Boondocking/ fixing the rusty van/ how I stay safe in backcountry as SOLO FEMALE TRAVELER

All right there's a campground here and it's free. It's right beside a river. A couple people are already here though but that's the weekend. Wanna check kitty? Is it a nice spot? Maybe we can come back tonight. So yeah a couple picnic table right beside the river. It's right there. This spot is quite cool. It's got two rivers. Look at it. And a picnic table just right there. I think there's a bunch of like those campgrounds here. Like free ones. But yeah I want to go drive further. It's supposed to be like raining and sunny today. Kind of mixed. So I think it's a good day just to just to drive and see what's going on here. And yeah find a camping spot for tonight. I'm sure be another night here. It's been already two nights that I slept in the spot that you saw. Yesterday I went in town. I uploaded a video and all that. And I came back sleep in the same spot that I slept one night before. And yeah we're gonna drive see what we can find today. Campsite. Out here seems to be a little bit more like there for a long time. So we're gonna go a little bit further and see what's going on. What do you think kitty? Oh a little bit of pavement. What? There's some little deer over there. Hello deer. There's so many deer around here. I love it. But look what I found when I was trying to film the deers. A beautiful campsite. A little fireplace. Little river. This is a cute little spot. Already found like probably like 10 spots that I could sleep tonight. But I really want to go a little bit further today and just just see what's going on a little bit further. So I think that's what we're gonna do. But that could be a cool spot for tonight. Love it. So I decided to stop here and have breakfast. It's just beautiful with the sun. So I thought that would be a rainy day today but maybe we're gonna be good. So beautiful this morning. I'm not someone who meditates that often or every day I should say. But when I'm in the backcountry I always take a little bit of time and do it because I just feel with the sound of nature and the birds. It's just perfect. I feel so good this morning. I'm not even sure if I want to go back and go like drive again. I feel like I found a little paradise here. The river is just there but not too noisy. It's a big open field. Let's see. Let's see what I'm gonna do. All right. As you can see I decided to work a little bit on my rust. All right. I'm not gonna make a video every time that I work on my rust because let's be honest I think you're gonna have like 20 videos of it. So what I'm gonna do I'm gonna make one big video at the end telling you how much how long that took me to fix the rocks and how long that was and every product that I use. So you have a better idea if you do want to fix your rust on your van. But the reason that I wanted to show you what I did it's because I spent most of my afternoon working on the rust of the van and I have to admit that I'm proud of that little first section that I did on the van. So if you are one of those person wondering what those people do when they go boondocking for a couple of days. Hey they do have a camper van and every camper van needs a little bit of work here and there. You know how lucky I am we have a little hailstone. That is like really how lucky I am. It's just a small little cloud. I cover the place where I paint with like one of those like everywhere and it was like I was on my second coat of the paint and I was already ready to go do another coat. So I had time to dry but like hopefully it's not gonna do anything bad on it. Like one cloud. All right I'm just gonna wait that and go check if everything is all right. This is what I did to try to cover as much as possible. I mean look not too bad. A little bit of rain came here but overall it's good. I'm just gonna dry that out and see if I'm gonna do another coat or not. So that was just this cloud that did all the rain and snow. I mean the rest is pretty good. Beautiful sky. I did not too bad of a job. I'm gonna need one or two more coats but I'm not gonna do it today because the whole van is wet now and it's gonna drip on it and I'm worried that another cloud will come. But I'm gonna do that tomorrow. I'm quite I'm quite happy. I mean it's not perfect but it's obviously way better than it was. All right so I'm getting hungry. I'm gonna try to make a one pot pasta. Never try it but I'm sure I'm gonna be able to do it. All right this is what we have. So I just put tomato sauce just to cover the pasta. I put a bunch of mushroom, dry basil and I had some dry onion powder because I don't have fresh onions. And a little bit of chili flakes. So I'm gonna cover this and let that cook for 10-12 minutes. See if we need more sauce. So yeah it's been like three nights. That's gonna be the third night tonight that we are boondocking. And I know some people are a little bit worried for the first time to go in a backcountry. Right now I don't think I have. Yeah I don't have any cell service. You may not be able to see because my phone is all broken. But I don't have any service and I'm not worried. Like my advice would be. I mean you do obviously what you want to do. If you really worry about being in a backcountry. I mean don't go. But maybe because I'm a little bit born in that kind of environment. Like I'm born 30 minutes off of Quebec City. And I was like just you know like field and wood. And that's where I was playing. And I didn't really have that much friends. Which it's kind of sad. It's just like I didn't have like girl around my name like my parents house. I was only boy. So my brother was playing with them and all that. And I was kind of playing with them. And like you know be on my myself too. So that's probably why I don't mind to be by myself. But and I don't mind to be in the wood. Because that's where I was playing when I was young. But my advice would be probably to do something like I did today. Which is I'm not very far. I'm on like it's got a road right here. And maybe every hours get someone to drive in that road. They go in the backcountry. They go 4x4 or whatever. So I know if something happened to the van. Which is my biggest one fear. I don't have the knowledge to fix my van. And I don't have all the tools and everything to fix everything. Like I'm working on to put a little bit more money on like getting some stuff. So I can feel a little bit more confident going to backcountry. And be able to maybe go a little bit further. But right now I always try to stay somewhere where it's going to have people. Eventually it's going to drive okay. It's not in the middle of like nowhere where you're not going to see nobody for like months okay. It is like you know every hour or every two hours get someone who's driving this road. So I know I can you know like ask them I'm stuck can you help me and all that. And I'm not worried about like men seeing me. Like a lot of people was driving today they saw me outside by myself. I'm not worried about that to be honest. I know some people put sometimes like two chair to kind of like show that they are like with someone or something like this. I don't find a need personally to do it. But yeah my biggest fear to be quite honest is that I'm stuck with my van and something broke. I'm working on getting like a kind of GPS that I can text someone if something happens. But for right now I just don't go too too far you know. Like if I was to go walk in the main town probably gonna take me a couple hours. But you know it's not like you know it's not like days and days you know. I could do it in just maybe like two or three hours something like this. So looking good. All right so it is done. I probably took more like a half an hour to be honest. So it's way longer than what I usually cook inside the van. I put... I'm gonna show you all. I'm gonna put the nutrition yeast. Mix that up. So I end up putting probably half a cup of water. I put a good tablespoon of maple syrup. Yes I love the maple syrup inside the pasta sauce. It kind of removes the acidity inside the pasta. I put almost the whole sauce that I have here. Probably have that much left. And yeah some spinach and nutrition yeast. And it is ready to eat. Let me show you. So there you go. Probably not that... One second. There you go. Probably not the best view. But I'm sure it's gonna be good. That's good. I like it. You need to mix quite often so it doesn't stick in the bottom. So I'm gonna let that cool down a little bit and finish to heat that. So the sun is just about to set and I'm getting quite tired with all the sanding that I had to do to fix the Ross. I'm just... I'm about to fall asleep. So I'm gonna show you guys what I'm doing at night when I'm in the backcountry. So I parked the van ready to go for tomorrow morning. I'm gonna obviously double check that all the doors are locked which we are good. I don't put my side here that I have. Usually I do that when I'm in town. But I like if something happens. If I hear some noise that I can look and I don't have to remove them. I just can get up and get out of that place. And I also don't put the curtain 100% because I like to sneak if something going on. And I'm gonna make sure that everything is ready for me to leave tomorrow morning or tonight if we do have an emergency. After that I always put obviously the keys, an extra flashlight that I just put in when I'm in backcountry. But I do have one. You probably saw that in one of my videos. I do have this one here that I can twist and leave with it. So this one is always here. But when I'm in the backcountry I like to have like a little extra one if I want to just like if I hear some noise and I want to see what's going on. I can check. Yeah and yeah make sure everything is ready if we do have a kind of like emergency if you want and nothing's gonna fall. And I also don't put my side cover here because when I sleep in bed I can see the stars at night which I really like it. It's one of the things that I realized like the first time. I was like oh that's so cool I can see the stars from my bed. And yeah just no point to putting like any curtain because I'm in the backcountry. It's gonna be pitch black in like in like an hour or so. So I'm gonna let you with this. I hope you enjoyed this little video, a little adventure in the backcountry with me. If you do give me a big thumbs up and I will see you soon guys. All right see you. Bye.