good morning everyone this is not the video i had intended to bring to you this week i had
completely different plans as i've mentioned many times it's not always rainbows and sunshine out
here and life still happens you might recall back in september i had an emergency dental procedure
i had to get a crown put on my molar cracked i was in colorado i was able to get into a dentist
same day and have a new crown put on unfortunately that same tooth is giving me problems again and
i've been in a lot of pain over the last week i tried to ignore it and hope that it would just
some kind of weird thing that fluke that would go away unfortunately it just seems to be
getting worse i was recommended a dentist here in the phoenix area i'm actually probably about
40 miles or actually not that far yeah probably 40 miles outside of phoenix i'm out in the mountains
i'm at a campground called tortilla campground it's really beautiful and it's way out of the
city which is nice however i will be needing to go into the city for this dental appointment i
have a sneaking suspicion i might require a root canal which is really a bummer because
i paid you know fourteen hundred dollars for this crown and uh unfortunately just a few months later
i potentially need a root canal but we shall find out the other real bummer is that it has affected
my backpacking plans i was really excited i had a friend that i was going to join up
with and unfortunately because of this i had to cancel it but you know my life is an adventure
i feel so grateful and so fortunate to live this lifestyle there will still be a video i am going
to film around this area it's absolutely beautiful there's a lake called canyon lake very close by
it looked like there was a creek running right here near camp so we're going to explore this
area the drive in here was stunning it's on the the road is called the apache trail oh my gosh
absolutely stunning i didn't film it coming in however i will have a chance to show it to you
probably on my way to the dentist or on my way back because i'll be at this camp for a
few days anywhere stick with me it's going to be fun we're still going to make you know make it a
great time i'm gonna make some breakfast and i have a nice dinner planned unfortunately eating
is when it's the most painful but i still gotta eat so stick with me it's gonna be a great time
oh my gosh i just saw an arizona cardinal how cool is that i had
forgotten there were cardinals in arizona i've never seen one here
so
i'm going to throw in some crumbled bacon and some little grape tomatoes
and some cheese make a breakfast burrito
just gonna give my tortilla a little toasting before i plate
it i'm gonna go outside and eat it's beautiful out there
having a toothache triggered by eating definitely makes me want to go on a diet
it is so peaceful here today i don't have anybody around me there are people here at the campground
but nobody next to me at all which is awesome nobody came all night and so far knock on wood
no one today i hope it stays that way might go uh see if i can find that creek or that's running
through here in just a few minutes this is my line of defense until i can get to the dentist
so
well as it turns out the trail was right in front of my camp i met some nice viewers of
the channel who said hello and they happened to know where the trail was hi guys thank you
uh
this is definitely a sweet spot to hang out and only a stone's throw away from my camp
very peaceful it is a warm day i'd say it's about 73.
i've just been sitting here for a while enjoying the soothing sounds of the creek it's so peaceful
and just try not to get too much in my head about what the situation will bring tomorrow but i'd
be lying to you if i said it wasn't on my mind i'm thinking about the what ifs all the positional
things it could be if i might need an implant or something like that if they can't save the tooth
since it's already been worked on and had a crown and what if what if what if but it all works out
it always does and for now i'll just sit here and enjoy the beautiful sights and sounds around me
so
well i committed a bit of a faux pas and forgot to take the meat out of the freezer for tonight's
dinner and it is the main ingredient i had an awesome dinner planned however it's now going
to be a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup i think i'm going to go ahead and wrap up the day
here i will definitely be checking back with you all in the morning i think we are going
to be driving into town so i'm going to show you some of the awesome sights along the way the lake
and the beautiful apache trail road so it's going to be a good day even though the town visit
probably won't be so pleasant we'll make the best of it i will see you all in the morning good night
i fancied it up a bit by making it a swiss cheese and turkey melt
top of the morning to ya same clothes different day that's what happens when you live the
minimalist lifestyle you get a few wears out of clothing before they make their way into the dirty
clothes bin it is just another stunning day here in arizona beautiful blue skies warm weather just
gorgeous i have my dental appointment for 1 30 this afternoon so the plan for the day is to leave
early so that we can make some stops along the way and i can show you this absolutely beautiful area
okay it looks like i'm ready to roll a lot of people ask me what these orange blocks are
under my tires and those are leveling blocks so depending on which way i'm tilting i'll put them
under the tires or put them in front of the tires drive up on top of them and it'll level me out
the apache trail was a stagecoach trail that ran through the superstition mountains
it was named the apache trail after the apache indians who originally used this trail to move
through the superstition mountains the trail winds steeply through 40 miles of
rugged desert mountains past deep reservoir lakes like canyon lake and apache lake
so
i told you it was beautiful through there i'm not too far from the dentist office now
however it is a whole nother world here in the city
well it's a root canal today fun fun
it had been a long day after wrapping things up in the city i headed back to camp in the tonto
national forest it was absolutely beautiful with the sun setting and all the color on the mountains
good morning i'm feeling so much better this morning sorry that i didn't check in one last time
last night my jaw had been pried open for hours so the last thing that i wanted to do was talk
i had a very sore jaw when i got here back to camp so i just had
some soup for dinner and took a bunch of ibuprofen and i was crashed out hard by 8 pm
but yeah i'm feeling so much better i do have to get a prescription for some antibiotic i didn't
want to stop yesterday because the road in to this camp is so windy i wanted to make sure that
i got through before dark i don't like driving at night anyhow and especially in the pitch black on
a windy road those nice viewers that i met had left me some oranges from their backyard
they were sitting out on my picnic table here so thank you so much dale and carol how did you know
that oranges are my favorite fruit i love oranges so it wasn't the worst case scenario where they
were going to have to extract the tooth and i was going to need an implant and all of that
they were able to drill through my existing crown and just do the root canal that way i've never
had a root canal that was the first time they used this really crazy x-ray machine that just
rotated around my head so i could actually see my entire skull skeleton in my neck my vertebrae and
that was a trip they treated me well and were super nice and got me in immediately same day
i have to say obviously going to the dentist is not a pleasant experience but the last two
times i've gone i've you know had just great great people that have worked on me and just
made me feel at ease so as bad as it is going they made it as pleasant as possible i've just
been spending the morning getting things wrapped up here at camp it's time to hit the road again
it's not the video that i wanted to bring to you i like to think of my channel as an escape
and bring you a certain level of content i'm my own hardest critic but i do want to show you the
realities and i want to keep it real and show you that things do happen out here i don't want it to
seem like this fairytale life where nothing goes wrong so yeah i just wanted to keep it
real it could have been a lot worse and the out of all the scenarios it was the best case scenario
before i take off however i was woken up this morning to multiple texts and messages regarding
a fake youtube channel that was impersonating me and they were commenting on uh your comments
as me and asking you to send money to through what's app for some sort of i don't know donation
to a cause i just want to let you guys know that i will never ask for you to send money that way
if you ever see that again it isn't me be very wary i have reported the channel and hopefully
it will be removed soon fingers crossed if you ever see anything like that just report it and
just know that it isn't me on that note i think i'm going to wrap up this video here get back
to exploring get back to having fun and yeah thank you so much for joining me and i always appreciate
your support thank you so much everybody i'll see you on the next adventure see you soon bye
you