Camping WITHOUT Internet. What To Do

In part one of our late summer trip, we realized we'd forgotten to bring no fewer than nine things. This time, Mel goes running, Jay goes boating, and we'll see how many more things we accidentally left at home. Good morning. It's a little bit cool out right now and you might be wondering why I'm in a t-shirt and that is because I'm gonna go for a run. Now, two or three months ago, if you had told me that I would be a runner at this point, potentially even training for a 10 kilometer race, I would have laughed at you and said, absolutely no way, I'm not a runner. But that has all changed and a good friend of mine in Hope is training for a big race and she asked if I would train with her and start running with her this summer. And so I said, okay, sure, why not? I don't know about this, but we'll try it. And now you know what? I actually love it. It's so freeing. I don't road run. That's not really my thing. I trail run. And I'll tell you, when I'm trail running up and down the hills through the forest, I feel like a deer frolicking in the forest. So let's go frolic. Now, I don't do really long, far distances. Today I'm doing about, oh, three or four kilometers. At the beginning of the summer, I couldn't even run one kilometer without having to stop. So that's an improvement. I'm on the road right now between the parks. I have some cattle friends in the distance over here. It's a beautiful morning. I find that talking really helps regulate my breathing. So that's why I'm bringing you so I can talk to you. Just coming up on the entrance to the trail that goes around the lake. As you can see, it's beautiful. But just up here, oh shoot, he's flying away. There's an eagle. Can you see him? Right about there. He was sitting on this tree. Now all these trees around me look dead and charred because a couple of years ago, there's a huge wildfire in the area and it almost took out the campground, but it stopped about here. So you can see over there, nice green trees, but all here and all the other side of the lake was just burnt. But it looks like a lot of the wildlife is returning. You can see we've seen some eagles, lots of birds of prey, lots of ducks and deer and cougars and even black bears or vulture. Maybe that was just a raven. Coming up on the last bit of the trail. So this is North Leighton and Leighton Lake meet Tunkwa Lake. Thank you for joining me on my run. Keeping my breathing going on to the rest of the day. I feel like this would be a great time to just lean back and read a book. But you know what I forgot? My Kindle. That's forgotten item number 10. I feel like I'm going to sneeze. Where's the Kleenex? Number 11. We left the Kleenex at home. You know what else I forgot? Number 12. Glasses cleaner. I got pretty smudgy glasses now. All right we're going on an adventure. Last time we came here we stayed at the campsite and just hung out. Well it as it turns out we're not too far from Logan Lake which is a town on another lake. Your chariot has arrived. Haha let's go. And it'll also give us a chance to buy you know some of those things we forgot like dish soap. And we need some gas. That too. Look at the size of this truck they have on display. It's huge. Have you ever seen a truck that big? Not up close like this. And there's a second one. Look at this one. That's wild. The town of Logan Lake was incorporated in 1970 and is rumored to have had the highest income per capita in the entire province of British Columbia at one time. All thanks to the large copper and molybdenum mine a short drive from town. The mine is still operational to this day and is the largest copper mine in Canada where trucks even bigger than these ones haul rock and ore around the mine. We got some of our much needed items. Kleenex too. There's a whole disc golf course here. And it looks like a really cool course. And while you're playing your disc golf you can get a history lesson as well. Different signs have some information about some of the important people who helped found and develop this town. And they've got a bike skills park. That there actually looks pretty serious. There we go. Oh oh that's way bigger than it looks. And that was the town of Logan Lake. Cute town. Nice parks. Lots of good trails and some pretty good activities on those trails. We've got a waterfront site so it's time again for me to pump pump it up. All right trying to get in without touching the water. You can do it honey. I have faith. You gotta push off now and sit in one fell swoop. There you go. Nicely done. So graceful. Already got me. Yeah you're just gonna float on down. So I'm finally in a nice little protected cove where I don't have to paddle like crazy against the wind. I'd say you know it's not the crystal clear blue waters of Baja but you know it's a lake. It's right by our site. It's nice for a little paddle. And actually this little spot in here is great. A whole bunch of little ducks over there. Super quiet and without the wind it actually feels pretty warm. Mel should come over here. She might be a little warmer. I don't know why I'm so cold today. I just saw like a little muskrat or something too. Just dove down over there. There's a little muskrat again. Some nice houses or cottages back up in there. Found a little calm spot again protected by these reeds. All right I've kind of surveyed the coast so now I'm gonna go out to open water and just let the wind take me back. Oh look at that you even got out without getting your shoes wet. How was it? It was good. It's windy and cold out in the middle there. Yeah. But I found some nice calm spots. Good. Later in the afternoon we got a bit of unexpected rain so we set up a very complicated but fun game and then Mel made some nice hot soup for us. We're doing a very Canadian cold weather kind of meal. Tomato soup with grilled cheese. And I'm sautéing about a quarter cup of onion in four tablespoons of butter and then we're gonna slowly add 28 ounces of tomatoes. All right so you seem to be spooning in bits of tomato like really slowly. What's up with that? Yeah so I've made the, I guess it's a roux. It's a milk flour kind of sauce on this side and the acidity of the tomatoes will cause the milk to curdle if you add it too fast. And now I'm just adding a little scoop here and there and mixing it in really well into the milk and hopefully that won't cause the milk to curdle up. I'm on grilled cheese duty. Butter on the outside mayonnaise on the inside that's the secret to a good grilled cheese. And Mel wanted something a little bit different. She put some dill pickle relish on hers. Is that this one? Yeah. I decided to opt out of that one but you know we'll see if she likes it. It is delicious and I know it's delicious because I've done this kind of thing before. You're just gonna have to try it yourself. It's good. Dinner is served. Here's a grilled cheesy. Let's have a look at this soup. Oh that looks good. Look at this. I got table service tonight. Look at that soup. I love soup on a cold day and sadly that's one of the risks we had to take with coming camping at the end of summer, early fall. But here we are. At least we made it out this season. Cheesy cheers. So good. Oh you're doing the dip technique. Oh no. Cheese down. Well we're just wrapping up our first and last trip of the summer in mid-September. We had a really nice time here. Got out on the water. Had a little bit of rain. Played some games but yeah good little camping trip. Yeah we obviously forgot a few things so which turns out that this was the perfect shakedown trip for us to work out some of those kinks I guess you could say and get back into the routine of RV life. All right let's hitch up. We'll see you next week. Here we just stayed on the campground and uh let's try that again. We have a disc golf disc disc set. No I'll start again. We've got a waterfront site so it's time for us to... hi there. So somehow I didn't already unlock the door. Make sure you don't miss the next video by liking, subscribing, and turning on notifications. Oh and don't forget to check out our website and sign up for our weekly email blast. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you in the next one.