forth. But it's a lot easier than I thought it was to kind of keep it up in the air. But I'm sure I'll have to work on technique a little bit. It'll be nice to go to that class with that guy from the fishing store to really figure out how this all works. And from my understanding, at least with dry rigging, you're trying to kind of emulate a bug. So you cast it out, let it hit the water, and just drag it across the top. But these people across the river are probably looking at me like, what is that guy doing? And it's crazy, I'm not used to the line, because I think the whole purpose of the fly rod is that the line is kind of your weight. Because if you can't tell how thick this line is, it's super thick as opposed to the leader that's here. That is kind of what goes out to the fish. I'm not used to how heavy that line is, and it just kind of, if you let go of the rod for a second, it just pulls back through. For now, I just kind of want to get it all tied up, put away. And then I'll probably be watching fly fishing videos for the next two weeks, figuring that thing out. For now, that's all we're going to do. We might just get that thing set up. One, because I don't have my fishing license, and two, I think the water is just a little bit too deep here, so we probably have to go more upriver to get any kind of fish. Also, while I was home, I picked up the new camera that I ordered. Since I travel so much, I don't have any cameras that are meant for pictures, because I record everything I do on GoPro, and I kind of want something to take some pictures with, so I got this. So every time I go somewhere, I'll take a picture, share it with you guys with a nice camera, so you can hopefully kind of get a little bit more depth of the places that I see. So I'm going to try to do that in every video, get at least a picture, as long as I'm somewhere cool. If I'm at a truck stop, maybe not. I'm also not very good at taking pictures, so don't judge me if these are bad. Yeah, hopefully those came out good. Really excited to try out this new camera and all the places that I go. I'm going to try to have some fun with it. I also post more on Instagram, so if you don't follow me on Instagram yet, link is in the description. Go follow me on Instagram. I'll try to post updates there every day. So if you want to keep up with me more on a daily basis, you can go check that out. I'm just going to get the back cleaned up. Put this in the front seat for now. Beautiful. But while we wait for that poke to finish seasoning, also, I don't know if I'm saying that right, poke, poke. I hope I am. I'm sure you guys will correct me if I'm not. And this will make some of my viewers happy. The stove has been cleaned. So I don't really think there's that much prep left. I bought pre-made most of the stuff. We just got to chop some stuff up and I think that is pretty much it. I even bought pre-made rice because I didn't feel like making it tonight. And I can kill two birds with one stone because if you don't have a microwave, which I don't have, the only way to cook this pre-made rice stuff is to boil it. And I have to boil my edamame anyway so I can do them both at once. And if I'm going to be honest, I don't know why I never gave poke a chance. I just thought like in my head, and I do this I feel like a lot of the times with a lot of food, that it just doesn't sound like it would be filling or like good or like there's always something that sounds better in my head than poke even though I'd never had it before. And also I kind of did the same thing with soup for a while where I just didn't want to eat soup because there's always something that sounded better and soup didn't sound filling or didn't sound good so I never made soup. But now I love soup and I'm just starting my love for poke. Okay. And I really hope I'm saying that right because in one of my last videos I said Illinoises like 75 times. And I don't even know why because I never say Illinoises. I always say Illinois. But anyways, let's wait for that to come to a boil and we'll wait for that. I got these because they kind of sounded good. They're like pickled sweet and sour mangoes. I'm going to throw those in there too because why not. So we'll get those chopped up while we wait for our water to boil and then we'll get our rice and our edamame going. There we go. Prep work all done. Now we just wait for this to boil and then we are pretty much ready to eat. I think my water's boiling. Throw the rice in there and that takes about 10 minutes to boil and then the edamame takes about 3 so I'm going to put these in there in about 7. Quick maths. Alright, it's time to pull this out. The beans are dancing. I think that's it. It's time to eat. Drain these beans. We're good to go. I was really hoping that was going to come out all aesthetically. I'm trying to plate this up all super nice. We got our mangoes, our edamame, some shredded carrots, a little bit of seaweed salad, a little bit of sesame seed, a little bit more of our furikake seasoning. I bought some of this eel sauce to drizzle over it and then some mayonnaise. You really should use Kewpie mayo but I don't have any so that's what we're going with. And that my friends is our wonderful riverside poke bowl. So I'm going to get this stuff all cleaned up and put away and then we're eating. There we go. Ready to eat. And it would almost feel like a crime to not eat this outside when sunset is so beautiful. And we're out by the river. What a beautiful place to have some poke. You already know the rules. Instagram eats first. Oh, so good. I will say that eating edamame beans with chopsticks is not the easiest. You kind of have to eat them one by one. And that mango is so good. Wow. I will say that no matter how many times I eat it I do get sketched out by raw fish. Like I know it's prepared properly and it's frozen and all the parasites are dead and There's just something about it that feels wrong. It's nice and peaceful when there's no cars driving by. I'm going to sit out here and enjoy the rest of the sunset. Catch you guys when I'm back in the van. The sun has set. It is nighttime and the traffic has actually died down significantly. I haven't heard a car pass in like the last five minutes. Shouldn't be too loud tonight at least. Got the van all mostly cleaned up. Still got some dishes to do but worry about that tomorrow. And it's nice because when there's no cars driving by I can hear the water from the river from my van. It's kind of soothing. But I think that is pretty much it for this video. Got to wake up early tomorrow to get to the gym and maybe go to that fly fishing class. Learn how to cast my rod a little better. I might try to finish this book and honestly I don't read books like ever. I haven't read a book in I don't even know how long. But me and my buddies from back home started a book club. Because they all like reading and I just figured why not give it a shot. And this is the first book that we started reading. Dark Matter. I am not joking you. I could not put this book down for an entire day. We had to read 180 pages for the first meeting of our book club. I put it off till the day before. Picked up the book. I read straight through 180 pages while I was at the airport and on the flight. I was reading it while walking through the terminal. I've never had a book do that to me. And I think this might have rekindled me wanting to read books again. So if you've been trying to pick up reading or you want to read. Try this or not. It's really good. Probably going to finish it tomorrow. Because I can't wait to read the ending. But I think this is where I'm going to call it on this video. As always. I truly appreciate you guys watching and staying with me for the last two years. It's crazy that it's been that long. And that I've done all the things that I have. And seen all the places that I have and been able to take you guys with me. So I really really appreciate you guys. And looking forward to keep making videos and bringing you guys along with me. Wherever that takes me. So I really appreciate you guys. And I will catch you guys next time.