We are on the road again today continuing to head west through Montana. And for today's
adventure we are going to attempt something we have never done before.
We do not have a campground booked for tonight. So the plan is to find a spot in the national
forest to park this thing tonight. I'd say this is probably the most extreme version of
boondocking that we've attempted yet. I'm sure some people will laugh a little bit because
lots of other people have done things like this, but we found a spot through satellite view on
the map down a forest road, national forest road, that looks like a good spot to put this thing. So
our only hope is that we don't run into any low trees or any too narrow roads to
drive this big rig down today. So we have just pulled off the highway onto the road that will
take us to our well hopefully our campground for the night. It looks pretty good what do you think?
I trust you. Famous last words. So the spot we were originally going to stop and overnight
was kind of overgrown. It looked like a nice open field on the satellite imagery.
No, there were a lot of plants, just didn't really look like the best spot after all. There was a
little tree that had grown right in the middle of one of the best spots that would have been
good for our rig length. And so we traveled a little further down the road, and we found
this beauty right here. It looks like it may have formerly been a logging road or something,
but there's a dirt berm at the end so it obviously doesn't go anywhere.
We wouldn't be blocking anything or anybody by parking there. So there was another spot just
100 yards down the road on the right side there where we pulled in frontward, turned around,
so that we could back in. And that's the plan now. We're gonna back in
and then get set up and hopefully have a wonderful spot for a couple of nights.
Well we made it, and we're all set up. We just finished dinner. It did not end up being the
first site that we wanted, but we actually like this better because it's really more of
a single site. So we definitely have the place all to ourselves. Here's the road over here.
We're a good distance away from it and looking forward to having a nice peaceful place to be.
So it's 6:15 and though we don't usually get up this early it'll hopefully be worth
it today because we're gonna go over to the swinging bridge. When we drove by it yesterday
it was packed. And this was probably about 3:30 in the afternoon on a Friday.
There was even a concession stand, and it just looked like madness. So we thought it would be
worth it to try to get there early, maybe get the bridge to ourselves. I'm not sure
how quickly we can get the kids up and out the door, but we prepped everything last night so
wish us luck. First things first, make some coffee to go and hit the road.
Now that we have our coffee we're a lot more prepared for the day.
As prepared as I get at six in the morning.
Let's go.
It worked. We have the whole place to ourselves. Let's go see what this thing looks like. Hooray!
Definitely gonna hold on tight to the little ones' hands.
This is the train track bridge we cross
over.
Here we go.
They're just laughing and having a good time.
This place is so neat. I mean the kids just loved walking on the swinging bridge. I was a
little worried they might be a little afraid of it, but we shouldn't have worried. They
loved it. They would have gone back and forth multiple times more. So it's definitely worth
coming. It was really worthwhile having it to ourselves. So come early if you get the chance.
I don't know maybe outside a little more in the off season there won't be quite as many people.
I don't know. Yesterday it was nuts. Today we had it all to ourselves. It's really nice.
And we've been here at least an hour now if not more. I keep looking over my shoulder thinking
any moment the crowd is going to arrive or someone else is going to show up. But so far it's just us.
So definitely check it out. It's really neat. I think we'll go check out the falls. Yeah.
I would call that a pretty good morning.
It's funny how plans don't always work out the way you wanted. It was nice we got this site after the
first one didn't work. And the falls today were beautiful. We had a great time. We thought we'd
be here a couple more days. There was a grove of ancient cedar trees we wanted to go check out,
but in just the course of about 12 hours the wildfire smoke has moved in. I was
actually up on the roof earlier today just sweeping ash off the solar panels so we can
keep bringing power in. We are going to hitch up and head east tomorrow to drive out of that.
We will catch you all on the next adventure. Thank you for joining us.
Stay tuned as we head to Utah to escape the smoke. There we explore the Wedge and the Little Grand
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you're notified the next time we release a travel video. See you soon. Oh oops. I'm recording.
Actually as I'm filming this I just had a piece of ash come down and land on my
arm.