Surviving the Elements at Mexican Hat, Utah

Hello welcome back to our channel I'm Marisa. Hi I'm Brian. And we are in a brand new to us camping state. Yeah. Utah. Welcome to Utah and holy cow. Holy moly we've only been here for like I don't know not even that long and does not disappoint. Yeah excited for this night and the coming videos up in Utah. We had a great time in Flagstaff. At Overland Expo and just chilling in Flagstaff hanging out with Jordan from Lobo. That was so awesome. Oh we had such a good time. Yeah. We didn't film for like five days straight we just rested. Vegas. I'm not gonna say rested because I didn't do that. We walked 13 miles in Vegas and then probably another 10 or 12 at Expo. Yeah so long days. But it was so much fun and we just had such a great time and. Yep yep yep. Where are we at now? Oh yeah so we are we actually stopped at Forrest Gump Point. We'll put a little picture in here. Yeah. So we stopped at that spot and then we ended up coming to Mexican Hat which is in the Valley of the Gods area. Yeah there's supposed to be some gnarly windstorms tonight. Oh yeah and it's kind of dark could have some thunder so. Yeah so we wanted to find a spot that was a little bit like uh shaded or not shaded but. Sheltered. Sheltered from the wind um even though the spot we got isn't really but it's okay. Yeah all right let's go get set up and uh take it from there. All right let's go. Oh by the way this is the San Juan River. Beautiful. And we got the Tacoma and there's Mexican Hat over there but this is on this side of Mexican Hat and it's just a single road and we are at the end of it. It's not a boat lounge. No. And there's a couple a couple uh campsites. Might take a walk down there later and uh yeah beautiful spot. Definitely need the strut covers. Yep there you go. Rise my child. Rise. It's been so long. Oh my gosh. Hey that sounds pretty nasty. How about courtesy flush over there? And camp is set up. Yep we're not putting the table out yet because it's super windy so we don't want it to like go flying off. One of our chairs already blew down and I had to like wipe it all off. I saw that. Let's check the thermometer. Oh the temperature. What is it? It is 82 degrees with 14 humidity. Oh. Welcome to the southwest. It doesn't I mean it sometimes it feels like 82 but when the wind blows it definitely doesn't feel like 82. Yeah. I don't know. It's nice. It's just like a little constant wind but those gusts. Oh man you gotta watch out for those gusts. And there's a chance of uh rain or thunderstorms at like what? Two. One or two this morning. Yeah. In the morning. Oh boy. So we'll see. Yep. No I'm super excited to explore this area the next few days. Yep. Well tomorrow and then on to Moab. We're not sure if we're gonna film it or not. Probably not. Probably not. Take a break. Uh Moab, Arches, Capitol Reef, like that whole area. Found some. Do a couple hikes. Do a couple hikes. Uh we actually have a resort booked in Moab for a night so. We can recharge and. Like literally recharge all of our batteries. And laundry. And do some laundry. Because after that it'll be like. Straight. We don't have anywhere else. Loves truck stop. Shower. Yep. Or rinse kit. Yep. All right we're gonna chill and uh. Make some dinner in a little bit. Fly the drone. So enjoy this nature. Fly around. Red Rock area. Mexican hat over there and up the river maybe. You gotta be careful there's people down that way. I'll go up top and go around that way. I know how to be respectful. Okay. What a quiet peaceful evening isn't it? It's a nice light breeze. Nothing, nothing flying. We don't have to go catch anything. Not covered in dust. Not covered in dust. Can't breathe. Dirt. Dirt. Nope not at all. Yeah. So we're cooking on the tailgate. To keep out of the wind. Well and to keep our food from being like super dusty. Yeah but what are we having tonight at eight o'clock? We're making burritos. Simple burritos? Simple burritos. That will work. I didn't even get any lettuce. I forgot. Well we're in a hurry and get out of Flagstaff and get up here. Yeah. Oh well. Uh simple burritos. We're gonna have a couple and uh we're not setting the camera on the tripod because it just went flying. Uh the tripod's gonna fell over so uh trust me it's gonna be a good dinner and we'll check you afterwards. And boom just like that. Dinner is done. Yeah. We inhaled it. Quick and easy. Quick and easy. And the bats are out. Lots of them. I don't know why they're getting too close to us but it's creaky. Cookie time. Fast cookie time. Fast cookie. Oh. We got these cookies at Overland Expo. They sell like a bucket of like 40 mini cookies. It was like 30 bucks. We got half of them. Yeah we got half. Yeah. Yum. All right we're getting everything packed up-ish. All right it's okay right now. These bats just keep dive bombing us. Crazy. Oh whoa. What? It was like two feet above my head. Oh ----. Get out of here. Get it. Where's the gun? Blooper reel. Enjoy. Until I have a freaking bat sucking on my neck. I'm Batman. What are you doing? Washing my hands. Rinse kit. Rinse kit. The MVP of southwest travel. Right. If you don't got one and you're going down to southwest camping. Get one. Costco. I don't know if they have them this year but if they do get one. It's so worth it. Yeah. Yeah freaking amazing. Yeah definitely. All right uh no fire tonight because it's still pretty warm. It's still 76 I think the temperature is being set. We're getting beat up by this wind pretty much. So we're gonna go hunker down in the tent. Have a chill night. Yeah we need it. So we'll see you guys in the morning. Enjoy the time-lapse and hopefully. Hopefully the Milky Way comes out and these clouds dissipate. Hopefully. They need to move along. Yeah all right. Well good afternoon because it is afternoon. You okay? Uh-huh. Packing up. It's tiring. Uh-huh. Oh wow. What an insane night. Yeah. Yeah it started off with a beautiful stars and time-lapse and then all of a sudden just. We were getting blown all over the place. Yeah it was a powerful cell that went through. We were lucky no thunder and lightning. Nothing like that. No heavy heavy rain. No it rained probably like three different times I think. Yeah. But not very long. Yeah we could tell when that front came through because it. Oh. It was bad. It rained and just everything and I was concerned about that waterfall and that waterfall because right in the middle. Yeah. So that's all I was cared about but nothing. No. The ground just got hard so no dust today. It's been nice. It's turned into dust already. Yeah. Because it's of course blue sky. But man Utah. Utah. Didn't disappoint on night one. Yeah. We have so many more nights to go. Hopefully no other storms like that. I know. I think we're in the clear. Oh good. We're going over there. We're going to go exploring like we do. Check out our next video and uh yeah or check out our previous ones in Nevada. They're fun. Yeah those are fun. Those are fun videos and it's it's crazy. We were talking this morning or yeah this morning over breakfast how each campsite has brought its own challenge. Yeah. For sure. Whether it's animals like the spot itself. The conditions. Weather. Yeah. Yeah so. Yeah it's a bit challenging. It's very very different from the PNW. Oh very. Camping in the desert is just it's like a whole different like experience for sure. We're gaining experience just day by day so it's a win in our book. Yep. So okay well don't forget to comment, like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. We have a video out every Friday. Check out our merch store. Our PNW. Oh my gosh I almost said our PNW adventures. Our PNW adventures. Old school guys. Bringing old school. The Brian and Marisa Explore Camp repeat gear. Pick up some merch because it's freaking awesome and yeah. All right. Well we will see you on the next adventure. See you guys. Bye. Peace.