Adventure Grom Motorcycle Camping: Honda Grom Moto Camping Adventure, Part 2

Let's do some evening enjoying. Be very careful with things that are on fire. Grom got its first battle scar, I noticed. Thank you, wild animal. And if a goofy idiot like me can do it, then anyone can. Fire pit. That's my chair. The Grom. Bag. Survived yet another motocamping adventure. Previously on Loss. I'm going motocamping on the Adventure Grom. Going on the highway is really not safe or advisable. Look where we are. Making tiny payments to the Department of Forestry to pay for a forest fire I caused. I'm just gonna gently milk it, take it out, the juice. The last time I had one of these it was not good. Here's to you, Grommy. And now, the conclusion. Well, I'm alone. Dinner's eaten. Camp is set up. Probably time for a Mr. Puff Puff. I'm gonna be real careful about my smoking. I'm gonna try to put my ashes in the fire. I've got a fire extinguisher here, just in case, because this grass is all really dry. But this area right around me seems to be good. It's time to relax and enjoy the evening. Let's do some evening enjoying. This is a Victor Sinclair Imperial. I don't get these very often. When I can find them on CigarBed, cheap, because it's like a $5 cigar, but they're really good. But I'm cheap, so I don't get them very often, but I like the Victor Sinclairs a lot. These Imperial 55s in particular. I found them a few times. And I should point out that Mr. Puff Puffs are a disgusting habit. You should not do them. They're bad for you. Real bad. Y'all know about pack it in, pack it out, right? Every piece of garbage, this wrapper off this cigar, the top of my dehydrated meal bag, if I open my jerky, the top of that bag, the wrapper for this cigar, all of that's gotta get packed out with me. So I just put things back in bags as I go, so I can't lose them. I will pack out every single piece of garbage, silk, a gel packet, whatever. And if I have room in my bag and there's garbage here, I will pick up and take more with me than I brought in. And if everyone did that, the woods would always be great. But the advantage, another advantage of this place being so secluded and no one really knowing about it, is there's not a bunch of garbage here, because nobody comes here. Which I cannot say about a lot of the spots closer to the main road, but we always want to leave the forest nicer than we found it. And if everyone did that, we'd have pristine forest forever. So, be careful, be very careful with things that are on fire, when it's high fire danger like it is right now. Pack out your garbage, be good stewards of the forest, because if we aren't, we lose access to the forest. And that makes it so we can't do any of the fun things that we enjoy on our various motorcycles, up to and including adventure ramps. Lecture over, rant over. Most of you do this, I know. This is not me admonishing those of you who do it, it's me informing those of you who may not have that as a priority or top of mind when you go camping. Definitely something to be looking out for. Grom got it's first battle scar, I noticed. There's a ding in the heat shield on the exhaust pipe. So it's first ding, and that was not there when I left, so I must have hit a rock pretty hard at some point today. Could have been when I jumped over that log, although it didn't look like it from the video. I'm going to enjoy this Mr. Puff Puff and a little bit more buffalo trace. And you don't need me rambling on making this video two hours long, so I'll shut the camera off for a bit. Get back with you in a while. Thanks for watching everyone, I really appreciate it. Sincerely. That sounds sarcastic. It's not. I'm being sincere. I promise. I can't stop doing it now. It's actually not that dark out here, but the camera's not picking me up at all, so I'm using my headlamp. As you can hear, the nighttime noises have started. The sun's not even all the way down. It's about 8 o'clock. It'll be dark here in about half an hour or more, so I'm just getting my headlamp and stuff out. Probably going to the tent soonish, since there's no fire, there's nothing else to do. But I just thought I'd check in with you guys and let you know that I'm still camping, and having a good time, and the ground's behind me, and it's not as dark as it's making it look right now. For sure. Anyway, that's an update on what I've been doing, because there's nothing to do but listen to these really loud bugs. Sleeping will be interesting. You hear that? Seriously, so loud. It's not that late. It's only about 9, but it's dark out there. The bugs are really loud, and it's getting kind of cold, so I'm going to hang out in here for a while. I'm going to hang out, read, chill for a bit, go to sleep, and I'll probably catch up with you guys in the morning. So, thank you for watching. If you're enjoying the adventure so far, please consider hitting the like button. Maybe even subscribe if you want to see more camping adventures. That would be cool. I'd be happy to make them if you'd watch them, and I'll catch up with you in the morning. So, just a few seconds for you, and hopefully many restful hours for me. Good night. Thank you, wild animal, for the resources you've bestowed upon me. That's a lot of coffee. Holy sh**. I did not mean to put in that much. Let's hope this French press works well. Good morning. Welcome to Coffee Talk. It is about 7.30. I slept okay. I pitched my tent in a location that would look best for photographs and filming, and not in a location that would be flattest for sleeping. So, it was a little less flat than I thought, so I was definitely fighting to stay on the pad. Other than that, I slept okay. You know, you wake up here and there when you're camping, but I'm getting better at it. I think I'm a lot less paranoid now that I've done this a few successful times. This is only my second solo dispersed camping trip ever. I've got to tell you, one of my favorite things about doing this, and I mean this, YouTube in general, not camping specifically, is comments on YouTube, on Instagram, Facebook, that I get from people that are like, I went moto camping because you made it look so fun. So, if you're ever inspired to do anything by me doing it and showing you that a goofy idiot can do it, and if a goofy idiot like me can do it, then anyone can, and I love those comments, so please throw one in. Leave me a comment if you decide to try something because I tried it first and it seemed like it wasn't a total disaster. I live for that more than anything else. Inspiring other people to get out and have their own adventures is why I do this, why I make videos, why I'm sitting here in the cold next to a very tiny motorcycle. So, hearing about it, knowing that it's working occasionally, makes me very happy. It's coffee time. Do you think it's ready? Let's try it. I'm going to put it in a cup because it can cool off at least a little better. Screw it. That's what it's for, right? So, I put the cup in with my cooking kit, and I didn't bring my cooking kit. I usually keep it with my overnight kit, so I screwed that up. I actually have two cups. I don't know why I'll just keep one in each kit. Mornings like this are harder to enjoy without a campfire, but I always want to sit and just soak it up, and yet I can't get packing up and getting out of here out of my mind. It's like when there's work to be done, it's hard to relax. What happens is I'll be like, I'm going to rest for a while, and then I'll be like, ah, I'll just roll up inside the tent. I'll just get my sleeping bag and stop taking care of it. And then once that starts, it's a downhill slide to packed up and gone. I don't usually stop afterward. I didn't really give you guys a tour of the camp, did I? Although you probably kind of got it from all that third-person shots I made, but here's everything in context. Fire pit. That's my chair. The Grom. Bag. There's my tent. So there's a little wooded area that you can get into over here. Another smaller one over here. And one there. So these little enclosed wooded areas that if I was a hammock camper, I would probably set up in here. One, because I'd have to, because there's no trees out here. But two, it's like super stealth in there. And this is just a flat... I don't know what this was. A place they turn logging trucks around or something? This is all rock underneath. It's gravel with a thin layer of crap on top of it. So it's really hard to drive your stakes in. It's all this kind of rock. So it was some kind of either rock storage area or a place where they turned around. But anyway, it's just this large kind of turnout on the side of the road. Down this really, really obscure abandoned road. It doesn't show up on most of the maps. But we're about two or three miles down this road. And it goes, I don't know, another half mile to the end where it dead ends. One of the reasons I like this spot is because this road dead ends. So this is not a through road. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to be driving through here unless they're coming to this spot. So there's nothing down here. So you would either be down here by mistake or you're coming to this spot so that we don't get any through traffic. And I've only ever seen one other car on this road. Finished my coffee, rinsed everything out. Nothing left to do but pack up. So I guess I'll start doing that. And you guys can get a sense of how I get all this back on the Grom. And I'll get the hell out of here. So camp is clear. Survived yet another motocamping adventure. Gear is packed up, feels good. Got everything I started with. So I'm going to get out of here. 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