Luxury Truck Camping in One of the Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities in America

Luxury truck camping in one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in America. Little Rock, Arkansas gets a bad reputation for the amount of crime in the city. You just need to find the safe areas and that's exactly what we do. Camping at Maumelle campground we hike the East Quarry trail in Pinnacle mountain state park. Later we drive out to the national forest only 40 minuets from town and find a peaceful getaway from the city for the evening. We build a campfire and Kellie whips up a zucchini corn chowder.
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[@terencebaxter4821]

I really enjoy your videos. Your description of the places, the trees and the fauna of the area is really great. I retired after 30+ years with the USFS and your outdoor ethics with regard to preventing trail damage, cleaning up old campsites and following regulations is impressive. If we had more Cody and Kellys the forests and parks would be much better for everyone.

[@veeemit9719]

Dark as it was out there, did you have a beautiful night sky to enjoy?

[@FACULTATIVECARNIVORES]

Ditto❤

[@ColetteClemens-m2v]

Let's get these guys to 100k, they deserve it 🥰.

[@jwspells9527]

Glad to see you are back home in Arkansas. I don't think many people realize the beauty and diversity that we have here. It is truly the Natural State for many reasons.

[@ramonapuckett3059]

A very relaxing day, well, except for Cody falling in that hole! The day ended well, with a good meal and a nice warm fire ❤

[@janishuey3639]

There is something about a camp fire, even on a video, that is so relaxing. I’m glad you weren’t seriously hurt when you stepped in that hole, Cody. Mercy!

[@brianbenedict8374]

To relax like that I could do that 24/7! Keep them coming my friends!!

[@erleysmiff5151]

When that beeping started in the camper, I told my wife, “somebody pooted” !! 🤣

[@fraimaimfr4942]

Nice vlog you guys! Johnny B Whild b makin cocktails & eatn ice cream in Florida 😅

[@jimbattista1120]

With Miss Erica!!!

[@toddramsay977]

Wow! Your camper and window on the cab over still looks nice! Very sharp looking rig! Great video!

[@CodyandKellie]

Thank you!

[@noregrets4us]

Thanks for sharing. You two are a cute couple.

[@ChaseArkansas]

i loved the lofi vibes of the music

[@lisarussi1410]

Just beautiful scenery. Thank you both for always sharing your journeys.

[@stevemetcho4455]

Another great video. Love the soup. Now I’m hungry. lol

[@chuckbrewington6817]

That's some pretty country.

[@Maria-Aus]

Nice recipe! I tweaked it a little and made cauliflower/potato/corn soup with your recipe and then added the bacon and fresh chives on top- with garlic bread of course 😊

[@dorisweems1510]

What a nice thing to be able to relax on a rainy day. I would love to be in a camper listening to the rain, awesome.

[@Maria-Aus]

That soup looks delicious 🤤

[@simplygracie6375]

I’m so glad you didn’t break anything on your fall. Thank you for leaving it in.

[@crazy8adventures553]

When ya'll started building the campfire, I anticipated something in the pressure cooker or dutch oven pizza. Ya'll have gotten lazy, but the indoor soup looked amazing!

[@CodyandKellie]

It gets dark way to early. We would have to just do a day of cooking for that.

[@ChaseArkansas]

makes me so sad that the mountain got destroyed :( Arkansas def needs all the conservation

[@CodyandKellie]

Yes but we wouldn’t have some of the cleanest water in North America if that lake wasn’t built. We appreciate the water quality here

[@ChaseArkansas]

​@CodyandKellie yeah it comes with a price.

[@ChaseArkansas]

@CodyandKellie kinda reminds me of.how beautiful sugar loaf looked before greens ferry lake but the lake is amazing and sugar loaf is still beautiful

[@Gman-qm6bv]

My wife cooked up your Zucchini chowder and oh my gosh this chowder rocks, we ate the whole thing! Thank you Kellie for your cooking ideas, we will order your new cookbook when it comes out and thanks!

[@SpknTC13]

Good Afternoon!!

[@coastalfarmhouse1820]

Love beautiful video! I do like the cooking part of the show too.

[@LittleMo777.]

Soup looks delicious!

[@patcrawford4176]

Love seeing my old area , I live in Ks. now . Hiway 10 was always the place we'd go on weekends. Crazies, has good catfish. We had a house on lake Dardanelle hiway 22 side around shoal Bay. Lots of good places there and north of Clarksville. Have fun..

[@garyb4929]

Relaxing video, thanks 😊

[@samshepperrd]

Maumel is awesome. Full canopy of mature trees. Views of the river/lake at every site. Watch the huge ships glide by at night. Shopping center, pizza, cafes etc Less than 5 minutes away. Not far from Little Rock, but far enough. No urban sprawl like some areas. I just sat in a camp site elevated enough for a picturesque view of red tail hawks swoop down on unlucky squirrels and bald eagles diving for fish. Not crowded except weekends.

[@crazy8adventures553]

Now that ya'll have been "everywhere" like the song, are ya'll ready to come back home or still plan to travel full time???

[@CodyandKellie]

We will still travel full time

[@TollettDepot24]

Been watching your videos for awhile off and on. Would love to meet y’all at some point. We do weekend and some week adventures in our 23RSS Vintage Cruiser.

[@CPAndy-x5x]

That soup looked sooooo good! And the evening...and the fire...!

[@dianestevenson2630]

What a great relaxing video. I loved the creek water. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

[@mlg1783]

Omg!!!! I live in Tucson Arizona, but I'm from Kentucky and I miss the fall color SO much this time of year!!! Even though the color is past its peak in this video, it's still so beautiful and the fire makes it so cozy. So jealous, lol!!

[@davidmills1639]

Hey Kellie, don’t be bashful with your rock collection and show them off. A lot of us RVer’s have pockets full of rock collections too!

[@78twood]

Wonderful vlog you two 👏🥰 Loved the scenery on the hike, the peaceful sound of the creek, the soup looked killer and that fire was beautiful! I don’t know if it’s the colors on my tv, but the flames were purple and orange 🤩 Wish I was there lol 😆 Love yall 💜

[@donniemabry1470]

You ever went to a campground say I wish I didn't come here they some bad campsite out there. Stay safe keep up the good work God bless

[@CodyandKellie]

Yep, that has happened before

[@donniemabry1470]

Same here

[@roadtriplover.]

What a pretty fire at the end of the day.

[@jilletha833]

Love the campfire and that soup looked yummy! Love those little crystals! 💫🧚‍♂️💫

[@nancydwyer1726]

I had o idea Arkansas had such beauty hidden away. Amazing.

[@jenniferfisher530]

Cody can never wait and burns his mouth. 🤣 That's so me also.

[@judyderieux8484]

Great spot.....love that you all make soup. Nothing like a warm bowl on a cold evening ✨

[@greysfreak1992]

Yes!!! We hit that dang test button twice and one time my husband sprayed bug spray and it set it off. And I hate it because it’s loud and there isn’t much you can do.

[@LiveAlohaOhana]

Some great photography, so peaceful and quiet there with the landscapes and mountains ❤ I really dig your rig setup ' its perfect and so comfy and spacious! Oh lord Kellie that chowder is so unique it made me hungry for some ' im salivating so much i had to get some clam chowder out of my freezer 😅 I was wondering how much is diesel over there? Its $5.45 a gallon here in Hawaii 😢 Thanks for sharing 👍 😀 Aloha

[@CodyandKellie]

Thank you! Price of diesel depends on what part of the country your in. Here in the south it’s $3.89-$4. More up north over $5.

[@LiveAlohaOhana]

@@CodyandKellie wow that's a great price ! Thanks! My neighbor is moving to North Dakota and said its oretty cheap there too

[@doubledforge]

AR is my wife and I's favorite state! It has our favorite camping and fishing spots!

[@randallwhitehead4456]

Absolutely beautiful there

[@perfectleveladventurefishi619]

i dig it

[@esperanzanemec7003]

I love the mountains in Arkansas.

[@heathwatson1185]

Glad you’re home! Makes me long for our Thanksgiving trip up next year. ❤

[@rhondapalmer884]

Best videos! Love when Kellie cooks.

[@BigV96220]

Hey Beautiful people, another awesome video, the lake when you first started your hike was so torquise gorgeous colour, Kelly you have my passion for Rocks ,so fulfilling when you find something gorgeous and to keep 😂 the autumn(fall for you guys ) colours you captured with you drone was epic 👏 .I am also still in awe of your rig I'm so jelly 😅😊Cody I don't know to much about cameras but could you tell me is it a wide angle lens you use the gives the effect of the trees are all bowed excuse my ignorance 😉 the soup looked so delicious 😋 we are into summer here in Australia but I think just might make a batch and freeze it for the cooler months 😊 Once again thankyou both for a wonderful video great editing and content ,see you on the other sending lots love and Blessings from Me V Australia 🇦🇺 😊 God Bless 🙌

[@CodyandKellie]

We film with a go pro and it has a wide angle lens setting

[@BigV96220]

Thankyou so much for clarifying that I feel little clever now 😊 take care beautiful people 😘

[@azdesertrat9104]

When you cut up the zucchini it made me think of this appetizer where you cut the zucchini in long small pieces and bread them, then fry them and have either a ranch dip or other dip for that appetizer. SO good. Just something to think about 😊 That soup looked SO yummy! Keep em' comin'! 👍

[@GraceMichelle1000]

I love your content! It’s so calming. ❤

[@nancydwyer1726]

I so enjoy your content. Thank you so much for taking us along!

[@user-fd7op5bl2z]

Chowder --perfect Love your rig. We have a Ford 250 diesel (I love to hear yours when you fired up!!! ). The fire was magnificent. ❤❤ from New Mexico

[@steve-gl3cw]

I live in north Mississippi about 30 miles from Pickwick damn. If yall have never been there before you should go

[@anthonyvisor8880]

I your videos!!

[@debyarger3084]

You make me want to get back into the woods!!!

[@debbie4501]

Cody, You were very lucky not to have gotten hurt. Stepping in that root hole. Would that rock have covered that hole?

[@CodyandKellie]

I don’t think so, that hole was pretty deep

[@toddfr1967]

I enjoy watching these videos. Do you ever worry about wild animals when in Arkansas, especially at night?

[@CodyandKellie]

We never worry about wild animals around here

[@toddramsay977]

So your saying putting ruts in mountain bike trails, the state or park service does not maintain them? I don’t mountain bike but that seems like something you should bring up with the park system or maybe with the governor.

[@CodyandKellie]

The state parks does not maintain the trails here, our friend and his wife are the only ones who build and maintain these trails in the area.

[@pauldonathan5316]

Man, yall have the best places to camp, im hoping to move to the Ouachita mountains in the next year, not to camp or overland but to buy some property and build and camp on...i think overlanding in general hurts the forest quite a bit with its co2 and tracks. Im glad the majority of it is in the ozarks, but it should be illegal 😊😊 in Arkansas

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[@FACULTATIVECARNIVORES]

❤❤❤

[@deannawillis2]

I am so excited, we have been wanting to stay there. We normally stay downtown NLR when we have things to do in LR.

[@CodyandKellie]

Maumell campground is much better

[@SuperStar-nz5xy]

So you added zucchini and corn to the potato soup recipe? Love that. Need more rig videos. Any solar and an inverter soon or is the battery box good enough?

[@CodyandKellie]

We have one 100 watt solar panel, two 100 amp hour lithium ion batteries, WFCO converter for lithium. The truck recharges the camper as we drive. The solar plane works while in the desert.

[@Lonerwolf420]

Bros is that browns creek.. lol I seriously almost camped there Saturday Nov 11 kool spot ive never seen water there the creekbed next to camp is mostly dry.. I've grilled a few steaks in that fire ring😅

[@CodyandKellie]

😉

[@inMotionOutdoors]

Do you have more info on that quarry being as tall as pinnacle? I always understood the maumelle damm was build from rock taken on the back side of pinnacle (east summit trail zone). I wonder what year that quarry was started then someone could go back and look at old survey maps or photos of that area

[@RalphBleam-g3d]

Just wondering,im from pennsylvania,you guys ever camped there.

[@CodyandKellie]

We have not, we drove through there a month ago

[@jameswbarry9576]

Hi Cody and Kelly Cody the ax that you were using what make is it ya it nice ya it's a good time of year for camping not many bugs what do you two do for Thanksgiving and Christmas

[@CodyandKellie]

Estwing is the ax. We see our families for the holidays

[@jameswbarry9576]

@@CodyandKellie great happy holidays

[@nevysadventuresllc9074]

So you have been in it for a while are you still loving the truck camper? How is the build quality in your opinion? Do you retreat not getting one with a slide out?

[@CodyandKellie]

We still love it. It’s cozy, no structural issues. Most of the problems at the beginning were minor. Just took some tweaking. The slide out would have required a dually and we didn’t want to go that route.

[@NarleyAdventures]

👍👍👍👍👍😃, What filter are you using on the water fill up hose it's not in your gear list, that I saw. Thank you.

[@CodyandKellie]

Survivor filter! The link is in the description below.

[@DigginWithDeej]

You might have state and national parks reversed? For instance, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park it is illegal to rock hunt.

[@CodyandKellie]

No rock hounding in state and national parks. In national forest it’s ok to take anything you find without bringing in excavators.

[@elizabethapfelbaum1240]

Are there sink holes there?

[@CodyandKellie]

No, probably an old rotten tree stump that has decomposed.

[@billwilliams5889]

Cacti in Arkansas ????

[@CodyandKellie]

Yep

[@Kevin-of5mw]

Anybody else spot the crawfish? 👀

[@KevinYandell-v9u]

Hello Cody and Kellie. I really enjoy your videos. I subscribed as soon as I found you a couple weeks ago. I'm wondering if you can tell ne the name of your dad's RV dealership in Texarkana. I live about 70 miles away and I'm looking to but a new RV. We are going to Alaska next April so I'm considering upgrading for this trip. From your videos he seems very honest and has good service. If you can't on here please give me an email address and I'll send you mine so I can get in touch with him. Thanks for all your content.

[@CodyandKellie]

It’s Nicks rv in Texarkana Arkansas

[@walkinlight3380]

Do you guys have a P.O. Box? How do you deal with not having an address. Really love your videos.

[@CodyandKellie]

We have everything sent to Kellies parents. That’s our address on our drivers license

[@annettezachery4229]

Just lovely! Enjoyed it all!❤

[@walkinlight3380]

@@CodyandKellie thank you for all your tips and advice!

[@bertkelly7650]