600 Mile Road Trip in My DIY Japanese Kei Truck Camper | Day 1

I like your appreciate [Music] it new trick I learned from the comments push that down and you hold the handle up it'll stay locked [Music] need to get a uh charger for the front of my truck so I can charge my phone up there cuz I don't have any way to charge it but today is the day that we're starting our uh 600 mile hopefully road trip up to San Francisco down Route One in the back of my Japanese mini truck and as you guys can see since the last video we've made some upgrades to the exterior in the form of these paint lines and this was inspired by another Mitsubishi Delica delis delisia I don't know other Mitsubishi uh Japanese camper that inspired these lines in these colors I still need to add some more to the back but the lines came out pretty good for doing them myself I spent the last 4 days doing them I've also made some upgrades to the interior which I'll kind of get into later but we have a fridge working fridge back here and then some bungee netting that you might not be able to see holding the stuff in down there but I'm currently at a uh Walmart get some supplies some food and we're heading north and if this is your first time watching my channel my name's Ryan I typically live out of the back of my self-converted camper van but I recently built out that Japanese mini truck to take a trip in and I'm used to having uh full fridge full pantry and a lot more space to put food and supplies so I'm have to be a little bit smart with the foods and supplies that I buy because I just don't have as much space as I'm used [Music] to thank you [Music] all right that should be everything we got some Essentials too like some drinking water but I wanted to make this first trip kind of light cuz I just don't know how much space I'm realistically going to have but should be able to fit all of this back in there somewhere look at her so beautiful so overall for this trip majority of it is going to be spent on Route One which is technically a highway but it's not like multi Lane highway it's kind of like a Scenic byway historic Route 1 in California is going to be pretty much the road that I'm staying on the entire trip but between here and where I'm camping tonight there is one stretch of highway that I will have to drive on in order to get onto the rest of Route One between ocean side and S Clemente so I'm a little bit nervous for that but other than that route one should be pretty easy other than the hills we'll just have to go on low and slow but our challenge today with this 500c uh 50 horsepower. to high jet is going to be that stretch of highway so this is the upgrade I'm most excited about in here this fridge I got locked way back here so since I just turned my power station on it is not cooled down yet but it should be cooled down by the time I get there but we've got a fridge and a freezer section freezer is down to zero fridge is down to 39° or it will get down there so really not a lot could fit in there to be honest but it is better than nothing got a nice pad cuz this is the most uncomfortable seat in the world and there are no cup holders I forgot and I actually have no idea if this cigarette lighter even works I would assume it does cuz there's still the old charger that the guy from Japan had in here before me this one it goes up to this charger that was I'm guessing for some sort of GPS unit and we're charging so we got a 30-minute drive off Highway until we get to that 20 M stretch that we got to drive let's hit the road [Music] all right we are coming up on the end of our back roads up here got about another mile till we got to get on the highway it's only about 20 minutes on the highway well 20 minutes in a normal car car is 20 mi it'll probably take me around around 35 minutes at 45 to 50 mph to get through this stretch of highway but this should be the only stretch of major highway that we have to take for this entire trip so at least I'm getting it over with in the beginning first time taking this thing on the Interstate All right so we're going about 90 km an hour cruising along pretty easily I think that's right around 55 maybe 60 but we're keeping up with traffic every time one of these big trucks passes me I can feel it pulling me in and pushing me out as it passes so that right there is why there's no way around this highway is because on both sides you have Camp Pendleton and a bunch of military bases and training facilities so there's no way through this area unless you go all the way around those mountains over there if I had driven around those mountains it would have added another 3 hours to my trip we made it the car is doing fine so it seems engine's not too hot we're still driving so call that a wind that was probably the part of the drive that I was the most stressed about so glad to be through that so now that we're done with that we got about another hour of uh side roads until we get to where we're camping tonight and it would be a 20-minute drive if I could ride on the highway which technically I can I just honestly personal preference don't really feel like I need to if I don't have to I'd rather take a little bit longer and get there a little bit later than have to drive on the highway just cuz it's just cuz it scares the out of me but got about an hour left till we get to our [Music] [Applause] spot all right so we're about 5 minutes from where we're camping tonight and I'm looking for a spot somewhere on the street up here but it is so packed this weekend that I don't know if I'm going to be able to find one to be honest so many people all right so we're hopefully looking for a spot up here somewhere cuz I know that you can stay in these spots overnight dude that's sick appreciate it never seen that before that's so cool all right it says motorcycle and golf cart parking only but I feel like I could qualify as a golf cart I don't know if they vet these spots whether it's a motorcycle or a golf cart I think this would probably qualify as a golf cart the only metric it say please park between the lines my little car definitely fits between the lines and that's not a golf cart so there we go this is home for the night beautiful spot right here on the beach go check out that Park in a second see how much power we got so we've had the fridge running the whole time we're still at 99% because we've also had solar coming in so let's good let's see if the fridge is cooled down oh beautiful freezing is at zero fridge is at 39 Oh and everything's nice and cold I would have thought this thing is super efficient it only draws like 50 WTS at full power and it's a chest style fridge which these styles of fridge are more efficient cuz it keeps the cool air in when you open the door like if you have a front loading fridge all the cold air flows out this stays in there so it's a little bit more efficient but first campsite of the trip not bad beautiful day out nice spot too right next to all these million dooll houses you got my little mini truck look at I mean this is beautiful cannot beat this it's a good Tropical Paradise so that spot that I'm paring is paid until 8:00 p.m. and then tomorrow morning when I wake up at 6:00 I'll just pay the meter for like another 2 hours and I'll get out of here so I don't have to leave at 6:00 a.m. but I'm pretty sure after the paid hours you can stay there overnight completely free but I guess we'll find out if I get a ticket a lot of people but I will say this is nothing compared to uh East Coast beaches East Coast beaches are packed to the brim with people but this is why I hate traveling on uh holiday weekends it was the 4th on Wednesday so this is like the Fourth of July crowd all out on the beach just makes it tough to find parking driving but it does make things a little bit more [Music] [Music] lively can I just do a single scoop of vanilla and a con thank you thank you very much there we go I'm a simple man just eat some vanilla this is good ice [Music] cream nice part about stealth camping in City areas too is that there's stuff to do when you get there like when I'm Camp down in a spot in the middle of nowhere I pull up and I'm in the desert or I'm in wherever I'm at there's not really much to do I can't walk around get an ice cream cone or whatever else I want to do I feel like this town is exactly what people imagine when they think California if they've never been here doesn't really get more California beach sound than this doing good so far no tickets but I definitely didn't lock the back of my camper when I went on my walk oh gosh it's such a steep e in here should left these windows open when I left to be honest it is hot but I'm hungry I might wait for it to uh cool down in here a little bit before I get started cooking but I did get the propane attachment for my compact Grill [Music] so I don't she use that big one anymore we can use this nice small one and it came with this little Grill part that's pretty cool so I'm going use that to grill some chicken tonight so it's cool to off in here a little bit now that I got the fan going for a little while and the windows open and the sun is set so it's like not as uh beaten down on the top of the truck I'm going to get my uh window shade put up on this side though cuz there's so many people walking by but for dinner tonight I'm going to do kind of a modified bourbon chicken and rice so we're going to keep it pretty simple and I got some Minute Rice I feel like waiting for regular rice [Music] these and I think in this mini truck I'm going to have to keep the meals a little bit more simple just because I don't have as much access to utensils seasonings Foods so we're going to keep it somewhat simple tonight first things first let's get our chicken seasoned left my Japanese chef knife at home uh so let's get our chicken patted dry I'm going to season it in this bag just to keep it easy get seasoning stuff everywhere but we're basically just going to put some allpurpose seasoning along with some garlic powder and then some salt we'll get that nice and coated seasoned up so I've never used this stove before I'm kind of just hoping that it works okay why this is the second issue I've run into with this stove doesn't even fit I guess this is meant for those smaller propane canisters but in the picture online it showed it hooking up to a propane canister like this I guess we won't be doing bourbon chicken tonight we'll be doing it tomorrow when I can figure out how to get a propane attachment that fits the stove it's a good thing we're in the town because I'm just going to go pick up something for dinner I'm going to walk around and see what I can find bring back real quick all right dinner secure honestly not even too upset that I uh didn't get to cook dinner tonight cuz pizza sounds so good we got some iest I don't know what this is It's like a Hawaiian with some tomato on it and then just your standard me lovers some ranch I also ran into my buddy Carter and his wife mag they're out here just so Happ to walk by them getting dinner with one of their friends so he might combine a little bit and we might go uh hang out in town tonight also these three slices of pizza $30 dinner complete didn't go the way I wanted it to go but my friend just texted me that he uh finished eating dinner so I'm going to walk down back to the main street and hang out with them for a little bit before we close up shopping here tonight and go to bed up and we're back and I bought this Garfield drawing from some lady at the restaurant we went to I don't know why put it up somewhere as a decoration in the mini truck but it is late so we got to get ready for [Music] bed cuz I do have to be up kind of early tomorrow to get out of here before those parking meters start so I don't get a ticket but bed's all set up I don't really think I'll need much more than a sheet tonight it's definitely not hot out but it is definitely not a comforter Kind of Night morning it's a little cloudy out today but it was surprisingly really quiet on the street last night it's that pretty decent I we say though between this bed and the paper thin seat cushions up uh up in the front of the truck that I have to sit in when I'm driving my back is definitely not going to be feeling very well at the end of this truck the night no ticket see I think there's a bathroom right there too which is something that I didn't think about in my mini truck well I did think about but there's just not enough space for a bathroom so it's going to be a jug and then wherever I can find somewhere in public to go all right technically this campsite has cost me $6 I think maybe $9 but since my cook toop is not working let me to go find somewhere to get some breakfast can I do a uh breakfast sandwich I figured I should walk back over here buy breakfast sandwich at the beach I think I'm going to finish this and we'll up to my coffee and then get out of here and continue my journey in the 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