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I’ll bring you back for some bacon okay sitrep it’s absolutely chucking down picture perfect that could be on a postcard okay welcome back everybody to another camping with Tony and Bruno uh it’s been a while I think the
Last time we were out was over a month ago uh this is going to be the last Camp of the Year 2023 and just yeah I wasn’t meant to go camping but suddenly something uh popped up and I could
Go so we’re going to do a one nighter the weather’s rainy Grim um but mild pretty warm in fact it’s very warm 20° Centigrade super War so we’re off to a familiar campsite we’re going
To eat some great food just chill out chat about the year do some great camping with uh some new gear as well and hopefully enjoy ourselves for this last camp and in case you’re wondering why I go camping in the rain uh it’s because then there’s less people around they tend
Not to camp in the rain uh they go somewhere else and also in the rain there’s less bugs and midges and stuff like that you don’t get as hot all right everyone I’ll bring you back uh at camp is
Oh my God look at this what it’s like a million people wow no that’s not happening nightmare thousands of people hundreds loads and loads of them they probably all know who I am as well nightmare let’s get out of here quickly oh that’s a shame the campsite is full
So absolute nightmare this is just this is this time of year this is what happens it’s full I mean I’ve never seen it like that before but I’d say I’d say there was about 20 tents 20 tents here
Oh that sucks so this is why I don’t camp in summer and it is summer here in New Zealand that’s a shame I’ve just come all the way out here and I’ve got to turn around go
Back but I have another spot that I can try so we’re going to give that a go you sure I just crossed the uh stream so I have to cross that again the river um but the other spot I’ve
Got is up a mountain which is further along the main road that I came on so we’re going to give that a go but this was definitely a noo not with all those people there and and
It just no no that’s not what I do all right everyone I’ll bring you back on the main road okay I don’t know what this guy is doing but he seems to be checking the depth of
The water see if his truck can make it through which I doubt it can or as we don’t have that problem all right easy peasy let’s get out of here all right so yeah cross the river um let’s try out the mountain see if that
Works I’m hoping because the mountain is just a single Lane oh this Road’s so bumpy that I can find a spot just to Camp I’m sure vehicles and people will be going past but at least
They won’t be camping next to me which is uh a pet peeve of mine and uh everyone you know is entitled to go camping it’s great it’s just not the sort of thing I want to do uh
I want to camp in solitude without anybody else around uh so I don’t have to worry about them so I can film not be interrupted stuff like that so I just have to find the spots that have that sort of place available all everyone I’ll bring you back from up the
Mountain okay we’re almost there we’re on the mountain we are in the clouds uh I’ll tell you elevation and everything else when I get to set up camp but we’re yeah we’re about just
Under 10 minutes to where we need to go it’s a long climb up so I’ll bring you back from our campsite we’re at 1300 M we are in the clouds very very thick out there peace soup as we say okay not far
From the campsite now in fact I’ve camped here before right on this spot very muddy all right last bit up the mountain sheer drop off to the left we’re now 1, 1400 M just got to get past all this land slip stuff and hope no one is coming the other way
Cool all right see you at the campsite okay welcome back everybody right we’re on the mountain we’re at, 1400 M temperature has dropped it’s drizzling nothing’s too bad we’ got to get Bruno out get his treat uh and then let’s get camp set up and
Hunker down come on Bruno oh the truck is covered in mud right do you want your treat so in case this is the first time you’re watching Bruno always gets his treat at the Bruno what’s this oh it’s this
Retreat and he’s been doing fantastic sit pretties so let’s see if he does one now okay come here there you sit sit pretty good boy wow excellent good one go on then all right everyone we got a massive tent uh I’ve got the zempire Pronto tent now we’re actually parked
Let me just swivel the camera around a bit for you to see but we’re actually parked on the side of the road here and I’ve had comments before like isn’t it dangerous to park on the side of
The road not particularly hardly anyone comes up here we’re so high this is so rugged this track is so dangerous that a lot of people just don’t come up here I think of the times I’ve been
Up here maybe seen three cars that’s it of every time I’ve been up here uh the track has recently own been opened uh just for these holidays um because there’s logging operations going on so
What I’m going to do is I’m going to plunk the tent right here just by the side of the road um and then adjust the truck to get the awning out uh and Hunker everything down so let’s get on with it
Oh there’s Carnage in the back of the truck stuff is falling everywhere was a rough road okay so what we need is the tent itself and it’s not really that windy so it’s not a big deal it feels it where the camera is but here we’re quite
Sheltered so I’ll probably only have to use minimal guidelines now believe it or not this is the start of summer so it comes with a patch repair kit it does come with a pump and pegs but I’m going to use my own pegs and I’ve got the electric pump
So this is an all-in-one tent the outer pitches with the inner at the same time makes it a lot more convenient especially if it’s windy or it’s raining and as I said it’s an air tent so it doesn’t have your traditional poles it’s got air poles [] that’s the back
There this is the front now I haven’t set this tent up for oh months so I’ve forgotten where everything is okay I think you can Pump It Up from just this one here there’s two valves but I’m just going to Pump It Up from here now usually
You’re meant to Peg it down first but I don’t think I need to it’s not that windy okay now I’ve got an extension cable for this because the cable it comes with is a bit too short okay I’m going to set this to about 10 and 1/2 PSI
I want it quite firm okay I’m going to set the timer now for I’ve got some massive 16in staks these things are just huge so I think I’m actually happy with this spot so I’m just going to stake it down here
Got a new Hammer it’s rubbish should have used my old one this is too small so you can help it up a bit if you want doesn’t really matter but as soon as you do the wind’s going to want to take it right C right that didn’t take
Long a I should have put my other Hammer this thing’s rubbish just shows I got this on Amazon it’s just na too much vibration my other one from Coleman is way better okay so it’s it’s pumped up all done now I’ve just got to guy it
Out definitely get a 12volt extension cable if you’re getting one of these save you a lot of hassle my my truck is absolutely caked in filthy mud it’s so gross you got to be really careful if you touch
It now I do have a rubber mallet that I could use to put the pegs in but I’ll just keep I’ll persist with this rubbish hammer don’t get me the wrong the pegs are great it’s just this thing is rubbish okay let’s peg this down and how spooky does this place
Look really with the cloud it’s pretty spooky right now I’ve learned from last time in the last tent the last zempire that you have to guide these out on the windward side as long as you can don’t go short long is good she said okay but this Hammer is so rubbish that
It’s difficult to actually Hammer these in I don’t know what they were thinking so what happens is the Hardy hit it sort of moves a bit and it’s got such a small surface area so dark you can’t get it’s just rubbish I can’t explain how na that is
Yep worst Hammer ever okay so we’re probably going to guy we’ll guy the whole lot out just because you never know on a mountain what could happen and the wind could get pretty violent here so what I’m going to do is I’m going to
Guide it all out it’s going to take me a while there’s a lot to it and I’ll bring you back okay okay it’s all guide out hey Bruno Where Have You Been um well not guide out what I’ve done
Is I I haven’t bothered with the corner guys just because it’s such a strong structure but if I feel I’ve checked the weather forkast if I feel it’s going to get worse later then
I will now one of the things about this tent that I wish they would change um is put a zip here and a zip here to be honest that’s the only floor in this tent because uh you can’t have the
Sides down pegged and have the main bit rolled up you have to have the whole thing rolled up or you have to roll just this little side axis which is Tiny I don’t know why they’ve done that
I haven’t got a clue uh hopefully in the next version of this tent version three they will do that cuz that’s the only annoying thing about it so really all you’ve got cuz I guess it’s designed for fair weather but that’s your
Access if you fold the door up which is fine I mean I’m probably going to leave it like this the only thing is that rain will then come down the tent and in that’s why I want them to change it so you can roll the whole thing up and
Have a barrier from the side you see there’s no barrier from the side here now but it’s a minor squabble a minor thing and it’s really only a pain for filming the other thing I could do is set the poles
Up yeah I could set the poles up and have this thing set up properly I just don’t know how good they are in the Wind so I’ve got a couple of poles with me so we can do that so let me do that
Now oh but the thing is I just really don’t want to I’d rather just use the awning you know what no I’m not going to do it it’s too much of a fath to to set
That all up what I’m going to do instead is lift this whole thing up the rain is coming from behind I don’t think it’s going to go in the tent and if it does we’ll work it out but if you’re listening zempire look at the Coleman dark star tent
Dark something the one I tested a while ago because that has a great door side side panels main door really awesome setup but that tent because of the poles is pretty weak I wouldn’t trust that in a massive storm which is why I’ve got this one with
Me so I’m sure this is designed to always have the holes on the awning so now you can see what I mean there’s no side panel here to protect from sideways rain or wind for that matter so in the rain you have to lower this
Down yeah that’s the only thing it needs a better door right the palace and this thing is a palace let me show you look at the size of this thing it’s a four person tent so they say are four to squeeze on the [] floor there’s so much
Room so much room and you can stand up fully I know you can’t see me but I’m here stand up fully no problem got full ventilation if I needed it I could lower I’ve got side flaps
To lower down everything got ventilation at the back I will need that later but right now what we got to do is work out how to position the truck to have the awning uh and this awning
Is pretty windproof so let’s get on with that okay so because the awning is on the left hand side and the wind is coming from this way I want to be able to use the the tent as a Windbreak like that that’s completely a great Windbreak and I want to be able to
Have my table here and access the just this side of the truck if I have to uh so I want to actually Park I want to park the truck at an angle like that then I can open it all up and it’ll be good so let’s get on with that
And in case you’re wondering where Bruno is he’s watching me right there you might see him come running he there Bruno I wasn’t leaving you oh that’s awesome I think that’s going to work well because oh you know what no I need to move forward more okay
Move forward another what push up against that tree have you seen Bruno running around he’s under the camera now oh yeah that’ll work okay let’s get this warning out and strapped up so this is my new warning it’s from Bush swacker I think it’s
Called the dark extreme something like that I don’t know it’s pretty serious piece of kit though in case you’re wondering this is over 7 foot high so whilst my last awning was pretty good the Dy this is just way better okay now I’ve just got to remember how you do it
Look at this it’s a serious piece of Kit oh yeah and it just makes it over the tent look look at that what an awesome tent and I’m just off the road in fact I’m a good meter off the road here but look at the coverage I’ve
Got okay let’s get the rest of it set up actually first thing I want to do is put some poles down now there is a pole right here you can move them around but I’ve got so many poles on here we should be okay and you can guide them
Down it’s just to stop the massive downdraft from taking it away so I don’t want this pole near the road it’s good so I can guide these down well I’ve got an echo here now if I want to um we’ll see it’s a lot of
Wind I might actually take this pole off here and put it here just to give me some protection here in case there’s a big Dow drop because this one will come down right in the way of the the tent
So yeah I need to move it over so I’ll bring you back after I’ve moved that one overo okay it’s done I oh my God I love this setup I really do now I haven’t got it completely covering
The front of the tent there’s no need if it rains the rain is coming this way but what I have got is protection from the wind I do have an awning wall if I wanted to put it up but this is
Acting as such a great block who needs it now one other cool feature that this awning comes with is lighting oops wrong cable so if I plug all these lights in we will have light which is really handy to have a lighted a lit awning not lighted pretty simple to
Do it’s funny the wind is definitely picked up which I didn’t think it would so I might have to guy everything down after roll okay and this comes up here into here check it out and you probably can’t see it but all the lights are on now that’s cool
Right I don’t need them this second so I’m going to turn that off unplug that right I need to get on my gear into the tank get it all unpacked so let’s get on with that come
On look at Bruno what you doing he was Miles Away having fun wow the wind is really picked up right I’ve got my king Camp bed ire table this T so big I can just hang out in there if it’s really Grim my airpad king Camp airpad woo excuse me Bruno’s bed and
Blanket pillow sleeping bag now sleeping bag hm I might have made a mistake with the sleeping bag uh I hope the sleeping bag’s going to be warm enough it’s the basic zempire one and I’m not sure what it goes down
To hopefully it’s enough I’m sure it says in there but we’ll figure that out later this is the awning wall set for the awning just in case I want to use it my camp chair and my spare clothes in my new Ab camping bag check it out that was a merch
Pug and all my paraphernalia excuse the ass shock I think that’s everything I need from in here for now uh I’ve got a match for Bruno toon and a Jerry can with a surprise in it for later all right let’s get everything set
Up right so the way that I’ve got this whole thing set up is I think the awning is going to leak water onto here so at some point I am going to have to put this up if it if it
Rains okay I need uh I need my pump hang on oh oh it’s nice to get in out of the wind so the last time I used this tent was with Bruno and it was when I got back from my holiday
Uh early 23 and talked about Brucey passing away this is the last Camp of 2023 and I will be talking about some of the things that happened right I’m going to have my head up that end the reason for that obviously is the road is there
Even though I don’t think there’ll be any cars I just don’t fancy it [] okay we just pump the bed up yeah was bat except I’ve done it the wrong way around okay all right and then the
Pad so you might be wondering why I bother using one of these instead of just a popup bed because whilst those popup beds are great and pretty comfortable they’re not as comfortable as this thing this thing is just lovely to lie on now the problem with
King Camp pad is it doesn’t fit in the bag if any air gets in it this is what happens so Talk Amongst yourselves while I take this out okay and the same deal let’s just pump this up and that’s it the p goes under the straps on both
Ends and you can actually strap it on if you want to with the strap there just to make it nice and tight okay and my sleeping bag which I don’t think will connect to this it’s the Zen bivy but
I’m sure it’s not very warm one it is oh it’s a 10° fit okay that’s plenty I was worried then right so I’m going to deal with this later there’s basically a whole thing that you attach to your pad but I don’t think this will work on this pad let’s have a
Look oh I should have kept my mouth shut it works perfectly okay yep it worked these Zen bivy pads are the uh bags are so comfy okay but I don’t know if I need to do all this now oh I can’t be bothered but basically that will connect onto
The pad and hold my pad my bag tight tonight and there’s a slot to put your pillow like that goody goody okay br bed I don’t know where Bruno is Bruno he’s just having a great time Bruno there you are look what’s this is that your bed what’s this
He is that your bed what’s this Bruno oh he doesn’t want to go to bed right now he’s not that stupid that’s his blanket woo okay let’s get my chair sorted oh it’s good to be out I tell you it’s good to be out cuz we’re going to need a refreshing drink shortly
Uh okay where am I oh [] here I get asked so many questions about this click chair I don’t know it’s a click high back and it does the job it’s not the most most comfy chair in the world oh I’m hot now I’m pretty hot
Baby oh we need a cold drink but I need to set my table up this is camping with Tony we have luxuries we don’t slum it if we can help it little features about the zempire table look it’s got a beer bottle opener although I usually use cans so that doesn’t help me
Now I can have this on a high setting or low and I quite like it low like that that is perfect let’s get a beer from the fridge I think we’re going to go with a cassel’s milk stout yummy cassel’s milk outout yum going to sit here we’re going to chill
Out okay now I have cheers everybody hello Bruno I have tied Bruno up cheers happy New Year oh it’s we getting clagg in oh oh I needed that hello my lovely I needed that let’s get Bruno’s water there you go
So I’m just going to chill for a bit I’ve got to get the starlink set up because there’s not a lot of signal here yeah so I need to get the starlink up um cuz I need to contact my wife and
My son so I’m going to do that I’m going to have this beer then I’ll bring you back for some late lunch because it’s actually pretty early Believe It or Not 2:00 p.m. and I’m hungry so I feel like
Some bacon or something or some eggs so I’ll probably bring you back for that but thanks again for coming everybody hope you’ve enjoyed it so far we’re just chilling end of year chilling
Cheers all right I think it’s time for some B can just move this there you go okay so what we need is I’m going to need a knife yep my Cutlery box okay my kitchen table ha it’s got this handy little bin thing on the bottom I didn’t know
Until Nick M2 Overland that built buil this whole canopy sent me a text after watching one of my videos and said you know I was tying the bag up outside said you know there’s some hooks under here for your for your bin okay let’s get cooking we’re going to have some
Bacon and I will do some for Bruno as well just a little bit cuz he’s been a good boy and he’s lying here nicely i’ I’ve taken the lead off him now and he’s calmed down and I know people hate seeing him tied up but sometimes it’s for his own good so look
I’ve put this up this is the awning for the tent and the wind was getting through so i’ I’ve mounted it to the truck I could lift it up even higher uh but this is fine it’s
Fine for me now I’m just just touching it but what it’s doing is it’s stopping any of that spray coming in I wish they’d sort the side panels out but whatever it is what it is I
Can keep going on about it it won’t change until they fix it though okay we got some bacon got some beautiful pesel Manuka bacon now people always say to me Tony you need to get a pair of scissors and
You’re right I do there’s a lot of things I need to sort out but I keep forgetting my last video [] was on the mountain in a major flipping storm it was that was just outrageous in another zempire
Tent and it was just the most ridiculous wind ice and snow you can imagine that was just awful in every way but the tent did such an amazing job I was just staggered okay now I’m using my Otani Grill it’s supposedly
Windproof all right Bruno we’re going to take a bunch of bacon out of here you probably can’t see him he’s right at my feet loitering how many pieces but he’s going to get a piece he doesn’t get much cuz he’ll have his dinner soon as
Well so I’m I don’t have breakfast so I haven’t eaten today so I’m on the carnivore diet if you don’t know what that is look it up I’m cheating a bit cuz it’s Christmas but basically the concept is you just eat meat or animal
Products look at this I’ve got this new non-stick pan but it’s got a floor is that burns because this is wooden a wooden handle wooden handles don’t go so I’m going to have to try Fab uh metal handle for this cuz I like the actual non-stick pan []
Itself and it bows look at that it’s completely bowed look how it bends I don’t know if you can make that out but it’s completely bowed it might even be melting you know what I might have to ditch that
Pan and use this pan instead in fact I will oh my gosh look at that so I got this pan on Amazon wow look at that it’s complet completely contorted I don’t know if you can make that out it’s bent in half look it was round now it’s oval what
A pile of junk what a pile of junk so it burned on the handle and it’s completely melted you got to be careful and you got to not trust the reviews on Amazon most of the time they’re complete rubbish now this is a proper pan this is my transer non-stick
Pan all right this is going to take ages to cook this so I’ll bring you back for some bacon okay Bacon’s ready I’ve pulled the whole thing out because the wind was cutting in through there so by bringing the whole shelf out towards the tent there’s no wind here much better
Okay bacon is ready we’ll put a little bit in Bruno’s Bowl you can’t see him but he is right here oh boy does he love his bacon got to let that cool down though that’s plenty for him now as a
Carnivore because I don’t have any fillers or anything else I have to have a bit more so yeah it’s a lot of bacon but all the fat has come off it if you saw this pan it’s oh it’s
Like a third of an inch of fat in here it’s amazing I’m going to cook dinner with that tonight oh a still sizzling check it out look at that yum lovely Manuka bacon ha exciting right so we just need Bruno’s to cool down then he can have his so you see what I’ll
Do is just put everything back over here don’t know if you can see see that you see me moving this look I’ve got to watch Bruno cuz he’s got his eye on my pan my plate there you go keep
That there okay what I might do is just add a little bit of water to Bruno’s Bowl to cool it down and just to make it easier for him to eat oh that cools it immediately okay let’s eat still got a little bit of beer left oh Cutlery oh there’s always
Something okay so yeah with carnivore diet you can’t have tomato ketchup anything like that Bruno here you go watch him okay sit good boy wait go on then on appey everybody so even though I’ve got a
Table I can’t help it I just need on my lap I don’t know why I’m used to it m crispy oh yeah m this will see me through to dinner okay everyone have my bacon the rest of the bear I’ll bring you
Back for a tour around camp and just a little walk to show you where we are ah sitrep the weather has changed now it might look bright on camera but I can assure you it’s not it is absolutely Grim so let’s go out and see what we’re dealing with in here we’re quite
Shielded the tent is shielding us I’ve put a few more guys out it’s not going anywhere I hope um but let’s go and check out what’s going on out there it’s just unhook Bruno hold on hey Bruno okay let me just unhook you hold on all right come on right so come
On it’s Grim you can see everything just moving ah uh I don’t know if you can make out the speed of the cloud going sideways in the rain but you’ll see I’ve put a few more guys out um I’ve also guide the tent the
The awning down that Stak looks quite High down there but there’s loads of room I’ve put rocks on the guys it’s not going anywhere even if a huge gust of wind comes it’s all gu out the only thing I haven’t done is guide these two corners
Um there and there which I could do but I’ve got rocks attached to that point there the tent is pretty much hunkered down but look at what we’re dealing with look at the road is gone look at that I’m glad we didn’t drive up in that hey Bruno still got
Your bone yeah I’m glad we didn’t drive up in that nightmare can’t see anything over the edge again we’re like, 1400 M up here I think camera’s getting soaked and there’s my setup so look at the trees moving behind it look at those trees
And then look at this trees these trees here are completely calm we’re just in a great spot here it just bounces over the top of this Ridge here you see it’s Dead Calm on the other side but the wind is definitely picked up the storm is coming
Out of nowhere there’s no warning of this isn’t that right Bruno he’s in his happy place he loves it when we’re storming oh he’s bouncing he’s the gazelle what you doing so happy oh so it’s Grim really Grim temperatures dropped a bit it’s not cold cold at
All I haven’t got a fire with me because actually we’re in a um fire restricted time cuz it is summer here so no fire is allowed so you see I’ve got the awnings the awnings are tied down and I did manage to
Make that roof higher up here I just draped over the top of the the canopy cover see there’s a bit of water coming in up here I don’t know if you can make that out I it’s coming in everywhere
I mean look at it but the tent is dry see all up here this side is completely dry so we definitely pitched up in the right dire Direction let’s just hope it doesn’t change direction all right well
I guess I’m going to just sit this out bring you back around dinner time welcome to another camping with Toon and Bruno and ab camping I find the storms I find the storms I might watch a movie
Got my computer down here watch a movie just chill out it’s nice in the tent like if we come in here in here it’s absolutely calm it’s lovely out there Grim just Grim can you hear the rain so the water is going to pull it’s going to
It’s going to pull up here come down and drip down there and it already is doing it see it’s dripping down this leg can you see that that’s the floor needs to come out more so it doesn’t do that and then it would be the perfect ENT wouldn’t it
Bruno but I’m I’m fine I’m warm I’m dry truck’s doing its job we’ll see how much this awning can take but I’ll bring you back later [] [] okay sitrep it’s absolutely chucking down it’s it’s just suddenly in the last 20
Minutes just got so violent I’ve really got a knack of finding these storms so I have had to tie down all of the awning points you can’t really see this one in the middle to drain the awnings off down there you can see this one is draining off
Onto here and then flowing down here this is a waterproof door I hope it’s waterproof so far so good it looks waterproof we’ll see see how long that lasts if it’s not waterproof then we’re in trouble but it’s the same material as outside so I’m assuming it’s 100%
Waterproof it’s not leaking okay so it’s not leaking it’s good so all that water is draining there we’ve got all the rest of the water draining down here there’s a big puddle forming over here
Bruno’s at my feet he’s just under the truck here I you probably can’t see him and I’ve tied this up completely now so I’ve got both Wings open I’ve got lots of head height now and it’s giving me a
Little bit of extra shield because I haven’t got this corner bits if I had the corners if they did it the way I said and it came out to here like the Coleman this would be completely protected just
Like the Coleman but it’s not so it’s dripping all the way down here so zempire if you’re listening you must fix that on version three proper side and then an awning at the front just like the
Common one and I’m just sort of sitting in here out of the breeze out of the rain just chilling with Bruno it’s what it is I don’t know how long this storm has me to last for I think it’s another
Hour or so maybe longer I don’t know but you can see everything is gone down now I’ve got bricks everywhere cuz I’ve run out of pegs again no one comes up in these conditions no one it’s just me
I’m the only one stupid enough just for you guys all right everyone bring you back later right it’s hours later welcome back everybody it’s cold I think it’s now down to almost 10° Centigrade um the windchill is making it cold plus I’ve just been sitting here doing nothing so I’ve got got
My thousand Loft Stellar on just because it is cold I feel cold time to eat he’s hungry Bruno definitely wants his dinner Don’t You Bruno so um mine’s going to take a while so let’s give him his now he has his special diet this is pure lamb it’s called
Zwe made in New Zealand no preservatives nothing else no fillers very very good for him is it your dinner time you going to sit like a good boy good boy go on then right so what I got is wagu steak wagu Sirin steak to be
Precise look at the mbling on that mbling mbling look at that now obviously I’m not going to have all of that that’s a lot but I figure two should keep me going they’re not that big at all so I have two of
Those so we need to get the pan on might just move Bruno out the way a bit sorry Bruno there you go um he’s on the lead just because he’s had his play he’s been playing for hours and um yeah
I don’t want to want to lose him he’s still a puppy and he still acts like a puppy and he could disappear now I’m I’m going to cook these down here sitting in the comfort and warmth and wind protection of the tent standing up here with the wind coming through here it is
It’s cold it just feels cold so we’re going to sit down cook these here you’re nice and easy I tell you what the wind has just it’s onof but it’s been Relentless sometimes and everything is held up so far fingers crossed all my guy lines have held up we’ll see uh fingers
Crossed hoping for the best here so I’ve got the Bacon Fat here because anyone who knows cooking beef cooking steaks in Burger fat is yummy can I eat two uh you know what I’m not overly hungry cuz of all that bacon
That would just be gluttony usually I go for it but no I’m going to have one put this back in the fridge tell you what temperatur dropped okay let’s cook these okay mind out Bruno go on no not that way don’t Bruno is very unaware
And he wraps himself around he wraps himself around the tripod every time it doesn’t matter so he’s probably going to take the camera with him now yep yep there he goes let me move this again hang on all right so we can turn this down a bit doesn’t need to be that
Hot ah we definitely don’t need a panire that should be fine ah having a zesty drink [] that hits the spot so I’ve just been chilling I watched a movie but I stayed in the tent because it’s just Grim out here it’s just Grim I’ve had a few Grim camps in
A row but when you’re on a mountain and the wind chill is is just this you know is like this it really gets to you really gets to you so what we’re going to do is we’re going to cook this up few minutes on each side and then just leave it to
Sit because that’s what you’re meant to do anyway so it be crispy on the outside and beautiful on the inside when I slice this up and I think on while we’re waiting while we’re waiting for it to to be ready but you can see
How quickly I can cook one of these up I can always cook another if I get really hungry I forgot to season it but I’ve got salt here so I’ll do it afterwards um while we’re doing that we’ll make ourselves a little cocktail as well to go with dinner I
Think we’ve earned it he’s sitting here he’s just eaten his entire dinner I’m trying not to make eye contact with him he’s sitting here and he he’ll just eat and eat and eat he wants
Some of this now but he’s eaten that was a big portion of food he just had as well so chances are he’s not going to get any of this cuz he’s had bacon today he’s had everything
You know I’m going to give him a teeny tiny tiny morsel of this and that’ll be it just a taster so literally that’s all you need to [] do and you’ll end up with a beautiful medium rare and then you just let it sit preferably in
Foil so it doesn’t get cold all right think we’re [] good so quick so quick and you know what I think I’ve actually got foil here hang on I might have something ah thought I did wrap that in the foil just for a few
[] minutes let that sit so while that’s doing that let’s have a cocktail Jerry can check it out what’s in the Jerry can my drinks that’s right a little bath and look it even says AB camping cigar time on
It don’t if you can make that out so I think what we’re going to do is this SP later going Chuck a little bit of Jin in bit of Bombay Sapphire this thing even has a light in it a bar light just here yeah so you can see
Your bottles it’s outrageous a Jerry can bar Isn’t that cool and personalized as well so they’re indestructible okay let’s mix this up up may you know find out all right so we got in here got some lemon some tonic oh that wind we got some massive craft ice cubes look at these massive
Balls I come prepared you can see the wind howling through this Gap but it just keeps changing direction so there’s no way I could sort it okay tonic and lemon okay wipe my knife this wind oh man there we go oh God it’s like a wind tunnel here just in this
Spot really need this all to die down hopefully it does soon cheers a gin and tonic with lemon at, 1400 m m okay let’s eat ah oh it’s just night and day difference let me just turn the camera thingy around so I can see what I’m
Doing it is a night and day difference sitting here being there unbelievable I mean with that windchill it’s almost worth putting my beanie on CU it is it does feel chilly I am feeling cold and I’ve got layers
On I think I might have to can see my breath oh that’s better it’s just the damp Mountain Air just gets to you a salt and pepper o and you know what else I just saw was Tobasco no I don’t want better
Tasco Basco on a mountain having to deal with the consequences not worth it oh it’s going to be crispy on the outside pepper that thing up the rock salt ah okay one appe te everybody see how this is oh it’s rare not medium rare
Rare but it just melts it just melts now what I’m going to do is cut a bit of fat off and let him have that cuz he’s loitering no pepper salt on there okay there you go Bruno come on then come on good boy okay oh this wag you
Steak cooked in bacon fat absolutely delicious I used to eat raw steak all the time well not raw but rare h actually miss it cheers everybody wow oh gosh it’s so windy I don’t know if that Colman tent that popup Coleman tent I don’t
Know if it would survive this to be honest I don’t think those those poles are strong enough there’s a chance I’m going to have another one of these but we’ll see all right everybody I’ll bring you back after I’ve had this and
This so cheeky I’ll bring you back for cigar time thanks for coming on this one everyone this is a pretty Grim end of the year okay welcome everybody to Cigar time so I think for our drink I’m going to have a Japanese
Whiskey on the rocks now Bruno gets an ice cube come on then here you go come on cuz he loves ice cubes here you go up up you going sit pretty good good boy you you can’t see
Him but he sitting pretty he’ll chew that ice cube up loves ice oh right back to the table it’s been a while I have to say it’s been a while since since since I’ve done a cigar time it feels good to be back and fitting that the last one of the
Year oh it’s raining where’s that come from it’s sunny over there uh it’s fitting that the last one of the year should be in this spot one of brucey’s favorite spots oh excuse me oh cheers dry throat need
Whiskey oh I think that fixed it yes the fitting that it’ll be here one of Bruce’s favorite spots one of the last spots he camped in fact I think this was second last spot that he camped
In now people will be thinking well hang on a second you said you were going to do a video in the RV in my new camper van which isn’t new it’s a 1996 or 97 Isuzu yes I was going to that was the
Plan oh what a nightmare so you won’t believe what happened but I tell it before we get to that oh yes Monte Christo number four uh I want to thank everybody who supported the Channel all these years uh especially
Over this last year um everybody who has commented who’s um contributed to the channel who’s liked subscribed everyone who’s bought us coffees on buy me a coffee our members on by me coffee all our YouTube members W it’s really howling wow um everybody’s bought merch the
Hoodies are are a big favorite uh AB camping merch all the super thanks and everyone else that’s just supported the channel been involved in the channel love the channel uh we do this
Because we want to do it I do it because I want to do it but having you along um is a bonus and when I’m not in the mood sometimes I just think well actually maybe I will because
I got things I want to say and talk about and it’s therapy and it feels good so thank you again so oh there’s so much to cover and I’m going to wing
It h oh the RV so it went in to have its uh cut and polish and I got it back it looked beautiful I drove it home stunning and as I got home as I turned into my parking area outside my house
Just to turn and reverse it to get it ready to go out again to do the camp I nicked the top of it against a steel beam that juts out that I couldn’t see I’m so used to just pulling into
This spot in my my truck and then reversing but of course the RV is so much higher and it tore a hole like that in the roof at the front of my new RV I couldn’t believe I could have cried
I was so gutted worst thing that could possibly have happened so buddy has a hole in him and uh oh and contrary to uh what Luke at outdoor gear review said the the the name is Buddy the name
That he came up with that was he came up with that that gives you an sight into the mind of Luke at the outdoor gear review it’s a filthy mind I’m not going to repeat what he said I’d
Called it but he came up with that name um I have the text messages to prove it anyway so yeah it’s it’s been damaged so it was requiring some work anyway uh so they’re going to do that all at the
Same time so I’m getting the interior the the the cushions and everything else reupholstered they’re redoing the roof lining cuz it started to Sag a little bit and then just fixing the front or top so it doesn’t look so weird it had a big black strip along the top before they’re
Getting rid of that so we we’re doing all that at the same time so I thought that’s it I can’t go out camping anymore because Brandon’s home um my son uh from Spain and he you know he’s been gone
Almost a year uh and then I found out that they’re going into another town tomorrow so I thought well I could sneak out and do one Camp before the end of year I haven’t camped for ages I was clucking
To get out out I was going to go down to the campsite you saw that on the video uh I might have to beat my language I can’t remember what I said but I pulled up honestly it was 20 2510
There that’s not me that’s not my thing I don’t do that so I just turned right around I don’t even think I stopped and I did notice out the corner of my eyes someone spotted me and went
To say something but I knew if I stopped and started talking uh that there could be more people there that know me and wanted to chat and photographs stuff and I needed to get to Camp so
I just turned around so I’m sorry if you saw me and I just turned around and pulled away I’m sorry I just I had to get out I had to get somewhere to start camping and start filming uh if this wasn’t
Going to work out then I was going to go home and give up on it it’s a busy time summer here uh so and here we are one of the last places that Bruce uh camped at so yeah it’s been it’s been a
Horrible few years is uh death wise I’m afraid to say I’ve lost a lot a lot um my mother uh my mother-in-law my father uh a very close friend uh cousin as well um all in the space of four years
Yeah and my uncle it’s just it just seems to just I don’t know what’s going on nothing to do with Co or anything like that and then to top it all off this year I lost Bruce and what
Really upset me the most was I was away when it happened and you know he he died without us there and yeah that that hurts that really hurts it still hurts a lot that um yeah so
To over one I’ve lost to over one we’ve all lost I’m sure we’ve all lost a lot to them so I’m that 2024 is a good year with no upsets just a normal nice year of Family Friends camping having fun and
Filming it and having a great time we shall see now if you’re wondering where Bruno is he’s behind the tent I did end up pouring some bacon fat there and he’s gone rifling under the Rocks trying
And find it Bruno come here come on he’s right there behind the tent I don’t know if you’ll see him I can hear him there he is hello have you found loads of bacon fat come here have you found loads of bacon fat luckily we have
Bruno and he obviously missed Bruce the most uh and he has adopted so many of Bruce’s uh characters characteristics because he was the closest with him he spent every second with Bruce except when I was camping with Bruce cuz Bruno was too young to come and Bruno has
Just become a fantastic companion so loving so loving he it’s just harmless absolutely lovely dog loves everybody loves Strokes loves cuddles loves his mom he’s just he’s so affectionate it’s unbelievable I couldn’t have asked for a a happier healthier more friendly
Puppy oh sorry sorry you usually like oh you do like the smell of cigars he does like it he doesn’t like the smoke but he likes the smell of the cigar he just doesn’t like the smoke I
Know it’s weird isn’t it so what else is going on the truck I’ve had the truck upgraded so the engine again this is another reason I couldn’t go camping was it was down in Christ Church having
Some modifications done to the engine uh so my local guys at McKenry Ford here in plenum put on a really super heavy duty clutch and then it went down to the guys um down in culen uh where
They um upgraded the turbo and everything else and the mapping and stuff like that so it’s got a stage three turbo kit on it now so much more power so much more more torque makes a huge difference
Coming up here I can just stay in second or third gear whereas before I had to drop down into first gear um it was a bit of a nightmare but now no problem at all loads of power in fact so much so
This must be one of the only Ford Rangers in the world that wheel spins in first and second gear when you pull away from Stand still it’s so much more powerful if only Ford just delivered it like that
But thanks to all those guys for working on it um the truck has been brilliant the M2 Overland kit is obviously massive Game Changer on the back of the truck it’s just changed how I I
Camp and um yeah it’s all come together and I think uh pretty much nailed it now so that’s huge um the RV when will I be getting it back so I can do some camping I honestly don’t know
I don’t know I’m not sure sure when that’s going to happen um but as soon as I do I will get out there camping another thing is uh our PO box and all the gifts that we receive on the PO box and
All the memorabilia for Brucey it’s not forgotten uh we have opened it all now and we photographed uh everything along with the names of everyone who sent it to us and I’m sort of showing them
Now in a in a bit of a a montage uh what they are so many gifts so many things for Brucey it was lovely I’m not putting anyone’s names up just because uh privacy but thank you so much
For everything everyone sent to us uh I turned up at the PO Box sometimes and there’s just massive packages there um and it’s so sweet it really is and all of the the other gifts from people that
Have gone to the PO box are amazing amazing um and to get them from all over the world in the most random countries possible you can’t imagine we got viewers in every single country I think
In the world it’s incredible the channel has been a great success um I think we’re at what 220,000 subscribers now and we’ve had I think 67 million views and we our average view duration is over an hour it’s incredible incredible the success of the channel has been amazing and I’m going to keep
Keep doing it while you keep watching uh I don’t do shorts I don’t do filler videos I do proper camping videos I don’t do day camps nothing like that um I try not to do any clickbait it is what
It is if it says it’s raining it’s raining if it’s snowing it’s snowing uh if it’s heavy snow then I’ll say it’s heavy snow um but I try not to do clickbait I try to keep everything as real
As possible including my cock-ups my screw-ups of which there are many um I’ve been camping for a long time and there still always screw-ups and you know I first started camping when I was
A kid tiny in the in the Scouts and then we did a lot of it in military when I was training for the RAF and we we camped in brutal conditions in horrible places uh in foul weather absolutely foul
Weather and all of that experience has helped me with the can do attitude don’t give up Don’t Panic military training really helps with all of that um and you watch things like Bear Grills you know doesn’t panic just gets on with it you got to find a solution and a lot of the
Camps that I do the weather can be pretty grim and you’ve seen the last few camps I’ve had to really hunker down even this I had to guy down way more than I thought I had everything is strapped
Down you can’t tell but the wind is ripping through here now I’ve got this microphone on so you can’t hear it at all probably the noise is deafening and it just occasionally the whole thing starts moving the umbrella on the top of the camera is going to go flying I swear it is
It’s it’s just holding on I think and then we get these persistent gust like now incredible if you saw the clouds coming past they’re shooting past let me move the camera for you so you can see see
I mean look at that it’s just can you see the clouds hitting the hill and bouncing over the mountain that’s Mount patriarch up there can you see that the speed and when you stand out here it’s completely different it’s howling absolutely howling and I think it’s going to
Rain again it feels like there’s rain coming I can feel some droplets it’s all right Bruno but I think we should go back in oh a load of water just went flying off the top of the top and
Got me straight in the face then I’ve got to keep this door here this door panel like this because the raindrops the drips coming down here I don’t want to go on about the problem with this tent
On the corners because the rest of the tent is awesome but I really genuinely hope they fix that and that they listen zempire is a great company zire is a New Zealand company they produce great stuff the scene of the crime from last time when my lighter didn’t go out and
I put it down it burnt everything and that’s the burn mark on the table from it where was I PO Box gifts everything else training so yeah um other things plans for next year I think um just do the same but find
New spots try out some new gear I I tend to buy everything I test I’m not that I’m offered lots and lots of gear and I usually turn it all down so all this stuff I usually buy I bought this
Tent even though Z zire would probably give me one for free I bought it um all the gear on the truck I buy so I buy everything and then test it thorough so I can give you an unbiased review if
You receive gear it’s difficult to then call it out so unless it’s sponsored gear and I only do sponsorships on the understanding that I get to test the gear first I get to test it first if I
Like it then I’ll accept the sponsorship otherwise I won’t do the sponsorship I’m going to probably do a lot less sponsorships this year because they stress me out um it feels like work and I really just don’t want to do them that much unless it’s something that I really enjoy and
I think is a really cool product then I might be interested because it might help you guys who are camping wow this wind I’m glad I set the tent up this direction cuz here it’s nice and calm
But it is just ripping past it I tell you this new warning I’ve got is awesome it’s not budged at all very strong the flapping is just because I’ve got the this the tent awning up in the air but I have to because of the rain I need that rain cover which
Is what this is providing me perfectly so that’s working out actually very very well yeah and it’s going to be a great night I’m actually looking forward to going to bed because it’s cold I’m pretty tired I’ve got a comfy bed here it’s going to be a good
Test of this tonight to see how windy it gets I’m fairly confident though I mean everything is guide down there’s not much more I could do I’ve got poles out guys down bricks you know Stones attached to everything they’re usually they’re pretty strong stronger than uh
Pegs what else okay comments comments on the videos always an interesting topic uh so for 2024 I announc well I’ve started it already but basically I will be allowing comments on videos while that is the latest video if that makes sense so I release a
Video maybe every two weeks sometimes three weeks like this time a month um I will keep the comments enabled on that video Until I produce a new video then I will pause the comments so instead so this
Is a new feature that YouTube have given us so we can pause comments instead of disabling comments if you disable comments it wipes out all the comments that were already there and no one can see them once you pause comments you can still see all the comments you can’t add any
More comments um now why do I do this a couple of reasons but mainly it’s just for my mental health just for my mental health I’m tired of reading the occasional snarky nasty comment and there
Are quite a few there are people out there who are miserable with their lives and they take it out on YouTubers and they take it out on people like me um they got nothing better to do but to just try
And dig and they’ll get personal and I’m not going to put up with that so by pausing the comments on older videos that’s it I don’t have to deal with comments on there anymore and those negative
Comments it frees up so much more of my time I was spending hours a day sorting comments I’m not going to have a moderator for my comments because then it wouldn’t be me checking the comments um
So my compromise is you get chance to comment on the video at the beginning um while that is the latest video and then after that move on to the next video it’s already working for me it’s
It’s uh my life is much nicer without those nasty comments and it’s been a couple of weeks I’ve been doing this three weeks so that’s going to be the future of the comments section what else if you do
Want to comment um on an older video or you want to contact directly or well not directly but if you want me to see a comment or something you can go to the fan page which is on Facebook the ab so
I’ve got an actual uh Facebook page which is AB camping outdoors and there’s also a fan page if you go to the ab camping Outdoors page you’ll see the link to the fan page and you can apply to be
A member it’s free it doesn’t cost anything you just join and one of the moderators on there will approve you and the fan page is there for the fans it’s not my page all I did was create it uh but
It’s there for the fans of the channel who wanted and fans of camping so as long as it’s relevant to the channel they allow the posts uh the moderators uh my wife Anne is one of the moderators and she
Has final say on things because she’s actually an admin everyone else is a moderator so she can create new moderators uh and she’s sort of like the final say on stuff it’s just that
When I’m so busy I mean obviously I trust an to look out for me and do the right thing on there so lots of people on there who go camping and they share their stories and the photographs of their campsites and how the channel has motivated them to get out there go camping
With their dogs without whatever and I love it it’s great and I’m I’m glad that now fans of the channel have a place they can go and actually chitchat it’s it’s nice it is nice
I enjoy that and Facebook is obviously uh one of the social media places that I I post to I I honestly again I’m just too busy to look at the comments there’d be thousand but they you
Can post there for that there are requirements you have to be a member of you have to subscribe I think it’s none of this costs money by the way you have to subscribe to the ab camping
Page and you have to have been a member of it for a particular amount of time I think it’s a week or so then you can comment it’s just to stop the scammers and the spammers and the nasty people
Because they can’t be bothered to hang around and wait uh and then there’s Instagram and I’m on Twitter as well so there’s also the ab camping uh email list where I actually email out whenever
I release a new video that’s all it’s for so you get a notification by email that a new video has come out because you don’t always see those notifications from YouTube It’s A peculiar Beast YouTube this Monte Cristo does not want to stay a light first time I’ve had this
Problem but it might be that it got a little bit dry in there usually I keep them in the humidor um I was going to do a Q&A that’s going to come out probably in the next video uh in the New
Year in 2024 uh another thing that I get asked about is can I reduce the length of my videos make shorter videos because 3 hours 2 hours is too long uh no I’m going to keep doing them this
Is just this is the way this channel operates I do have another Channel AB camping plus where I I’m still trying to work out if I can reduce the size of the videos to go on there to make
Them sort of half hour it’s very difficult and a lot of work it really is a lot of work and I still don’t know how many people really want to watch that if they can just watch the full
Version and fast forward or rewind so we’ll see and I keep promising to do a live stream I just haven’t got around to it uh I’m not a huge fan of live streams but you never know it could just
Suddenly pop up and in very I I bet you it will just suddenly pop up soon so AB camping plus channel that is where I will live stream I will not be live streaming on the ab camping channel
Uh this channel will stay exactly how it is that is it’ll post long videos only and Community posts only okay Community posts you can comment to your heart’s content they will not be paused okay that’s I’m saying okay a lot but basically you can you can comment on those no problem I
Will not be pausing the comments on those whoa it just moved moved the whole thing whoa okay that was that was Bruno’s Bruno’s Bowl hello Bruno oh he comes cuz he’s heard his bowl his bowl move
Come here hello he heard his ball he’s oh hang on something for me that was a huge gust of wind wow it’ll be interesting to see how this tent holds up I’ve actually never had it out in a major wind storm before what and I hate wind why do I keep getting
This this this could be a tricky night if this keeps up but the rain is stopped and the sky is clear there’s a little bit of cloud cuz there is still some water drops but I can see in the
Distance that it’s clear what we’ll do is after cigar time I’ll do another quick walk uh with the GoPro uh what the osmo uh what have I got pocket 3 and show you around again now that it’s cleared
Up and you’ve got a I’ve got a I can’t explain to you the view I’ve got but it’s beautiful but I’ll show you that after cigar time which is coming up pretty much now so look it’s been a
Hard year it really has uh when I lost Bruce I really contemplated stopping doing the channel yeah I really did but I Carri it on because I love camping and I love talking to the camera
As you can tell I love talking uh I cop a lot of abuse for the amount of talking I do and it’s all for good fun but um it’s just me I’m a talkative guy what can I say I like talking
To the camera I like talking to all you guys I loved meeting the people I met um when I did do meet and greets in Singapore and I met people in the states if you ever see me say hi honestly
I will always say hello back and chat I bump into people all the time they recognize me um they see the truck so next year 2024 Big Year Brandon goes to us University us College that’s decided now at
The moment he’s in Spain at Golf Academy in Spain in um Malaga actually where is he sanrock near s Grande it looks like he’s going to a college in the US I won’t say the name of it yet um
But it will be most likely around Florida so I know we’re going to be spending more time in the states which I can’t wait I love going to the states I really do and I I I don’t know
What it is I have a good time there and the people are always friendly and um that would be great so an and I will be doing a lot of trips over there I’m hoping to do some
Camping over there I really want to but I want to camp over there in the winter that’s what I really want to do so I want to see some us snow remind me of when I used to work over
There in paloalto in California we used to go skiing nearby so I want to do that so that’s coming as well so in America you might see me uh you might see me in the UK because we
Got friends our best friends are in London uh we always try and stop off in London so you’ll see us around and I’ll always let people know if I’m coming out will I do meet and greets again H I’ll be honest most probably not because it
Took too much organiz Ing and we it was too difficult getting the times right so we probably will not be doing meet and greets I really would love to you know maybe the impromptu ones but not an organized one this yamazaki is really nice it’s very pleasant the yamazaki single maltt Japanese
Whiskey yeah so just keep your eyes peeled on community posts and the Facebook page and the Facebook fan page that’s where I’ll make the announcement of where we might be if anyone’s around and then impromptu we might just say right we’re going to be at this bar blah blah
Blah but I’m not going to do the organized meet and greets like I was going to last time uh just because that was actually difficult to to work out um and it it kind of infringed
On our on our holiday so we won’t be doing it like that all right I think I’ve rambled long enough so let me show you what’s going on out there and again cheers everyone it’s been a great year I hope you all have a Happy New Year I’m desperate to get
This video out before the end of the year it’s only a few days to go um so cheers have a great New Year and I hope that 2024 is a beautiful friendly peaceful year for everybody and that we will have fun camping in Grim conditions cheers everybody bring you
Back all right let’s show you what I was looking at so I was sitting here so my view was this look at that view holy moly hey Bruno look at [] that [] wow the Valley can I zoom down there check it out I’m sorry if there’s loads of wind
Noise look at the clouds just [] flying oh it’s brutal what do you think Bruno hey look at that drop see now you can see earlier you couldn’t see anything that’s quite a drop I know I’ve shown you this before look at the cloud layer over
There that’s amazing look at that that’s chucking down with rain over there I think it’s going to rain here again we’re taking a bit of a beating to be honest the wind is really picked up Suddenly every single guy Point attached look at this this is
Crazy and look at the state of the truck it’s absolutely filthy but it’s so cool got my starlink up there this truck can handle pretty much anything and has handled anything both my flares over my wheels fell off
They were rubbish I’ve got new ones just arrived that I got to fit so those screw on so those won’t fall off by law I have to have them um just to cover the wheels
Properly but yeah they fell off on the mot [] away what’s he doing can you see him in there that’s his bottom Bruno’s bottom hello Bruno where you going oh oh he’s disappeared oh he’s gone right down there where you going what you doing there’s a nice little spot down
There I think I’ve said this before it’s lovely down in the trees you could camp down there but these Pines are dying I I don’t know if they’ve been poisoned but they’re dying uh so they could be dangerous if they fell on you um you’re not allowed fires up here
Anyway open fires if you got a fire pit that’s okay but yeah this is a high fire zone come on Bruno where is he there he is cheeky he loves it up here I don’t know what’s up here up this
Spot here but he explores up here all the time it’s just a playground a playground for Bruno and Bruce was the same just explored that’s what we got going on we got the lights on on
The canopy over there you see so this canopy is so cool sorry the oing I mean not canopy this bushwhacker you change the color of the LEDs to stop uh insects there so if you make
Them orange like that like that oh that one insects aren’t drawn to it looks a bit like a lightsaber a very strong frame double double Channel frame this bushwhacker there’s the logo in there but it’s so strong so strong apparently this is the strongest canopy awning sorry I keep
Saying canopy the strongest awning you can get for a truck bushwhacker it’s Australian it’s a serious piece of Kit and it’s huge it really is covers a big area and I’ve got the walls for it as well so the walls will would if I come back here the walls attached to the velcro
That’s up here I’m not a fan of velcro I think think that’s something they will have to change to ZIPS eventually but you just velcro them on I do have the wall I have Wall number one with
Me but my tent is there so that wouldn’t work and someone’s playing in the puddle yes we can all see you hundreds of thousands of people are watching you playing in the puddle Bruno yep okay everybody I will bring you back for bedtime it’s late now it’s it’s 9 it’s 10 9
And yes it’s still light because it’s summer here in New Zealand again southern hemisphere is opposite so we’re we’re we’re in summer now um look at can you see him behind me up here I don’t know if you can see him climbing up the hill he’s going to disappear now and I’ll have
To call for ages he’s going to climb all the way up let me turn it around so you can see him he’s going to climb all the way up there and then he’ll disappear over the other side
He’s like a mountain goat we’re watching you Bruno we can see you see watch see oh no he’s not now I’m watching him he won’t do it but before he would jump over those and just carry
On all the way over okay he’s not into it now right so as I was saying we’ll bring you back oh you don’t want that zoomed in we’ll bring you back for bedtime thanks everyone catch you later welcome back everybody it’s a few hours later it’s freezing cold the wind is hling occasionally
You’ll see it um everything just pushes in on this this Frame this the material the material here but it’s cold I’m glad now uh this is a 20° Fahrenheit bag which would be just perfect
And the beauty of the zivi is it connects like this so you it’s connected to the pad I’ve had this a while now they they sent this to me a while ago um I didn’t pay for it I’ll be
Honest it’s uh but I do love it I do love the zenb product and it just Clips in like this different versions have different features Zips or whatever but you see this skirt here stops
The breeze so when you do it all the way up it becomes windproof and as comfy as comfy as your quilt at home oh it’s so nice this this bag this zivy so what is this this is the light is it the
Light and fast quilt I think it is yeah good to 20° F which is what – 7 Centigrade I’ve pushed this before to its limit I think um you meant to wear clothes in it but it’s nice it’s warm
It’s cozy I’m going to be warm in here I know I am I’m going to snuggle in be just as warm and comfy as home now Bruno is somewhere under here I can’t is that his face over there Bruno
You going to come over say hello to everyone oh he’s toasty oh I’ve Disturbed him hello puppy he’s comfy he’s buried under his under his blanket this is a down blanket the one tiger down blanket a he’s going to kick this off later I’m sure but right now he’s enjoying it I’m
Surprised that he hasn’t kicked it off already but I think he’s just worn out he’s been having so much fun out there so we’re all sealed in it’s it’s a drafty tend okay this is not a winter tend
Now it’s summer here outside it’s I guess it’s about 10° Centigrade now um maybe I’ll try and find out what that is put on the screen but it’s 10° Centigrade Google it but windchill
Really affects it and I feel cold my arm is cold outside in here it’s fine in my sleeping bag in the quilt but this is going to be a cold night with the air rushing through cuz the ceiling of
This tent is vented it’s all mesh that’s the only problem with this tent is you cannot seal it off from the breeze so it blows air I look you can see it pushing here see that that’s the wind blowing
So what happens is because the wind’s blowing it’s blowing fresh air up through the vents and you can vent at the back and everything for when it’s hot but I don’t want to I want to seal it
All in because it’s cold you can’t do that up so you won’t get condensation because it’s so well ventilated but also it will not keep any warmth in here whatsoever even if you heated it straight
Out here comes a I can hear it here comes a gust watch this here it comes that’s loud that’s really loud I can hear it in the trees it hasn’t hit us yet it’s pushing okay now it’s pushing against the
Tent I think it’s gone over the top of us but before it put really hard pushed in I’ve got it guide out there’s not much more I could do sorry tired really tired it’s almost 11:00 all right everyone I’m going to hit the sack he’s
Already gone look at him under here look hello my puppy a what you doing maybe he’ll turn around in the night and come over towards me he tends to put his head my side hello puppy it’s it bedtime very warm oh he likes his tummy being tickled he’s very warm under here
And he’s grumbling little grumbles all right everybody bring you back in the morning unless something major happens in the night which I hope it doesn’t let’s cover him up oh there you go he will kick this off I know he will he’ll get too hot with it on cuz he’s got a
Thick coat but I’ll bring him back in the morning good night everybody oh I need to tunker down in here yeah oh it’s cold all right good night everybody see you in the morning morning Bruno morning puppy morning oh oh my gosh morning morning everybody hello my
Lovely tea bagged hello do you have to sit directly on my head hello my lovely morning everybody that was a rough night when I could sleep I slept like a log oh but the wind thank you for makes hello I know puppy warning yeah the wind was horrendous and it still is
The gusts are incredible but the tent seems to be fine that’s good thing time to get up did you have a good sleep you now I know you did you were snoring he loves a good snore right I’ve got to
Get up out get a coffee on isn’t that right BR so bring you all back okay sugar and pee peee and coffees mind out Bruno mind out good boy it’s okay there you go all right let’s do this always difficult to film he’s going to try and sneak out Under the
Tent and that’s what he does oh so easy for him okay let’s see what we’re dealing with here oh oh we’re in a bit of a white out up here in a bit of a white out Bruno oh but I can see in the distance the
Valley look at that it’s lovely I don’t know if that’s really coming out on camera amazing views up here when you can actually you see something so did everything hold it looks like everything did hold everything’s in one piece the awning looks good okay
Yep everything held perfect good stuff isn’t it Bruno you had a good time and it’s not that cold it’s just the wind chill I think it’s warmed up a little bit actually okay time to get a coffee on which will be very
Quick uh because of the electric kettle so let me get set up and I’ll bring you back for for oh okay it’s 10° Centigrade but the wind chill makes it a lot worse so it’s nice just hunkering in front of the
Tent we’re definitely going to get a coffee on and then we’ll sort out breakfast coffee time water oh it’s chilly but just the wind going do a couple of instant coffees nice and quick sometimes I just can’t be bothered with the faf the wind coming straight through here oh I could
Have set this up differently if I had known I could have moved the truck more that way set the wall up then had that windbreake but luckily the tent is so huge that it operates as a Windbreak called by itself because it is a big tent it’s four person tent and you can
Just Hunker at the entrance to it and there’s no wind at all is there Bruno he’s at my feet cuz he wants his bee but I need to have a coffee first almost there I don’t need to boil it just want it hot there you go oh
Okay everything is easier with the truck canopy excuse the ass shot a it’s getting dark again what time time is it 7:30 okay so what am I doing 7:30 and it should be beaming bright hot Sunshine but we’re on the mountains and when you’re on the tops Anything Can Happen can’t it
Bruno I know he’s desperate for his breakfast I’m going to have to give it to him oh Bruno gets what he wants but I tell you what it’s chilly you know jeans and camping do not match they’re not good bed fellows so I’m going to steal bro’s blanket here cuz this thing is
Amazing yeah um jeans they’re rubbish for pretty much anything they’re rubbish no Brun you get hot in them when it’s too hot wait hey you meant to wait okay sit good boy go on then you got to have some discipline for B Collies or they’ll run a mock
Oh yeah so Camp what did I think well I could have pitched this differently I could have pitched it differently I think it’s the first time I’ve used this combo it’s also the first time I’ve used this awning on the
Truck um what could I have done differently I could have what I should have done is parked the truck where I wanted it put the awning wall on secured that then put the tent up when I wild
Camp that’s what I usually do I usually put the tarp up first um because then I know what I’m dealing with uh in terms of cover Extra cover and Windbreak so if it’s really windy or it’s really
Chucking with rain always top goes up first then I set then I’ve got a dry area straight away that I’m under and if necessary wind protection and then I put the top uh the tent up but for some
Reason uh I keep setting the tent up first when I car camp and I don’t know why it’s probably because once you’ve set the truck up with the awning it’s really really difficult to move it and so then you’d have to make sure that the tent is definitely in a nice place
So yeah I just got to tweak it a bit so next time I think next time I’ll try it next time I’ll set the truck up with the awning and the wall or walls depends how
Windy it is and then I will try and fit a tent whichever tent it is in with that uh to match it I had to get up twice last night to pee but those of you who are camping Pros
Know that you don’t walk outside you just have a pea bottle always have a pea bottle even car camping just makes life so much easier not having to come outside oh okay I’m definitely definitely having eggs for breakfast I’m not an a breakfast person but
I’m quite hungry that one steak last night and I had some snacks but that’s left me hungry so I’m going to finish this coffee and I’ll bring you back I think just eggs cuz I had a lot
Of bacon yesterday so just eggs yeah scrambled eggs I think all right bring it back for that oh that coffee was amazing right before whatever happens happens cuz I think oh look I got my glasses on you don’t often see me with glasses but I was reading my phone before the weather
Really kicks in oh do you like my new Beanie by the way my new merch this one is so warm let’s go and have a little walk with Bruno and see what’s going on the wind is howling but I
Want to take take Bruno for a little walk I need to stretch my ankle first thing in the morning so we’re going to walk up the hill a bit and see what we can see come on Bruno let’s
Go for a walk oh the sun’s coming out briefly oh no there’s a lot of thick Cloud coming our way [] wow that wind chill oh but it’s just so magical here it’s one of my favorite spots up here but it’s just such
A shame that it’s going to be closed this could be closed for a couple of years it’s it’s open at the moment for the two weeks around the holidays but then they’re going to start logging operations further down and this will all be cut off again for whatever
2 3 years such a shame oh my good lord it’s cleared look at that look at the lake oh wow zoom in a bit I hope you can all see that gosh it looks so low there’s not been much rain at all oh it’s just this is why we do it for
This this is why we make the effort to drive for hours for these rare moments where the weather breaks and you get some incredible views and I’ve got the whole place to myself all of this no one around ah it’s good to be
[] out this wouldn’t be a bad little Camp spot here I think I’ve mentioned it before for a small setup small tent wow it’s really calm here this uh these trees here are are giving us all this protection from the wind so it’s actually a nice calm spot right
Here it’s still got great views it’s maybe not as sheltered as where I am though and it’s uneven yeah the ground isn’t flat which could be a problem depending on what sort of tent I’ve bought
I want to come back up here at some point and camp where I did right up there in that Grove that was nice and secluded oh but this is probably my last chance to Camp here as I say
They’re shutting it all down even though we’re kiwis we’re new zealanders and This Is Our Land public land unfortunately the Logging company says it’s too dangerous for anyone to come up here while they’re doing logging further down and here’s what sucks the most the Logging company is
Australian they’re not even new zealanders so an Australian company is blocking us from accessing our own land because they want to log the Timber and Export all of the Timber [] overseas explain the logic of that to me please I wish someone would how that’s fair how that works I don’t
Get it I really don’t get it I’ve got nothing against Australia whatsoever I love it and I got some Australian mates I love them but how is this right what a weak government that we have weak governments we have in New Zealand that we allow foreign companies to
Come in here pillage take everything out and deny us access to the land at the same time something’s got to change New Zealand just gets abused and no one seems to do anything about it the politicians can’t be bothered I don’t know if it’s corruption the councils
They charge rates they just want the money but something’s got to change this sucks I can’t imagine that happening in America imagine China coming into America buying a whole ton of forest then saying right we’re going to Mill all that Timber we’re going to
Knock it all down and Export it back to China oh and while we’re doing it which would take I don’t know 3 years members of the public can’t gain access to the national parks in that area because it’s too dangerous while we’re doing logging so tough
Imagine that well that’s what’s happening in New Zealand all the time and it’s got worse and it makes me really angry the this we’re not going to have access to all of this for years and they’re not even Milling this stuff this is all Native Bush This is
Protected Park like like like National Park it’s all but but the logging is all the trees that we had to drive up to get here and they have to maintain a road access here that’s part of the the restrictions part of the
Law and they’re using safety as an excuse to keep us out I just and then the timber is being exported overseas you can’t even buy it in New Zealand and it’s goes out there cheaper than we can get it here yep I’m angry I’m so pissed off about it something’s got to change
Someone’s got to grow a spine and say no this isn’t right you can’t block access to National Parks just because you want to make some money look at the road I don’t know if you can see it
But it’s all the way in the distance um goes across the ridgeel line and all the way along there that’s where we popped over it’s beautiful so exposed right should we head back Bruno come on
Then you get to lead the way he’s so springy oh there’s no pine cones up here Bruno if we had a pine cone I could throw it for you not even any sticks I’m not going to throw you a
Rock sorry going find a stick you can find a stick go on find a stick oh there’s a stick okay let’s see there we go a nice big stick for you oh yeah okay hold on he is like a gazelle his agility is incredible he can jump so high as well
Higher than Bruce ever could he’s got longer legs than Bruce he is actually bigger than Bruce was but he’s all Leg he so springy right everybody just thought I’d give you that view and have that rant let’s have another look at the lake oh cuz
I just can’t get enough of it that is just picture perfect that could be on a [] postcard and I’ve actually camped beside that Lake uh so if you want to find the video of that one
See how beautiful is down there it’s just a the thumbnail is a picture of uh I think I’m in an A-frame triangle pole tent sitting by a lake um maybe I’ll try and remember
To put a link up but I I will forget cuz I never remember um camping by a lake in the rainforest I think that’s what it’s called but I camped just on the edge of it it’s so
Beautiful but there were so many insects it was crazy I had some great food look at him come on Bruno okay I think we’re working up to some breakfast now some [] eggs and then a gentle pack cup where’s your stick he’s so fast he’s so
Fast [] right come on BR let’s get back to Camp oh I have to do these morning walks just to get my ankle working again physio is going well hopefully by the time uh autumn and winter comes I’ll be hiking back up the tops again just got to keep up with the
Physio gosh you can really see the Valley now through the trees let’s go up on the edge of this cliff [] whoa okay steep look at [] that lovely oh and you can just see so that is sheer this is a sheer drop down
That’s quite a way see the angle and in the distance you can just see the awning for the truck just there [] and then there’s the road there’s the road going down which is just [] perilous I was going to put the Drone up but I God it’s too windy oh Bruno come
On too windy for the Drone [] all right bring you back for breakfast [] everyone right let’s do this now that he knows I’m cooking he’s come back um what do I need I need a spatula kind of thing which I got in here
Okay eggs for breakfast you’ve had your breakfast I don’t know if you can see him but W this beanie my new merch beanie oh my word that’s so hot oh we’ve got sunshine yay and no more rain okay now usually I would mix butter
In but I don’t think I need to because I’ve got uh Bacon fat in here this heater is so quick this stove yeah maybe I’ll just have a whole bunch of fried eggs who no’s licking my plate yeah I’ll do fried eggs just easier a lot less fast where’s my
Towels a lot less FF wow the wind wa oh no it’s taking everything I don’t know if you can see my breath oh I’m looking forward to some eggs yeah the wind just suddenly kicked off there sunny need an actual
Spatula got to put it in my kit I thought I had one but no I don’t got everything else okay salt pepper Fork we golden uh you can’t see him but he is here he’s had a massive breakfast okay no comments about oh give him give him some of your
Eggs if anything he’ll have a raar egg I could put a raw egg in for him actually very good for their coats and he loves aora egg okay there you go Bruno go on there you can’t see him but he’s enjoying that I moved the camera slightly over just because the
Wind okay I might do turn these over oh I get to do a flip it’s very difficult in this pan cuz this Pan’s got a moving handle there you go that’ll work almost like over easy but multiple eggs yum great success look at that you know what I can’t remember last
Time I cooked breakfast at Camp it has been a while because I’ve been on Carnivore and I just haven’t wanted breakfast yum come on appe tea everybody oh yeah you know what would make these better some Tabasco tell you what this tent has taken a right pounding and it’s done very
Well bit of Tabasco should Elevate these eggs from good to Great oh yeah all right everyone I’m going to enjoy my eggs and I’ll bring you back for packing down tent for okay time to pack everything away tell you what that sun it’s coming out it’s
Warming things up quite a bit yep time to pack everything away so I will Fast Forward from now all right that’s everything squared away except for my camera bag got to loaded all up in the back
Of the truck and then the main work begins putting all this down so let’s get on with that now someone made a comment that I could deflate the tent with this pump no you can’t doesn’t work you can’t use a device to deflate these tents I don’t know why it says
On the instructions don’t use them to deflate them you have to let the air out naturally and push it all out and I have tried it I have tried deflating the tent with the pump did not
Work what what did you all think of my bar my mini bar right now one thing I do have to do is take my little step ladder out cuz I’m going to need that to put the awning away cuz the awning is colossal and being over 7t high it’s really difficult to reach
And you’ll see from that pack down I actually used my pump to deflate the pad that helped a lot now there’s no way I’m leaving anything in the tent with Pock because there’s no pockets again zempire if you’re listening fix the door put some pockets in give us
A way to seal up the entire interior of the tent maybe a pro version of the Pronto that is made for those conditions uh cuz you don’t need separate rooms and things like that just that or just a few tweaks maybe they’ll ask me I don’t
Know that’s my camera camera bag all my gear camera gear yeah I was fed up with using those massive duffel bags this is a lot smaller can scrunch down to nothing doesn’t have a hard base you wouldn’t have anything valuable
In there but for clothes stuff like that pretty handy so that’s why I asked for this one these phone pads don’t go anywhere without them I use these as backups but um they’re excellent especially the thermarest one all right the bit that I always dread putting the tent down
So I think what we’ll do is put H put the warning away first and then the tent yeah in that order yes let’s do that ah so I need to unplug the awning cuz of the lighting wow it’s windy oh this is going to be fun putting this away
I can’t believe this wind has just picked up just as I want to put this away the timing is unbelievable unbelievable oh I’ve got to get on with it so oh but maybe I shouldn’t it might put too much stress on it if I do it now no I’m going to go for
It oops for I love how the poles all of the guidelines everything can just stay in here don’t have to get rid of any of it and then when I get it home I’ll open it all again and dry it all out but my last one the Dy you couldn’t do
This okay moment of the truth okay okay it’s going to be a bit more finicky because I’ve got all the guidelines attached and that is not how it goes I can’t remember which way I did it might have to look back on the video to see which way I’m meant to do this
I’ve Got a Feeling these ones come in first and then I always forget when I’m doing these things always forget now this is why you need the ladder cuz the awning cover is so high okay is that the right way doesn’t seem it no that can’t be it oh maybe it
Is yep it is the right way okay so got to somehow roll these up with all these cords in I’m making life hard for myself by keeping these all on for some reason that just doesn’t feel right but it is okay that was pretty easy actually I was only the
Second time I’ve undone it so I’m put it back together again wow that’s a that’s a lot easier than each of the ones I’ve had before done what do you think Bruno you can’t let me let me show you what he’s
Doing there’s the camera and there he is King of the castle Bruno what you doing what you doing you’re so handsome okay he’s funny isn’t he right we got to get all the pegs out we going to do the tent up a bit
And then let all the air out so what I think I’ll do is let the air out first so we got to zip it up let the air out uh yeah so and zip the door up okay oh tripped over a peg careful of the
Pegs so it’s important to leave leave a little bit of a vent at the bottom but don’t do it on the side CU When you then set the tent up it’ll be a nightmare with the Zips and they won’t close properly or open properly and that goes for all
Tents okay so I’m going to let the air out [] [] whoa it just blew the toggle it blew the toggle flying you meant to let both out for the Rocks did a great job of holding everything okay let’s take the pegs out with the world’s worst Camp
Hammer I can’t emphasize enough how rubbish this thing was just some cheap generic Chinese crap on Amazon it’s on my Amazon page because the the pegs it comes with are actually superb well I bought it
For the pegs not the hammer I just thought I’d give it a go but do not get this Hammer it’s rubbish for that for for that and that’s how rubbish the hammer is even the cord has come out you know I’ve used
My cman hammer for years and years and it’s still perfect with the cord and everything look at that that’s lasted half a trip and look it’s falling apart already Just Junk absolute junk up so I’m not even sure it’s worth putting this back in the bag just
Because Bruno’s standing on that rock up there let’s see if he stays there hang on you see him look at him King of the castle he’s just just looking out standing on the Rock on the edge of a cliff hey [] Bruno he’s so so entertaining yeah I don’t even know
If it’s worth putting it back in the bag cuz to be honest excuse the ey shot it’s um it’s going straight out back at the lockup when I get back to the lockup which I’ve now
Got to store all my gear in and then I’ve got to inflate it there let it dry out so there really isn’t much point so I’ll just roll it up that’s what I did with the last zempire tent the
Massive one on that massive blizzard storm that I did I just rolled it up and chucked it in the back it’s not pretty doing that but it works you see for for what you get the size of this tent for the size inside it packs down pretty small considering and it’s not very
Heavy okay that was easy hey Bruno all right so I’ve just got to put the star link away then we’re good to go and I’ll bring you back all right everything’s packed away go Bruno up up up good boy
Bo I’ve checked the site there’s no pegs nothing like that left I’ve done my walk around all we got to do is head back down the mountain still too windy to put the Drone up um it’ll probably
Crash so I’m not going to be doing that um but you saw me driving up I I’ve I’ve filmed this location many times before so I’m not going to bother this time I just wanted to say uh
Thank you very much for a great year everyone that supported us myself and Bruno and Brucey of course we really appreciate it we hope you enjoyed this video it’s the last one of 2023 go easy on me it was spontaneous and there was no planning involved at all just came out and did
It thank you again to all of our YouTube members people who bought us coffees on buy me a coffee everyone who’s bought us merch all the super thanks and everyone on patreon and everyone who’s left comments and thumbs up and subscribes to the channel doesn’t cost you anything to
Subscribe to the channel um but I just want to thank you again everyone I hope you all have a great New Year I hope you had a great Christmas but I hope you have a great New Year and we’ll
See you in 2024 hopefully with more RV camping after I fixed it because I crashed it more of this type of camping car camping and more wild camping and let’s see if we can get up in some
Decent snow storms on a wild Camp as well thank you to everyone who sent it stuff to our po po box as well that’s really much appreciated and I hope you enjoyed seeing all those different
Things that we got this year that’s it 2023 it’s all finished bring you back in 2024 thanks again for coming from me Tony and Bruno in the back bab camping thanks everyone catch you next time
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Lol, for as many times as youve said, "Excuse the a$$ shot" Ive never noticed until you point it out. Thanks for the heads up? 🤷♀️😂
Happy New Year all! Great to have another video! 🌼🌻🌺🌷
Oh no, that road on the side of the mountain is too scary for me
Love 3 hours!!
Has been a wonderful ride this year thru highs and lows,but allandall you kept smiling.Happy New Year.Cant wait for 2024.👍
happy new year to you and your family. Excited to see your 2024 adventures
Hi Tony! Loved this spontaneous camp with sweet gazelle-Bruno!🥰
I enjoy this camping area, I’d be pissed at your government too. They all do ANYthing for money.🙄😣
Happy New Year to all✨♥️🥰💥🎉
Tony I love listening to you talk and what you have to say it's part of why I watch you and Bruno and I'm learning a lot about camping and what tents work well and which ones to avoid and don't change the length of your videos as it's like I'm there . Cheers and I'm sure your new year will be a great one lots of love to you and Bruno and Ann and Brandan from Down south near Oamaru . Happy New Year dear friend 🎉
Happy New Year.
Tony, you have been having the kind of year like myself and my family. My husband and I were just talking and counting our blessings. He is cancer free now. My younger brother, who is 8 years younger, is healing from his massive heart attack. I had 5 friends who passed away and 2 family members. 2024 has to be better.
We were also talking about how cool it would be if you, Luke, and maybe Steve Wallis would plan a trip together maybe 6 nights 7 days. That would be an awesome camping video's. I think all yours and their followers would love to see that happen. Camping will never be the same again! Once my husband gets stronger, we will be going back to camping. However, a camper. I love all three of you and think it would be epic!❤❤❤
I just wanted to say thank you for not stopping the channel. I'm disabled and miss camping myself. With you and your videos I still get to see some amazing views along with your entertaining personality. Basically just thank you for being yourself.
Happy New Year from Buxton in the UK, hope it's a good one. Thank you for all your hard work, loving the video's. Big hugs to you both and your family. xxxxxx
Hi Tony and Bruno.😂😂 we have been watching your vids for a long time. Always loved coming with both of you whatever the weather. Mamorable times with Brucie too. We wont forget him😊😊😊 Brilliant your channel has been a great success. Wishing you and your family all the best for 2024. Take care . Luv and huggs for Lovely boy Bruno.
enjoyed the video. i still cry when we think of bruce. Had a beer while u had your drink. Wishing Miami Fl had some days with your weather and mountains. Looking forward to 2024.
Im so sorry about the negative comments, usually I dont comment because I love your videos..happy new year to your family..much love from Chile
Hi Tony & Bruno it was a lovely camp. I like your new bar. The scenery is spectacular. I love the camp videos. I hope you and your wife and Son and Bruno have a wonderful healthy. Happy New Year’s.2023🥂⛺️🎉
LOVE how Bruno quizzically listens to you talk to us—he knows that’s “off” a bit. So smart!🥰
Thank you Tony and Bruno for the video to see this year out and the lasr cigar time for 2023…Merry Christmas to you and your family and have a Blessed New Year❤🥰
Happy new years tony thanks for all the camping adventure videos I really enjoy them 😊
Tony may you and your family be blessed with an abundant and safe new year. Looking forward to seeing you and Bruno on your new adventures in 24.
Happy new years
Thank you Tony & Bruno for another great video. Wishing you & your family health, peace, & , happiness for the new year.
I cried when you spoke of Bruce. Bruno is so beautiful.
I stumbled over ur channel over the Xmas holidays and have been binge watching ever since. It took me a little while to figure out ur niche but ur videos have truly a calming and zen like influence on my otherwise stressful live. Happy New Year from Redondo Beach California
my dog loves a raw egg as well, the shell is very healthy for them as well if he will eat it 🙂 Mine loves the shell haha.
Hi, I love your videos, and I am in love with Bruno, thanks for all your videos, I enjoy them sooo much, have a great 2024 and make lots of videos for us to enjoy!!!
You sharing your life journey has given us all strength.
3hrs in ya forgot to show us bruno lmao
Gin and Tonic, your showing off..🤦♀️
Hi Tony and Bruno and happy new year.
Could you possibly do a bit of a chat about your upright fridge? I'm in 2 minds whether to go upright or traditional top opening one??
Wagyu. Definitely showing off.😉