 You know, not to be too gross or anything, but I Feel like squatting in the bushes to take a poop It's probably the best poop Kind of poop. I've ever taken in my life Everything gets out. Anyways, good morning from Big Ben. Look at how beautiful it is out here My poop is somewhere out there But look at this incredible sunrise. We're doing a time-lapse as we speak We got Nick Black Pearl Travato hanging out over there doing what are you doing over there? Taking some pictures of Probably his van He's obsessed. I totally understand. It's pretty cool Anyways, we are Out here by the way, I haven't broken my streak. I didn't pay. Thank you Nick for the shared parking space How much was it 12 bucks? 12 bucks overnight This is one of the remote Camping spots pack-in pack-out. We're both self-contained. We're both boondockers. So basically it's bring Byo everything out here And it is very very remote. There is a little if you saw yesterday's video There is another little campsite over here, which we swapped out because this one was way bigger for the vehicles for larger vehicles but We are eight miles from the road. The road is three miles from a gas station and Visitor Center. We're completely Out in nature just here how quiet it is. Listen to this. The only thing you can hear out here is a roaming wild Cliridactyl How'd you sleep last night? Great. It wasn't even cold. Oh good. It's very true. It was nice, and I think it rained last night. Just a little bit By the way last night I was gonna move this rock to stand on it for our showers and I was totally joking. I just noticed there is an archaeological Thing here, and there's something inside and it was buried What is it? What is this? It's a pipe Wait, is it not? Yeah, it looks like a pipe. There's a hole there. There's a hole there and a hole there And I don't know what is this someone's old crack pipe if you guys lost a crock crack pipe at Big Ben Comment below For the longtime Viewers you remember about a year ago. I was in New Mexico, and I got a giant rock stuck in between The dual rotor tires. Well, guess what today the same thing happened last year. I borrowed tools I beat it out with a hammer. It took me like two hours to get this darn rock out I'm gonna show you a way to remove the rock within a couple of minutes using a tow strap. All right, so step one You wrap it around the rock Step two you loop it through All right step three you want to get the rock Touching the ground and then we will do step four which is reverse And you're gonna reverse over the tow strap step for you. Just go reverse straight back you film the Rock get snapped out. Yeah So much easier than two hours in the New Mexican desert whacking that thing out with all kinds of tools so As you can see it just you know It grips the rock and just use the own Basically just use the force of your own vehicle which is a lot more powerful than your two hands That's it 16 miles round trip of dirt roads and rocks between the tires Saying it gets so noisy in here. Oh, anyways, we're gonna go down to the Rio Grande or Grande However, it's you guys pronounce it here in Texas or outside. I just called the Grande. There's a The Rio Grande overlook and then there's a port of entry you can cross the border via Boat on the Mexican side that come and get you for five bucks or something like that. I don't know We'll check it out sounds awesome. We're gonna cross the border into Mexico got my passport grab some tacos You meant this and give you guys a whole experience. We're at the bokeh is crossing Just down a little dirt road. Here is the United States port of entry I do have my passport with me in my pocket down here Nick and I are gonna head across the river and We get more to that once we get down to the river. So just inside here is the I don't even know what to call a border patrol It's also the Port of entry we got a brief little instructions and how it goes down You basically just kind of say hi to the very nice gentleman inside or lady if they're working And then we're just walking down to the river And if you don't pay attention on the inside here are the do's and don'ts of crossing into and from Mexico couple hundred yards from the Port of entry you get down to the river and you can see just across the river we have a Boat that we'll be crossing on and then over here to the left There's a corral with a bunch of horses and then trucks and things like that And it looks like this guy doesn't even need a little heads up that we're coming We didn't even whistle or wave or anything. He's just on his way over. This is the most bad-ass border crossing I've ever done in my life Thanks Mexico So this is one of the boats that we'll be crossing. What does he a senior come with us? Bye Claire. I'll bring you back some food from Mexico. This is this is super cool So in Spanish super cool Like bien chingón or muy padre We are crossing the real ground after you sir Look at that cross to the Mexican border riding donkeys go to get tacos. This is my idea of a good time What do you say Nick? Love it man? I love it. That's right five bucks for a donkey five bucks across the border and Propinas for our friend over here. What's your name again? Fidencio mucho gusto amigo. Viva Mexico Silencio Right after a short little ride our guide is tying up the burro to the Mesquite tree Nick is gonna dismount in a minute. We're gonna go get some tacos and check up a little town here So this is the the town of Boquias. You come oh city says in Spanish Boquias Boquias Okay, move in. All right. So when you come across the border you pay two dollars and this year building The money goes to pay for like a conservancy for the environment and everybody can afford two bucks. It's there's a lot of fun It's totally worth coming here All right, here is the taco plate we got goat tacos to flower to corn We got another tostada thing with some beans and rice What do you say first time in Mexico? It looks fantastic. Not bad, huh? Let's give these things a little try here vacation And so we're back at the the the donkeys I got Claire four tacos to go we got Nick back on his burrow and It's about time to head back towards the border This is such a cool experience If you guys come to Big Bend you must bring your passport and you got across the river Ride a burrow have a guide eat some tacos and have a Mexican Coke Okay, so when you come back here you give your ticket back to these gentlemen And then you get yourself back on the boat and go back to America So something I just realized it's a five bucks a person ahead to cross we just passed about ten people Crossing we got five more. So these guys are making a considerable amount of money and I just kind of come to the conclusion that this little crossing is probably the reason why that little town survives Which is pretty awesome when you come back. It's a rather painless Experience you basically slide your passport in a machine you pick up the phone Someone says Jerry bring anything back. I said tacos. He said great. Have a nice day. That was it. How about you? I brought back nothing. He said have a nice day So easy it's considered an unmanned point of end port of entry and these guys actually work for the park service I brought you some goat tacos Yeah, are you hungry? All right housewife Claire here clean up the whole bus while I was gone. She cleaned up the windows Clean up the floors man back him down there Next up hot springs Three miles down the road no dual wheeled vehicles no RVs since This is technically a van. We're gonna hop in the black pearl guys. Look at how tight this This little stretches here. They were not kidding. So if you do come down here leave your RV at home So we are now on the hot springs trail and Apparently hot spring is just hop skipping a jump right up here Oh, and by the way, I don't know if I mentioned but there are hot springs on the Mexican side as well Our local guide. I was talking to him in Spanish about that and Yeah, he said there was at least two in the area. So it could be a fun adventure for anybody Heading over the border who's there, you know, bring their bikini along So this seems to be a pretty short little walk and as you can see it is so beautiful Looks like there's another abandoned building over here all fenced off to keep it nice and Intact, you know humans like to destroy stuff but look at this little rock face here and The river is just right there along with this Rock wall being very pretty. There are some Original native American pictographs right here You can see the little like person kind of figure there and then on this flat surface as well That's pretty awesome. Yeah, and there's bird nests and Hornet nests or something. No, those are bird nests. Yeah Very interesting All right, so we're just minding our own business taking a nice little dip in the hot springs and we got some Horses on the Mexican side just coming up for a little sip of a drink of water This is what a hot spring looks like out here in Rio Grande. I'm Comfortably sharing it with you because everybody's clothes. It's gonna be us to hide really. This was also Nick's first hot spring ever You like it do it do it Claire bear, how'd you like it two thumbs up? Yeah, well, maybe we'll hit another one on the way out somewhere I was minding my own business and driving down the street and happen to see it barbecue sign So when in Rome and do is the Romans I'm out here in Texas home of some of the best barbecue and Might as well just get some barbecue. Hopefully to take credit cards Hey, how are you? No, that's samples for everybody miss Claire That's right Let me get a taste of this here come on Claire I'm starving feed me Yeah, that's some damn good barbecue. Hmm. What do you say? I guess we'll stay Yep, we'll take one of everything Here is the barbecue reveal. We got a little bit of everything. We got pulled pork. We got a couple pieces of bread We got some brisket under there. We got potatoes pickles barbecue sauce. We got a clear bear We got a couple drinks. Let's just try one of these ribs without a little barbecue sauce right now It's good It does Juicy smoky Tasty owner out here. It's real nice guy. Well great little barbecue spot We're gonna check out the ghost town now and by the way the owner of the iron. I think iron horse Rusty sorry rustic iron barbecue. He's actually moving locations and he gave us the address Which is over at the ghost town. We're gonna stay there tonight. So How cool is that some good old Texas hospitality? Well, we have another gorgeous fire in the sky known as a West Texas sunset. We're now parked at the Location of the barbecue owners new property where he's gonna be setting up shop here. He just got the Electricity installed we're chatting for a bit really nice guy The ghost town. This is a town of Terralinga The ghost town is not so ghostly anymore, it's it's been re I Don't know habitated if you will and yeah, there's a little quirky kind of artsy Community Somebody somebody's got some full-time RVs set up. They got some airstreams. They got a teepee over here I saw a school bus someone was living in just a Funky place with some really cheap properties. So got like a little artist calling out here So yeah, what an end to a great great day. I guess I'll end it here Thanks for watching if you haven't already please consider subscribing and we'll catch you guys tomorrow You