Truck Camping at One of America s Most Unique Landmarks.

Welcome back to the channel everyone! If you're new here, my name is Seth and I currently live and travel out of an old truck camper with my dog Stella and today we're here at Capulet Volcano National Monument. I'm here with Megan. What's up guys? It rises about 8,000 feet above sea level and there it is. It's an old volcano and we're actually doing a trail. It's called the Lava Flow Trail. Something like that. But anyways, we had to leave Stella in the truck because there's no pets allowed on this trail because actually the rocks are very jagged and it's bad for their paws. That's what the guy at least told me. Oh, you okay? You can also drive almost to the top of this volcano but unfortunately we couldn't do that today because it's closed and they're working on the road. So we just decided to do this quick trail that leads to, I guess, lava flowing rock or something. I don't know. Alright, so we're gonna go check out this Sierra Grande viewpoint. If only we could go to the very top but it had to close like 30 minutes after we got here or before we got here. So couldn't go check that out. This is still a cool little trail that we're on. As most of you know, I've made it pretty clear in my videos. I'm not a big fan of New Mexico but I will say New Mexico is quite beautiful. As you can see, it's kind of barren, a little bit flat. There's a few hills, a few little mountains but it's quite beautiful. I like it up here and it's a beautiful day too so that helps a lot. It's really nice out. Enjoying the view. And this is like a bunch of old lava, right? Is that what you call it? Yeah, I think so. Lava rock. So at one point when the volcano erupted, a bunch of lava flowed down it and a lot of it's right here. So this is like a bunch of rock and stuff. We're in the Rayton Clayton volcanic field. So okay, this is actually the Rayton Clayton volcanic field which is an 8,000 square mile volcanic field with about 120 volcanoes. One of the largest volcanoes in the field is Sierra Grande which I think is that one right over there. So I didn't even know that was a volcano but I guess that's a volcano and this is a volcano too. So the more you learn. Alright guys, so this morning we left super early about 5 45 and we've been driving all day. I think we've done around 500 miles so far. About nine hours of driving and we've made it all the way to northern New Mexico. The goal is to get to Colorado. So we're actually gonna, I'm gonna go back to Trinidad. That's one of the places I've been to already in the last few videos. We actually camped out there next to a lake and it was pretty beautiful. So we're gonna stop there for the night cook up and stuff but I'm actually headed out west and check it out. There's a few or there's a few national parks actually I want to visit. So that's kind of the plan for the summer. Yeah, I just want to show you guys some cool places while we're out here and I thought this was a pretty cool place to show you. Let me know what you guys think of it. Yeah, so Megan, what did you think of the eight hour drive that we did today? Well, we started super early so I think we're both pretty tired. Yeah, that is very true. But we, honestly, the drive's been kind of boring so far. We started in Dallas. It's been nothing but just flat land. We've seen a few windmills, right? A lot of windmills, like no trees, and we've smelled a bunch of cow poop. We did do a short walk in Amarillo with Stella but it's been nothing just nothing but driving. Nothing but driving and warnings about rattlesnakes. Yeah, there's a lot of snakes in this area of the country and we're just walking right now. Look at all this rock. Can't you believe that at one point this used to be lava? Like thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, or no it said tens of thousands of years ago. It erupted. I think it actually mentioned that it erupted during the ice age and there was like mammoths and just a bunch of prehistoric, I guess, animals that roamed in this region which is pretty cool to think that just how old this this place is. I mean, this is like history right in front of our eyes. And once again, I apologize if I'm a little cuckoo right now. Cuckoo for cocoa buffs. Look at these views. Crazy. I got one more view. I will say it is a beautiful day out here. It's not even that hot actually. I think it's like 75 degrees and there's a slight breeze which makes it feel just so much cooler. And coming from Texas where it's super hot, extremely hot, and very humid, this is a nice change. I will say that. Oh, Bucky. Little Buck. Guys, I want to introduce you to a new addition to the channel. His name is Buck. We just got him yesterday and he's going to be riding with us on all of our road trips from this point forward. Stella's best friend, Buck. Look how happy he is to be road tripping. So happy. Look at that old cabin. Her house, I mean. Just out in the middle. She's a sailor tonight. Heck no. I'm good. I mean, I can drop you off. I'll come back and pick you up if you want. I got a sleeping bag. You can go with Stella. I'm just kidding. It looks like we're finally starting to get some sort of hills, mountains, stuff like that. I mean, it's been pretty flat this whole drive. That's why I haven't filmed much. It's just nothing cool to see, you know? Just flat land and oil rigs. If you've driven through Texas, you know what I'm talking about. I kind of like Texas. It's growing on me. I'm just glad to be back on the road, you know? It's nice to actually be traveling again and to be just seeing our beautiful country. I'm truly grateful that I get to do this every day. So, huge shout out to all of you guys who support us. Thank you so much for making these travels possible because without you, we wouldn't be here. All righty, everyone. We are coming up on the state border of Colorado and the landscape has changed drastically. Look at this. Now, we're starting to get hills, little mountains. It's looking quite beautiful. Stella. All right. We're coming up on it right now. Welcome to Colorado. Me and Stella actually took a picture in front of this sign, like on our first road trip together. When I first got her, if I can find it, I'm going to pop it up on the screen. We made it to Colorado. We're not far from Trinidad. So, we're going to go to the grocery store, pick up some ingredients to cook up dinner, and then we're going to find our spot for tonight. So, all right. Here we are. Safeway. Let's go get some stuff to cook up. All right, Stella. We'll be right back. Okay, girl? Oh, look. You can be a Starbucks barista, Megan. You want to get a job in Trinidad and be a Starbucks barista? Guys, she makes fun of me because I say buggy and she says cart. Let me know what you guys say down in the comments. Do you say buggy or cart? I call this thing a buggy. Asparagus. All right. So, they don't have any just plain salmon fillets. They just have like these. So, we're just going to get one of these and it'll just be easier for us since it's been a long day. I mean, these are already flavored, I guess. So, this is honey smoked salmon. I'm going to get this. What are you going to get? They have honey, hot honey. They have chipotle lime, sweet bourbon. This is what I got, sweet bourbon. Oh, they do have an original honey smoked. All right. We are in the checkout line waiting to get checked out. All right. Back secured at Safeway. Heading back to the truck. Looks like it's kind of a cloudy day, but sun's peeking through a little bit and it's getting kind of late. So, we're going to pack all this stuff up and then try to find a spot. All right. So, we're actually headed back to this lake that I stayed at not too long ago coming back from Alaska. When I passed through Trinidad, I stayed at this lake. I stayed at the campsite here. We're not going to be staying at the campsite though. I think this time we're going to try to drive around it and try to find a spot, maybe a pullout or something where we can just kind of boondock for the night. So, we're about 12 minutes away until we get there, but this was a really beautiful lake and yeah, I thought it would be a perfect place to camp for the night. All right, guys. We made it to this road and it's getting pretty bad actually, but we're going to follow it down. It should go all the way down to the lake actually. So, we should have lake access with this road. So, we're just going to keep following it down and see where it goes. All right. So, this is where we're staying at Trinidad Lake State Park, Raleigh Canyon. Oh, gosh. This road is pretty gnarly. Okay. So, this is the potential spot right up here that we're going to be staying at. I'm going to just come up here and check it out because we got a pretty gnarly hill that we have to go up. So, just check it out and see if there's any like flat spots up here. I think we're going to camp out here tonight. It looks pretty. It looks really pretty. It looks like it's going to be a good spot, but got some nice views of the lake and we're kind of out. I mean, we're far away. There's not much. I can see like a cabin up there, up there, like a few different spots, but it looks like it's really nice out here. I don't know if you can maybe drive onto the shoreline, go down there or something. I don't know, but look at that sunset. It looks pretty out here. I think we're going to camp. I think we're going to do it. We're going to camp out here and have this all to ourselves. I'm going to see if I can make it up this hill though without any problems. I have to get better tie-downs for my camper because those straps really aren't going to do the job, but we're going to try to make it up. Pretty nice spot and I don't think we'll get kicked out tonight. Hopefully not. This is kind of a state park, so the camper definitely doesn't rock as much. I will say that as the other one. It doesn't, and I still, I still need to upgrade my suspension, but I'm able to actually kind of go off-road without shaking the whole thing. I think we're just going to park like right here. Let's go outside. Let me show you the full 360 degrees of this place. Let's get her real raw reaction of this. First off, yeah, look at that sunset. Yeah. All right. This is the spot right here. What do you think? I think we found our spot, guys. I think we found our spot. There's a port-a-potty. Yeah, there's a port-a-potty and a trash can down there. I think we're good for the night. The knee is on. Get some light in here. There we go. All right, so Stella is eating her dinner and I think now we're going to, oops, sorry. I think now we're going to start cooking up our dinner. So we got asparagus, salmon, and then I think we're just going to have some fruit. We got some peaches, watermelon, and kiwi, and then we got some dessert for later. I have a bad sweet tooth every night. Every single night. Every night. Multiple times a day. Yeah, it's bad. I got to work on it. I think we're going to cook it all in the air fryer just to make it easy and simple for us. I have the air fryer under here. Air fryer is under here. Got the air fryer. Oh gosh. It's a big air fryer. These are some big fillets. Yeah, for real. Oh, it smells good though. All right, so we got our salmon fillets, asparagus. About to pop these in the air fryer. Okay. All right. First, well not first night, but this is like first off-grid night kind of out in the wilderness doing some cooking, some camping. Finally got everything moved in. Nice little breeze coming from the windows. Got Stella laying down. Good to go. We got some watermelon. She's cutting up some kiwi. Also, we have peaches too. All right. I think this asparagus is ready. What do you think? All right. Ready to eat it. Then we got the salmon down here. Oh, I think we might have overcooked the salmon. Oh wow. What do you think? Looks fine. Looks good. It smells really good All right. So here we go. We got salmon, asparagus, and then we got some fruit too. We got watermelon and peach. So this is our dinner. All right. You want to try it? Yeah. It's really hot. Fresh. It looks, I mean, it definitely is done pretty good. I would set up the table, but Stella's kind of using the seat as a bed right now. And we love Stella so much. She can have it. All right. I think we are all ready for bed. Stella's kind of already passed out down here, making the bed up here. I do have all the windows open for the fresh air. I don't plan on running the generator all night because it's really not that hot on us. It's pretty cool. Good night, Stella. Good night, girl. All right, guys. We will see you in the morning. I think tomorrow we got a lot of stuff planned, so I'm excited. Yeah. Good night, everyone. See you in the morning. Good morning, guys. Welcome back to the channel. I mean, good morning, guys. We just woke up here at the spot. It looks like someone is down there, but we didn't get a knock or anything, so that's good. But it's about nine o'clock, and these are the views. I did take some drone shots earlier this morning, but I'm going to get the generator packed up. We're going to get everything clean, and then we're going to get out of here and start making our way to Colorado Springs. We're going to go to Garden of the Gods. We're going to check that out. Should be pretty fun. How do you feel? It's a long walk. We did take Stella on a walk this morning, and then she got all muddy. All right. Let's start up the truck. There we go. Hey, Buck. Good morning. All right. We are out of here. We got to go back down. All right, guys. We just made it to Colorado Springs, and we are pulling up into Garden of the Gods. We're going to go check that out. The landscape here looks beautiful. These are like red. I think they're like 300 million old red rock formations or something. That's why this place is so popular, because of the rock formations. Guys, we made it to the Garden of the Gods. What do you think of these 300 million year old rock formations? Really cool. If I was a god, I would make this my garden. Would you? Because I was thinking the exact same thing. That's crazy. What about you, Stella? What do you think? I have no idea what hike we're doing, but we just parked down there. I don't know if you can see my truck. We parked all the way down there, and we hiked up here. This is the hike right here. Pretty cool. Pretty elegant. Yeah. I'm trying to expand my vocabulary. I believe you can do some biking around here. You can do some hiking. Also, if you're up for it, you can do some rock climbing. I'm not sure where you can rock climb at, but I read into it, and you can do some rock climbing here. Actually, I came here on my first road trip with Stella for the first time. I'm not sure if I have a video on my channel about it, but we did do a few hikes around here. It was pretty cool. Just look. Yesterday, it was flat, and now we got mountains. I believe Pike's Peak is around here, too. It looks like Pike's Peak is directly in front of us somewhere. I'm guessing that might be it, maybe. It says the park's dramatic red sandstone formations are roughly 300 million years old. They were originally laid down as horizontal sediment layers and later tilted nearly vertical during the uplift that formed the Rocky Mountains. It is completely free to visit. When the land was donated to Colorado Springs in 1909, the donor's family requested that it remain open to the public forever at no charge. Pretty cool. The park covers about 1,340 acres, and it is a designated national natural landmark. The scenery around here is stunning. I will say this is pretty nice to have in the city. This is really nice. There's a ton of hiking trails all around this park. Just to think, 1,340 acres of public land to go hiking, biking, rock climbing right next to the city. The city's right over there. It's not far. Having all this recreational use is nice. What's a happy dog right there? That is a happy dog, and that's a happy lady, and that's a happy buck. All right, guys. That is going to be the end of today's video. Thank you all so much for watching, and I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, let me know what you guys think of it down in the comments below. Also, go ahead and drop a like and a comment on this video. It's much appreciated. Thank you so much for all the support. I'll see you guys back on the road next week. We're headed out west, and we're going to go explore a bunch of different places. If you have anything in mind, please let me know. We'll see you guys back on the road next week, and don't forget to stay saucy. Peace.