Camping, Smashburger Tacos and a Little Rain: Solo Truck Camping

Hello my friends and welcome to our next camping adventure. Cheers to you folks. And we've got a very busy gas station. So with that being said my friends let's head down to that campground. So y'all buckle up, grab your beverage of choice, let's get red going. Appreciate y'all coming along. Y'all take care and I'll see you when we get there. Let's go. Oh maybe not. Oh but we gotta do what we gotta do. That pad's not level. But oh my gosh this is our campsite for tonight. These colors are amazing. I just hope this camera does it justice. Oh there's our little picnic table and our fire ring. But it is just gorgeous out here. All right my friends let's get a couple things situated and grab a seat. We'll talk about this weather. Amazing. Let's have a seat my friends. It's all downhill so we gotta watch our step. Cheers to you my friends. Holy cow. Oh and I know very well it it's not raining but it definitely sounds like it's raining. And we went through it just a little bit on our way down here but it's trying to clear off. But what's going on is we've got a real heavy mist in the air today. Holy cow. So all that extra moisture is just collecting in the tops of the trees and every time the wind picks up down it comes. So I've got a few good size drops on me but in all it's not raining. But everything is definitely wet. Oh my gosh. But I'll tell you what this is just a fantastic little campsite. The colors out here are just amazing. But hopefully that all clears off. If not we may be cooking dinner on Red's Tailgate. Now I did bring my canopy but I'm on the fence of whether I want to break it out or not. Because if I do break it out I know it's going to get wet and we're supposed to get some rain in the overnight. It's going to get fairly cold. But then after I pack it up wet then I have once I get it home I've got to just unsheathe everything and get it all dried out. And we're probably going to have rain off and on most of the week. So it might be tough getting it dry. But the last thing you want to do my friends is put one of those things away wet and forget about it. Holy cow. You might as well throw it away. Because what's going to happen is it's going to start to mold and mildew and rot. So it's just not a good way to go. Oh but we do have an electric site because it's going to get pretty cold tonight. Though the temperatures right now aren't bad. And I'm all flanneled up so I'm prepared. I plan on making smash burger tacos. Well at least one maybe two. And they're pretty easy to put together and I'll show you how I do it. But as if I didn't mention I should have. We do have the electric site because the temperatures tonight. And I brought a griddle to cook these on. What I have found is that works out so well in making these things. But hopefully it dries off and well the trees shake off all the rest of the moisture so we get a campfire going tonight. But I guess we'll just see how the day goes. But for right now my friends I think what I'm going to do is well I'm going to finish this joker and probably spin my chair around because I've been hearing stuff around the camp. I think it's squirrels. So I might just sit here and do a little bit of nature watching and see if nature decides to pop its head out. Oh the breeze picked up. So we're gonna get a little damp. But that's all right. Well here's So he may be there. Good night. He's not happy. Okay see how he flattens out on the tree. That's pretty crazy. And we'll go with this one. I portioned these out my friends. So there's about a third of a pound of 80-20 hamburger in here. But we're going to get started. And I decided to go ahead and just cook on the tailgate for a couple of reasons. One and we still got some moisture coming off trees. And I brought an electric griddle. And the most important reason is the extension cord won't reach the picnic table. Turn this joker on. About 350 almost 400. And I have fajita size tortillas. That's what I'm looking for. Now this is the way I do my smash burger. Because a lot of times maybe it's just my bad luck if I go to do this and smash it down it gets all cattywampus and I can't see it until I flip it over. So I want to make sure I get hamburger all over it. So what I'm going to do is just spread it out as evenly as I can on our little tortilla. So give me a second to do that my friends and then we'll season it up. All right my friends we got it pretty much all smashed out here. So that's what we're dealing with. And it's like a third of a pound here. So I'll make one. If I want another one I'll make a second. So I'm just gonna hit with some salt. It wants to come out. There it goes. I think my shaker is getting low. It is getting low. Holy catfish. It's time to get another one. And some pepper. Try to go right side up. Well these things are just being cantankerous. Here we're getting some out now. Okay that's taking care of. It'd be nice if that breeze stopped and all this water started coming off these trees would quit. And I have just some minced dehydrated onions and they'll rehydrate as it cooks. But one thing I do is once I get those on there. Smashing down into the burger a little bit more. Keeping in there. All right and these things only take about four minutes to cook. So this is gonna go pretty fast which is kind of nice. All right let's get it on here. Oh another reason I'm using a griddle is 80 20 is gonna be a lot of grease. If you do this in a pan once you're ready to flip it you're gonna have to drain that grease out. Otherwise your tortilla is just gonna get so soggy. So let's get going here. And to help with the smash part. All right let me set a timer here for about well we'll get about three minutes and we'll check it. But typically it takes about four. All right my friends let's give her a flip. This way I can flip it over to a dry side. Oh yeah that looks pretty good. Go ahead and turn the heat off. It's gonna be pretty hot while it toasts the other side of that little tortilla wrapper. Take just a regular piece of cheese on here. Grease picked up again. Only catfish. Let's see. Oh we have uh well I'm gonna put on there some mustard and some ketchup. Just a little bit not too much. If I can get it to come out. Oh shoot that's good enough. It's all about the burger anyway. Lettuce and some kosher dill pickles. All right let's move this guy off. Oh he's getting hot. That worked out pretty good. There's a big tree right over my chair. I put that in a bad spot. Oh my gosh let me move that. I'll be right back my friends. Yeah right here where we're standing we're pretty dry. All right and to go along with that. Let me just real quick. Some extra grease off there in case we decide to go back for number two. Just some Fritos. Probably have a nice crunch to go along with it. All right let me fold this joker up here. Just a little bit of grease in there. So I'll drain a little bit of that out. My gosh they're big. All right hopefully I don't burn myself. So oh my goodness that's good. But that is a drawback for using 80-20. You're going to have a lot of grease. All right my friends I'm going to sit down and well we're going to eat dinner. Try to. Oh my goodness. A little breeze stopped. I'm going to move my chair. Oh my goodness. I'll tell you what my friends. For something that only takes four minutes to cut this thing is how well this is going to work out but by golly we're going to give it a shot. Get on there. There we go. I can feel the temperature starting to drop too. Probably grab my jacket. And we're staying dry for the most part. All right my friends I'm going to tend to this and I'm going to make some hot coffee. Appreciate y'all hanging in there. Well we'll be back directly. Ah I'm going to stoke up our fire a little bit. Oh my goodness. Oh we got some nice hot coffee. Cheers to you my friends. Well for a pretty all the way around damp day this has been a pretty good little camping trip. Oh my gosh. Oh and dinner was fantastic. I only ate one of those chokers. That's all I could handle. They're pretty thick. Oh and filling that's for sure. But holy catfish I think that's probably the fastest cook I've ever done in a campground in a long time. Took a whole four minutes and we were ready to eat pretty much. But now of course now that I went ahead that wind was picking up a little bit and I was getting a little chilled so I went ahead and put my jacket on and now it's calmed down. But that's all right. Oh my goodness. And I was optimistic and we did get a fire going. I didn't wasn't sure because we got a big old tree above us and there was a lot of big drops coming out of that joker a little while ago. What's that? Oh it's just one of our neighbors. But damp camping or not this has been a really nice trip. Oh my gosh the colors are just exploding in the trees almost. And what's unfortunate is you know once all these leaves drop then it's to get then well well then we'll look forward to getting some snow on the ground for some pretty scenery. It's that little in between that's kind of like well a bunch of giant sticks coming out of the ground let's be honest. Oh my goodness. But in all I'd say this has been a really nice trip. So here's to you my friends. Y'all take care. I'm going to sit by the fire and enjoy a second cup of coffee and well I'll see you in the morning. Cup number two. That's how close he is my friends. I gotta get that coffee going. Good morning campers. Cheers to you my friends. Oh man I feel pretty fortunate we have a dry morning. It did rain just a little bit last night but nothing really to speak of. So I mean as as much as they were talking about on the weather I was expecting a downpour. I'm not complaining. And oh my gosh the squirrels. They've been pretty much tearing it up all around camp. Had one this morning that I got some footage of just right when I got out of the truck he was like 15 feet off the back of red. And last I checked he's still dancing around behind me somewhere. But oh my gosh last night I was sitting by the campfire. I heard something tearing it up in the in the woods back behind us here. So you know I got up and took a walk back there to see all right what exactly is going on. And there must have been a dozen of these jokers. But they were there's a ridge back there and they're on the other side of it. I see them chasing each other all over the place going crazy. Next thing I know I hear something But oh my gosh they were tearing it up back there last night. And and then as we saw the one this morning and we spooked the one. Holy catfish there's been a lot of squirrels around here that's for sure. Oh my goodness. But yesterday even though it was a pretty damp day there's no way around that. It was still pretty good. I mean we got to enjoy the fall colors. Leaves are coming off the trees now. And temperature wise it got cool last night that's for sure. It got into the 30s. But for the most part you know we we didn't have any issues really. Oh my goodness. Oh and that that's the first time I've ever brought that little electric griddle down to camp to try that out. But I thought with you know the threat of well obviously rain or whatnot yesterday I wanted something that we could cook our dinner on really quick if we needed to. And that worked out pretty good. Holy catfish. And it was tasty too. Oh my gosh. It was just a quick easy meal. So I was pretty I was pretty happy with that. Well my friends I think I'm going to kick back and enjoy the rest of this coffee. Probably have me another cup because I don't think I really don't think it's going to rain this morning. So everybody out there appreciate y'all coming along on my little camping adventures. I truly do. This was a nice one. Just gave us that break to get away from everything and just come out here experience some of our fall colors this year. Oh and just take a breath. So everybody out there here's to you. Y'all take care and as always I'll see you soon.