my gosh it is a beautiful morning here in utah it's really awesome to be waking up here
i've been at the same campsite that i left you at last week i am just outside of zion national park
kind of in between springdale and hurricane and i've been hunkered down here for the last couple
of days because the winds have been super super strong gusting 40 to 60 miles per hour
so yeah i stayed put i do not drive in high winds i did go into town and run some errands and
resupply but just came right back here winds have calmed down so today is going to be a moving day
i'm going to be heading to some place that i've never been it's a place that's highly
photographed really beautiful but i've never seen it with my own eyes
i'm interested to get my own take on this iconic location it's a little bit touristy
but i definitely want to lay my own eyes on it so that's what we'll be doing today
not a very pretty egg but it'll taste good
and a little slice of swiss cheese
you just never know who you're gonna run into out here i ran into some folks from a channel
on youtube that i'm a fan of called matt's off-road recovery they are based out of utah
and they specialize in recovery people from remote and off-road locations who have either broken down
or gotten stacked so i ran into these utah locals they have a pretty nice channel themselves what
do you guys do on your channel offroad it's pretty amazing to see what they do out there
uh if you didn't know this aaa will not come rescue you from a dirt road if you
are on a dirt road they will not come so we need people like them to come rescue people like me
when we get ourselves into a pickle if you haven't seen your channel check it out
i've made it to my next campground and it's definitely not a destination campsite but it is
a convenience campsite and it is very near where i'm going to be visiting tomorrow morning and that
is horseshoe bend horseshoe bend is a place that i've wanted to see for a very long time and it's
time to check it off the list i'm just outside of page arizona and i know i said i was staying
in utah however this is just barely in arizona and i won't be here too long but it's something that
i wanted to see so now is the time it looks like my camping options for seeing horseshoe bend were
between here and walmart and i chose this spot because it has much better views than walmart
it actually has a really nice view but it's right off the highway so that is the downside
i'm sure the noise will die down as the evening progresses anyways i'm really excited to see
horseshoe bend in the morning i did some research as to whether sunrise or sunset was the best time
to go and i saw more that said sunrise was a better time so that is what i'm going to do i
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after dinner of leftovers from the night before i decided to explore the slick rock right in
front of the campground and to my surprise it was very cool i underestimated this campsite
there was an awesome new view around every corner which just kept me going
it was an early alarm at 5am and i was anxious for the
short drive to finally see the iconic horseshoe bend
foreign
an official good morning to you from the beautiful walmart parking lot in page arizona holy moly
horseshoe bend is absolutely spectacular i'm really glad that i got up at five o'clock in the
morning to bolt down there it was absolutely worth it there were only about seven people there when
i got there so that was perfect and i think the lighting was absolutely beautiful i waited until
the sun filled in more and i really enjoyed it when it was just dusk and there was very little
light in there it was just stunning i only wish i would have had a little bit wider lens on my sony
a6400 i had 18 millimeter lens it didn't it did an okay job but my phone did a better job my iphone
11 has a wide angle setting so that is where you saw the panning shots that were really wide
and it does a pretty nice job not quite as good as the sony as far as picture quality but still
4k still beautiful it's what i use to shoot all of my dashboard shots a lot of people ask me
what i use for that and i do use my sony or excuse me my iphone 11. this morning
for breakfast it's hard-boiled eggs that i made last night because i knew i was going to be in a
rush this morning and finish up my coffee barely drank any just to make sure that i got down there
so today the plan is to go to a really cool campsite and i'm hoping that i'll be able to get
a site there i'll be heading back into utah so my fingers are crossed i can't wait to show it to you
i never liked driving much when i lived in the city and i was commuting back and forth in traffic
to work but i love driving on the wide open roads i get some of my best thinking done on these roads
well that was the world famous view of monument valley and of
course you had people running out to the middle of the road to get
their photo i just stayed on the side of the road and got my shot it is a spectacular view
these are the traffic jams i find myself in nowadays
i'm at my new campsite which has an amazing view and i'm waiting to share it with you
until the lighting gets a little bit better so i'll close out this video with hopefully some
beautiful shots of this view there's a bend right in front of me right from my campsite
which looks very similar to horseshoe bend very cool it's called goosenecks state park
and i found out about this site through my friend martina i was supposed to meet her here last week
unfortunately i didn't get to do that because of my truck maintenance however
i decided to kind of retrace the steps that i was supposed to have done
with them it's been amazing i've gone to three campgrounds in this video
i started out near zion national park and went to page arizona and now here near mexican hat utah i
always love seeing brand new places i got to see monument valley horseshoe ben it's been an awesome
trip and then yesterday's or last night's campsite wound up being much better than i had originally
anticipated it's getting a little breezy here i'm up on a mesa so it can get windy in these areas
anyhow the beehive campground there was that trail i just thought i'd go explore on those boulders
and it wound up being this really cool trail and i just kept going and finding awesome things around
every turn so i was much more impressed with it than i initially said and i'm closing it all out
here at the goosenecks state park near mexican hat i can't wait to show you these views but
we'll have to wait until a little bit later for dinner tonight i'm just having a salad in a bag
so it's nothing exciting to show you guys this is dinner tonight and i'll spice it up a little
bit by adding some chicken and some black beans on top this has been a pretty eventful trip so there
hasn't been a lot of cooking just kind of easy stuff and i'm feeling pretty uh pretty knackered
from the last couple of days so i'm gonna take it easy tonight and enjoy my beautiful view i'm
gonna go ahead and wrap up this video but stay tuned for those views if you haven't subscribed
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and let me close out with some beautiful views for you see you on the next one guys bye
you