Living Out of my SUV Down the West Coast: Camping in the Redwoods

In my last few videos, you saw me drive up to Alaska and solo camp across Canada in my Mazda CX-50. When I got back home to Washington, I realized I loved living out of my car so much I had to keep the party going. So I joined my friend Thomas, who was truck camping down the west coast, and in this video, we make our way down Oregon and camp in Redwoods National Park in Northern California. But first, we made a few necessary stops along the Oregon coast. After watching one of the most beautiful sunsets I'd ever seen, we found camp in the nearby forest, and the next morning, we headed off to continue our journey down the coast. After a couple days of stopping at all these beautiful beaches and stealth and disperse camping down the coast, we decided to stop at a proper campground to enjoy the redwoods. Today we're camping in the redwoods. It's so beautiful. Nice. For six hours. They're comfy. This is so comfortable. What the heck? Okay, so we just got to the campsite, and I think we're going to take advantage of the fact that there are showers here because I'm disgusting. And then this campground is so beautiful, so I think we're going to go on a walk and just chill. And it's really peaceful here. The campground is really crowded, so I'm glad we got a first come, first serve thing. And yeah, it feels so cool to be back in California. I'm excited. I feel like a brand new person. Literally a brand new person. After taking a much needed shower, we went down to the nearby river to enjoy the afternoon. Yeah, exactly. There's a duck. I'm already filming at the end. Because... Oh, is it still warm? Yeah. So what we're doing here is once that small fuel burns up, which it will burn up pretty quickly, these pieces will burn slower because they're larger pieces. And so these ones should be able to stay ignited for a little bit longer, but you want to make sure you have access to the kindling because you're going to have to light it. Once we get this kind of going, then we can start adding our larger pieces. I'll light this, and then I'll either go under if I can, if it's big enough, which it is and it isn't, or I'll just stick it in here. Paper is also not great, so this is kind of hard. And then now, I'm going to scoot these over a little bit so that it starts drying those out a little bit more. Cool. Sorry, yes, I do. Next, we started prepping dinner, and I had a huge craving for nachos, so camp nachos it was. Wow, I have so many knives. Jesus Christ, what is wrong with me? Whose jank ass hands are those? I'm going to color grade the ---- out of these nachos. That looks so good. I can't believe how good the weather is, too. I thought it would be colder. Ooh. Boink. Sorry! Wait, no, that's perfect. Right? Yeah, baby. Okay. But it is really good. Look at this. Have you seen that HBO show, Last of Us? Last of Us. This looks like the zombie guy. How is it? It's good. Okay, this is a terrible angle and lighting, but we just had such a good dinner, and we're just sitting by the fire, enjoying the evening. It's so nice out. The weather is so good. It's like 60 degrees or something. There's no wind, no bugs. It's amazing. Perfect. We just made s'mores. This is just like the perfect camping trip. Yeah, it's been so nice to be traveling with someone. I usually film everything solo, so I'm finally feeling more comfortable filming with other people in my life. So I hope you guys enjoy it. I'm still learning how to balance being in the moment and present with other people while filming and updating you guys. We're going to have just a chill evening, and I'll try to film what I can, but it is really dark. So if not, I'll see you guys in the morning. Good night. So it's really rainy today, so I'm sorry I didn't film this morning because it was actually pouring and the campsite was flooding. So I just ran to pack everything up, and my entire car is soaking wet. But it was so peaceful last night. It was so beautiful. It only started raining around 7am or something. So it was an amazing day of camping, and I'm so happy. And now we're just making our way down the west coast. So I'll see you at the next campsite. The redwoods were absolutely stunning, and I had never been to this national park before, so I was happy to see it in both wet and dry conditions. And we made our way through the fog and forest onto our next stop, which would be the central coast of California, followed by one of my favorite places on earth, Tahoe. You need to tie a rope to it.