off onto the next leg of my journey i'm about to jump onto scenic byway 12 towards escalante
i'll share some of that drive with you i've heard it's very beautiful
i am in the capitol reef area currently
unfortunately there's a prescribed burn happening which is making it very smoky
it's still beautiful and i am at the summit which is 9 600 feet wow i really climbed up here
welcome to my camp here in a windy escalante utah it is a couple days after i left you during
the drive here a lot has transpired over the last couple of days which i will catch you up
on in just a moment i arrived here at my camp just outside of escalante this is dry camping
dispersed camping boondocking whatever you'd like to call it it's in a great area here and my friend
dan which you might remember from my colorado trips a couple of my colorado trips last summer
he has a jeep trailhawk and he's a viewer who recognized me and we became friends he took me on
some of the jeep trails there in colorado we've kept in touch and he has been so kind to offer
to help me to install the inverter and additional solar panels and to dial in this trailer more
and i took him up on the offer he arrived here in escalante a few days ahead of me grabbed this
amazing campsite and so i met up with him here and that is where we've been the last few days
hard at work getting things done and then we decided to take a break from work and
head out on a local trail and it's a road i've never been on it's a uh ohv slash you know
over landing route which is really cool through a beautiful canyon so let me show
you some of that and we also did a little hike to a natural bridge so let's take a look at that
as you can see it's absolutely beautiful here in the escalante area i absolutely love it it's the
first place i came to when i hit the road full time because i felt so comfortable here and so
at home here i've done you know a few backpacking trips in the area and i just absolutely love it
and that pretty much brings you up to speed so now the next day or so will be spent just having
fun since we're waiting on parts it's very very windy today the winds are supposed to be
super super high and very strong gusts so i don't think much is going to happen today but tomorrow
we have a pretty fun adventure uh planned which i'm excited about so i may just pick up with you
again tomorrow morning and uh it should be an awesome awesome day the remainder of the day
was spent heading into town to do some much-needed laundry then back home to enjoy a gorgeous sunset
good morning gotta have the coffee first before talking to the camera that is a
must one of the things that i forgot to touch on yesterday during my long talk is that i am
so so excited that i am able to unhitch the truck from the trailer and just drive it freely without
the weight of the camper on top and just take off i zip into town and get groceries do laundry it
has been incredible it has made life a lot easier today is an exciting day it's an adventure day we
are going to explore the burr trail i have never been on the brewer trail i've heard a lot about it
it's an over landing trail but there's also hiking involved so it will be a combination of over
landing and hiking i've heard it's absolutely stunning i'm so excited i'm going to go ahead
and whip up a quick breakfast and pack a lunch and we are going to hit the road this morning
i'm whipping up a real quick breakfast burrito of course i've gotta add a little cheese to the eggs
and i just heat my tortilla right over the flame add a little cholula
good to go
the burr trail is considered one of utah's most scenic drives originally developed as
a cattle trail by stockman john atlantic burr the bird trail passes through three iconic parks
we did the shortened version of this trail in its entirety it's about 75 miles long
so
hello hello
it's called singing canyon cat
see you can sing
believe it or not i am back in capitol reef national park
i did not know that we would wind up back in here we're on the bird trail which has been
absolutely beautiful i think we're about to get ready to get out again and do another hike and
i'm once again with my friend dan say hello dan hello everybody yeah it's been a great day so far
so
what a fantastic hike that was with absolutely incredible views i'd never realized it was here
you do have to take a 4x4 semi 4x4 road to get here i think probably two wheel drive
with pretty good clearance can potentially make it but man the payoff is fantastic
after a long day of hiking and driving it was time for an awesome burger at the burr trail grill
what an absolutely stunning trail the burr trail is i am so excited that i got to experience it
today very diverse it seemed like something new around every corner and the geology changed and it
was just really really cool i just love utah some parts of it feel like you're on another planet
just so so beautiful i want to thank my friend dan for shooting some drone footage that he is
going to allow me to use which by now you should have seen which is very very cool
i know a lot of people have said that i should get a drone however you do need
an faa license to pilot a drone and it's a very complicated test from what i understand
and i just haven't been motivated to want to study or take the test but maybe i will
we'll see anyhow yeah it was just incredible i would recommend it if you have ever thought
about doing the burr trail definitely do it we went ahead and had dinner at the burr trail cafe
afterwards some awesome burgers and it's just a quaint little town of boulder a very small town
one thing about this area in general is it definitely caters to real outdoors people
it's not a lot of just touristy type people here to sightsee it's definitely people here
to adventure which is very cool it's a very cool aspect of this area we didn't have cell
service for most of the day today but as soon as we got back into a service zone i found out that
uh several of my packages have arrived including the solar panels i purchased two additional 210
watt solar panels to add to the 200 watts that's already on my roof which the trailer came with so
i'm gonna have a good amount of solar very excited but that also means that the next few days are
going to be dedicated once again to doing the trailer upgrades i might sneak out for a little
adventure here or there however after those couple of days of work are done i'm definitely
getting back on a new adventure that you will see next sunday i hope that you enjoyed this video it
had a little bit different type of feel because i was trying to obviously get some work done on the
trailer and also share an adventure video with you so i was shooting two videos simultaneously
but uh it's been worth it it's very very important to me to get my trailer dialed in and have it feel
like a home and getting the inverter and solar setup was imperative so that i could
edit all these videos for you and just function properly and work properly in my new home
anyhow that is going to wrap up the video this week thank you so much for joining me i hope
that you enjoyed it if you liked it please give it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed please
consider subscribing and i will see you all on the next adventure next sunday and stay tuned
for the inverter and solar install videos that will be separate videos probably posted sometime
during the week thank you everybody so much and i will see you soon bye
you