Prius Camping in the Desert & stealth car living in VEGAS (Death Valley)
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This lady , huge admiration and respect,what she does ; requires BRAVERY , skills,clear mind & intelligence ...May God protect you & embrace you . we are watching you ( Mom,sister...)after the video we pray God for you.Keep safe girl.We are with you in this journey.
Sorry about the gas price! On the good side, Camper sure got blessed when he stumbled into you! 🐕 ❤
Tip on repairing that shield under the car: tape isn't going to last long, especially once the weather gets warm. Use zip ties. You may have to drill a few holes in the plastic shield but it's a great way to fix that sort of thing on the cheap.
I'm pretty sure I saw some zip ties in action along with the tape :) You're right about that tape though. It will likely come off and become roadside litter if it's left on there too long.
She did use zip ties, it's in the video. She was joking about the duct tape.
Zip tie needs to be replaced once per year. they become brittle over time and won't last forever
Naw car is shit now, gotta buy a new one
never underestimate the power of duct tape 😊
I'm not sure what life would be like living in a car, but you definitely have the happiest dog in the world!
Yeah dawg
No matter how stressful your day can be the minute you watch Nikki's adventure it goes away like it Never happened :) thank you so much for taking us through your awesome adventures plus when you talk its like national geographic documentary keep up the good work Nikki your follower lamine from Algeria 🇩🇿
Agree 👍🏼
I agree as well! Super cool 🐕
I just finished the video. Thank you for bringing up the trash problem!! It drives me crazy. More people should bring that up, so the litterbugs can catch the clue. Good on ya for taking care of it. You are a badass!
Love your show Nikki. Over 2 years on the road is remarkable. You are very talented at producing a entertaining and informative show. I hope you can find a home base someday, it's not easy living on the road for long periods of time. You have an enduring soul. Good luck and happy trails 👣
I love every single thing about your videos. Your producing and filming style is captivating. I enjoy these so much. Thank you so much for taking us along your and Camper’s adventures. 👍🏼
I can’t love your videos more. I will be transitioning to suv life with my 2 dogs to save money like crazy for about a year. We do weekend living now and every other week related to travel for work, but i plan to go full time by next winter. You inspire me that i can do it and all with a smile. Thank you!
Thank you!!!! Amazing! Thank you for connecting and sharing! See you on the road! Xo
Good luck Teresa
Shout out to that Prius for enduring what can only be described as a suicide mission!
My wife and I are full time RV’ers in a large class A with two dogs and a cat. But something about living small, and about you, your dog and a Prius is very appealing. We really enjoy your video’s, however as a retired law enforcement officer, please be careful, there are bad people out there, I am glad you have camper that can be a deterrent.
The adventures of Nikki and Camper never a dull moment, heat and dry desert, to the car wash and fitness place to shower, keep on keeping on!!!!! Thanks for sharing and blessings to you both..
Love living the Offroad Prius Life! Thanks for showing me how much further I can push the imaginary 4x4 Prius capabilities. 😎👍
God is Nikki gorgeous. Loving the journey! Plan to replicate it in the UK but feels a lot less rural, definitely more distain for car/van-lifers (outside of campsites), but still worth a shot
Always.....You & Camper Bring A Smile 😉😉
Shake me up one of those salads!!
You are definitely King and Queen of the Prius.
Thanks for the vids Nikki, your US travels are inspiring, you and camper always put a smile on my face, from a drizzly northern England x
Wow that landscape looks like it's on a different planet. You, Camper and that Prius are pretty amazing!
Camper is a great co-pilot.
@@toronado455 I'm glad Camper found Nikki. Their lives are now so much better and I think Nikki wouldn't be as happy without waking up and seeing such a companion there to share all these beautiful sites with.
I love nikki. She deserves to be supported!!! Such a great woman!!! 💖
Death Valley in the summer time is one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced. The vast nothingness...the heat...the stars at night..
Just an amazing place.
I’m also working with a busted heat shield on the underside of my suv after some traveling with my pup haha. But if you’re out in the direction of Las Vegas , Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada is an absolute must visit and super dog friendly! I’m traveling with my own pup out of the back of my SUV and we had a great time there! Keep on adventuring!
I had a rattling heat shield for months when I couldn't take it another moment and had it fixed.
@@redrooster1908 haha I just keep using zip ties to hold it up
@@overwanderadventures7312 Mine wasn't even falling down just super loud rattle. Made my vehicle sound like a junker 24/7. All fixed now 😃
@@redrooster1908 glad it’s not driving you crazy anymore!
I loved the Red Rock State Park just outside Vegas, so beautiful!
You crack me up! And... Camper snoring - just precious! I would hope that a lot of young people, especially young ladies, are inspired by your adventures and willingness to live life to its fullest as we only get one shot and be people of integrity! Thanks for these series! You two are awesome 👍😊 ! Loved this episode - definitely hooked!
Death valley is so pretty! Thank you for sharing! Camper is living his best life, so precious with his blanket covering him as he slept! He has the best dog mommy! I really enjoy your videos!
That dragging piece hahaha, an easy fix….turn up the radio!!
Hi Nikki I'm such a fan of yours and camper I'm also so pleased you got the car fixed with No major hiccup and super proud of you for doing the sign on the window letting people know you are fine with Camper in the care with the a/c in the car on
At 9:13. You can find the pristine white geometric shapes, you just have to hike out 4 or 5 miles down the valley.
so simple...to find the energy to be happy in each of your videos showing that in fact happiness lies behind the simple things that surround us
Yay always a better day when you post!
Fuel is £1.60 a litre here, and it seems to be going up daily!
Yikes! N Tx gas ⛽ 3.99. Diesel 5.19
@@onmyway7363 diesel is £1.70 a litre today 😢 not good for my camper van
Great episode! We lived in Pahrump for 12 years back in the 90's and 2000's when the population was just 15,000 and the only grocery store was a small mom & pop store up off the highway with no decent produce. You would have had a tough time finding any ingredients for a bag salad in those days. So many options and services now, glad to see it thriving. We sure do enjoy coming along on the wild ride with you every week. Happy trails!
I enjoy your watching your adventures and you are inspiring to live life on the road.
I can’t wait when Toyota sponsors you a newer vehicle for you & Camper’s way of living.
Have a wonderful Sunday 😃
Good to see when you checked the car there was nothing wrong with it. Wishing you and Camper an amazing weekend. 🙂🙂🌞🌞
Love watching you and Camper 😍
hello Miss Nikki, i won't get tired watching your vlogs, its so amazing, more power and take care always.
Another EPIC adventure! Thank you for posting and sharing your adventures.
Thanks for sharing your adventures! Looks so beautiful. We just got 3 inches of snow so it was so nice to see hot and sunny. Ouch.. on the gas prices!
Thanks for keeping us in your paradise journey!
Hi nikki, just wanted to thank you for being awesome, your energy makes me happier every time i watch one of your videos 😍
I really enjoy your videos. You do great camera/editing work, and your content is very interesting. But I think the real kicker is that you exude such a positive vibe. Thanks Nikki!
Thank you Nikki for all the lessons and beautiful places 😍🙌💖
Love your energy, Nikki! Keep it up!
My dog snores the exact same way! Camper brings me such joy and I'm so glad to see you having so much fun!
Another great video; you and camper make my day; Death Valley looks hot even in winter/ spring. Look forward to the next one. Take care you two.😎
Your energy is unlimited! Nikki
What a lucky puppy, he is seeing the world with his mum...
Lovely to see such a down to earth, really funny, strong, happy free spirit, power to you!
Great to see some detail in the Valley. Thanks for the filmed parts.
Wow ! Never been to Death Valley nor know about the history behind it. Thanks for tagging us along in your adventure !
You're a good person Nikki! Thanks for sharing your fun!!!
New to your channel and I'm addicted 👍👍.... great job on each and every adventure , thank you for being you Nikki 💯🙏..... you're one awesome human being ..... love camper as well , he's an amazing and very intelligent dog .
Thank you and Mr camper for your videos i so enjoy them yall take care ....stay safe...
Furnace Creek (and Pahrump area) are normally just high, in terms of gas prices. Even in 2017 when I was out there, Pahrump was about $4.50 a gallon. I can only imagine what it is today. They get you at these stations because there are no other places really to get gas, which is why it makes camping in DV harder unless you have an RV, or you have spare gas cans and fill up at Beatty, which I think is more reasonable in terms of gas. But part of the reason it's so expensive is it's tourism and it's also in the middle of nowhere.
Thank you for being a good soul, picking up after yourself and others.
I had no idea there was such beauty in Death Valley. Thanks for trip.
38 years ago on my trip through Death Valley the salt had a pale pink color, still have a piece in my display case, love your videos, thank you
I use to live in Vegas, going through the backstreets from calif to pahrump on the blue diamond crossing fort apache brings a lot of memories. I recognized the mountains. Good job!
Oh Girl. You and Camper just keep going
I found your channel yesterday and I have really been enjoying watching your adventures with Camper. The episode where you find Camper was my first. SO AMAZING!
Watching these the time goes by so fast, 16 min seems like 4. I just enjoy the locales and the reminders to everyone to respect places, people and things. Editing time is . . . . .4x posted? Great work
The sand dunes are pretty cool! Thanks for the tour!
I just love your dog so much :) He has such an expressive proud boy look.
I am so glad I found your videos!! When I car camp, I love to stay in nice hotel lots - Marriotts, Hiltons, etc. The bathrooms are always clean and some of them have open showers. Plus, you can fill you coffee mug!!
Camper you got the life
Thanks to a wonderful and amazing lady
Be safe and healthy and enjoy life to the fullest and enjoy what you love doing
What a busy day of exploring you both have had. Bag salad is a stable to adventures. Camper is lucky to have you provide him with a/c. planer Fitness/Walmart to the rescue. Love the trash pickup and the bag on the door. Wonderful idea to change both air filters. Have a wonderful weekend.
Watching your videos is a great way to decompress!
"If you dont like salads is because you are not putting enough toppings" That ought to be added at the end of every wedding vow! Such a wonderful loving TRUTH! haha
Thanks so much for the reminder how beautiful Death Valley is. Was there 30 years ago. Got to take my Wife there soon along with other places I got to visit in my youth. Your doing it right. Do it simple and while your young. Thanks again, great way to start the week
This was a terrific video! I have never been to Death Valley, now I would like to see it in person. Camper is a super traveller, and great personality! Thank you.
Hi Nikki, Hello Camper!!! Great adventures this week. I'm glad you are working on the Knee so you can get back to 100%. Camper is looking so happy I would just love to play fetch with him. Be safe God Bless
Another fun filled day with Nikki.😃 Have a wonderful next day.😀
great video and nice of you to cleanup the guys mess.
This a good video, I’m going to Death Valley end of month for 4 day’s. Now i know the updated weather in Death Valley. Thanks and keep on moving 🤙🏽
I love not only your travel and adventures but your truly go with the flow perspective…. I’m still trying to get the courage to do something close to this but definitely a little skittish! Although I’m definitely closer mentally than I have been! Godspeed Nikki and Camper😎🤍🌹❤️
Ha. The little Prius that could. Chugging along. Nice update. See you and Camper next week.👍
My wife and I would take our Honda Fit over mountains and on roads it had no business being on. We also messed up the bottom plastic shield. Haha. Now we are building out a van to live in it full time. Love your adventures with Camper. Thanks for sharing and being an inspiration. My mom is gonna travel with us for the first month or two in her car all because we have watched you do your thing in a Prius.
Always looks like so much fun.............. Great video
Thank you to you and camper for another informative and awesome video 👍😊 and thank you for helping to keep america clean ! That always ticks me off too ! Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend 😘
Looks amazing love watching your adventures
I just watched the vid of how you and Camper met, wow. What an amazing story!!
Just discovered the channel and I love it, it is fantastic. I'm a keen "adventure" motorcyclist and am used to doing lots of travel, but had a brain tumour diagnosis earlier this year leading to an emergency craniotomy to remove it on 14th Feb. My recovery is 6 - 12 months, and that means that here in the U.K. I have had my license suspended (Which is fair) and so no road adventures for a while for me. I was a bit down in the doldrums, but am back tracking through your video's and it's really given me a feel good buzz, helping me look forward to making a full recovery and hitting the road again myself. Loved this episode as my family and I were over on vacation from the U.K. in 2019 so managed to give the rented Tahoe a good workout in Death Valley. Keep the content coming and stay safe Nikki.
That was awesome of you to pick up his crap. I love fishing and when I go fishing I see so much garbage, that people leave behind it's crazy.
Awesome leaving the bag and note. i bought one of those scanner for when I'm in the middle of nowhere I can see what it's about, talk about a reassurance $50 item. I ripped my plastic covering off my Prius, it was always ripping and dragging.
The look Camper gives you at 15:17 is pure love ❤
Love your energie and attitude!
Changing those air filters and car check-up. Very smart
Thank you for your up beat videos. I have been Fire Fighter. Dispatcher. Sometimes it is good to hear a friendly voice out there.
I did Foresry many years. A logger in Oregon. College educated Forester. Fire when needed. It was needed alot. Smoke jumpers, etc.I did work on fires with the smoke jumpers, a few times. Wilderness fires. I saw the jumpers parachutes, static line, come out of aircraft.
The jumpers were cool.
Nikki, what you did with the note and the cups was very cool.
Oh darn you were nearby Vegas. Safe travels
Time for my annual-ish tire advice after seeing that your tires are looking a little beaten down, hahaha. I couldn't entirely make out the brand/type of tire you have, with "AS" being a pretty popular model designation of all-season tires for many brands. But I could make out the load/pressure details as being 1356 lb max load at 44psi max pressure. That corresponds to Load Index 91. Couldn't see the speed rating, but it's surely not an issue, probably S (112mph) or T (118mph). So assuming stock size for a Gen2 Prius, and speed rating S, the tire is probably something like:
185/65R15 91S or 185/65R15XL 91S
I think the minimum Load Index for Gen2 is 88ish, so it's good you have a bit higher load rated tires.
That's an uncommon Load Index for that size, so your tires are probably one size up, which happens to be the stock size for Gen3, Gen4, and Prius Prime (though some of them allow as low as Load Index 89):
"AS" 195/65R15 91S max load 1356 lb at max pressure 44psi. So you are running a better choice than the stock size.
I have that size on my Gen2 2005, but a higher Load Index and higher speed rating. They fit fine and never rub, despite the car having 230K miles and original suspension. So on my stock Gen2, I run:
Michelin Xi3 195/65R15XL 95T max load 1521 lb at max pressure 51psi.
On my Prime, I replaced the stock 195/65 Toyo NanoEnergy tires with:
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Michelin Xi3 205/65R15XL 99T max load 1709 lb at max pressure 51psi
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This is the best tire I've ever had on any Prius, and I've had many great sizes/types. Regrettably, I didn't think to swap them onto my Gen2 to check fit and whether they might rub when new, when hitting a hard dip in the road, etc. Because they''re expecting a vehicle the weight of a minivan, they roll with very little resistance, with only the weight of a Prius on them.
Their max pressure is 51psi, and I run mine at 50psi. With that CA-priced gas, the mpg boost of higher tire pressure is money in the bank. Don't let anyone tell you it makes the handling dangerous, it actually handles superbly. I've personally driven 80K in my Gen2, and 101K in my Prime, with 50psi at all 4 corners, on Michelin Xi3.
They are a snow/ice tire with many attributes of an off-road tire, yet at 50psi, I've found no difference in mpg from stock tires at stock or higher pressure. Some snow tires don't last for many miles, or aren't good in summer, but that isn't true of the Xi3. I've raced them hard through mountain hairpin turns in AZ when it was 110F+, and they still lasted 63K miles.
If you can fit them (ask the guys who installed your lift, or check that your pinkie, and preferably index finger, fits the front-rear gaps between your existing 195/65 tire and wheel well) are just a tremendously great tire in every way, the best-handling and highest-load tire I've every put on any Prius. I've since switched to 205/70R15 96T, taller tires for even more ground clearance, but they lack the race-car handling of the 205/65.
Last but not least, another reason to go with the highest load index tires you can, is that if you ever need to air down to get through crazy sand, the higher load index tires will safely carry the weight of the car down to a lower pressure if you can't air them back up immediately when you get back to pavement.
Not sure you'd be wanting to fill a Sprinter with diesel all the time this year, price-wise, though I think you've earned the right (and money) to live in any vehicle your heart desires! Riding the year out in a Prius makes sense, until we're sure that the war doesn't cause rationing. RVs might be the first to get hit by rationing, versus commercial vehicles and commuter-type cars. Stories from now-deceased old relatives, about rationing caused by war in Europe, have resurfaced in my head.
If you're going to run a diesel these days you should stay old school. The new common rails with the super low emissions are nothing but trouble. Here in the UK half the vehicles on the road are diesel and the new ones are always going wrong and costing £££ and the fuel is more expensive. A guy I know who lives in a sprinter got fed up and converted his to an old pump driven OM606. His old 2001 sprinter literally rusted away to nothing despite several massive interventions. 2000's era Mercedes vans should be wintered in the south away from the salt. A friend of mine has a Vito as a work van and we have sand blasted, patched and painted the underside with marine grade epoxy mastic called Jotun 87 and it has still rusted through in several places again.
Omg...Camper snoring!! Love it!!😊😊😊
Wow Nikki those Dunes are AWESOME!!!
Hi! From your newest sub! Yahoo promoted you from my interest in hiking. Love the scenery! Been along these locations myself. Your energy is really uplifting and Camper, "King of the Prius", is quite the sweet soul to travel with.
Great video. We will share this with our customers for sure. We sell land in rural areas and this will help generate some great ideas. Thanks for creating this! 😊
LOVE YOUR SPIRIT!! 😻
I am always impressed when you are able to fix your car! 🥰
So here are some older person advice… I live in the Phoenix area and hike a lot... we have a lot of desert preserves areas that provide great hiking areas.
So here’s the kicker… for years I hiked without sunglasses and now I am paying the price for not protecting my eyes.
If I can offer you one bit of advice it’s to get some good sunglasses. Research it for yourself… the time we spend outdoors nowadays can have long lasting damage on our eyes when we are in the bright sunlight. I really wish I would’ve known that… Nobody ever told me. And something I never really thought about because I wear prescription glasses.
I wish you all the best! I’d love to hear if you ever plan to change your vehicle and if so what you would buy. Safe travels!
Thanks Nikki love your videos , Stay awesome
I really like the educational comments on the places you visit!
Yay thank you!
love the shot of the sand dunes at 3:55.
Keep on Truckin!! You two......ROCK!!!
Amazing views everywhere....
I just found your channel and it sure soothes my anxiety. Your edits and narration is perfect, and that Prius is officially a badass considering what its been through lol
I agree about her Prius, I have a new AWD Prius and I wish I could lift it like hers and see what it could do!