Leaving Utah Already?! Horseshoe Bend & Monument Valley First Ever Visit! Truck Camper Life

My gosh, it is a beautiful morning here in Utah. It's really awesome to be waking up here. I've been at the same campsite that I left you at last week. I am just outside of Zion National Park, kind of in between Springdale and Hurricane, and I've been hunkered down here for the last couple of days because the winds have been super, super strong. Guesting 40 to 60 miles per hour. So yeah, I've stayed put. I do not drive in high winds. I did go into town and run some errands and resupply, but just came right back here. Winds have calmed down, so today is going to be a moving day. I'm going to be heading to someplace that I've never been. It's a place that's highly photographed, really beautiful, but I've never seen it with my own eyes. I'm interested to get my own take on this iconic location. It's a little bit touristy, but I definitely want to lay my own eyes on it. So that's what we'll be doing today. Not a very pretty egg, but it'll taste good. And a little slice of Swiss cheese. You just never know who you're gonna run into out here. I ran into some folks from a channel on YouTube that I'm a fan of called Matt's Off-Road Recovery. They are based out of Utah, and they specialize in recovering people from remote and off-road locations who have either broken down or gotten stuck. So I ran into these Utah locals. They have a pretty nice channel themselves. What do you guys do on your It's pretty amazing to see what they do out there. If you didn't know this, AAA will not come rescue you from a dirt road. If you are on a dirt road, they will not come. So we need people like them to come rescue people like me when we get ourselves into a pickle. If you haven't seen their channel, check it out. I've made it to my next campground, and it's definitely not a destination campsite, but it is a convenience campsite. And it is very near where I'm going to be visiting tomorrow morning, and that is Horseshoe Bend. Horseshoe Bend is a place that I've wanted to see for a very long time, and it's time to check it off the list. I'm just outside of Page, Arizona, and I know I said I was staying in Utah. However, this is just barely in Arizona, and I won't be here too long, but it's something that I wanted to see. So now's the time. It looks like my camping options for seeing Horseshoe Bend were between here and Walmart, and I chose this spot because it has much better views than Walmart. It actually has a nice view, but it's right off the highway, so that is the downside. I'm sure the noise will die down as the evening progresses. Anyways, I'm really excited to see Horseshoe Bend in the morning. I did some research as to whether sunrise or sunset was the best time to go, and I saw more that said sunrise was a better time. So that is what I'm gonna do. I can't wait. Real quick, I want to thank the sponsor of today's video, Anchor Power Stations. 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Holy moly, Horseshoe Bend is absolutely spectacular. I'm really glad that I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning to bolt down there. It was absolutely worth it. There were only about seven people there when I got there so that was perfect. And I think the lighting was absolutely beautiful. I waited until the sun filled in more and I really enjoyed it when it was just dusk and there was very little light in there. It was just stunning. I only wish I would have had a little bit wider lens on my Sony a6400. I had an 18 millimeter lens. It did an okay job but my phone did a better job. My iPhone 11 has a wide-angle setting so that is where you saw the panning shots that were really wide and it does a pretty nice job. Not quite as good as the Sony as far as picture quality but still 4k, still beautiful. It's what I use to shoot all of my dashboard shots. A lot of people ask me what I use for that and I do use my Sony or excuse me my iPhone 11. This morning for breakfast it's hard-boiled eggs that I made last night because I knew I was gonna be in a rush this morning and finish up my coffee. Barely drank any just to make sure that I got down there. So today the plan is to go to a really cool campsite and I'm hoping that I'll be able to get a site there. I'll be heading back into Utah so my fingers are crossed. I can't wait to show it to you. This view of Monument Valley and of course you had people running out to the middle of it. I just stayed on the side of the road and got my shot. It is a spectacular view. These are the traffic jams I find myself in nowadays. I'm at my new campsite which has an amazing view and I'm waiting to share it with you until the lighting gets a little bit better. So I'll close out this video with hopefully some beautiful shots of this view. There's a bend right in front of me right from my campsite which looks very similar to Horseshoe Bend. Very cool. It's called Goosenecks State Park and I found out about this site through my friend Martina. I was supposed to meet her here last week. Unfortunately I didn't get to do that because of my truck maintenance. However I decided to kind of retrace the steps that I was supposed to have done with them. It's been amazing. I've gone to three campgrounds in this video. I started out near Zion National Park and went to Page, Arizona and now here near Mexican Hat, Utah. I always love seeing brand new places. I got to see Monument Valley, Horseshoe Bend. It's been an awesome trip and then yesterday's or last night's campsite wound up being much better than I had originally anticipated. It's getting a little breezy here. I'm up on a mesa so it can get windy in these areas. Anyhow the Beehive campground there was that trail I just thought I'd go explore on those boulders and it wound up being this really cool trail and I just kept going and finding awesome things around every turn. So I was much more impressed with it than I initially said. And I'm closing it all out here at the Goosenecks State Park near Mexican Hat. I can't wait to show you these views but we'll have to wait until a little bit later. For dinner tonight I'm just having a salad in a bag so it's nothing exciting to show you guys. This is dinner tonight and I'll spice it up a little bit by adding some chicken and some black beans on top. This has been a pretty eventful trip so there hasn't been a lot of cooking just kind of easy stuff and I'm feeling pretty pretty knackered from the last couple of days so I'm gonna take it easy tonight and enjoy my beautiful view. I'm gonna go ahead and wrap up this video but stay tuned for those views. If you haven't subscribed to the channel please consider subscribing. If you like this video please give it a thumbs up and let me close out with some beautiful views for you. See you on the next one guys. Bye bye.