- Finally made it to my favorite place to camp,
because it's free!
- Yeah!
We are on some forestry land here in the Grand Tetons.
- There is nothing better than a little
dispersed camping in the mountains.
(upbeat electronic music)
It's awesome!
We've done this before, we did it in Arizona,
of course we did it at the Badlands just recently,
we've done it a few times and it's always been awesome.
- Yeah, this is not a bad spot,
and we're probably about two miles off one of the main roads
here in the Grand Tetons National Park, I guess.
- We're in the National Forest.
- Okay, we're in the National Forest.
- Just outside the Grand Tetons.
- Yeah, I just drive, I don't even know where we're at.
- We can actually see them right there!
- Yeah, they're behind us, or over that way,
but it's a little windy, so we had to kind of use
Ruby to shield us from the wind today.
- Yeah, and if you're thinking about dispersed camping
and how to find it, don't you worry
because I'm planning a video
and I'm going to tell you how we find
all of our free forestry dispersing campgrounds
and I'll give you a couple of locations
we've been to in the past.
- Yeah, and one of the tips that she's probably
going to share with you is-
(Stacy gasps)
- Maybe we should wait till the next video?
Okay, go ahead.
- Maybe, but I'll give you one.
But we turned off the main road,
we stopped, we unhooked the Jeep
so that she could go and scout ahead
instead of driving the rig
through these bumpy, dirty, dusty roads,
she went, found us a spot, relayed it back to me
and said, "Come on in"
and that's how we ended up here.
- Now it's not just one rig,
we are also traveling with, pan over,
Life Beyond the Burbs.
- There they are.
- So it's two rigs, 35 foot and 40 foot,
and we are here at dispersed camping.
Now, it's awesome, we love it here,
but it did take us about an hour to get level.
- Yeah, you know, looks can be deceiving.
It looked like it was a pretty level spot,
but once we started leveling
it took us some time to jockey in position.
There's a lot of rocks and boulders that threw it all off.
- Yeah. - So it took some time,
but we figured it out.
- Totally worth it.
So today we're actually going to take you into town,
we're gonna go to Jackson Hole
and walk around a little bit.
Now, we haven't been showing you much
of these small towns we've been traveling through,
just because we have to wear masks,
and sometimes the sound doesn't pick up too good
when we have the masks on,
so we will see what we can do when we get down there.
- Yeah, and one of the main reasons we're going in
is I need a haircut! - Bad!
- I'm about as fuzzy as I have ever been.
- Bad! - So don't say anything
about the gray hair, because I'm about to cut it out.
- Yeah, he'll lose all the gray.
That's really why he keeps it short,
so he looks younger when it's gone.
- Well, I'm standing next to this one,
so I've got to look younger!
- All right, so the plan was to come out here
and show you guys everything Jackson has to offer.
But there's a hiccup.
We'll call that hiccup two Jalapeno Margaritas!
- Yeah, while I was getting my hair cut,
I got a text that says, "Meet me at the coffee shop".
So when I got done with my haircut,
I got another text that said,
"Change that, grabbing margaritas!"
- We were headed to the coffee shop,
we passed by, what is it, The Piglets?
- Merry Piglets. - Merry Piglets.
- The Merry Piglets Mexican Grill,
and we were like, "Ahh, forget the coffee,
"let's go for margaritas!"
They were delicious. - They were.
- If you like Jalapeno Margaritas,
it is a must, and because of that,
I'm putting the camera down now.
You don't want to know what's,
well, you might want to know what happens next,
but I'm not showing ya!
- That's right, you'll have to wait for the next video.
(Stacy laughs)
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I don't know if you can see this or if you can tell,
but it's snowing right now!
We were just sitting here,
looking out the window enjoying the coffee,
and I thought the trees were shedding something,
the wind was blowing it out,
but no, it's actually snow.
It's pretty cool.
So the mountains are behind us, that's the Grand Tetons,
and I'm sure there's snow happening
on the top of the peak there at the 13,000 foot level.
This is pretty cool.
I really miss the snow, so I know it's not going to last,
but anyway, I'm trying to catch some.
♪ Hear me when I'm singing that oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ And it keeps getting better ♪
♪ It only gets better, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ And it keeps getting better ♪
♪ It only gets better ♪
♪ La de da de da ♪
One of the things I do before every trip
is come out and check my tire pressure.
(TPMS beeping)
First, it's telling me right now that my tires are low,
this is recording the Jeep
and it's telling me my Jeep tires are low.
So when you get your TPMS,
you program it to whatever tire pressure
your vehicle needs and your rig needs,
based on your weight.
I've gone through and programmed my TPMS
and right now it's telling me that I'm low,
because we're in cold weather.
We've been in cold weather for about two weeks now.
It's especially important
when you're in colder weather to check your pressure
because I'm about eight to ten pounds low
in specific tires between the Jeep and the rig.
So today, before we hit the road,
I'm going to hook up the hose to my onboard air compressor,
I'm going to go through with my TMPS
and we'll fill them to my preset PSIs.
I use a 50-foot hose and a digital pressure gauge
and I connect it to my onboard air compressor,
and that's how I air up tires on the Jeep and rig.
And this hose will reach all the way to the back
if the Jeep was attached to the rig.
Stacy just went inside the rig to turn her on
so the air compressor can fill up,
and then when our air pressure inside
gets to over 100 PSI,
then I can go ahead and use my compressor,
because then it's fully charged.
Right now we're getting ready to close up the slide
so that I don't bump my head when I'm filling up the tires.
Right, go ahead and close the back when you're ready.
And as you can see, this is the spot
that I've hit my head on many times,
whether I'm washing it, airing the tires up,
because you can see the two slides here are very close.
Our weBoost is going through the front slide
in the top corner, that's how we bring it in.
I have not figured out a way,
or I have figured out a way, I just haven't figured out
where exactly in the roof I need to drill a hole
and run the wire down so that we can permanently-
- [Stacy On Radio] All right, go ahead.
- Did you detach the cable from the weBoost?
- [Stacy On Radio] Yes.
- Bring it in a little bit and then feed it out.
That's good, go ahead and feed it out.
So now I've got to go grab it.
You are clear to close.
(ice smashes)
Whoa!
That was a big old sheet of ice
that just fell off the slide top roof.
Was not anticipating that!
We haven't had any rain or whatnot,
so I don't know where all that water came from.
I guess just moisture through the day.
But that is some thick ice.
This is what was on top of the slide topper.
Glad I wasn't standing right there.
- [Stacy On Radio] Well, you'd think
after all this time, you would know
not to stand under anything that could leak on your head.
- Well I didn't anticipate water being up there,
we haven't had any rain.
I guess it's just dew and condensation build up.
- [Stacy On Radio] Well, you have not anticipated before
and got a nice shower, so I would always anticipate.
- This is true.
The first thing I have to do is take off my TPMS sensor.
This front tire here should be reading 80 on my presets.
(TPMS beeping)
Now it's telling me that I've lost my sensor.
So I'm going to add about six pounds of air.
(lively percussive music) (air hissing)
We weighed our rig using a four-corner weigh,
meaning we had a scale on each tire at a separate time
to get the correct weight of Ruby.
So our weight up front dictated that we put it at 80 PSI
according to the Michelin RV tire chart.
If you're not sure how to go about weighing your tires
or your PSIs, what they should be,
we have a vlog that Stacy will link below.
- Today's a very sad day.
- It is indeed.
- We had to say goodbye to Al and Angie a few minutes ago.
We are going our separate ways again.
- Yeah, but I'm sure we'll see them
within a few months, I'm sure.
That just seems to be our MO.
- Yeah, I'm sure.
That's the best thing about this life,
because you can bob and weave and intersect and meet up.
Your friends may not be beside you
but they're always there,
and somebody's always around the corner.
- Bob and weave.
- Bob and weave!
- That's pretty cool, I like that.
- Pretty good, right?
- Well, we're going to bob and weave
our way on down the road, heading south.
- Yes, the Tetons were beautiful.
As you can see behind me, it's just everywhere you look.
The view here, the leaves were turning for the fall.
It's just been amazing.
- Yeah, we've been here about a week,
and we've actually seen the colors changing on the trees.
When we first got here they were bright yellow,
bright green, now they're a dull mustardy yellow.
- And falling.
- And falling. - Yeah.
- You can tell that winter is coming.
- For sure, for sure.
It was about 20 degrees when we got up this morning,
so I am excited to start heading south,
although I gotta tell you,
being at Yellowstone and the Tetons
during a non-peak time has been really cool.
The crowds have been very minimal.
I can't imagine being here in the middle of summer.
There's no way, you'd be fighting the crowd!
- And not to mention, the crowds were sparse.
- Sparse. - Sparse.
The crowds were few and far between,
but so was the dang wildlife! - Yeah.
- I mean, we were expecting to see moose and bear
all over Teton, we saw three moose...from afar.
- With binos.
- Three moose and a possible moose sighting.
We don't know if it was a tree stump, a rock.
- A bison.
- We don't know, it was too far away,
but it was a black dot when we saw it.
- So unfortunately I have no video
to share with you this time of animals,
but we will come back and try again in the future.
- I can tell you one thing,
this area is beautiful. - Yes.
- For our first time here, seeing these mountains,
the snow, we actually had snow.
- One day.
- For about three minutes. - Two seconds!
- It was falling, but it was definitely falling
in the mountains, and you could see the snow
on the caps up there.
I can only imagine this place with nine feet of snow,
how beautiful it would be. - Oh, yeah.
Cold, wet miserable, that too. - Coming through here.
But you know, if you haven't been to Jackson, Wyoming,
to the Grand Tetons.
- It is worth the trip.
- Add it to your list. - Yeah.
- I didn't know what to expect when I got here,
but man, this place is beautiful.
And the town of Jackson,
it's got a really, really great vibe.
- Yeah, love it. - Yeah.
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