Van Life Week 2_ Joshua Tree and Los Angeles

I can't let you go, baby. I just want to tell you that. No, no, no, no, no. Guys, oatmeal with a knife. You know why? Because we can't do our dishes because there are spiders, bees, rodents, snakes, that if they even see an ounce of water in the desert will crawl up our little drain hose and come into the van. So we've had to close that valve. But also because we're drinking at least six gallons of water a day and we can't waste any water, so we can't wash our dishes. So this morning we are sharing a bowl of oatmeal with a knife to eat it. After 11, before 5 p.m., apparently it's off-limits to do anything because it's a thousand degrees outside. So we're trying to, uh, we're at the Jelly Don's where we are. Donuts and dumplings. All right, we got the taco and dumplings. Fried, steamed. Thank you. Every meat. Every meat they have. This is just recording for the record. Kristen in the desert sun fluctuates her energy from being the most energetic, crazy person I've ever met in my life, screaming songs and singing, to basically dead. So we've resorted to anytime she loses her energy we're squirting Mio, the fat caffeine, right into her mouth. And that's how we do it. So here we are, approaching some climbs. Joshua Tree. Good stuff out here. Just trying to check out the scene, re-revel the gear and everything. And we're up here on top of one of the cracks of Joshua Tree. Staying in the shaded routes because it's hot even at 9 a.m. A lot of pretty sweet routes here. You know, super fun. It's just like 100 degrees every day, so not awesome. But getting ready to pull Kristen up. It's good stuff out here. Just having a good time. Probably be here today and tomorrow and then head out to L.A. for a while. Or I guess just a day. Eat some food. Good food out there. And then up on to the Sierra Nevadas. Can't wait. All right, just climbing this crack. No big deal. I don't know if you can see, but I put my hand in right where there's a giant lizard. Kind of freaked out. But all good. All good. We're out here having a good time. I'm going to try to move above this guy. He's just sleeping in a crack in Joshua Tree. Sweet. We are quite literally the only people in the Mojave Desert. See, the beauty of this boulder is it'll never be there for other people. That's how you top out right there. And that's Kristen's first ascent of her boulder dead in July. Listen, bouldering is harder than I thought. That's a good one. That's what we're doing out here in Joshua Tree. Setting some first ascents because we can't get up the regular bouldering routes. They're a lot harder than you think. So that's where it's at. Fun. Up the 110 because we have lobster rolls. And then we're gonna go camp on the beach. We're beach people now. We're desert rats. We're desert rats. I'm so happy. We're in Santa Monica now. We're on the beach. The pier is over here. You can't really see it. Very different weather than Joshua Tree where it was scalding hot and gloomy, cloudy. We're in Malibu. It cost $45 to camp last night at Malibu State Park, which is crazy. I saw a fat spider and cockroach in the boat, which I did not enjoy. But so pretty. Nice to be on the coast. And we're gonna go check out Venice Beach and then downtown LA and eat a lot of tacos. We're in the infamous LA traffic. Jordan's hand. My personal hell. Here it is. We're going seven miles to get our next tacos. It's gonna take us 35 minutes in this traffic. But the first tacos were really good, so it's almost worth it. Kind of. Kind of. This is killing my soul.