what that one how you doing guys loving loving loving the Yellowstone
River out here in beautiful Montana this is the time of year to be right here in
Montana yesterday when I came in it was raining today 72 degrees sunshine clouds
mix on and off but there's plenty of people here camping we're not alone I've
been here when I've been completely alone before so this is really really
nice if you haven't been following the last couple videos I am expediting my
trip to the northwest do - I need cooler weather I basically hit it as soon as I
got to Wyoming it started getting really nice but I mean I'm a Northwest guy so
I'm gonna keep the content fresh and continue to share some beauty from the
Pacific Northwest which may include some summer time here in Montana and Idaho
and Washington and Oregon it could be what you find what do you smell
do you smell this Juanes meal that you're gonna kill it you should kill it
you should get it you should go get it this is a beautiful campground I will
put some GPS coordinates in the video description below this video you can
plug that in two ways or Google or your iPhone maps or whatever you want and
come out here you get 10 days free camping out here with your RV just 10
feet away from the Yellowstone River it's amazing and there's at least 25
sites through here maybe half of them are riverfront this is my favorite site
so if you want this one you got to come on a bad day a rainy day yeah this is
probably about the happiest I've been since I got the base camp the home base
in Illinois this is as happy as I've been and it's a much different kind of
happy you know its nature it's what I love doing don't wrap your tent we
haven't used your tent in a while but wrap your tent alright well it's
obviously much much different than the pet buggy but you know what
it gives Jax a safe way to explore outside
so that I can sit next to him he doesn't have to worry about creatures from the
lagoon the river he's totally safe in case there's a dog
that's unleashed and gets to be outside any grass tell him Jax better than being
cooped up inside right tell him that's right I got a good human my human takes
care of me and lets me be outside man yeah I'm at 92% on my move ring on my
Apple watch so let's go walk around the campground and see what else there is
this this place here it's kepi Park is split into two different camping
sections that were done at two different times so I'm in what's called the upper
campground I'm in the last site here at the upper campground and then the loop
goes all the way around with half of them riverfront and half of them non
riverfront and there's my campsite the last one and then this little sign that
says more campgrounds half a mile down this dirt road watch out for the Montana
Gator in these waters between the two campgrounds there is a little Golf
Course little 18-hole course here private for members I'm a golfer myself
but it's one of those things that's really tough to do on the road when I
first started in Tilly I used to carry my own clubs with me and then I found
out that all these places around the country they all have unique special
clubs that are just for that area that you have to join and pay admission to
you can't just come in unless you pay like you know a ridiculous price pretty
much the same thing as like a fishing license we are close to railroad tracks
you can pull here same thing for fishing license at least in most states in
Washington state it's like twenty two dollars for a freshwater license for a
resident and closer to eighty nine possibly even ninety five dollars a year
for non-residents which doesn't make sense because if you're not a resident
you're not going to be there very long why does it cost four or five times as
much I don't really know but golfing on the road kind of kind of ended my first
year on the road and I and I gave up but I look forward to doing some doing some
golf with my dad and my brother when I get back to Washington State allergies
are bothering me a little bit I also like how you can find lots of
different kinds of trees and and wildlife around the country that's very
very different see this tree behind me I saw the snow from I put my intro
that's cottonwood tree and it makes it look like it's snowing up in the trees
oh it's really getting me my eyes are soaking wet here huh but you get this
kind of buildup on the side of the road it just looks like puffy cotton that
you'd make a t-shirt with and just goes and goes and goes oh my gosh I swear I'm
not crying guys I'm not crying I'm just eyes are watering
I saw sad movie speaking of the cottonwood flakes driving my allergies
crazy one thing I grew up with in Washington State that drove my allergies
crazy with something called Scotch broom which you'll have non-locals come
through and say oh look at that look at that beautiful yellow color on the side
of the highway and locals are like that's a weed that's Scotch broom and
it's horrible it's not pretty it's yellow but it's a weed and the only way
to remove them properly you can't cut them you can't snip them with loppers
you can't cut them with a chainsaw because then you're just spreading the
seeds the only way to get rid of this Scotch broom is to uproot it by its roof
there's an actual Scotch broom puller tool that clamps down at the base of it
and you just keep wrenching until it pulls it out by the roots but this like
three day period in August I think it's from like August 19th to August 22nd the
buds on these Scotch broom start popping everywhere in the entire Northwest you
can be out in a field of Scotch broom in here pops pops pop pop pop little buds
are popping and spreading the seeds all over and if you see me on one of those
days I get hives around my neck starts itching and my eyes are watering and my
like my throat hurts yeah it's a it's a bad seasonal allergy
for me I braved through it every summer I come back but you know I don't like
scotch room in case you're wondering this water is usually pretty clear this
is the dirtiest I've ever seen the Yellowstone River but this area did get
a lot of rain in the last few days and you still got some snowmelt from the
mountains coming down and that combined just made it really really dirty and for
that reason and for the fact that I'm not hot anymore like everywhere I was at
where it was triple digits and upper 90s I was really really warm and no doubt
you would have saw me jump in a body of water but it's gonna take a little more
than 70 70 degree ambient outdoor temperature to jump in the water however
with that said I am ready to go float some rivers so checking in with some
friends back home trying to find out what the schedule is and the float times
and everything I still got my inner tube and I got some
friends that got tubes and just gotta get to vehicles and figure it out and
remember both loops have sites that are over by the water and they have sites
that are not by the water they're just out in the bushes and you might ask
yourself well why do people choose to camp here away from the water I don't
know I'm a water guy if there's a water site open you are going to find me
closest to the water but at both sections that are ironically away from
the water they have well water drinking water
available over here it's always been on on my other stays let's just check it
real quick yep it's on we got we got drinking water
so you can you can stop here first and top off your RV or you can just top off
on the way out and I just closed my move ring for the day and we still got to
walk all the way back so I really do like this place this is my fourth time
staying here one of my favorite places in the entire state of Montana if it
were just a free campground it may not mean that much to me but the fact that
it's on the Yellowstone River and you can boondock and where I'm at you can
actually get solar I don't run my generator at all I can live out here for
10 full days off the Sun as long as it's sunny
so we'll walk back to base camp and by that time I think the Sun will have
fully set it'll start getting dark we'll start a little propane fire so I can
burn through the last little bit of propane in my tank and then top that off
I know it's not the same as like a real campfire with wood but you know what
it's easy it's convenient it is what it is started pouring on me on the way back
and I had to point out my Apple watch encouraged me and told me to go on a
walk because there was quote 0% chance of rain not not point zero zero zero
zero zero one but zero percent chance of rain although I bet you can't see it
pouring that's the other thing about the Northwest is you could have the best day
possible with amazing sunshine and heat but it still rains every single day not
all day but every single day so I'm gonna put off doing the campfire there
go check the weather report see if it still says 0% chance
yep still 0% chance of rain hello McFly McFly it's raining I love it man what's
the point of even looking at the weather joke should we watch some Netflix
instead yeah you want to watch some TV with Dad all right man
I kid I give Montana a hard time but I do the same thing to Florida is that the
same thing no matter where I'm at I always make fun of the weather I still
love it you know anyway I'm gonna I'm gonna enjoy the rest of my night here
guys and close this video up I can't do a time lapse overnight so it's gonna
rain so yeah the next update you hear from me will either be in Idaho Idaho
you teho or Washington State so I Jax now see in a few days bye guys