Living at The World's Largest Truck Stop in My Blacked Out Car

I'm at the

largest

truck

stop

in the

world

, Iowa 80, but I'm not just pumping gas. I've been

living

here for a couple of days. I think at this point I deserve to have my own mailbox, we'll walk you through a whole day of my daily routine that includes cooking, eating, doing laundry and exploring this huge place, first things first. I usually keep it simple, you know, coffee, coffee, eggs, but I want to try something a little more difficult and I don't even know if that's possible. We're going to try making some cinnamon rolls in a skillet.

At least I want to try. One of the things I wish I had is an oven in my car that opened wide. more cooking possibilities, okay, let me see if I can remember how to open these oh, okay, not that bad ooh, okay, okay, okay, go ahead and start with some real butter. I finally switched to real butter, finally after a long time it's actually 63 outside but I have the air conditioning on just because it's too windy and the

truck

noise is a little loud if I roll down the windows so we're ventilating well, Let me put it on medium heat, uh, what am I?

What I'm going to do is just put a couple of them in, see how it goes again. I'm not sure if this is the right way to do it. I mean, I guess you need an oven, right? It says oven, uh, here, but we'll do it. See how it goes guys, we'll see while I do it, I'll make the coffee and also multitask, here we go, if you're curious about what I'm drinking, I've really enjoyed the chocolate mocha, this thing is fire, oh them. They're getting big in size uh I can't tell wait that smells like it's burning that smells like it's burning oh we're on fire okay okay it got too hot okay we got smoke oh no I burned completely the bottom.

I'm going to throw this out, let's try it again, let's start again, okay, I think we need very low heat this time. I'm using very, very low flames, okay, it doesn't burn, that's good, so this amount of heat is Okay, I just have to be patient. I guess you know what I'm going to go ahead and turn them around. Alright. I like it. I like what happens. They're growing a little as long as we don't burn them. I'm happy if you hear that sound it's the engine brakes it sounds great but it can be very annoying and I think they are restricted as to when to use it in residential areas just because the noise is so loud so with my cutting board I want to label one side to be like raw things, like raw meat, and the other side, clean things, like fresh vegetables.

I wonder if I can cook it like this on the sides for a while. I think it looks ready, what do you think? where have we been successful? Oh wow, it's cooked, that's not bad, well, the dough is good inside, so I think it's a success, guys, oh yeah, it looks good, right? M oh honey, and then there are people next to me parking all the places you chose this one they come my windows are tinted but I think they can see a little it seems like they are looking for something there is a guy

living

casually in his car you pretend everything is fine yeah , it looks like they're just going to the museum, yeah, that's it, we're going to take you on a tour of this place, we're going to talk about it when you drive down Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa, you'll see all these signs of the truck

stop

.

It's the main entrance for cars, we're going to turn right if you're just going to be here for a while, you can park anywhere on this side, this is a temporary parking lot, I think it lasts 2 hours and to my right there is one. from the main entrances we are going to continue going around the building and this is the second entrance now, if you are going to be here camping overnight, there are many places in front of me, you can come from this side, there are about 250 regular parking spaces. spaces and there are some Tesla chargers on this side, now we're going to go ahead and show you where the truckers are going right now, we're entering the trucker lot and this baby can hold up to 900 trucks.

I just have to make sure I'm not in the path of any of these W trucks, this place is huge guys we're going to turn left and to my left is the uh Trucking Museum this is two weeks of laundry this is all I I have, we'll take him with us because they have washing machines that go up the stairs look they have a hairdresser and a dentist, it's great, great, excuse me, oh no, please take your time, thank you, that's great, they have showers, a room from being for drivers, it's only uh 250. I'll put a timer on my phone, perfect, no, that's a camera, oh, yeah, you're fine if you're on YouTube.

I don't care, man, it's okay, fantastic detergent if you want to use it, no, I'm going to drive, oh, good. I appreciate it, no, wow, we can get our own design, one of these designs will go ahead, put the penny right there and put two quarters here, what design do I want? I think this one looks great, oh wow, wait, that's it, oh, that's so. Great, look, I was having trouble putting in a quarter and then I realized that's Russian debris, where did that come from, probably from my trip in 2019? Okay, the clothes are dry before we pack everything up, let's go have lunch. the buffet Hello, can I get a takeaway box?

Yes, of course, miss, where do I pay for the showers? Okay, so you'll go down this series of steps right here. Okay, and there's a cash register right next to the right exit and stuff. Sign up right there, it's perfect, thank you, you're welcome. We have breaded shrimp with macaroni and cheese sauce, roast beef, so the food is not amazing, amazing, but it gets the job done. If you are hungry, you will be full watching this. place where you might think there isn't much to do besides amenities, but 40 minutes from here there is actually a cave in the State Park. 13 caves you can go ahead and explore.

Some of them are so small that you will have to crawl around with a headlamp. It should be a piece of cake for me because you know I live in this little cave right here. I've never done anything like this before so I want to go check it out so let's go ahead and kill a couple of hours before dinner starts cooking my this is this is this the ice cave here goes nothing oh my gosh if I hear a loud noise I'm going to run so fast oh my god it's like home look how cold it is oh wow, keep it up shall we continue or come back?

Oh, that's it, it's like a storage room, a little storage room, oh my God, squirrels, hey, squirrels, oh, that's my car. Wait, I went that direction but I came up from the other side. Oh, basically, the cave. The first cave we entered was under the road, uh, that's cool. I'm in the middle of nowhere, no one knows where I am, it's just me, oh my god, my diesel heater was on. The diesel heater was really on, oh my god, it's like. 100° there, oh wow, this thing was cooking, oh wow, so I have to be careful because the diesel heater key, the diesel heater remote control, is on my keychain, so I have to be careful not to press the power button and I just dropped my camera again, so in 50 minutes we'll get to that truck stop, take a shower and then head back to the camper to cook steak and vegetables sounds good, sounds good, okay, oh Oh my god, that's so beautiful. continues for six miles hello, is this where I bought a shower?

Yes, incredible, charge your card. It's going to cost $16. Sounds good, thanks. Okay, look at this, this place. Oh, they give you towels. Okay, so you have a bathroom. chair, okay this is nice, back in the caravan you guys back in the caravan I opened the door for a second but the trucks were too loud so we are not RNG cooks with the door open today Let's cook a steak. We also have vegetables Not sure oh, it's dripping I'm going to try the POV camera, see if you like that pepper and onion mix, it smells amazing, oh wow, maybe a touch of paprika, oh, that's it everything down to the steak, look at this.

Get a good layer of salt, pepper, flip it over and we'll do the same thing, so we'll cook this right here so all the flavor comes from the vegetables. Steak will be a staple. steak uh it's getting a little cloudy so I'm going to open this door here uh it looks like there's traffic going to try a little bite it needs more salt a little browning on some pieces a lot of beautiful colors here and so a lot of flavor because we season them, okay, I have fresh butter here and let's move on, take this steak, oh look, we're going to make sure the heat isn't too high, so that's high, I'm going to put it on medium heat. come on and let's go ahead, cover it, let's flip this bad boy, okay, in the meantime we can prepare everything else, cook the sides a little like this, there we go, okay, it looks like we have 145°, so this should be a steak medium, let's dig into you.

Guys, this is amazing, I feel like this is a little cruel, eating in front of the truckers, I'm definitely making you hungry, see there's some sauce in here, let's dip all this in that way, it's seasoned. the butter and salt look how saturated it is right now. I mean, this bite will taste amazing. Well, guys, look at this. This is called a dirty glass. I don't know, they sell it. I found it here. You have crushed Oreos. snake and pudding oh wow oh my gosh I'm going to have a snake with everything that's a snake bite oh that's pretty good okay let's talk about the elephant in the room.

I've been gaining a lot of weight, we have to do something. guys, I need to do a transformation to lose weight or something, uh, I don't know, I just like to eat, try to find an excuse, um, okay, it's all part of the plan, it's all part of the plan. I have plans. important plans is a I have a plan it is an important plan