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morning guys
just kicking off a week of camping here
in japan
so i'm starting at costco to grab some
supplies before i show you
literally everything that i brought with
me
brought a lot of stuff this time let's
make it quick we buy nothing big this
time
oh those marshmallows are huge
and very tempting but i'm 95
sure that if i ate that whole bag i'd
either die or end up diabetic
so all right let's go pay for the
sausages
it feels slightly ridiculous to go all
the way to costco for just
one pack of sausages but it was the
closest place
to my campsite which i have entirely to
myself by the way
a fully private campsite so
excited about that
there we go let me give you a quick peek
at the campsite
so this is pretty much the entire space
right here i got that camper van right
here it's got a little cafe over there
and then there's a barbecue and fire pit
area
right here i got a new fire pit that i'm
looking forward to
checking out so let's uh
let's unload the this particular trip
is a really long one which means i've
had to bring way more gear
than i usually break this whole
bag is camera gear and
so is this pelican case and we'll talk
gear later i want to show some of the
camping stuff i brought
which is closed this entire bag
here is food so put that there
the towel can get folded and stuffed in
there
i actually always bring along exercise
bands
so that i can at least try to stay
healthy while i'm here
and this here is my drone
i'm using the dji air 2s right now
because it's
super compact i can just toss it right
in this case most of these little
compartments right now are just
filled with charging cables and my
towels and whatnot
it's a microwave it works if you haven't
seen the video on the camper van i'll
link it up above i keep my clothing in
just
a container like this and i just brought
a bunch of the exact same t-shirt i'm
wearing now because it's
simpler and these are the lights that i
usually use
from aperture there's also a sink right
here
and this little container is just
mosquito coils
let us move that i would say the item
that's taking up
the most space on this camping trip are
these
two bins right here which are both
firewood
today i'm staying at a campsite that
obviously has firewood but since that's
not
always an option and i'm going to be on
the road for an entire week
i bring my own but i found a way to get
almost all of it for free
which if you live in the countryside
which i've done before you don't really
have to pay for firewood and whatnot
there's scrap wood all over the place
you can cut up but here in japan more
often than not
i live in tokyo so this one here is
mostly just
wood chips that i got at a previous
campsite
but this one here i actually got from a
local woodworker who
lives in my area i go there pretty often
to buy
wood for projects that i do and he asked
me if i want any scraps to
here we are free firewood and it's
small and good for kindling so yay for
the win for free firewood but
again takes up some space like look how
empty the van is now
and before i forget this section here is
where i keep my umbrella
but let's get to the camping stuff
because i have lots of camping stuff
joe i think i just snapped this on right
here this
whole container right here is my camping
gear
it's pretty much always pre-packed and
ready to go i'll
go through super quick i've got my usual
fire pit that you
may have seen in any one of my camping
videos i have a
new fire pit it's super tiny that i'm
looking forward to
trying out tonight so we'll do that
later oh also
this right here is the most life-saving
item ever i picked this up randomly
online
a little while back look at this
this is it's a fan
it's good too and i definitely
need this because it gets really hot
camping in the summer this has been an
absolute lifesaver
i don't i think it was like 30 or 40
online it's much better than dying
i dropped that one i keep some little
camp lights for
inside the van or when i'm camping at
different spaces i always have
a little fold up chair that i use i
actually
carry three separate sleeping bags
this one here is my summer sleeping bag
which often serves as a pillow
this one here is my super compact
sleeping bag which
is fine at like minus five degrees and
then this one here is a
super serious like minus 20 minus 30
degree
sleeping bag this is a tent right here
it's the tent that i use the most i
always carry garbage bags with me just
in
case inflatable mattress because they're
air mattresses
i always keep it doubled in case there
is a guest or in case one
pops is a ground tarp this is an
overhead tarp
and this right here this is a hammock
and then this right here is my garmin
inreach
mini just for safety it's a little gps
device
and this thing with the many many
many wires hanging out of it
this was my early birthday gift to
myself
i absolutely love this this thing is
called the ef
delta it is this giant power station
it's look at it look at all this it's
got four usbs two and fast chargers got
two
usbc on here
ah the thing has six plugs
on the back that is absolutely bonkers
it's got a car
outlet just in case you need it it's so
new that i haven't even taken off the
sticker yet
the car has a couple different like
charging points
like this because there's solar panel on
the roof but you'll have to excuse
my excitement about basically
a giant power bank charging stuff well
on the road was
always a stress for me and see this
thing right here
this is an ac inverter that you plug
into the car
and while the engine's running you've
got two
outlets and four usbs only
two of which work anymore and this is
how i've been charging my gear and
running my laptop and
doing everything on all of my road trips
for
the last year which is why i'm so
excited
about a power bank i know it seems
really silly but i picked up a different
one the eco flow river
pro as like a home backup battery in
case there's an emergency
and then i then there was a sale and
anyway okay but
that that's all this goodbye to this it
doesn't even work
i could run a refrigerator off of this
if i wanted to in fact yesterday i did a
live stream on it
and i had the entire setup with the ef
delta there tons of fun i think that's
most of what's
in the van so we can check out gear in
just a second
oh that is heavy
this giant oversized backpack is my
go-to just because the number of pockets
and different spaces
it has to carry stuff the front pocket
i usually fill with as many action cams
as i can right now i've got a gopro in
there
i've got the insta 360 one
x2 i've got an instance 360
go to there and i actually keep
another one in my pocket just in case
the main flap is usually where i keep
stuff like
lenses this is actually the box for the
microphone that i've got on here
right now hard drives memory cards and
then an absolute ton
of charging gear and cables gets
contained in there
i like that it's got the yellow on the
outside so i know when the zipper's open
but i will say right now
this is the first ever and last ever
olympus product i'll ever buy
the first time i put a tripod in it it
opened a giant hole in the netting here
i contacted customer service and they're
like we sold it to you we're not
responsible from here find a tailor
i was like it was not a cheap bag
i never did end up finding a tailor i
use this peak design clip or whatever so
i can carry my camera while i'm walking
and then
this case right here
is usually for my fpv drone gear but
this time i have a ton of other stuff
in there i've got hdmi all of this is my
streaming gear the blackmagic a10 mini
i've got a backup camera so i can do
time lapses and the batteries for it and
everything
and then this is the fpv drone that i
use it's a
it's called the beta 95x by beta fpv and
it is a fun
little drone so i treated myself to
kind of two birthday early birthday
gifts for this
trip one was this ecoflow delta to get
rid of that
stress of running out of power the other
is
this right here and i haven't had a
chance to try this yet and
i really want to try it out so
this here is an entire like
camping pot and pan set
and whatnot it's got a little teapot in
it
it's got a little rice that you can see
i haven't even really gotten into it
it's got
frying pan look at this check this out
you just
open this up like this boom just like
that
put these out then you screwed onto a
canister of gas
like this because you know you can't
always
set up a campfire
there we go
i can boil water and i found
these at my local supermarket
you just fill that with coffee put it
over your cup and away you go
just realize i don't have a cup while it
feels
slightly ridiculous this will do for now
there we go this right here
this is my new campfire thing and i've
dropped pieces all over the place
i am very excited to check this out and
see how it works actually it sounds like
sounds like that is boiled already
so uh let's
put that in there and
it's a little weaker than i usually go
for but
still good coffee i really
check this out okay so
i am just apparently i'm just meant to
drop everything keep dropping it
everywhere all right let's see how hard
it is to set this ah i just realized i
forgot so
my pockets are so full some important
gear the camera that i'm using
right now is the a7 s3
and i have these rode wireless
go 2 microphones for
interviews and stuff like that but so i
think
i'm going to stick all these tubes
together we're getting there
okay it's bigger
than i expected that makes sense
and then it's got
this right here which i can't imagine
would last
for very many uses put them in like that
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so the other fire pit thing that i've
been using
for the past year or so has
protected sides which means it's gonna
stop
wind from blowing the fire all over the
place i don't think
i would trust this one on a windy night
and i feel like the you know
it should hold it let's give it a shot
can't get a bit of a fire started
it's a half decent start also i feel
kind of
bad about making coffee considering the
gentleman
who owns and runs this space runs it as
a cafe and he had me climb a tree
earlier this morning
that that's an entirely separate
adventure
all together it has given us a half
decent fire though so that that's not
bad
you can't put a grill on it like you can
with my other one and cook
food so i feel like i'm gonna be
switching it out anyway but i wanted
to give it but that being said i need to
pack all of this up
set up the other campfire so i can eat
those sausages that i bought
at the beginning and turning early today
because this is the beginning of a whole
week of exciting adventures some here on
tokyo lens but
most of them going over on the tokyo
lens explore channel
so i will link that as well what did you
think
did you have a favorite item do you have
something that you use for camping or
for
shooting or for photography let me know
in the comments
section down below
thank you guys so much for joining and i
will see you again
real soon