 Alright, hello everyone! We are doing a quick live here to share with you something that we got from R.E.I. When was that? About two weeks ago? By the way, we're celebrating Ramadan today, so I don't have a lot of energy to talk. I feel like I'm getting thirsty easily, but we only have about two hours until we break it fast, around 7pm. So, first of all, we love R.E.I., we get a lot of our gear from R.E.I., but the motivation behind this song was our trip to Nevada, to Kayak, to Kayak Black Canyon Trail. Black Canyon Water Trail. So we went kayaking, and we obviously, we've never done an overnight kayaking trip before, so we needed a lot of things, and that basically motivated us to go, and just get a couple of things that we needed, and yeah, we spent a lot of money to be fair. I'm not going to be sharing every single thing that we got, because to be honest, when I was just trying to pick all of the new items that we purchased, I couldn't find everything as well. Anyway, so, let's see. So I'm going to start with... I don't know what to start with. So we're going to start with waterproof phone cases. So obviously, since we were in the water for about two days, we wanted to make sure that our phones were protected, and this is my first time investing in a waterproof case like this one for my phone, and it really worked pretty well. So I got this color, black and then... I like that, the nicer one, the blue one. So these are really cool. All you have to do, I don't have my phone to demonstrate, but all you have to do is basically just, you know, put the phone inside and then close. You want to make sure that it zip very well, and the cool thing about this is that you can still do the touchpad and you can still dial if you need to call, or you can even take photos or videos, which work really well. So that's that. I also got new sandals. These are my new sandals. I did have a cha pose previously, which I really liked. I mean, I was excited to buy these the first time, but the problem is my big toe is separated right here, and it really irritates my skin. So even though I did wear this one when we went backpacking in West Fork Trail in Sedona, because it was mainly cross and water all the time, so I decided to go with sandals, and then by the end of that hike, I felt like my feet were suffering real bad. So I decided that I wanted to go with something that's open. You see this one right here? So it's not separating my big toe, and I felt like it was very comfortable. And also, this one is a nicer color, although this one is not charcoal. This is Teva, because when we went to REI, it seemed like they were very low in their inventory, and they didn't have a lot of options to choose from. So that was pretty much the only option that I liked. I like the brand Chakos. I wanted to go with Chakos, but this is the only one that they had, and I needed something for our hiking trip. So we've got new channels from the brand Teva. Teva. Alright, so that's that. Okay, what else? So we're talking about toe. Yeah, we got two meals that we didn't even use, because we ended up cooking. We literally took a pan, and I know it was amazing. It was my first time taking real food and cooking while camping, just because we had enough space in the kayak, but we did take two meals with us. We usually go with the mountain house, but they were, again, they didn't have any mountain house in stock. So I have tried this brand before, but I never tried the chicken afraid of pasta. So that's what I got. I'm really looking forward to try this. So hopefully after Ramadan here, we can go for a backpacking trip and try this one. And then Alex got the lasagna. This is from the brand Backpackers Pantry. We tried this brand before, just that these particular meals or flavors, we haven't tried them before. So really looking forward to seeing how these two are going to be like. Thank you. Okay, so meals. I got myself a new hydro flask, to be honest. I didn't really need one. We have plenty of hydro flask. We have the exact same one in blue, but I just like the color. So I really like this nice purple color. I was like, you know, maybe I need one. So I got a new one. Even though I keep telling myself that I try to live my expenses and really just buy things that I need, but this is one of the things that I didn't really need. But it was really nice to have just keep some cold water when we were kayaking and even when we go on short hiking trips, I like to take this one with me or whatever, walking around the block. I can have a little nice bottle. Okay, next up, next up, next up. Exactly. Oh, Geraldine, hi! Never too many hydro flasks. Exactly. I love the hydro flasks. They're the best. Okay, so this bag right here, it's something that we bought a long time ago, even before we went to Idaho. And I love this one. So this is a big pack. I think it's about 20 liters from sea to summit. And let me show you what's cool about this one. Ready? Ready? Ready? We started taking this backpack with us almost everywhere. Even when we go travel in cities or backpacking and you know that you can take some side hikes. This is perfect. See how compact it is? See if I'm going to succeed to fit the whole thing in. Yeah, almost. Do you guys know the backpacking pillows, the little ones? It's pretty much the exact same size. Okay, I'm almost there. Yeah, finally. Isn't that the best thing ever? Really compact, really nice. I took this hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing. I was even wearing it when we were in Seattle exploring and it always works perfectly fine. It's waterproof to some extent. But what I usually do, I would add a dry sack inside of the backpack and put all of my stuff in the dry sack and it just keeps everything protected and nice. And I did get a new dry sack. That is one right here. It's also from Sea to Summit. So that's a mini dry sack from Sea to Summit. It's not super waterproof but it's going to do the trick. You know, it's raining outside. So what I usually do if it's raining out, which it's always raining when we are traveling, I don't know why. So I would place the dry sack inside of the backpack like this and then inside of the dry sack I would place all of my gear. Usually camera, batteries or waterproof case for SD cards, sometimes water, snacks, anything like that. So yeah, I love this backpack. And by the way, Alex put together a review of this pack and we just didn't find the time to edit it and get it out there but I promise it's going to be out soon. So that's that. See, do we have any comments? This backpack becomes smaller than your fist and you can just clip it to your belt. I love that. I love that you can just clip it because it's got a little carabiner. Alex, did it come with the carabiner or is this your own? Oh, it's got the brand in Sea to Summit. So I assume that it comes with the backpack. All right, all right. Okay, so next up. Okay, this is going to be beneficial for you hiking or backpacking but for the kayak and trip we needed a reliable dry bag or dry sack and we got this one right here. So it's pretty much the same concept as the little one. The only difference is that this one is thicker and they have some gradient from what we saw. So they have different levels of thickness so we thought that this one is going to work fine for us. 35 liters. So we were able to fit in a lot of our clothes, pants, cookware and stuff like that and then all you have to do is just twist it three times is what they recommend. And then clip. And that is waterproof. So hopefully over the next few years we'll do more kayaking. It's something that we're considering and we'll use it again. I don't want it to be this type of purchase that we just buy for one time and you never use it again. All right, so with that, let's see what we have. We just have a few more things. You guys know what this is. So this is what we call a wag bag. A wag bag. A wag bag that you use to do your business in the wilderness. Now there are a lot of areas where you can't just dig a hole and go about doing your business. It's banned in some areas and some canyons in the southwest here. And the place where we work kayaking the other weekend there are restrooms in one of the beaches. Arizona Hot Springs Beach. They have restrooms that you can use but you're not in that specific beach and you need to go about doing your business. You have to use a wag bag. And if you go with any officer that's going to be the first thing that they talk about they're going to ask you, do you have a wag bag with you? Do you need to buy wag bags from us? So we ended up buying this pack right here from REI. So basically the concept is easy. Yeah, so the concept is easy. This is what the bag looks like. There's a double bag and you basically just roll the whole thing and then you go about doing your business. Now inside of the bag there is the slight silica. There is some material right here and what this does it helps solidify the human waste. So you have your waste in here the little gel material right here is going to solidify it and you basically just close this bag and then roll it inside of the big bag right here and you make sure that it's sealed very well and then you keep it in your backpack. So honestly we've never done this before. And on the kayak adventure I was actually very excited. I was like, yeah, let's go into my first time using a wag bag and I can even talk about how to use a wag bag but it didn't happen because I just didn't have to use the rest from the outside of the Arizona has crazy. So we got this bag right here. It's got six packs. So that's the... What else? Waste and garbage. Yes, wet bag. Alright, so next we got a cooler. I always see coolers as a area. I never thought that I'm going to end up buying because we don't do the type of camping that requires to have a cooler with us but with this kayak we really needed one and I think that it was really helpful. They had so many options to choose from but I was looking for something that had a separate compartment right here so that if I have sandwiches or anything that I want to separate from the main compartment of the bag or from the ice packs I would keep it right here and I think it was great. So it doesn't smell so well. I have to clean it. But when it comes to cleaning there is this detachable piece right here that you can just use some Clorox wipes or however you want to clean it and then the main container is separated. So I really like this cooler. I don't know how I'm going to use it next time probably if we do picnics here and there but definitely for kayaking trips I think this was very helpful. Just kept some cold water, cold drinks that all of our perishable food. So that's that. I've got a guest. Hello, I'm going to come and say hello to everybody for giving me a big mess. Where are we at right now? Just to talk about the cooler. Alright. It's time for me to get in the way. Okay. Do you have anything else to say about the cooler? As soon as it's in the door I'll end right here but I will say there's some little straps on the outside we've got some hooks on so that we can strap them to other things and make sure they don't fall off or hang them up and we've got plenty of little scratch feet to store like salt, pepper or a little like sort of knife on the outside rather than on the inside. But no I don't want to steal your thunder I'm sure you said all the great stuff. Yeah so I think it's very helpful to have little carabinas that you can attach here to such multiple items too to the cooler. I wish I can add some b-rolls from you know from the kayaking trip but we can't with life. Maybe if we use a streaming tool. Okay perfect. What's next? Grandpa's hat. Mr Ferrari. Okay so it's nice that you joined right now. This big cooler Gerald is really there's a lot of things in here so this is Alex's hat this is something that he got specifically for the kayaking trip and I just started calling him Grandpa because it has like Grandpa's hat but it's really useful so we always talk about the importance of protecting your skin if you are hiking in the desert and applying sunscreen but in a lot of scenarios even with a lot of sunscreen to escape the heat or the sunburn so the one thing that really helps is making sure that you're wearing long sleeves long pants even during summertime and this was very helpful for Alex because you usually get sunburned in his neck and his cheeks sometimes I don't have all those luscious locks to keep the sun off my head. Yeah so this type of hat he was asking me to buy one for myself but then I thought oh no I don't want to be fashionable with my just regular Columbia hat and then when we were kayaking this my God I should not go. Well it's nice I think they call it a clamshell hat it's got like a fold right here on the top so that it can really take that that bend but also it's got little buttons around it everywhere so I can actually like unsnap these buttons and just turn it into a regular hat or like you can see I can start attaching the buttons to open or close the fold let's see how it looks like we're venturing where we've never ventured before yeah there we go oh that looks really good alright and it's got a little ventilation going on yeah yes I actually like left these vents closed while we were there but I also had little stickers on them I thought they were part of the design so I just left them there but I think this is a great hat when we went to Peru we had little red hats that kept us on off our neck too and it was branding for them obviously but they were great I see Geraldine and Mr. Ferrari asking about the links when we finish the live I will leave all of the links in the description box yeah you can go run away and grab them if you like no that's fine I'll just add them later so that's the hats so on the same topic I just got myself a new shirt this is branded I was wearing when we were hiking out I really like it I love the color and I love that it helps protect my skin during summer I try to never hike with the t-shirts or any sleeveless tank tops because I just get burned all the time my anecdote all the time is you don't see construction workers wearing t-shirts out in Arizona you always got to cover up if you want to stay out of the sun for real yeah so I was looking for something with long sleeves too to protect me from the sun and then you put your flotation device on the top of it and nobody ever saw it okay so next up we talked about this dress that I was talking about oh yeah I got myself a new bed roll so I've been using I've been using a crappy bed roll for a long time and it's probably the bed roll that I used for 3 or 4 years and it was never so comfortable but sometimes I'm cheap and I just don't want to invest in very expensive gear until I'm convinced but this is my new bed roll from the brand C to Simon it's inflatable and basically the way it went Alice got one about a year ago and I tried it and I thought oh my god it's nice and it's self-inflated you don't have to put so much effort into inflating it so I got myself a new one I only tried it once and I slept very comfortably the nicer that I used it now I'll say with the self-inflation it's not like they have like a little piece of mechanical equipment that blows air in it's just the material that can expand on its own and then you only have to put 5 or 6 puffs into the bag to get it pretty full rather than playing around with it for a half hour just to go around oh man what time is it now no idea hey Google what time is it I have no idea what she said can you guys see how strategically I chose the part where you have to inflate it so I don't have to do it oh man so what would you do when you get down to your campsite then these little lids here there's little covers you can either open them one way and that's actually for inflating right it'll let air in but the intention is that it won't really let air out so that you don't have to worry about it between breaths all the air escaping again and then if you open the second one this is to let air out and you can see there's a little piece of fabric on the back side that kind of keeps that air in kind of a one way valve but you would just throw this into your tent like this and then walk away and go about your business doing your other stuff and it would slowly just take some air in on its own yeah so super comfortable definitely useful to have a reliable bedroom when you are camping outside okay so next up well so this is a squeeze water filtration system unfortunately I couldn't find the water filter the soil filter but basically we got this one specifically for the kayak entry because it can come in very handy especially when you are kayaking in the water and you need to filter water so all you have to do is just fill this pouch right from the water stream and then with the water filter you can drink immediately but for us the filter was not working I don't know if I picked the wrong filter from my other gear but this is really useful if you are just looking for something easy to grab and go so fill this with water and it's got usually the I'm just looking if it's there but anyway so there's the squeeze and you just drink right from the pouch here yeah I think we grabbed an old one but you would conceivably be able to take an actual drink and the drips come out okay we have two more things to cover here I'm excited for them I'm very excited for this one I'm excited for the other one too so look at this one so this is a duffle bag obviously with packing our gear into the kayak you need something that's compact and something that's going to fit enough gear so this duffle bag right here is 60 liters and we're going to open it right here so in this bag we were able to fit our two people tent bedrolls, sleeping bags and our cooking system so everything will fit here easily no problem I think we have a thirst in here the thermometer I forgot to be there so it's like a really big kid version of that little day pack just another one of those bags that pulls up inside itself and it's great for when you go on like a long trip too if you want to have a second bag for when you get there but then you don't want to put that bag on the airplane bags and bags are great that is 60 liters alright so you can fit in a lot of things in there I love this one this is my favorite purchase it's pretty resilient it's a pretty thick durable material so I mean it got wet a little bit like there's water in the boat but it's a pretty strong material here hi Kood Mike hello and I don't think it was how much was this one no idea but the price was very reasonable oh my god a million probably so the price was reasonable again I'm going to leave all of the prices after we finish this live but even if you're traveling camping or kayaking I mean even for regular travels I would see myself using this one many times and you can take off the straps for this one too so you could actually go without the shoulder straps if you just wanted a nice little light bag yeah so for folks who we do have the membership for ARIA and if you're not familiar with the membership with ARIA once you become a member there are so many perks that come with becoming a member first of all they have sometimes some classes online or in person they would take people out kayaking or rock climbing hiking backpacking and then if you are a member you get a discounted price and then also you can take advantage of the garage sale that they have and well you can get special prices from their store because you are a member and they have their annual dividend where you would get about 10% cashback on your purchases from the previous year so for whatever that we bought this year from ARIA next year 2022 I think around the marsh we would get 10% cashback which is amazing last year the previous year we went to buy some rock climbing gear and we used all of our dividend and we paid nothing we paid nothing we got rope, climbing rope and we got 100 feet of cord we got grip hang board we got a bunch of carameters we got a couple of nuts hex tools sticks rock wall we got a couple quick draws too we got so much gear we even paid for it general dean have you guys done any of the classes we've done their free classes so they have free classes to the public and they have paid classes we actually took so many classes because for me it used to be this date night ARIA so we went to one of the classes how to backpack to have a supply false and then you just go there and some of their experts would give you a lecture about what you need to pack and even Kilimanjaro they had a class about Kilimanjaro we took the free classes we never went on their paid classes but we know a couple of people who went rock climbing and repelling with ARIA and they said this was a good class I think if I remember correctly too when we did the class backing up here did this count to walk around in the store to buy something was that true oh no that's the cooking class alright well hashtag we'll talk about that some other time too that's with the cooking classes that we take with another company when you finish the cooking class they give you this company their cookware alright you want to talk about this one yeah definitely so wilderness wash one of the things I always wanted to pay attention to was hygiene I got so used to just like going out on an overnight hike just getting stinky and then just coming home and I don't care I just deal with the stink but when you go out there for a couple of days you might want toothpaste, you might want to wash your clothes you might want to wash yourself and they have various forms of biodegradable eco-friendly so what's happening just like as I'm eating stanky but they have a couple of opportunities if you ever use like the 50 in one sort of doctor I forget the soap and such this one says body wash shampoo dish washing detergent closed detergent so you can't really do too much by the way of like brushing your teeth with it like some of the other crazy ones out there but for being eco-friendly and being able to kind of wash yourself off having a little bottle like this is great it's got a nice hard top too so I haven't had any concerns that I'm going to crack it open and have it leak all over my bag yet but uh oh so it's just got a little dispensable, a little hole that's really nice too do you have a chance to use it? I did use it but I really like this especially for car camping and kayaking like this so really one, two, three, four in one body wash, shampoo, dish washing detergent closed detergent and it's biodegradable which is important if you are doing any type of cleaning near a water source so they even have the leave no trace certification so it's really cool they have other ones too that are like bar soap and other forms of soap I think some are even powered but I haven't seen any of that way definitely eco-friendly okay so this is the last purchase which we haven't opened yet so we're going to do this right here much to our theme though it's a bag in a bag it's a bag in a bag I feel like most of the items today are bagged in a bag but this is a duffel bag that we bought for on our trip to Tanzania this summer we're going to Kilimanjaro too so this is our first purchase for the trip I don't really know if we need an extra large and I couldn't open it there so we pretty much just bought it and we said okay if the extra large is the right one we'll keep it if not we will return it and get a large one instead okay so are you guys ready let's do it so this lovely duffel bag that we have here it's waterproof wow it's like a sneaker there's like little bits of paper wrapped around all the little parts anyway it's a pretty big bag is it 135 liters I don't know but seeing where it is a backpack obviously so these are shoulder straps that you can use to carry it on your back huge how many liters hold up this is 135 is what I remember reading online basically you fill up with water and find out okay this is from the brand the North Face this is the you know a lot of mountaineers would take this type of duffel bags to I don't know base camp, Everest all type of mountaineering activities you would see people taking this type of duffel but I think this is the right size we were looking for base camp duffel I think we have to figure out what we're going to do with it for real for real on the trip the porters that we're going to use sometimes only can carry so much and this bag might be too big but in terms of getting all of our gear around and such definitely but we'll see it could probably serve another purpose too um calling out if it had a sense I would be worried about attracting bears oh you're talking about the uh the silk fair point ph neutral low sudsing, suitable for fresh salt water it doesn't smell like a you know a deodorant for something like that but usually in bear country you're right you want to make sure that anything that has a sense is kept away from camp so honestly even if it doesn't have a sense I'd probably leave it with my toiletry and stuff like that toiletry and food and everything else sure and if you're going to be washing your food and such with it too you'd still want to be doing that away from your camp but yeah I don't it doesn't say either way that it is or is not senseless I would presume that it was not senseless or that it had no sense yeah I would think so um I would mind saying save the silica packs they are great to keep fire starting items nice and dry oh fair enough that's awesome it's over there okay wow yeah oh true that's actually a really good idea I can't say I've ever really thought of that thank you Mike but for right now we're going to keep them if we have to return the bag I'm not adjusting the bag I was like I'm going to beat you it smells like a new bag it's like a new car I feel like an idiot now no but then I realized but anyway so this is the bag I think this is the right size we need for two people I just imagine we have our hiking poles and our clothes for one month right I think this is going to be great one of the problems we usually have when we're traveling on a plane for that matter is you can't take hiking poles on a plane with you so you get to figure out how to disassemble them and put them in a bag and if you don't get the ends covered they will rip holes in your bag inside so it's nice to have a nice durable bag when you're doing some long trips like that yeah because uh you want them to be able to handle themselves well as they get thrown around in the airports and move between aircraft etc definitely yeah I think that's all I brought here we bought a couple of other things you got some shirts oh yeah yeah yeah we got another dry pack I bought a shirt that I use with my hat it was a long sleeve one that I could just throw water on it it bricked moisture away pretty well but I would use that to stay cool and also it was SPF rated so it would keep some of the sun off for me which is good too yeah but for today it's 537 we have about oh we still have enough time but I think I will wrap up the live right here thank you guys for tuning in and I appreciate your comments, your presents, your tips I think the silica is a great tip exactly if you had any other questions about some of the values in such too we'd certainly be happy to answer a few and I will make sure to leave the links for all of these items, I don't know if all of them are going to be on Amazon but I just leave to them on the REI website if they are there I'm so excited that we had a few people joining it today I did not really expect it because you know I don't do a lot of lives on the channel here so I was like I don't know how many people would join but yeah thank you alright well thank you so much guys and have a good night it was really enjoyable to talk to all of you today bye take care everybody