sometimes when you travel you just want to get where you're going right you don't always want
to have to stay at a truck stop or a rest area or a walmart and you don't want to spend 50 bucks
a night to make a reservation at an rv park that may be way out of the way just to drive
there and go through the hassle of hooking up resting for a few hours and then getting back
on your trip today i'm going to show you a trip that we took in september where we stopped at
some amazing places along the way and to make it even better they were fun quick and cheap
good morning bird watchers it's robin with creativity rv and i've been wanting to bring
you this video for a long time last september when doug and i were still in the fifth wheel we drove
up to sisters oregon from california and every year i've done this trip i want to see a couple
of things along the way but there's never a good place to stop and rest i don't know about you but
i like to drive about three four hours at a time i don't like to drive 12 hours to get where i'm
going forget about staying in a crowded campground they're all full and even if we could we wouldn't
fit in one and all the boondocking spots were too far away so we used harvest hosts if you
don't already have a harvest host membership let me tell you i let my passport america go
i let sam's club go but i will never while i'm full time on the road especially let my harvest
host membership go it's 99 a year and for that you get a list of thousands of places to stop
and see and stay overnight and support the local businesses when i've stayed with harvest house
i see things i never would have seen otherwise and there's more of them than there are koas so here's
the deal it's 99 a year but i've put a link below that gives you 15 off and that gives you access to
over 2 000 farms and museums and attractions and wineries and breweries and all kinds of places
that you can stay and dry camp overnight now the rule of thumb is that you should spend
about 20 bucks while you're there i would spend 20 bucks at a walmart if i were there
i don't want to spend it at walmart i'd rather support a local business you guys know i'm a fan
of harvest house i think it's the most smoking deal in the rv world but in this particular trip
harvest house was more than half the fun that we had when doug and i left bernie falls
amazing in california we stayed overnight at my first golf course ever this is us we pulled up
right next to the green it was gorgeous it was private i wasn't cramped next to somebody else
we took walks around the golf course we had a lovely breakfast and then in the
morning we just hooked up and went on our way to our first stop which was lava bed national
monument there are over 800 caves in lava bed national monument and we're not spelunkers
so we stuck to exploring some of the easier caves wow that's crazy
that's a cute
well now we have to turn around and it's dark wait for me
literally doug is in front of the camera say something hi oh god it's dark car
we didn't break our lights it's just a dark cave i don't know why we need a light what could happen
oh wow steep that's deep what do you think jack are you going to try and
get down in there we're going to try and slip down and get down that cage we can do
right it
helmet there's a great trail system
that takes you to all of these caves but we have gotten to the difficult ones i think
these you have to crawl on your belly part of the way we are not prepared for that oh
you can go left or you can go right or we can go out
after exploring all of those caves we were kind of wiped out but luckily our next harvest house
was just half an hour away so we headed over there it is a sustainable eco-friendly potato chip farm
you might not know this about harvest house but some of their attractions are not for profit
you're not going and buying wine or something like that and that was the case with this harvest house
this is a working farm owned by a family that sells their potatoes to potato chip companies like
kettle chips in fact they came and brought us some free tips when we first got there which was just
lovely of them instead of selling us stuff what they did is they supported their local community
using harvest house with their non-profit in this case they support local kids in all of the
rural communities so they can get together and get to know each other which i thought
was great so we donated our 20 bucks to that and then headed on our way to chilekin oregon
what's your name russ why do you volunteer here russ because i've got nothing else better to do
because i love it our next stop was the longest miniature hobby railroad in the world
which we rode on and this place is also a non-profit people that run this place are in
love with trains and you can tell by all of the wonderful trains that they have on display here
after we found our camping spot which was nestled in a little wooded area
right by the trains we paid our 20 donation and checked out everything else before we
went back home and got a good night's sleep so we could hit the next place on my bucket list
now crater lake has been on my travel bucket list for a long time and i've passed it like
every year but it's a little bit out of the way and i could never find a place to camp
but thanks to harvest we got to explore for two days because we stayed nearby at that train
museum and then drove less than half an hour into the park and yes it was still cold there
but we took some good hikes and finally got to see the lake that trip was really amazing and i didn't
have to try and squeeze my big fifth wheel into a little tiny camp spot in the park if i could
even get a reservation if you watch my channel you know that recently i went off on my own in a truck
camper and saw seven states in four months and i went to the south which i've never done before
and harvest house was absolutely indispensable if you don't already have your harvest host
membership again of course the link is below for 15 off i'll see you guys next week
until then i hope you're all doing well out there have happy travels and be free
you