holy moly the sky is beautiful tonight and i have a feeling it's going to get even more beautiful
welcome to my camp my drive here was absolutely beautiful i started in the sonoran desert
among the saguaro cacti and just kept climbing the mountain until i was up in the pines and even
drove through an area that still had quite a bit of snow on the ground it was absolutely stunning
what a beautiful drive today and a pleasant surprise my root took me
on highway 87 which i've never been on and it took me through these high mountains i've driven
from the desert down in apache junction in the saguaro cactus all the way up to the pines and
snow on the ground what an incredible drive i'm glad to be here now and all settled in it's going
to be a fun trip i plan on visiting some ruins doing some hiking and of course some cooking
i have a great dinner plan but that's not for tonight i'm going to save that for tomorrow night
tonight is just going to be a quick easy salad in a bag i plan to get to bed early and have a
big day tomorrow so i will say good night here and i'll see you all in the morning good night
is it time to get up good morning it's gonna be a great day i can feel it
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alrighty let's assemble this bad boy
all right that looks good ready to eat well i've battened down the hatches and i'm ready
to go check out some ruins a lot of people have asked me if i ever take the camper off
i do not it would be such a pain they are hand crank jacks so i've done it once since
i've had it and it is a time-consuming and painful effort so just much easier for me to leave it on
montezuma castle national monument protects a set of well-preserved
dwellings located in camp verde arizona which were built and used by the sanagawa people
a pre-columbian culture closely related to the hohokam and other
indigenous peoples of the southwestern united states between approximately 1100 and 1425 a.d
the castle is situated about 90 feet of a sheer limestone cliff facing the adjacent beaver creek
which drains into the perennial verde river just north of camp verde the precariousness
of the dwellings location and its immense scale of floor space across
five stories suggests that the sinagua were daring builders and skilled engineers
access into the structure was most likely permitted by a series of portable ladders which
made it difficult for enemy tribes to penetrate the natural defense of the vertical barrier
in a moment i'll show you a sign that shows the many
levels of this dwelling there were actually five
that was so cool i just have so much respect and i can definitely feel
the history here i always give thanks when coming on to these ancient lands to the native americans
whose this was for allowing me the honor of being here it's just incredible
we're gonna go see some more uh but it's about a 39 minute drive so let's get going
national monument preserves a two to three story pueblo ruin on the summit of a limestone and
sandstone ridge just east of clarkdale arizona 120 feet above the verde river flood plain
tuzigoot is the largest and best preserved of the many sanagua pueblo ruins in the verde valley
the ruins at twoziegoot incorporate very few doors instead the inhabitants
use ladders accessed by trapdoor type openings in the roofs to enter each room
i thought i'd come check out the tuesday goot river which is right down the road from the
twoziegoot national monument and it was a good excuse to say the name twozygoot one more time
what a great day i really enjoyed seeing those ruins
it's just absolutely amazing right now i'm going to run by the grocery store real quick
grab a few things and then head back to camp and get dinner going pretty soon
back here at camp and ready to get dinner started it's going to be an easy recipe
not many ingredients and yeah it's going to be a pasta with spinach turkey sausage and tomato sauce
and here are my ingredients for tonight these diced tomatoes already have spices basil
garlic and oregano regular tomato sauce pasta
sweet italian sausage spinach leaves mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese
first i'm browning my turkey sausage
okay now i'm going to drain the turkey sausage i'm just going to drain it into a empty
iced tea can i have now i'm adding one and a quarter cups of water my undrained diced tomatoes
tomato sauce
and the pasta it's going to be a full pan now that it's come to a boil
i'm going to reduce the heat cover it and let it simmer until the pasta's cooked
it's looking and smelling tasty still has a ways to go though i'm ready to add my spinach leaves
let those get all nice and wilted
i think i need a bigger pan
i've plated it up and i'm going to sprinkle it with some mozzarella and some parmesan
and voila it is really good and very simple i'm going to go ahead and finish up the rest of this
good morning i lost you guys last night i think i was in a food coma
a pasta coma i just relaxed and watched a movie and went to bed
the weather started moving in last night and the winds kicked up i have a little tent set
up outside and that's something that i do in order to save my campsite when i leave and go exploring
i set up a tent set up some chairs a table and i haven't waited down with rocks but i thought that
it might still blow off it was just winds were howling and it's gotten very cloudy and rainy that
was not in the forecast it's supposed to rain off and on all day today my original plan was to do a
really cool hike in a neighboring town however that is not going to happen today so it's going
to end up being a work day i'll just go ahead and get this video edited and ready for you all
and save that adventure for another day if i didn't mention it before i am on forest
service land so this is a free campsite i am in the coconino in national forest
and i'm in an area called rim rock it's really really beautiful i think there's lots of camping
around this area so i was very well situated to visit the dwellings yesterday and the ruins
it's been a really nice spot anyhow i hope you guys enjoyed coming along with me and
checking out the ruins and my beautiful campsite beautiful sunsets beautiful skies
i enjoyed my time here and once again i want to thank the sponsor of this video
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