First night alone in my van

It is so dirty in here. So if you guys watched my last video, you saw that we took a family trip in the van. We didn't sleep in the van because it's far too small for two adults and a child. I built this van with the intent of it just being Amber and I and for the most part and so you know we did get a hotel room so we didn't like sleep in the van but we spent a decent amount of time in it and it got super dirty but that trip was definitely eye-opening for me in a lot of ways. I am looking forward to taking the van out solo and being able to have some time to myself. After having Amber full-time solo for all of the month of July in Texas, I did have help with her a little bit here and there with my from my family which I'm super grateful for but I'm looking forward to just having some me time. I feel like it's much needed. It has been for a while and now that the van is you know done and I can finally take it out and actually get to enjoy it, I'm really looking forward to it. But before I get to do that I need to do some serious cleaning so let's get to it. So this is gonna be my first night in the van officially and I am out here camping with Mindy and it's my first night well technically my first night camping in tank sleeping up in the tent. I slept on the cot last night which worked out good but now I get to sleep in the rooftop tent. So it's like a solo recon mission of our campers. So I'm super excited and this is also the first night I've been away from Amber in quite a while I feel like. So Isaac is with Amber at home and mom is having a mom solo camping trip. Solo without Amber but I'm not solo solo. And then I'll show you guys our spot. It's absolutely beautiful and we're right by the water but we're gonna get settled in and then I will show you around. So we're getting set up. I'm filming. So Mindy's got this beautiful little setup here with some flowers. She's working on getting the rest of her stuff set up. I am having lunch. I have three hard-boiled eggs, some cherry tomatoes, and my favorite almonds. Of course I got my water. So I'm gonna have lunch and then we'll probably be set up soon and then I'll show you around and we'll go take a look at the water that we're by. It's really really low right now. The last time I drove through this campsite it was not that low so we're hoping to be able to paddleboard at some point but I don't know. It's kind of low. We just stumbled upon someone's fort over there. We're gonna go check it out. So the water's super low. Someone's got a seadew out there but it's usually way up here. So we're gonna go scope this out. So I went to sit down on this little log here and I hit this pointy piece and it popped a hole right down the seam of the back of my pants. R.I.P. pants. This place is so cool. Someone definitely put a lot of time into this. I'm very curious who and I wonder how long it's been here. Like if they did this recently or if this has been around and just been underwater. I feel like it would have shifted if it was underwater. Mindy brought me some chili pistachios. I'm so excited. Are they lime? Chili lime. Oh and they're spicy. I'm excited. Oh yeah and she made pickled pickles and onions. Homemade refrigerator pickles and onions. I've been very domesticated in my new tiny house. You'll have to come and follow me up there. And I am trying to figure out how to get my projector to work so that we can watch a movie or something later but right now Mindy's working on a little charcuterie board. She made margaritas and I'm looking forward to the sun going down. It's getting a little hot. I had to put on my PJ pants because I didn't bring any other shorts. Yeah I mean they're not actual pajamas shorts but I wear them as pajama shorts. But yeah we're having a great time. The water's beautiful and we walked around a bit. We'll probably go for a walk later when the sun starts to go down. So I'm gonna eat some of these pistachios and try to figure out my projector. A free subscription for him but I don't know if that's up or not. Oh god that you got you've had it for you've had it since busland right? Wow that looks Look at that cheese. I hope you like goat cheese. I love goat cheese. Dry roasted peanuts. I'm excited. Regular blue cheese. Just regular yeah yeah. Oh my god it's crackers. Excuse me with uh with that one. It's a blue jay. No he's looking he's he's eyeing us up After the first bite it all tasted. Okay now I gotta get some wrap. How is the pickles? So good. Yeah you like that? Yeah everything is so good. So I put six jars like that together the other morning. So this is my mosquito camping hack. This is a thermosell. I got it at Walmart. This does 15 feet by 15 feet and it comes with these little refills of oil and it just goes right in there. There's no batteries no power needed. So now it's turned off in this little blue uh the mosquito repellent mat. You just stick it in here and it'll start like that when blue and end like this when it's out and then you just click it on it'll release the oil and then you you'll hear it light. I just heard it but I always click it three times just to be sure and I can smell it and then that'll keep the mosquitoes away. I just got bit by one because I was too far but this works amazing and you don't have to use mosquito repellent because it's nasty and gross on your skin. Subscribe for more camping hacks. I think this is the same problem Samantha had is like you have to push it up against something. No she just has one like it. Super lame. Well I have never used this camping stove in here before and it's not working. It's supposed to adjust you're supposed to put the butane in the back right here and then you line it up and it's supposed to click in there but it it's not clicking and it's not staying. So I'm glad that Mindy's here or else I wouldn't have anything to eat tonight because I can't cook my chicken. Mindy to the rescue. I have so many camp stoves. Try this one. This will be interesting. Thank you. Can I put this on here? Yeah. It's gonna melt. No. Beans smell good. Interesting. Winging it. Those are my favorite kind of recipes. It's weird that a food company would sell a packet of rice with like no instructions basically. Like I wonder how many people were like how am I supposed to cook this? Oh yeah. Oh it's a sausage. So we had to move around a little bit because Mindy's not allowed to park on the dead grass. Like I always do. So we moved around a little bit and it's not as it's still fine. You know what if you when you come back tomorrow and make it like a chevron then this could be closed in like that. Yeah but my door opens on this side. That's what I mean. So if you back. Oh back in at an angle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got the rug out here. And then this you know we can have it so the vehicles if they're like this. At an angle. Yeah. But that's what we're looking like tonight. It is so gorgeous. Look at that. Look at that sun setting So it is 7 45 and we are calling it a night and Mindy and I are both just tired and ready for bed. I'm looking forward to hopefully a good night's sleep but we'll see. So I'm gonna wind down. I gotta put dishes away. I'm using a I don't have a towel like a dish towel so I'm using a pillowcase. A clean one that I had. Yeah so you know first night you're gonna forget some things. So I'm gonna go ahead and get ready for bed and then we will get cozy and go to sleep. It's cold out here. I did. I had to turn my fans on because it got too hot. Yeah. I got a little cold. It was uh not it wasn't cold for a while. It was like at 3 a.m. I turned the heater on.