 a good morning from outside of a town called and I kind of forgot there's a town back there I promise you and I just want to it's on yesterday's video and uh I just want to share with you last night's parking spot this is BLM land this is uh national monument land and according to my public lands app it's managed by BLM I had absolutely zero problems parking here last night so if you are curious as to the hassle-free quality of public lands well this is it all right so the plan today is to go to a another national park uh I am maybe half an hour outside of Escalante so perhaps we'll go to Escalante today oh and also here's the update on the shower situation I failed to find a truck stop yesterday after I passed the last truck stop off of the freeway so I ordered myself a RV style horizontal uh propane tank off uh amazon looks like I got it used from amazon warehouse deals which is just a returned item and uh at some point I will be installing a shower probably on the outside of the bus showerhead will be outside water will be somewhere propane tank will be under the bit under the bus kind of under this area and then I'll just wire it back and stuff and I already have a heater in the the back storage area quite a steep incline we're at mile marker 40 on highway 12 by the way a couple miles back there plenty of public land to park on to boondock on to camp for free all right so it's 10 a.m. I'm in the town of Escalante I did find a place it has laundry and showers but to tell you the truth I've kind of had a lot of this dusty dry state so far I've been here oh I don't know about a week uh so I feel like I I want to see something new uh even though it is beautiful there are a lot of national parks and things I think I'll be doing some just some driving today um I'd be nice to get up closer to uh Idaho and have a you know change of scenery double doors comes in handy for moments like this where you can see this is I am in Escalante and I'm not quite sure how this works but it's the grand staircase Escalante and basically there's different levels of erosion and earth from deposits if you watch the other videos you'll see over 255 million years ago was the bottom one and then more recently uh the top so I passed through there earlier as you can see the earth kind of naturally uplifts a bit or maybe you can't see that because the lens is so wide but just take my word for it it all basically goes down into the grand canyon and so there's little tears of earth and right here is the most beautiful because it's just so red but I mean the white is beautiful and then off in the distance you have layers and stuff it's just really cool so I am more towards the top I would say it uh I'm probably about 8 000 feet up maybe 9 000 feet maybe 8 500 feet up the weather is vastly different there are tons of aspen trees quaking aspen trees off in the distance and then some of the more juniper trees uh and some of the cedar trees they stopped because it's become so cold um so we are going to continue on and see what else we can find in my heart and your heart the answer guys so I found the most amazing boondocking spot I'm not sure how long I'm going to stay here but um check it out I got some pretty cool neighbors right there riding up on some horses it's got to be one of the most beautiful horse rides I could imagine look at this background right here there's my inverter screaming at me again I don't quite understand why keep screaming at me I have I'm getting a lot of energy in I feel like the batteries are full and this little thing keeps beeping a 2001 inverter so maybe I should read the uh manual with it good morning again I had a successful four hour nap that was great well so behind on edits and uh I'm gonna kind of run it hard to pass few days week I guess lots of driving um talked to a nice local guy here by the way there's a tent set up towards the road and I was asking him you know kind of about the area and I said oh you know I found a nice area and he was saying this is kind of overflow for the uh pay campgrounds and basically he said it was pretty cool with it you know and uh the only thing that he you know as a local person didn't really like too much is seeing people's toilet paper out in nature so there are these things called luggable lose it's essentially a toilet seat that goes on a five gallon bucket if anybody's coming out to here or any remote place you don't have a toilet or you can go to whatever is close by there's a gas station about a mile away or half a mile away or something so if you do come out here bring a shovel luggable or just hold it this I did a little time lapse right before this and the clouds just seem to just come and then just disappear and it's just it's so amazing over here often the distance you can see the snow on the mountains up there and over here obviously there is no snow it's a lower elevation but it is going to make for a spectacular spectacular sunset out here I'm going to do another time lapse and uh oh and by the way Brian from Gooseberry Mesa just uh previous videos he's pulling through the same area and I texted him I said hey I found this awesome boondocking spot and it gave him the dropped a pin and gave him the location so he will be here in an hour and he also is bringing curry he made some the other day so he has some left over so I'm looking forward to some curry good meal and uh yeah I need to start heading there we go looks like Brian made it he's uh making his way out here on this uh kind of sketchy dirt road not too bad but he is towing a small vehicle so it does make it a bit uh harder let me uh give him a hand real quick all right so Brian is all parked and set up um and I have some words of wisdom that I've learned from these full timers over here is uh BYO everything I got myself a little cup uh which goes to my uh you know my thing coffee thing and then oh I got a spoon there almost dropped it and plates um I do need to pick up a chair because uh Brian set these up pointed towards the main event over there which is the setting sun and the beautiful red rocks over here so let's go on in and see what kind of curry this fine man is cooked up hey poochie all right I'm coming in to take a peek at your curry all right what do you got here voila it's a mash of oh what is it garbanzo beans chicken potato carrot onion rice rice coconut coconut curry coconut curry all right awesome that looks uh like the most delicious meal I've seen in many days inside a vehicle I've been doing the the cheap pre-made stuff all these guys are making me rethink all my food decisions here here we go we got Brian's famous or maybe not so famous probably infamous uh curry with some chicken potatoes uh chickpeas carrots and rice it's kind of a coconut curry but how's this view right here that's insane