my name is Jeanie and this is my husband Vince in 2022 we became proud new owners of our first truck
camper and have been enjoying many fun road trip adventures with it in this series we're
headed to the California coast for a two-week truck camping trip in our last episode you
saw us in Nevada where we drove the incredible Valley of Fire drive so we have never seen wild
donkeys before hike the fire wave in Seven Wonders Loop drove the Las Vegas Strip with the truck
camper and finally entered into California where we camped at an old abandoned RV Park
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National Park just like any other National Park since we have never been here we're so excited to
finally see it check it off the list explore it and just see what it's all about this abandoned
Campground here there was only one Sprinter van that came in last night like way down there
otherwise there's only like four people here there is no cell phone service here
so just a heads up if you need cell phone service you're not going to get it here
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third National Park it's been the Rocky Mountain the Grand Canyon now Death Valley trying to think
is that it I think so you guys this is insane landscape it's like the most unique landscape
we've ever seen it's almost it kind of gives us Vibes of like Iceland I'm a thief of urban
Iceland it's so Barren and mountainous and rugged and I don't know it's kind of crazy
colors yeah and the colors it's like oh my gosh this is totally blowing us away Death Valley
I didn't realize how mountainous it is there's it's beautiful so right now we are at zambriski
Point there's like a little walking trail up to like a Viewpoint so we're just stopping here to
check it out but wow wow amazing Death Valley National Park is the largest national park in
the lower 48. it covers almost 3.4 million acres of land in California looking out at
this landscape from Zabriskie point looks like a scene from Star Wars and guess what
it actually is one of the filming locations from Star Wars look at this crazy design
so amazing it's so beautiful you guys so we are officially at sea level here and some
of the areas we're going we're going below sea level we're at bad water basin here this is the
lowest elevation of the Western Hemisphere so we're right here at negative 282 feet
no other area over here is lower but if you come over here look at the Dead Sea negative
1360. now look at the heat here so the hottest it's ever been was 134 degrees here and 1913.
and these are the averages so we're here in December
that's what we're averaging supposedly but it's like 43 degrees right now I don't even know if
they're open in like June July that's so hot and they only get two inches of average rainfall here
a year two inches wow here we are down here on the Basin now up here is a sign you can see it
right there that's sea level so look at where we are right now to there that's sea level as
you can see Death Valley is the lowest driest and hottest location in the USA we walked out
to the Salt Flats here at bad water basin it looks like snow but it's actually a hard thick layer of
salt this salt was created by minerals that were dissolved from rocks and heavy rains carry the
minerals to this lower elevation where it settles and now it's a cell flat it was pretty cool to say
we hopefully been to the lowest elevation of the Western Hemisphere so now we are on the artist
palette drive now this is a one-way drive here in Death Valley and it's kind of it's close near the
badwater Basin area I don't know how long of a drive it is but it just kind of Loops right
back to the regular road that you go on so this is gorgeous it's a more unique terrain here thank you
we just found this little pull off on the artist palette Road here and this is our breakfast but I
can't explain how unique this park is it's like Mars and I don't know it's just the
craziest landscape if you've never been push this one to the top of your list because this
is my this is definitely now one of our favorite national parks we've ever been to this is out of
this world gorgeous but we're hungry so let's go make some breakfast and ladies especially I mean
I don't know about you guys but I just love being able to stop forever need and go to the bathroom
I don't know I swear I have the bladder the size of like a peanut because I go to the bathroom all
the time and it's nice having my own toilet and TMI I know I'm sitting on the toilet and this
is my view sorry if this is too much but um it's just I really love this whole you know
camper life here so yogurt muffins mixed nuts OJ and our frostbit bananas and Vince is having
a ham sandwich and Pringles so this is a Death Valley breakfast not too bad for Death Battle
so there's like two like hotel resorts here in Death Valley and like all of a sudden you turn
the corner and there's like palm trees like right by the Furnace Creek Visitor Center there's like a
resort area and then there was like another one we were coming in so it's kind of funny because
obviously palm trees are not native here so we're at the harmony borax interpretive Trail here
so this is one of the first operations of where borax was makes borax is in the park it's the
most profitable mineral I guess in the park and yeah this is one of the operation sites
that was ever opened and this right here was pulled by 20 mules wow look at that
so we're at the Mesquite sand dunes right here and the park you can get out go walk on the sand
dunes We're not gonna do that um so if you've ever been to the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado
those are the highest sand dunes in the entire uh USA actually of North America like they're
enormous and while these are beautiful they are not the gray sand dunes so we're good we're good
um but they are pretty to see standards are always pretty to look at so we're making our way out of
the national park we have one more stop left um but we have to get some gas so we're at the
Paramount area and gas is $4.68 a gallon so hello California it's stopped right at exactly a hundred
but like I don't know I don't know if it like is filled or if they just like stopped it at 100. so
that fault but it's not like over full so I wonder why it's like a hundred dollars it's the limit
all right you guys we're at our very last stop here at Death Valley
this is the father Crowley Vista point I think it's called AKA they call it the Star Wars Canyon
we're kind of sad we're leaving because this is such a beautiful Park so we officially visited the
lowest the driest and the hottest National Park in the USA and it blew us away seriously one of
the coolest actual Parts I've ever seen don't miss out on Death Valley seriously it's so cool we were
gonna Camp really close to uh Death Valley tonight dispersed camp but we're only like 45 minutes from
where we're gonna camp and it's too early to like sit down and Camp boarding so we're gonna drive
um two hours to a different area towards our destination for tomorrow so that's the cool
thing about camping is like hey if you feel like driving further you can and Camp wherever
dispersed camping is great for that keeps your road tripping options really flexible
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campsite for the night and we're on some BLM land just north of Kramer Junction so
yeah there's nobody out here like anywhere when we pulled in so you found a campsite pulled in
we have the whole place to ourselves but the Sun is setting right now I don't know if you
can see it so we probably have a good maybe hour minimum before the sunset and that's another wrap
on another day here in California so really weird thing about this campsite or then deep
noises we hear I'm sure it's like planes or Choppers way somewhere we can't see anything
so loud and like a deep noise we're getting abducted by a UFOs tonight that's all I can
figure out because these noises are crazy I'm thinking UFOs they're surrounding us I
don't know I have a Vibe I have a Vibe out here okay you guys can you hear that noise out there
probably not
sounds like fighter jets maybe way out there like it's like so deep and that makes sense
because we've heard that deep noise of the Blue Angels maybe there's like a military base nearby
it's crazy it's so loud or it could still be the UFOs I mean I'm going
with UFOs anyways moving on from the UFOs it's time for a time lapse
this will be a nice Sunset I think look at all the clouds clouds make the best sunset time lapses
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we're having our tacos tonight so Ben's pre-made a bunch of shredded taco meat these look so good
they smell up the camper and it just smells like a little Mexican restaurant here foreign
good job hun
so this is like one of those national parks that I've had on my list for so long like of
one of the top ones I've been wanting to see for a while it's time to start taking off the layers
there's like lines and crowds and all the things see ya does it hurt s it's very sharp very sharp
just like a cactus a Lover's Paradise well this is awesome truck stops are the best I love them