♪ We can go anywhere ♪
♪ 'Cause we got the world ♪
♪ And we can go anywhere ♪
♪ So where do we go from here ♪
- [Stacy] You can get out of the car
without your camera.
[Tara] - No, not with you guys. (laughs)
It's so good to see you.
- [Chad] How's it going?
- [Stacy] Good.
How are y'all? - [Chad] Good.
- [Stacy] That's right,
we are all safe.
[Phil] - We made it! - Yippie!
(upbeat music)
- [Chad] This is all pretty hard through here.
And then you, keep staying to the left.
Kind of put you right in the middle over there.
- [Phil] Soft sand, soft sand.
- [Chad] Oh yeah, you gotta
- [Tara] Don't want soft sand.
- [Chad] You gotta keep going through this.
Yeah, 4-wheel it. - [Phil] No stopping.
I've already been pulled out of one spot.
It's not pleasant.
- [Tara] So we also
want to make sure that we're facing the right direction.
- [Stacy] Yes.
- North is like that way.
I have my phone pointing...
- [Phil] You're pointing towards the rock.
If that's what they call that, I don't know.
I don't know what they call the centerpiece there.
- [Chad & Tara] That's Lone Rock.
- [Phil] Oh, this is way soft right through here.
- [Tara] When we were here the last time...
- [Chad] Yeah it's a little sugary here.
- [Tara] This might be scary.
- [Phil] But I'm doing... I'm over-steering
- [Tara] He's messing with it.
- [Phil] ...but just to see.
- I'm still nervous.
- I'm very nervous.
- Not cocky at all.
I'm nervous, but I feel confident.
- [Phil] Do you want to go right?
- [Chad] No, left.
- [Phil] I mean left?
(laughs)
I'm pointing left to say right.
Holy crap.
- [Tara] What about something like straight ahead?
It's all empty.
- [Chad] But it looks super sandy out here.
- [Phil] Let me go down and turn around and let's see.
- I'm going to drive the Jeep down
and then I'm just not going to watch.
(men laugh)
- [Phil] Well this sugary sand is what's...
- [Chad] She's not going to go for a swim.
Call me when the rig is set up.
- I'm going to cuddle with Giz or something.
- You can listen, keep your walkie on and I'll be like,
"Everything's good. Everything's good."
- We're still moving.
We're still moving.
- [Phil] The thing is not to stop.
- [Chad] Yeah. - [Tara] Yeah.
- [Chad] So we've got to just keep going.
The minute you stop, you're going to spin.
- [Phil] I'm going to put it in 4 low and don't stop.
- [Chad] I don't have 4 low on the rig.
- [Stacy] You don't have 4 low on the rig?
- [Phil] I'm gonna put it in six go
and we're going.
(all laugh)
All six.
I got new tread.
We'll see what it does.
- [Chad] This is definitely no RV.
- [Tara] That's why it's empty.
- [Phil] It's wide open.
- [Tara] That's a big clue.
- [Chad] The FBI would call that a clue.
Scout harder spots, we got through there last time.
Because we were behind that.
I don't even see a road.
- [Chad] There isn't one.
- [Stacy] You create your own.
- [Phil] I'm not driving the rig through this.
- [Chad] It's hard packed back through here.
So I think coming like where those cones are
right through here maybe?
- [Tara] There's a cone there.
- [Stacy] Oh yeah, you can see
where they're trying to guide you.
- [Chad] Let's take a look.
So this is all hard.
We can get over through
that little tiny yaddie little white thing there.
- [Phil] All these little cars right here.
They're taking up good real estate.
- [Chad] I was thinking to the left of it.
- [Phil] But look at all the sand.
- [Tara] But then there's more much sand here. Yeah.
- [Stacy] That's probably why
these routes here are further left.
- [Phil] Yeah, they're covered in soft sand.
- [Chad] If we can get through this part.
It's not too bad over there.
It gets soft up here though.
[Phil] Yeah, it does.
[Chad] Left of it doesn't look too bad.
- [Phil] Stace, you got the spots marked?
- [Stacy] (over the walkie-talkie) Going to it now.
- [Phil] There's another 5th wheel coming down.
Way off to the left.
- [Tara] (over the walkie-talkie) They better not take our spot.
- [Phil] I'm going to try and let him get
a little bit in front of me.
- [Stacy] (over the walkie talkie) That's a good idea
because you want to be able to not have to stop.
- [Phil] All right, here I come.
- [Stacy] (over the walkie-talkie) Whew! You got this!
- [Stacy] (over the walkie-talkie) Alright, be careful.
♪ Rolling, rolling lights ♪
♪ Got a green light ♪
♪ Are you ready for this? ♪
♪ Got the green light ♪
♪ There's no red light ♪
♪ Got the green light ♪
♪ I'm ready to go ♪
♪ I got to go ♪
♪ I'm going to tell ya all about it ♪
♪ Watch me now ♪
♪ I'm ready to go ♪
♪ Look out below ♪
♪ I'm going to show you all about it ♪
♪ Watch me now ♪
♪ I'm ready to go ♪
(chorus vocalizes)
♪ I'm ready to go ♪
(chorus vocalizes)
♪ I got a feeling that is so divine ♪
♪ Oh I got something that you can't define ♪
♪ I gotta show ya ♪
♪ So come on tell me... ♪
- [Stacy] (over the walkie-talkie) I will stand at the pallet
just so you can get an idea.
- [Phil] I don't want to be too close to that dude.
But I also gotta be able to,
Chad's got to be able to get behind me.
- [Stacy] (over the walkie-talkie) I agree.
I just was trying to give you a visual.
- [Phil] I don't want the tires in soft stuff,
especially the back tires.
- [Tara] (over the walkie-talkie) You can pull up forward
a little bit.
- [Phil] How's it look for Chad
to back up behind me by that white car?
- [Tara] (over the walkie-talkie) I think he can
but I don't know. I'm not the backer-upper.
- [Stacy] (over the walkie-talkie) Hey, Chad can you hear us?
- [Phil] Chad just went offline with a different...
He's talking but nothing's coming through.
- [Chad] (over the walkie-talkie) This thing
works a lot better when I turn it on.
- [Phil] There we go.
Do I need to move up some?
- [Chad] (over the walkie-talkie) Yeah, just a little bit
and then we can back in right here.
- [Phil] Should I just back all the way up
and then let Chad back in first
and then I come around him?
- [Chad] (over the walkie-talkie) No, no, no
you're good, you're good.
♪ This is the good life ♪
♪ Soak in the good vibes ♪
♪ We're living out our dreams ♪
♪ We're living wild and free ♪
♪ So drink up the sunshine ♪
♪ 'Cause everything's all right ♪
♪ We're living out our dreams ♪
♪ Yeah this is the good life ♪
- Every time we stay at a cool boondocking spot,
we get the same questions over and over in the comments.
How do you find these really cool places?
We've been lucky enough to stay
at quite a few of these really epic dispersing campgrounds.
So today I thought I would quickly walk you through
a couple of the resources
I use to find these awesome places.
There are a lot of resources out there
that make it really easy to find
these awesome camping locations.
But no resource is perfect
and none of them have all of these sites listed.
So I do recommend that you have several
of these resources in your arsenal.
We plan to explore Lake Powell
with Chad and Tara from Changing Lanes as you just saw.
So once I knew where we were going,
then I can start looking up all the dispersed camping,
or boondocking areas around Lake Powell.
So let's jump right in and let me show you my steps
to finding these campgrounds.
First step for me is RV Trip Wizard.
And the reason I start here first
is because I'm probably already in RV Trip Wizard
because I use that as my trip planner.
I've been using it since before we even hit the road.
And as a trip planner, it is my hands down favorite.
Let's go ahead and type in Lake Powell.
And you can see right outside Lake Powell,
is Lone Rock Beach.
And that is exactly where we stayed.
So this is the first place that I usually go.
But unfortunately RV Trip Wizard doesn't always show
all the options for dispersed camping.
My next choice for finding dispersed camping
is actually The Dyrt.
Now although I don't use The Dyrt for trip planning,
I don't really like their trip planner.
I do really like it for finding this kind of camping
because really The Dyrt is one of the better ones.
They actually started their app
with outback camping and dispersed camping.
So that's kind of their foundation.
So they really, really do it well.
Let's hit "explore the map"
and then let's type in Lake Powell
and see what pops up for them.
So you can see, they also have several options.
And if we click on these,
you will see, let's see what pulls up.
This is Glen Canyon dispersing area,
and here is Lone Rock Beach, which is again where we stayed.
My next choice is Campendium.
And Campendium is a great site.
It's been around for a while and it is still free.
So let's pop in Lake Powell.
You can see I've typed it before.
So here's Lake Powell.
And then you can see that it pulls up quite a few
around the Lake Powell area.
You could see this is Lake Powell.
So this one is Lone Rock Beach.
It's actually the one that we were looking for.
As a final resource for you,
I also use this book.
It is "Free and Low Cost Campgrounds."
So it's going to have the dispersed camping.
It's going to have a lot of options in there.
I actually used this to find
our campgrounds just outside Yellowstone,
which were forestry campgrounds.
And they were, were perfect for us.
Now once you find the location
that you think you want to go to
make sure you read reviews.
Not all of these areas will be accessible
for every size RV.
So we always read all the reviews
to see if somebody our size or bigger
has had an easy time with that area.
And then once we get there,
we always detach the Jeep so we can check out the terrain
before we take the RV back there.
Now I know what you're saying. I don't have a toad.
I can't easily unhook the Jeep.
I have a fifth-wheel or I have a trailer.
Well usually there's a place
where you can stash it off the side of the road.
So you can also detach.
I would really, really recommend it.
We've seen a lot of people get stuck in these areas,
including Lone Rock Beach.
Because they just took their rig down there
instead of scouting it out first.
Now, like I said, there are a ton of resources out there
for finding these types of campgrounds,
not just the resources that I use.
So I would love to know what you're using.
So put it down in the comments.
What your favorite go-to is
for finding these types of campgrounds,
because I'm sure somebody is curious
and they're trying to decide which one, which app,
which resource they would like to try first.
Now I know today we talked about RV Trip Wizard
and The Dyrt,
and I have a ton of people
asking for a side-by-side comparison.
Don't worry, it's coming.
It's in the works. I hope to have it out next week.
And there are a lot of pros and cons
for both The Dyrt and RV Trip Wizard.
So hopefully after we review them,
you can decide which one you like better,
or you may want both for different reasons.
So that is coming next week.
Now links for all the items we talked about today,
I will drop them below.
All right, that's it for these quick tips,
let's get back to Lone Rock Beach.
- [Stacy] Tara's pro tip for the day.
- [Tara] Tara's pro tip for the day.
The lady at the gate who took our money,
said there are new restrooms
and that her tip was to drive all the way to the end
and use the bathrooms that are furthest away
because nobody uses them.
I like that tip.
- [Stacy] Thank you Tara's tip!
[Tara] - It wasn't my tip, I'm just sharing a tip,
but you're welcome.
- I know we've been telling you how bad his knees are
and you're wondering why we're hiking down
to Horseshoe Bend, because it is 3/4 of a mile.
But thankfully they have some upgrades
and this is all paved now.
So we won't be on sand and uneven,
well, we're hoping, uneven ground.
So we'll see how well his knee holds out.
- Yeah, we'll see.
So far so good.
But I didn't want to miss this
and have to be the guy that sits in a truck
while everybody's out having fun.
- Yeah. Phil can be a little stubborn that way.
- Yeah.
♪ Hear me when I'm singing now ♪
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
♪ And it keeps getting better ♪
♪ It only gets better ♪
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
- [Phil] It's even better in person.
- Sorry.
- [Stacy] Tara's allowed to be in our videos.
[Phil] - It didn't feel like I had my sunglasses on.
[Stacy] - Major panic Phil. What's happening?
[Phil] - I did, I was like "Oh, where are my sunglasses?"
[Phil] I'm good, I'm good thanks.
[Stacy] - Okay, okay.
All right we're back again. Round two.
Yesterday turned out to be...
not really a dud cause it's still beautiful.
But the sun was right in our face.
- [Tara] Sunset-ish time isn't the best time.
[Stacy] - So you're going to want to come in the morning.
♪ What a perfect, what a perfect way to spend the day ♪
♪ Just dreaming ♪
♪ Way to spend the day ♪
♪ Just honey dew, baby boo, sugar bee, love me ♪
♪ Way to spend the day ♪
♪ Just hoping you feel the same ♪
[Stacy] - We checked another thing off the bucket list.
]Phil] - We did. This is freaking amazing.
- Yeah.
- This view, the contrast and colors.
I mean, I'm jealous
because those kayakers down there make it look so inviting.
I mean, look they're, they're literally just floating.
- It looks like they're just floating, yeah.
- We've got to do that.
- Well it is on the list.
I don't know if we're going to make it,
but we're trying to get reservations
to actually kayak around there.
- Yeah, man, if you haven't been here before,
pictures, don't do it justice.
- No. And if you want the best picture, seriously,
you have to show up here at sunrise.
So it's just peeking over the mountain
because the sun is,
even though we came in the morning and it's on our backs,
it is super bright.
So if you see all those epic pictures out there,
I think some of the best ones I've seen
are on Finding Our Someday.
So find them on their Instagram
and he just takes the most beautiful pictures.
But he obviously showed up at the crack of dawn
to get the best pics.
Woo hoo!
So that definitely, I recommend that to you.
So that's the only way in all these locations
that you get those epic pictures.
Is you have to be willing to get out of bed to do it.
- Yesterday we were here in the evening
when the sun was setting and you just couldn't,
you couldn't enjoy it
because the sun was right in your face.
And every picture that we tried to take,
there was just sun beams and glares.
This is the time of day to do it.
- We're dropping into another little scenic view here
of the dam.
- Yeah. I think you could see... right over there.
Stace point to it.
- Right there.
- Ta da! Vanna.
- I didn't want my big floppy hat to get in the way.
(laughs)
But this is the Glen Canyon Dam Overlook.
- That's pretty cool.
You can also take a tour of the dam if you wanted.
I don't know if we're going to be able to squeeze that in.
- You don't think the dam, but oh,
you don't think I can make the hike.
You don't think my damn knee will make the dam overlook?
- [Tara] I don't know.
- Damn, well we're going to give it the college try.
- [Stacy] It's stairs-ish
- Okay. Well look, I know how to drop and roll.
Ohhh, look at the view of the dam.
- [Stacy] No butt shots.
- [Phil] Oh I got, we got to redo it then.
- [Chad] You can get my but as much as you want.
- [Phil] Chad's good.
- [Chad] That sounds bad,
if you play that back it sounds weird.
(laughs)
♪ I want to run through the field ♪
♪ just to feel the wind in my hair ♪
♪ I want to drive through the night ♪
♪ 'Cause I feel like going somewhere ♪
♪ I don't need a reason ♪
♪ I don't need permission ♪
♪ 'Cause I don't care ♪
♪ So if you want to take a ride ♪
♪ Take my hand and I'll take you there ♪
- This is a really short hike,
(bladablah bleh)
[Phil]- (imitates Stacy) Hike. This is a hike.
- This is a really short...
I can't even speak what is wrong with me?
- Okay.
- It was a really short hike.
It was only 0.2 miles down here.
And there is a rail that will assist you
from sliding and busting your tail.
But I can tell you in this heat,
that rail was pretty hot.
- Yeah. So don't wear flip flops.
Like someone I know.
- I told her this morning to put on her regular shoes
or her hiking shoes. Does she listen to me?
No.
- Well, this was not on the schedule.
This was an add-on.
- Doesn't matter. We went to Horseshoe Bend.
She was flopping around.
- But it was fine for Horseshoe Bend.
It's paved, I'm good. I'm golden.
- Move over lady!
Well, it's a good thing I'm all done here.
- Well, it's about time.
I've been off-camera too long. We got to wrap this thing up. Let's go.
- Oh my gosh. All right guys.
Thanks so much for watching.
Don't forget you can find us on Facebook,
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- And we may be in your neck of the woods soon.
You never know.
So keep an eye out on and follow our travels on social media
see if you can figure out where we're going to next.
- That's right.
Thanks again. And maybe one day we'll see you -
- On the road. - On the road.
♪ Can you see it ♪
♪ We got a beautiful story ♪
♪ Every moment on and on ♪
♪ We got a beautiful story ♪
♪ And we've only just begun ♪
♪ The best is yet to come ♪