hello everyone today is a very very exciting day because we are finally at our very first
dispersed camping trip of the year about a month ago we were out in grand junction
where we went and hiked to the rattlesnake arches and we had full intentions packed up
and we had everything ready to go camp over by grand junction
but a storm came rolling in with 50 mile per hour gusts and all the things and it's just
not fun when the weather is like that so here we are trying it again and i'm thinking i think
we nailed it because we got a beautiful beautiful sight free dispersed camping here in colorado and
we are just off cottonwood pass kind of by like the buena vista area i get a lot of people who ask
me how do i find my sights and you guys i don't make it complicating we literally just drive down
forest roads and find a spot and pick it it's not complicating these forest roads in colorado have
tons of camping options and that's the fun of it all just driving down all these roads trying
to find your perfect spot like we just did it's definitely half the fun of camping and we love
it we drove down about three different forest roads before we found the spot that we wanted
to call home for the night so i'm gonna give you a little tour and we're gonna get all set up i'm
so excited but before we got here today it's about noon right now but early this morning we went and
hiked to an alpine lake just right off cottonwood pass and we went and drove all of cottonwood pass
it's such a pretty area here at colorado so i'm gonna actually put that footage in now
so we are hiking to lost lake just off cottonwood pass near buena vista
wow this is like i think our first alpine lake hike of the year and i'm just in love i love
alpine hikes lake hikes all the things the views super short hike not even three miles i think it's
like 2.6 miles so excited to get there and just be surrounded by all these beautiful mountains
we made it to lost lake and we are the only ones here we have the whole lake to ourselves
wow
well it can't get much better than this what a gorgeous lake the weather is perfect i'm
literally wearing a tank top and there's not a soul around last lake you're a gem
it is so good to be on cottonwood pass again we haven't been on cottonwood pass for seven
years that was our very first trip we ever took out here to colorado so it's so cool to relive
the views and take in all the things we saw back then and try and remember now seven years
later so yeah cottonwood pass is something else all right and welcome back to our camping site
so um yeah we are the only ones out here um but we did the whole drive on this road and there's
nobody else around which we just are so in love with so here's our cute little dispersed camping
spot we're just tucked in with a little bit of trees around us and then that open meadow here's
a fire pit we do not plan on having fires um but there's a nice big fire pit is our meadow views
so there it is that's our campsite
let's get our camp all set up and get cozy here in our dispersed camping site
i don't know if i ever share these with you in any of my other dispersed camping vlogs but
we bought some of these bug nets for the windows um it's not really buggy in the mountains but
you know it's kind of nice to know that there's not any bugs going in the jeep if we're trying
to just air it out instead i have the windows down so we bought these on amazon and they slip
right over the window so you literally roll your window down put your net on top of your window and
then the inside of your vehicle is protected from possible bugs that might go in there
so just like that we just put the snack we're just going to do it on this back windows and then we're
just going to put our weathertech sunshades in the rest of them just for now but tonight we're
going to take them off and put the sunshade back in just kind of for the day to get some air moving
through the jeep and then i think i've showed this to another vlog um but this is our moon roof
we do sleep with this crack open at night and we definitely put our bug shield on the top it's
magnetic so it just sticks um to the top of our jeep and protects from potential bugs or whatever
else that might want to fly in there so it looks like that once the net is on it's really nice
our little bathroom shower unit is all set up and if you're new to my channel and you're looking
for some of this gear these setups especially this whole bathroom setup i have an entire vlog on how
we put together our toilet and shower system for camping so i'm gonna link that below um so
definitely check that out really awesome we love it and a lot of other people have found out they
love the same system all right so camp is all set up so let me just give you a little tour of
what it all looks like and a little gray cloud came just as i we got finished so it's sprinkling
a little but that's okay it's nothing serious here is our bed all set up in the back of our jeep
um all cozy ready our beautiful bathroom shower unit set right here and then turn
and over here is our kitchen so
we got our water set up i always hang like a towel here with our castile soap
a little kitchen unit um stove and this stove might look new to you if you have followed along
on our dispersed camping trips from last year um we had a different stove but now we decided
we didn't prefer that one anymore so we got this one so i'll kind of explain more about that later
our cooler which are all set up with our locks our storage tab with just all our extra stuff and
our little seating area that vince is enjoying right now it's a really cute little cozy setup
right here and it feels so good to just be back in nature be back in the mountains just tucked away
out on these forest roads just enjoying the peace the quiet the solitude oh it's really nice we just
we love this and we've been waiting for so long to get back out here so we finally did it and i
have it went over a lot of our camping uh outdoor setup in other vlogs um so you could definitely
go check those out otherwise i will leave all the links in the description of what we use for
camping so we got to camp about noon and it's only about two o'clock um it's just like too early to
like start cooking and all the things so usually what we always do is go for a walk so that's what
we're gonna do just kind of go walk along these roads here back into the woods and just see what
we can find you never know might see some animals see maybe some other campers you never know
well we had a nice walk i saw a deer saw some other campsites that were pretty nice um
but it's sprinkling again the little showers keep coming in and out literally right behind
me is blue skies see that and then over here we got some little pop-up showers but it's nothing
serious but it'd be nice if it went away cheers our first camping trip of the year
we have had such a relaxing evening just sitting here no cell phone service just the woods nobody
around it's been so quiet and so peaceful it's just what we needed it's been sprinkling on and
off nothing nothing crazy nothing that we can't you know handle but the blue skies are gone so
i'm really hoping it doesn't start downpouring because um it does that i don't know we might just
i don't know head home or something but we're gonna try our hardest and hope for the weather
because we really want to stay overnight so we can wake up here in the morning because
it's a really nice spot so we're gonna go make some dinner before hopefully that doesn't turn
into a big storm if you guys have watched any of my old dispersed camping vlogs i've went through
all the things we have for the most part and you would have seen our old little stove set up
and we got rid of it and we got the classic little green coleman the only reason we did this
because we went to rocky mount national park and did a little picnic this winter
and the mountains can get so windy and our old stove didn't have any protection from wind it
was just completely open so it was the middle of winter when we realized we can't have this we need
to get something that has a little bit of wind protection and these classic old-school coleman
stoves have that they have the three surround on each side so if it's a windy day we can set it up
where we can cook our food and not have to worry about the flame going in and out and we're able
to cook our food thoroughly rather than you know half of it maybe being cooked then the other half
the chef has done it again this is all homemade meatballs pasta sauce so he prepped and made
everything yesterday before we came so we had to do is warm it up and make the noodles so cheers to
camping 2022. let's eat how was it yeah you started already
our spaghetti was awesome and now we're just kind of cleaning up and it just got so cold
like freezing and there's like i can't really see right now but there's been
some really nasty gusts coming through and it's wrinkling again i don't know
not ideal it's only five o'clock it's still like four hours until we uh call it a night and crawl
on the jeep so it's like six o'clock i think we're crawling in already just because it's really cold
and windy and still sprinkling on and off and it's just really cold bedtime early night tonight
hi hello you're probably wondering what the heck i'm doing here in my office and why i'm not out
camping well let's just say we got into the jeep that night it was about six o'clock things just
kind of turned from the worst from there as we were laying in the jeep trying to fall asleep
i started to get nauseous literally i felt like i needed to vomit i did vomit right away my butt my
stomach was so upset and was like hurting and aching and i just felt like i was gonna vomit
at any second so i had to get out of the jeep and sit there and things weren't getting better
and then all of a sudden i started getting body chills and i knew right away i'm like there's
something going on there's definitely something going on stomach related we need to go home and
the funny thing about all this is that morning we woke up it was friday morning bright and early
i woke up and my stomach didn't feel right early that morning already usually when i get up
i usually crave a cup of coffee i'll drink maybe some orange juice or something and i'm fine
i woke up that morning and i literally didn't want any coffee i didn't want any type of food
i just nothing sounded good and i figured maybe it was just from the dinner we had the night before
just wasn't setting right no big deal that happens it'll get better later in the day not
worried about it so we continued on with our day i think our little delicious spaghetti dinner set
my stomach off into something i didn't even know i had i sat in the car with the heater on our heated
seats all the way up vince went and packed up all our stuff that we just unpacked and got ready for
put it on the jeep and we drove home that night we had a three hour drive home
i slept all the way home and as i'm editing this vlog and i'm filming this last clip for this vlog
i'm still dealing with this actually i my stomach is still not normal i've still not had coffee i've
been living on like apple and toast and like berry smoothies things like that because other
foods just don't sound good thankfully the fever i did have that night went away after that first
day i haven't had the fever again my gut has just been a mess and i don't know why so with that said
this is just some real-life suv camping for y'all i almost didn't even post this video but i figured
you know what yeah we didn't sleep overnight we didn't get to finish out the vlog how i hoped
but life happens things happen and i wanted to be real about it and share our experience because we
had such an amazing day we went hiking we went on cottonwood pass like we had a beautiful day just
enjoying our camping site everything about the day was nice until like you know 7 p.m is when it
all went downhill so we will see when we get all camping again i'm not quite sure how soon we'll
be getting out but stay tuned and thank you guys so much for watching stay healthy stay well and if
you're camping this summer or doing dispersed camping for the first time i hope you have an
amazing amazing time and i hope you don't get a random stomach bug like i did because it sucks but
anyways that's wrap thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys in my next vlog bye guys