Truck Camping as Beginners

Bom Oliver

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00:00What you doing? We're going to see if we can set up a tent today. I'm Garrett and this is my wife

00:04Lauren and we just booked what we hope will be an epic hiking trip through Peru. We just have

00:09one major concern. Neither one of us have slept outside before. So in addition to each spending

00:15hours on a Stairmaster and sweating all over the treadmills, we're going to test out our camping

00:20skills. We're going to go truck camping. I think she's really happy about it. For this we had to

00:24buy a lot of stuff. So we ordered Amazon packages, went to Walmart, and now here we are trying to

00:30assemble a tent in our driveway. No, this isn't an intro. Mistakes were definitely made in this first

00:36attempt at camping. I feel like it just got worse. We don't really know how to make a campfire. But in a

00:42lot of ways we thrive, especially when it came to the food. Are you in the pocket? Hold on, hold on.

00:49Do these go in the same ones as the black? Meow. Oh, I am a tent. Can we do this inside out? No.

01:04Can we both fit on one? We can try to lay on it, but it's not going to be fun.

01:10Oh, come on. Do you think our sleeping bags have enough padding? I'm not going to be snoring.

01:15Drink wine, you might be. Garrett.

01:18Garrett should not be a ding-dong when he's setting up a tent.

01:23In what at the time felt like a stroke of genius, we piled everything into the tent and then

01:29collapsed it for what we hoped would be a quick setup when we arrived.

01:33So the car is packed. We are ready to go. We had a little bit of an incident.

01:40Spilled a whole thing of coffee on the floor.

01:42Here we go. We're headed to Broken Bow, Oklahoma. There's like a state park. I think the name's

01:52Beavers Bend. So it's about a three and a half hour drive. So we'll see you there shortly.

01:55Just one quick stop. There she is. Lauren keeps talking about how much fun she had in Paris and she wants to go back.

02:04So on our drive, I was like, huh, we can stop by.

02:08The Eiffel Tower in Paris, Texas. It's got a cowboy hat on the top of it.

02:12It's like the real thing, but smaller and with more style.

02:16It's out of prison. I'm losing family members.

02:19See the little deer right there? Hello, dude.

02:26Camping in the back of the truck was a foolproof plan until we realized that we actually had to get the truck

02:31right up next to the campsite.

02:36This is home.

02:4024 hours, starting now. That's my jacket.

02:43First thing we're doing is eating food because no one wants to put up a tent hangry.

02:49Bad decisions or bad words that you normally would not say. So we're going to be proactive.

02:55Marriage tip 101.

02:57I found the bread clip. Lauren's feet. She's sitting on this picnic table.

03:00It's a really high picnic table. They don't quite touch the ground, but my truck normally has this cover on it.

03:06So in order to set up this tent, I take it off. Now Lauren and I are about to put up this tent.

03:13Pretty big tent, as you can see. There's space to hang stuff up there, so it should be a good night.

03:27The reason here is heavy breathing in the background is sort of my fault.

03:31I had this genius idea that we could blow up our air mattress at home and then leave it in the bed of the truck,

03:38but the temperature dropped overnight and it lost a lot of air pressure.

03:42So now I'm going to go make sure that he hasn't passed out.

03:45I feel like it's not going any more than this. I feel like it just got worse.

03:50Well, my contribution is picking up all the rocks that we could potentially fall on and break an ankle.

04:00I'm putting them on this fire pit pile.

04:03There's our little fire pit for the night and our two chairs.

04:06There's our picnic table where we'll be eating.

04:09I have a little grill thingy over there, but we're probably not going to use that.

04:12Welcome to my tent.

04:14This is our home for the evening.

04:19We have a bed, two sleeping bags, and a duvet.

04:24The duvet was a stupid idea.

04:26We thought it would give us extra warmth, but once the temperatures dropped,

04:29the duvet was freezing and it honestly made us colder.

04:32Some pillows, a little speaker, a lantern, and some fairy lights that Garrett thinks are going to catch our tent on fire.

04:43Those fairy lights are left over from a friend's rehearsal dinner.

04:47Sloan Brady, those are from your wedding.

04:50Got everything ready to go, so we're just walking around for a little bit before we cook some dinner.

04:55Oh, she's smoking.

05:04Propane, a little propane stain cooker thing.

05:07That we have no clue how to use.

05:09Absolutely none.

05:10We are making a chickpea curry.

05:12For dessert, we're making an apple fritter.

05:16Apple crisp.

05:17Oh, sorry.

05:18You're going to try for the first time to cook with propane.

05:22Let's see how it goes.

05:24Olive oil.

05:25I successfully have a flame.

05:26I'm going to start sautéing those onions.

05:27Sounds like they're heating up fast.

05:28Next up is my spices that I pre-mixed at home.

05:29I'm going to get my onions all coated.

05:30I can already smell the graham marsala.

05:31I'm sure half the campsite can smell our graham marsala.

05:33It's all good.

05:34Add some coconut milk.

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05:56There we go.

05:57About two tablespoons worth of tomato paste.

06:00I think it's about time to add the chickpeas.

06:03We went with a vegetarian or vegan dish because we didn't want to have to haul meat out here.

06:08Oh, it smells so good.

06:10I wish you could smell this, but hopefully it looks close to as good as how it smells.

06:15All right.

06:16We're going to let this simmer for 10 minutes.

06:18While we do that, we're going to cut up some of our toppings, our cilantro and our lime.

06:22Let this thicken and then we'll cook our rice.

06:24This is the recipe that we're making.

06:26We'll go ahead and link it down in the description and let you know what we think, but so far

06:31it looks and smells absolutely amazing.

06:34This is how you wash vegetables in the woods.

06:37Squirt bottle.

06:39Nine.

06:40All right.

06:41To go with our curry, we got this jasmine rice pre-cooked, so we're just going to warm

06:47it up in the pan with a little bit of water.

06:49Real mess.

06:50Well, our other pan was clearly too small to cook on this stove, so we're trying a new

06:56method.

06:57It's not going to look as pretty in the bowl.

06:59People who know me know that I love food presentation, but since we're not going to have that on our

07:05side, we're just going to mix the rice in with some cilantro and a lime wedge.

07:15Time to try our first ever camping meal.

07:21Yeah.

07:25It cooked a little faster than I went on to.

07:27We couldn't really quite figure out the heat settings on the propane tank, and then Garrett

07:31kept trying to turn it down but turning it off, but 8 out of 10.

07:34Give it a 10 out of 10.

07:36You can taste the garam marsala and the hint of cinnamon, which I like.

07:39Now we're just doing some prepping for the night.

07:41Trying to get everything ready before it gets dark out here, because we've never been camping

07:45before.

07:46We're scared.

07:47Lauren's got this fire.

07:48She's starting to put some firewoods in a cool teepee formation, if you can see that.

07:53We don't really know how to make a campfire, but I think we're getting pretty close.

07:58We definitely were starving of oxygen for a while, and then we definitely didn't give

08:02it enough brush to burn, but I think we're going to be able to make a s'more on this here

08:07in a couple hours.

08:08Rough day building the campfire.

08:13With our pre-bought wood and our pre-bought fire starter.

08:16I had to go chop that wood down.

08:18We still can't figure it out.

08:20Cheers to our first ever camping trip.

08:24To many more.

08:26It took four fire starters.

08:29A whole bunch of us scrounging around on the ground for sticks and tinder.

08:33We have officially, successfully created our fire.

08:36Okay, next time we're going to bring an axe, and Garrett's going to chop up some wood himself.

08:42Fire going good, and it's putting off some good warmth.

08:46My phone died, but the temperature's dropping a little bit.

08:49It's probably about, I don't know, in the 40s sometimes.

08:52Let's get to the low 30s, but we'll be good as long as the fire keeps rolling.

08:57Garrett's quickly becoming obsessed with the fire.

08:59I'm obsessed with the idea of making some s'mores on this fire.

09:05She's got her s'more.

09:08The chocolate sounded very hard.

09:11How is it?

09:13Time for one last snack today.

09:16Some campfire apples.

09:18Do you see the stars?

09:20Probably not, but they're beautiful.

09:22Goodnight Oklahoma.

09:24Good morning from our tent.

09:26It's about 7am I think.

09:28I'm probably going to go out and make some coffee.

09:31I slept pretty good.

09:32My sleeping bag was really warm.

09:34See?

09:35I'm green.

09:36We'll see how Lauren did.

09:39I think she's still kind of snoozing, but we'll check in with her in a little bit.

09:45How did you sleep?

10:01Good.

10:02What's your first impressions of camping in 32 degree weather?

10:06It was good.

10:07It was good.

10:08We were comfortable.

10:10It was our first time sleeping outside, so I feel like every time I heard noises I got

10:14a little freaked out, but I'm bundled up.

10:17Honestly, it felt cozy.

10:18It felt nice, so.

10:19Next time we'll just work on the sleeping pad.

10:22It deflated.

10:23Yeah.

10:24Our air mattress.

10:25Which we should have known.

10:26Is completely deflated, so.

10:29We have a moving blanket like under the tent and our sleeping bags are pretty padded,

10:34but once that air mattress went out, it got pretty sad.

10:40Success.

10:41Next time, we'll do it in a national park for three days.

10:45Canned food, backpacking style.

10:47That's a big promise.

10:48Just wait.

10:52Awesome.

10:57Good?

10:58Yeah.

10:59Alright, we got all the ingredients for this morning's breakfast.

11:03We're making some green chilequiles.

11:05Got some green chili enchilada sauce, fire roasted corn, some rotel, crema, cojita cheese,

11:12cilantro, eggs, and tortilla chips.

11:15And a lime.

11:18Alright.

11:19Now we're gonna scoop this up into our bowl and give it some toppings.

11:24My bowl still smells like curry.

11:28Curry chilequile combo.

11:30Breakfast chilequiles.

11:32Time to see if it tastes as delicious as it looks.

11:42And the answer is yes.

11:4310 out of 10.

11:45The perfect yolk.

11:46It's just a little runny.

11:49Hot.

11:51I'm really good, my wife can cook.

11:53And I can eat.

11:54Go me.

11:55All done.

11:56Not time to clean up.

11:57Alright, we just finished our first camping trip.

12:09Lauren, how do you feel?

12:10Good.

12:11Good.

12:12It was a great trip.

12:13So, we're signing off, but we'll see you in the next one.

12:16If you are interested, the camping gear we bought and liked is linked in the description

12:20below.

12:21Please subscribe as we travel down to Peru to hike the Inca Trail.

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