I did exactly what you recommend. I have a 2007 e350 preschool passenger van. It had 100k miles on it when I bought it. We took out the seats and I had a cot for the first 2 years. Now I have a porta potty, a plywood box bed with storage, shelving, solar, 12 volt / 120 volt SetPower refer freezer, a repurposed secretary is my kitchen. I have put 30k miles on my granny camper, aka Pearl, having a lovely adventure a week or three at a time. It’s a blast!
Pearl sounds like a well thought out granny camper. We started out with 2 cots, a Little Buddy heater and a 1 burner coleman stove. Love the idea of using a repurposed secretary for a kitchen, that's perfect! ~~Linda
Paul McCartney, Wings, 1980. ruclips.net/video/YbvdQBz65tM/видео.htmlsi=TaRksuf2vTWFSX-X TLC did a song by that same name, but I don't think they were even born when Paul McCartney did his! Oops, I'm showing my age.
That park with the stack diameter display is amazing. I worked on a job in Fort MacMurray, Alberta where our rope access technicians inspected a 600’ tall stack and repaired refractory damage. Thanks for another great video.
Fun video. I live in Idaho and it’s fun to explore national forest roads looking for places to camp. I usually explore them with my ATV and take mental notes of places I can pull my trailer and camp. Your comment about don’t come to a place and try to change it is so true. We are dealing with an influx of people coming from places like California to get away from what’s going on there but try to bring it with them. Not so successful in my little town but places like Boise are really impacted.
I've considered a cargo trailer but have reconsidered. This summer I've just used my 4x4 Toyota and have enjoyed dispersed camping, getting away from the big noisy travel trailers. The only drawback - having to unpack. So a small 4x6 utility trailer 4ft high could hold the camping gear with solar panels on top.
Hello David! There's so many different possibilities and yours is a good one. The only thing I would insist on is a cot to sleep on instead of the ground.
@@gonagain I seep in my Toyota - after unloading all the gear into a tent, very time consuming loading and unloading. I want tobe able to camp by just pulling off the road, no unloading.
Hi Rick & Linda! We love your videos and your spirit of adventure and determination to just get out there. That makes it all happen for us, the viewers, and we couldn't be more grateful! Loved the segment in this one on "Butterflies & Waterfalls!"😂 Thanks for all the helpful tips on adventure on a budget. We really appreciate how you guys go about your travels. It is a privilege for us all to be able to come along with you! Safe travels!
I was married to a man who worked in that smelter. His brothers also. As you can imagine it was a hellish environment! They worked long hours and had a high turnover as it was hard hard work. I still have a piece of smelted ore which one of his brothers brought home from work one day. It is in the shape of a "drip" as it was cut off the edge of one of those smelter pots. This piece of melted ore is said to include copper, gold, and silver. We were always going to take it somewhere to have it analyzed to find out but he was afraid to let it out of his sight! lol Anyway, as his family lived in Anaconda I visited there quite often. Was years back and it never appealed to me as somewhere I would like to live. Good to see it busy there. Again, thanks for the memories!
Now Rick, I am a little more optimistic about how to get turned around with a trailer. I would find a place where I could jackknife my trailer backed to the side, block trailer wheels in case of slope, drop trailer, then seesaw my automobile to get turned around and then reconnect to trailer. I see from your videos that I most likely won't be able to drive my 35 foot schoolie where you go with your outfit. However I could settle for a place near the entrance to the campground. Montana sure looks good for dispersed camping. I really enjoy your videos. You Rick and Linda are two peas in a pod, have so much in common making your adventures on RUclips so enjoyable.
Thanks, Alvis! We've had to perform that maneuver a couple of times and we try hard not to have to repeat it again. Once was in deep snow and once on a steep, narrow mountain road. It helps that our trailer has a single axle and that it's light enough to push around a bit to better line it up. Also, we carry an axe, a machete and a good limb saw and we've put them to use many times in tight places when we needed to turn around.
@@gonagain this might be considered and passed along to those who have a trailer with a tandem axle. Rig a way to raise one axle temporarily to get turned around. My son did this on his semi trailer and it works beautifully.
I sure do! I wasn't sure how much my viewers liked seeing the ebike, but I'll include it some more in future videos. Personally, I absolutely love it and ride it daily.
Tyvm Rick and Linda for another very nice video of your Montana State,I am thinking I will have to visit Montana 1 day,instead of just going to Quartzsite every year. I appreciate all of the information you share with us, God Bless
I had broken the rear axial on my Tacoma and had it repaired / replaced in Anaconda. I found the town wonderful. People were friendly and the food was good. I'd move there except the summers can be hot and the winters cold (I'm spoiled, I grew up in San Diego - long enough ago when the people were nice)
When my dad was looking for work in Montana we took a tour of the copper smelter in Anaconda and they gave us small copper arrow heads with the name Anaconda stamped on them, still have mine today. I'm glad that the town is still there after the closure of the plant.
I've been a channel subscriber for quite a while now, and I don't think I've missed any of your videos to date! With floor cargo space of 6' X 14' I like my dozen year old Sprinter for longer trips and camping, and at present it is my daily driver. They are expensive, but I bought mine at a bargain price 9 years ago for $14k and would do it all over again. I only wish 4WD had been available at the time. I would take it to any of the places you guys adventure to in your videos, and no, I would not have risked crossing that stream with 18" drop off either. In the future I may end up taking more chances as I have a new "toad" on order, a 4door Wrangler with winch which should bail me out of most bad decisions. Of course the Jeep will have sleeping options and I expect to use it for shorter camping adventures while leaving the Sprinter in the driveway. By the way, as a 3500 dually Sprinter, mine does have a little more ground clearance than many similar tall vans, but I pay the price by only averaging 17mpg!
I WISH I could get 17mpg! We are usually around 12 on average. You got a really nice deal at $14k for that rig, especially a 3500. That's a nice idea about also outfitting the Jeep so that it can be used on it's own for deeper exploration. It sounds like you have an outfit that suits you very nicely.
@gonagain Well the Sprinter wasn't exactly new when I picked it up. It was to be traded in for a new 2014 Sprinter by the trucking company I bought it from, and they sold it to me for the same price they would have received as a trade-in. With 180k on the odometer, it was just broken in when I took it over. It did help to know someone at the trucking company! As for the Jeep, it's been on order for almost 3 months now, and with a strike looming in September, it may be several more months before I can put my hands on the steering wheel.
I figure you guys try to save on fuel expenses by camping and traveling in your home state, but I for one thank you for doing that. I live here in Texas and cannot really travel to Montana, so I REALLY love your videos. And this is another great one. Also I am still "subscribed" and always will be. Ok, safe travels.
Thank you, Tom, for the reminder that we really do live in a beautiful state. It's easy to overlook that after you've lived in a place long enough and have become jaded(?) to what surrounds you.
Right you are about those vans! We made a 1953 bread truck into a camper back in the 60’s. All said and done we had about $800 invested and got $1,000,000 of fun out of it. Had a 100 lb propane tank on it. Godspeed guys, love y’all.
I've driven by the stack on 90 many times and never thought to check it out. I was born and raised in N. Idaho, and worked for the Bunker Hill Mining Co. in a similar smelter. We had 2 stacks over 600 ft. tall, but they were demolished when the site was cleaned up. There is hardly a trace of the plant now. We bought our 1998 Ford conversion van 8 yrs. ago for 1500 dollars and are close to 100,000 miles since. It still looks and runs great and we will put about 2000 miles on it next week. Sure it only gets 14 or 15 mpg, but I can't complain. We have everything we need in 2 plastic totes and a rooftop carrier. The bad thing about Mercedes vans is their proprietary nature. Any service or repair has to be done by Mercedes ($$$).
Nice video guys, I think Wonderhussy just made a video of herself near that smoke stack? One of the things my wife and I noticed before we left Wyoming was it was getting harder & harder to find a place to camp in the Bighorn mountains. People would tow their trailers up there and leave them there all summer, and most of the time weren't using them, so they took up camping spots others could have used. The forest service doesn't enforce the 14 day rule up there. Safe travels guys. JT
Same here, JT. The trailers get left up in the National Forest all week and sometimes they even skip coming back on the weekends! They just park them there all summer.
LOL "Don't go chasing waterfalls" is by TLC not Wings.... The song "Waterfalls" was released by Paul McCartney as a solo artist, not with his band Wings. The tag line does sound a little familiar where Paul sings "don't go jumping waterfalls..." it was the second single off of the McCartney II album in 1980. "Billy Shears" has done quite well for himself! LOL I wonder how many will understand that reference.....
Second your opinion/recommendation for the Ogo. I got mine partly due to your install video and partly due to its small footprint. It just barely fits in my truckcamper. Made all the difference in camping comfort! So far I've only used coconut core as media. I get it in a package of 3 compressed bricks from TrueValue for about $9. The 3 bricks fill 6 individual gallon ziplock bags when dampened -so fairly inexpensive and easy to store until needed. Keep the videos coming!
Surely you guys have VHS or BETA from your sailing days. Was that Seattle to Samoa? It'd be a hoot seeing an ancient video of you two running around on deck in your Speedos pulling tying lines. 😅 Telegraph Road was my favorite. Waterfalls was by those 3 girls, one of which died I recall. Good video. Take care you youngins!
During our sailing days, we could have met up with Captain Cook....ah, the good ole days of sail. Nope, Waterfalls was by Paul McCartney on his first solo album released in 1980. TLC did a song by the same title (different song) in 1995. Are you going to AZ this winter?
@gonagain TLC, that was the name. I'll have to play the McCartney to remember it. Yes, heading south again. The truck camper rally is too fun to miss. You could join in. Paul, being an SOB, some other brand, parks on the periphery and hangs with the rest of us. Dalton, WCR, I fear may not be there. He may be returning to sticks and bricks life. Good for him though, he want's to do some wealth building. I'm pretty sure it will be Laurie, Paul, Randy, Butch, and maybe other pickups to the cabal. I plan to bring Kelli, even if I have to get a doe tag and strap her across the hood to get her down there. 😲🤣
I bought a older Wheelchair van... High mileage..High top... I replaced the engine,,, replaced almost everything!! New tires,,, Just like you said to do!! I was having second thoughts....Should I buy a new rig??? Then I watched your video and feel SOOO MUCH Better!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!! I watch all your videos and LOVE you both!!
Interesting story about Anaconda. Butte mined the ore, put it in train cars, shipped it to Tacoma Washington and put it on ships. Shipped it to Taiwan where it was smelted. Taiwan put the metal back on ships, shipped it to Tacoma where it was put in train cars and shipped back to Butte, and it was cheaper than sending it to Anaconda to be smelted. (NOTE: Anaconda is just 24 miles away from Butte) When that happened, the owners of the Anaconda smelting company went to the Union and asked for the workers to take a pay cut so they could keep the mill open and the unions refused. So, they closed the mill. That all happened when my dad lived in Montana, which was before I was born. :)
Great show as always! Hey where are you saying to hit a notify button? I've only seen one when the placeholder for the video is placed on there ahead of time, and you see it in the "recommended" videos (unless you search who you're subscribed to). Then it will send an email.
Hello Robin. On your laptop and below each video is a box that will say "Subscribe" or "Subscribed". Either way, when you click on that box you'll see a bell icon and, if you click again, you can choose to be notified of new videos being posted from that particular channel.
@@gonagain Ahha!! And here I thought I was computer savy. It does just say "All" or "Personalized" instead of "notify me" like in the other instance I mentioned, which is just an oval with the text. Didn't think I needed to take a course in RUclips . . . LOL Thank you!!
I don't know if you've ever done it or not on a video. But I think I seen everyone for the last several years. I would love to know your process and hoping and turning your trailer around and your truck. That would be a great video
@@gonagain sorry about the typos but you might have read through it I was curious how you flip the trailer around when you can't turn around on a narrow road to turn around normally
Hey,how about that smokestack outside of town. Too bad Gt. Falls tore theirs down. That would have been a good tourist attraction.. And the stack was torn down in 81 or 82..🤔
i haven't commented for awhile, but i watch all your videos and enjoy them so much. i'm a little older and don't get out to camp as much as you guys do, so i live my camping life through the two of you. thanks so much for all the wonderful trips around the country.
I'm from Missoula and we played football against Anaconda. After one game the parents and coaches all got into a brawl as we headed back to our buses..Missoula use to be a timber town and the loggers and miners always loved to see who were the toughest..We all laugh about it today, but times have certainly changed..
You guys are the real deal and reminds me of the Bob Dylan song FOREVER YOUNG, you both have lived a life of adventure and life . Love you both and the chances you take and enjoying you're exploring and taking you're time and everyday a new one from sailing to camping and flying .
I’m considering buying a completely stock RAM Promaster van with a high roof. It’s the delivery version that is empty in the cargo area. I would like to do a “No Build” conversion. Basically just set it up when we go camping. The summer temperatures are the only thing that has me worried
That should be a great outfit to travel in. There are several new-on-the-market AC units out now that run for up to 5 hours on their own battery, but they're not cheap. I would maybe opt for a small 110volt window unit with a soft-start installed and a quiet generator to run it.
It's about 17" and it's been fine for what we do because I've never dragged it. But it's going to depend on your trailer length and the length of the overhang.
There's a lot of times that we find a merely OK campsite. We'll park the trailer in the campsite and then drive forest roads with just the truck to find a better site. If we find a better site we'll go get the trailer, otherwise we'll have to stay in a merely OK campsite.
There you go and we do that often ourselves. Lately, I've been using my ebike to do the same thing and it's worked out well. Camp the first night and go look for something better the next morning.
You guys have done a great job with all of your projects. Looks like the pine trees are doing great, I see baby trees all over the place. Take care and if you are ever in Klamath Falls, Oregon let me know, it would be a pleasure to buy you guys lunch. Have fun, Mike
Look into hamster bedding for your toilet. To my mind it is less expensive and works better than coir, etc. Make certain you are getting aspen or poplar, the cedar stuff doesn't work well at all.
Because of the auger and drying out of solids in the Ogo toilet, only peat moss or coir is recommended. Pet bedding and sawdust works best in toilets (or buckets) that doesn't have an auger. We used the aspen pet bedding when we had the compost bucket/toilet system.
@@gonagain that's ironic because my 25 year old SunMar composting toilet recommended either wood shavings, sawdust or peat moss and yes the SunMar has a simple auger. I never used peat moss simply because I live in a town with sawmills = free sawdust
That's been a favorite topic of discussion in our camp for many years! If money wasn't an option and we could have any rig we wanted, what would it be. Guess what? It always comes back to this little 6x10 cargo trailer every time. The main reason is that we can unhook it and go exploring with our 4x4 Yukon without having to bring along a second vehicle and the single axle is important to us because of the ease of getting it turned around in tight places. It's hard to come up with anything that would work better for us personally.
Nice video, your travelogues are my favorite. I am also budget minded but the toilet is not a place to try and save a few dollars. Noticed the gas prices, they are also creeping up north of the border.
You know, it's nice to have the hula hoop shower along, and we use it occasionally when it gets hot and muggy, but the large bath wipes, available at Walmart, go a very long way to keeping us clean. Some of those are pretty strong, containing both phosphates AND alcohol, but others are more gentle and can be used everyday.
Aloha from Great Falls! Did something I told myself I would never do as picked up two nice young men hiking the PNT in Jasper Canada yesterday as something just told me they needed a ride. Turns out one of them had a text from his mom that said his dad was back in the hospital and it didn’t look good. So as I took them to a place with cell service his concern and real compassion made me say, I will take you clear down to Banff. Turns out his parents were planning a vacation to pick them up at the end of the PNT as they didn’t have passports only real id’s and they couldn’t fly out of Jasper. One young man was an RN and the other a geologist friend who were taking a sabbatical to do the hike. Well I said, listen I have completed all my bucket lists here and planned to cross the border by August 31st anyway. So ended up taking them clear to Great Falls to catch a flight back to Port Angeles. They bought me dinner and two full tanks of gas! We found one of those roads with no turn around but they helped me maneuver my Promaster 2500 (turned around) so at the end of the road we just stopped for the night. If you’re back in Montana IM me as I would love to meet you!
DeJa'Vu just watched Wonderhussy there. I prefer a more mature approach, like yours. Hope ALL your friends and family, in Maui are well thank you stay safe!
Oh yeah, that would be a good road for our hummer to traverse. We tend to have several options for camping when we are traveling, but when we was in Montana we found that many of the spots we had chosen were either taken or weren't exactly what we was hoping it to be. We did end up staying in a couple of the places we had on our list of possibilities, but some we skipped. Oh see I was going to say it was TLC Waterfalls "🎶Don't go chasing waterfalls 🎶". HMMMM I need to look up this Paul McCartney version. I wonder if TLC did a cover. Good idea to bag up the peat moss. I use pine pellets (pet bedding). I think it works pretty great. I keep it in a plastic kitty litter container. Love all the old buildings in that little town. The county building is really awesome. Wow that's a big old pot! Yes Linda. I like how you think. Tons of chili! LOL. Yup we have the same issue with most people not being subscribed. As for the notification bell, many peeps will say they have it on, but they still don't get notified. I think some don't realize they have it turned off through their device. Anyway, I had to go look up this Paul McCartney song. It's definitley not the same song TLC did in the 90's. I like theirs better. Not a Paul McCartney fan 🤷🏻♀Great vid, guys!
We need to look up the TLC song! There's a lot of places to camp in Montana, but most of those places are west of the Rockies. Aren't these gas prices ridiculous?! We're heading for Nevada soon, but we won't be driving around near as much as we like.
Hi Rick, Hi Linda. Good Morning. Say there, I've been scaling-back on my long winded comments as they take up Too much space, and you have many loyal followers it must take All Day to read and sort them all out. (However your content is very inspiring and always gets me going) But last week, I believe I became one of those Lost in UTube Land. I had responded to your very friendly 'come on up & visit', and how I've been getting many maps of Montana, and gearing-up planning to make the trip. I also asked if you wanted more coffee, as I have a bunch of new n different beans. I have plenty to share. So, if ya did answer a question or two, nothing came through & what you said about UTUBE I had to ask. (and now This, is a long one. I can't win, no such thing as a short story) SORRY. Please Advise and am sending an email today. God Bless.
You may have been mixing the Mccartney song with the one from TLC in the 90s, which is a bit better in my opinion. :) ruclips.net/video/8WEtxJ4-sh4/видео.html
I'm taking my Part 107 commercial drone test in a couple of days. The questions are ridiculous for the drone license and I'm a retired commercial pilot who has taken many FAA tests! it could be a lot simpler.
@@paulcurtis5496 the new regs that become effective in a couple weeks limit drones to 400' from the operator and must be in sight of the operator at all times... unless you get a drone operator's license and apply and pay for a permit and file a flight plan each time you use it.... many people are going to either fight the new regs or ignore them. drones sold recently and in the future have the distance limitation built into the firmware of the drone. LOL buy an E Bike... you'll probably enjoy it more.
@@gonagainWhy did you decide to get a license Rick? Just curious. It's not just the test that ridiculous... the regs are burdensome also. They have gone overboard on this one. I'm taking the test shortly also... and I have to retrofit my drones to make them compliant and that's not exactly cheap I think it's partly because the places that sell the transmitters know that the regs go into effect in a couple weeks..... ADSB out transmitters are not inexpensive anyways but you'd think that for a recreational drone there would be cheap alternatives... probably will be eventually. I really don't see how they can enforce the regs.... without a transmitter on the drone it will be near impossible to detect and there are many thousands of drones out there already without the locating beacon transmitter and the software distance limitations... I seriously doubt that very many of them will be retrofitted to make them compliant. I think that given the FAA's limited resources and manpower the only way they can enforce this is by people filing complaints and it won't be all that easy to locate and identify the operator to do so.... This situation seems like a huge overreach of authority. It seems the minority of careless and ignorant operators have made it tough for everyone by getting the FAA to step in...
I never understood why viewers don't subscribe? Maybe they think it will somehow bring them spam mail? Crazy..........so I say COME ON FOLKS HIT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON
"don't go chasing butterflies"..... you are suffering from Chronic Lyricosis, if it becomes even worse, you start singing like "Weird Al" Yankovic and could turn your condition in to a side hustle
I did exactly what you recommend. I have a 2007 e350 preschool passenger van. It had 100k miles on it when I bought it. We took out the seats and I had a cot for the first 2 years. Now I have a porta potty, a plywood box bed with storage, shelving, solar, 12 volt / 120 volt SetPower refer freezer, a repurposed secretary is my kitchen. I have put 30k miles on my granny camper, aka Pearl, having a lovely adventure a week or three at a time. It’s a blast!
Pearl sounds like a well thought out granny camper. We started out with 2 cots, a Little Buddy heater and a 1 burner coleman stove. Love the idea of using a repurposed secretary for a kitchen, that's perfect! ~~Linda
That was TLC, and the name of the Song is don’t go chasing waterfall
Paul McCartney, Wings, 1980. ruclips.net/video/YbvdQBz65tM/видео.htmlsi=TaRksuf2vTWFSX-X
TLC did a song by that same name, but I don't think they were even born when Paul McCartney did his! Oops, I'm showing my age.
@@gonagain sorry rick, not Wings... it's off of his second solo album. Wings was still a band but was disbanded a year later
My Muntz 4-track used to really rock my VW bug back in the day.
Oh that takes me back fo sure! I wore my 8 track out.
That park with the stack diameter display is amazing. I worked on a job in Fort MacMurray, Alberta where our rope access technicians inspected a 600’ tall stack and repaired refractory damage. Thanks for another great video.
That would be some job to perform!
Thank you for the tour of the town happy travels
You guys are so cute together. Chasing butterflies and waterfalls. Maybe one day you’ll be a neighbor for a day or two. Safe travels.
Another great travel video❤❤
Excellent video advice. Enjoyed Linda taking a lead and you did a fantastic job, Linda. Prayers for Maui.
Thank you, Dennis! And folks on Maui appreciate the prayers from everyone, keep them coming. ~Linda
Deer crossing the road was funny 😁, he was walking like he was just another resident of the town.
What a cute little town! Takes me back to my hometown small town. Thanks!
See you next time!
Fun video. I live in Idaho and it’s fun to explore national forest roads looking for places to camp. I usually explore them with my ATV and take mental notes of places I can pull my trailer and camp. Your comment about don’t come to a place and try to change it is so true. We are dealing with an influx of people coming from places like California to get away from what’s going on there but try to bring it with them. Not so successful in my little town but places like Boise are really impacted.
Our niece moved to Idaho for that reason and fortunately the little town she moved to has remained the same.
I've considered a cargo trailer but have reconsidered. This summer I've just used my 4x4 Toyota and have enjoyed dispersed camping, getting away from the big noisy travel trailers. The only drawback - having to unpack. So a small 4x6 utility trailer 4ft high could hold the camping gear with solar panels on top.
Hello David! There's so many different possibilities and yours is a good one. The only thing I would insist on is a cot to sleep on instead of the ground.
@@gonagain I seep in my Toyota - after unloading all the gear into a tent, very time consuming loading and unloading. I want tobe able to camp by just pulling off the road, no unloading.
@@davidmcfatridge get a van. You won’t regret it. I have $11,000 into my 2008 e350. That includes solar, self build, new tires and purchase price.
As always, we look forward to setting down and watching your videos. You both are our favorite you-tubers. ❤ TY
Wow, thank you!
Good point, Rick, don’t change the place. So many come to a new place and try to change it into the place they ran away from, it doesn’t make sense.
We see it happen in so many places.
Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day
Thanks Rick and Linda for another great video
Our pleasure!
Thanks again Rick and Linda, another great video!
Thanks again, John!
Hi Rick & Linda!
We love your videos and your spirit of adventure and determination to just get out there. That makes it all happen for us, the viewers, and we couldn't be more grateful! Loved the segment in this one on "Butterflies & Waterfalls!"😂
Thanks for all the helpful tips on adventure on a budget. We really appreciate how you guys go about your travels. It is a privilege for us all to be able to come along with you!
Safe travels!
Thank you for the nice compliment!
I was married to a man who worked in that smelter. His brothers also. As you can imagine it was a hellish environment! They worked long hours and had a high turnover as it was hard hard work. I still have a piece of smelted ore which one of his brothers brought home from work one day. It is in the shape of a "drip" as it was cut off the edge of one of those smelter pots. This piece of melted ore is said to include copper, gold, and silver. We were always going to take it somewhere to have it analyzed to find out but he was afraid to let it out of his sight! lol Anyway, as his family lived in Anaconda I visited there quite often. Was years back and it never appealed to me as somewhere I would like to live. Good to see it busy there. Again, thanks for the memories!
Hello Doreen and thanks for the story! After all, any place is more than just the views and is really about the people who live there.
Another good vid, thanks.
You two find the neatest places.
Very cool. Love your videos
Now Rick, I am a little more optimistic about how to get turned around with a trailer. I would find a place where I could jackknife my trailer backed to the side, block trailer wheels in case of slope, drop trailer, then seesaw my automobile to get turned around and then reconnect to trailer. I see from your videos that I most likely won't be able to drive my 35 foot schoolie where you go with your outfit. However I could settle for a place near the entrance to the campground. Montana sure looks good for dispersed camping. I really enjoy your videos. You Rick and Linda are two peas in a pod, have so much in common making your adventures on RUclips so enjoyable.
Thanks, Alvis! We've had to perform that maneuver a couple of times and we try hard not to have to repeat it again. Once was in deep snow and once on a steep, narrow mountain road. It helps that our trailer has a single axle and that it's light enough to push around a bit to better line it up. Also, we carry an axe, a machete and a good limb saw and we've put them to use many times in tight places when we needed to turn around.
@@gonagain this might be considered and passed along to those who have a trailer with a tandem axle. Rig a way to raise one axle temporarily to get turned around. My son did this on his semi trailer and it works beautifully.
Rig a way. Fingers don_tcwork so well on tiny keyboard.
Good video! Do you ever use your E-bike to explore back roads looking for camp sites? Get that E-bike back on video sometime again. Roll on! 😎
I sure do! I wasn't sure how much my viewers liked seeing the ebike, but I'll include it some more in future videos. Personally, I absolutely love it and ride it daily.
Great video and so very cool town and thank you for sharing with us all Big hugs from MN
Thanks, Dan.
PTL thanks nice Happy Trails
Ha ha... 😂 That's why we sold the trailer and went to a pop-up truck camper! 😉
🦋😂😂 you guys crack me up. Awesome video 👍👍
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Love watching your videos
I appreciate that!
Tyvm Rick and Linda for another very nice video of your Montana State,I am thinking I will have to visit Montana 1 day,instead of just going to Quartzsite every year. I appreciate all of the information you share with us, God Bless
Hello William, when it gets too hot in Quartzsite, head on up to Montana.
Have you heard any thing about Moui ?...
There are so many conflicting reports coming out of Maui that it's hard to keep up. Linda did lose a couple of friends there.
I had broken the rear axial on my Tacoma and had it repaired / replaced in Anaconda. I found the town wonderful. People were friendly and the food was good. I'd move there except the summers can be hot and the winters cold (I'm spoiled, I grew up in San Diego - long enough ago when the people were nice)
It's a nice town, for sure! Next time we'll spend more time exploring the town.
Another nice informative video. I'm glad you're able to get out during the summer and show us Montana.
When my dad was looking for work in Montana we took a tour of the copper smelter in Anaconda and they gave us small copper arrow heads with the name Anaconda stamped on them, still have mine today. I'm glad that the town is still there after the closure of the plant.
That's a great keepsake from Anaconda.
I've been a channel subscriber for quite a while now, and I don't think I've missed any of your videos to date! With floor cargo space of 6' X 14' I like my dozen year old Sprinter for longer trips and camping, and at present it is my daily driver. They are expensive, but I bought mine at a bargain price 9 years ago for $14k and would do it all over again. I only wish 4WD had been available at the time. I would take it to any of the places you guys adventure to in your videos, and no, I would not have risked crossing that stream with 18" drop off either. In the future I may end up taking more chances as I have a new "toad" on order, a 4door Wrangler with winch which should bail me out of most bad decisions. Of course the Jeep will have sleeping options and I expect to use it for shorter camping adventures while leaving the Sprinter in the driveway. By the way, as a 3500 dually Sprinter, mine does have a little more ground clearance than many similar tall vans, but I pay the price by only averaging 17mpg!
I WISH I could get 17mpg! We are usually around 12 on average. You got a really nice deal at $14k for that rig, especially a 3500. That's a nice idea about also outfitting the Jeep so that it can be used on it's own for deeper exploration. It sounds like you have an outfit that suits you very nicely.
@gonagain Well the Sprinter wasn't exactly new when I picked it up. It was to be traded in for a new 2014 Sprinter by the trucking company I bought it from, and they sold it to me for the same price they would have received as a trade-in. With 180k on the odometer, it was just broken in when I took it over. It did help to know someone at the trucking company! As for the Jeep, it's been on order for almost 3 months now, and with a strike looming in September, it may be several more months before I can put my hands on the steering wheel.
I figure you guys try to save on fuel expenses by camping and traveling in your home state, but I for one thank you for doing that. I live here in Texas and cannot really travel to Montana, so I REALLY love your videos. And this is another great one. Also I am still "subscribed" and always will be. Ok, safe travels.
Thank you, Tom, for the reminder that we really do live in a beautiful state. It's easy to overlook that after you've lived in a place long enough and have become jaded(?) to what surrounds you.
Right you are about those vans! We made a 1953 bread truck into a camper back in the 60’s. All said and done we had about $800 invested and got $1,000,000 of fun out of it.
Had a 100 lb propane tank on it.
Godspeed guys, love y’all.
Thanks for taking us along as always. LOVE the do it simply/do it cheaply philosophy!
I've driven by the stack on 90 many times and never thought to check it out. I was born and raised in N. Idaho, and worked for the Bunker Hill Mining Co. in a similar smelter. We had 2 stacks over 600 ft. tall, but they were demolished when the site was cleaned up. There is hardly a trace of the plant now. We bought our 1998 Ford conversion van 8 yrs. ago for 1500 dollars and are close to 100,000 miles since. It still looks and runs great and we will put about 2000 miles on it next week. Sure it only gets 14 or 15 mpg, but I can't complain. We have everything we need in 2 plastic totes and a rooftop carrier. The bad thing about Mercedes vans is their proprietary nature. Any service or repair has to be done by Mercedes ($$$).
I like the idea of your inexpensive Ford van and your mileage is better than ours towing our little trailer!
Thompsons Bar! My grandfather had his morning coffee there for years. My uncle was a bartender
Nice video guys,
I think Wonderhussy just made a video of herself near that smoke stack?
One of the things my wife and I noticed before we left Wyoming was it was getting harder & harder to find a place to camp in the Bighorn mountains. People would tow their trailers up there and leave them there all summer, and most of the time weren't using them, so they took up camping spots others could have used. The forest service doesn't enforce the 14 day rule up there.
Safe travels guys.
JT
Same here, JT. The trailers get left up in the National Forest all week and sometimes they even skip coming back on the weekends! They just park them there all summer.
that happens here in Idaho as well and the enforcement is few and far between.
LOL "Don't go chasing waterfalls" is by TLC not Wings.... The song "Waterfalls" was released by Paul McCartney as a solo artist, not with his band Wings. The tag line does sound a little familiar where Paul sings "don't go jumping waterfalls..." it was the second single off of the McCartney II album in 1980. "Billy Shears" has done quite well for himself! LOL I wonder how many will understand that reference.....
Second your opinion/recommendation for the Ogo. I got mine partly due to your install video and partly due to its small footprint. It just barely fits in my truckcamper. Made all the difference in camping comfort! So far I've only used coconut core as media. I get it in a package of 3 compressed bricks from TrueValue for about $9. The 3 bricks fill 6 individual gallon ziplock bags when dampened -so fairly inexpensive and easy to store until needed. Keep the videos coming!
In my neck of the woods I never see coconut coir on the shelves. When I ask for it I just get a blank stare!
Thanks!
Thanks, John! That just went into the gas fund for our upcoming trip.
I'm currently reading "Treasure State" by CJ Box, and part of the story takes place in Anaconda, so interesting to see it. Great video as usual!
Nice ride along guys ! Thanks
We saw a huge smelt bucket like that one in Tennessee! They are huge ! 👍😁
Surely you guys have VHS or BETA from your sailing days. Was that Seattle to Samoa? It'd be a hoot seeing an ancient video of you two running around on deck in your Speedos pulling tying lines. 😅 Telegraph Road was my favorite. Waterfalls was by those 3 girls, one of which died I recall. Good video. Take care you youngins!
During our sailing days, we could have met up with Captain Cook....ah, the good ole days of sail. Nope, Waterfalls was by Paul McCartney on his first solo album released in 1980. TLC did a song by the same title (different song) in 1995. Are you going to AZ this winter?
@gonagain TLC, that was the name. I'll have to play the McCartney to remember it.
Yes, heading south again. The truck camper rally is too fun to miss. You could join in. Paul, being an SOB, some other brand, parks on the periphery and hangs with the rest of us. Dalton, WCR, I fear may not be there. He may be returning to sticks and bricks life. Good for him though, he want's to do some wealth building.
I'm pretty sure it will be Laurie, Paul, Randy, Butch, and maybe other pickups to the cabal.
I plan to bring Kelli, even if I have to get a doe tag and strap her across the hood to get her down there. 😲🤣
I bought a older Wheelchair van... High mileage..High top... I replaced the engine,,, replaced almost everything!! New tires,,, Just like you said to do!! I was having second thoughts....Should I buy a new rig??? Then I watched your video and feel SOOO MUCH Better!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!! I watch all your videos and LOVE you both!!
Thanks for watching! Maybe we'll see you down the road sometime.
Nice cool thanks
You're correct, if you like the new place, don't try to change it. It is what bought them there!
What impact does the Anaconda mines slag stacks have on water & environment? The area is a Superfund site. 🤷♂️
I'm not sure.
Interesting story about Anaconda.
Butte mined the ore, put it in train cars, shipped it to Tacoma Washington and put it on ships. Shipped it to Taiwan where it was smelted. Taiwan put the metal back on ships, shipped it to Tacoma where it was put in train cars and shipped back to Butte, and it was cheaper than sending it to Anaconda to be smelted. (NOTE: Anaconda is just 24 miles away from Butte) When that happened, the owners of the Anaconda smelting company went to the Union and asked for the workers to take a pay cut so they could keep the mill open and the unions refused. So, they closed the mill. That all happened when my dad lived in Montana, which was before I was born. :)
That's an amazing story and we saw the same type of thing happen in Hawaii to the sugar industry. Foreign sugar was a lot cheaper.
Great show as always! Hey where are you saying to hit a notify button? I've only seen one when the placeholder for the video is placed on there ahead of time, and you see it in the "recommended" videos (unless you search who you're subscribed to). Then it will send an email.
in the left part of the box that says "subscribe" or "subscribed" there's a bell, Just click on it for email notifications whenever a video comes out.
@@justme-n-gracie is that a phone app thing? It's not on what I see on my laptop. Or on the app on our Smart Tv. Thanks.
Hello Robin. On your laptop and below each video is a box that will say "Subscribe" or "Subscribed". Either way, when you click on that box you'll see a bell icon and, if you click again, you can choose to be notified of new videos being posted from that particular channel.
@@gonagain Ahha!! And here I thought I was computer savy. It does just say "All" or "Personalized" instead of "notify me" like in the other instance I mentioned, which is just an oval with the text.
Didn't think I needed to take a course in RUclips . . . LOL Thank you!!
I don't know if you've ever done it or not on a video. But I think I seen everyone for the last several years. I would love to know your process and hoping and turning your trailer around and your truck. That would be a great video
I'll keep that in mind.
@@gonagain sorry about the typos but you might have read through it I was curious how you flip the trailer around when you can't turn around on a narrow road to turn around normally
You are correct. The bigger your camping rig, the harder it is to find those remote spots.
Hey,how about that smokestack outside of town. Too bad Gt. Falls tore theirs down. That would have been a good tourist attraction.. And the stack was torn down in 81 or 82..🤔
Oh yeah, you're right! It was in 1997 that Montana did away with the Safe and Sane speed limits.
And watch out for any chance to cause a fire by your engine heat or exhausts as well of dry tall grass ! but you know that !...
Thanks, Jimmy, that's a good reminder.
i haven't commented for awhile, but i watch all your videos and enjoy them so much. i'm a little older and don't get out to camp as much as you guys do, so i live my camping life through the two of you. thanks so much for all the wonderful trips around the country.
Hello Jan, we're glad that you enjoy getting out through our videos and my hope is that we can continue to make it interesting for you.
I'm from Missoula and we played football against Anaconda. After one game the parents and coaches all got into a brawl as we headed back to our buses..Missoula use to be a timber town and the loggers and miners always loved to see who were the toughest..We all laugh about it today, but times have certainly changed..
Haha!😂 A bunch of Scrappy-Doos😂 thx for sharing!🙋♀️🛻🇨🇦‼️
You guys are the real deal and reminds me of the Bob Dylan song FOREVER YOUNG, you both have lived a life of adventure and life . Love you both and the chances you take and enjoying you're exploring and taking you're time and everyday a new one from sailing to camping and flying .
Thank you for your most kind words, we sure appreciate it. I hope we can keep this up for a few more years.
Beautiful scenery and countryside up there
in Montana but be very safe and careful though
Take Care and Thank You.🤠👍🇺🇲
I’m considering buying a completely stock RAM Promaster van with a high roof. It’s the delivery version that is empty in the cargo area. I would like to do a “No Build” conversion. Basically just set it up when we go camping. The summer temperatures are the only thing that has me worried
That should be a great outfit to travel in. There are several new-on-the-market AC units out now that run for up to 5 hours on their own battery, but they're not cheap. I would maybe opt for a small 110volt window unit with a soft-start installed and a quiet generator to run it.
Just Do It, ty
Did you see any Deer Crossing Signs
Nope.
Ha Rick what is your ground Clarence on your cargo trailer. Thank you
It's about 17" and it's been fine for what we do because I've never dragged it. But it's going to depend on your trailer length and the length of the overhang.
@@gonagain thank you sir
Cute little town. Love places like that. Thank you for sharing with us. Happy trails!
But I thought Linda said in the last video that rocky roads were her favorite. Lol
That's funny, but she does like rocky road ice cream!
There's a lot of times that we find a merely OK campsite. We'll park the trailer in the campsite and then drive forest roads with just the truck to find a better site. If we find a better site we'll go get the trailer, otherwise we'll have to stay in a merely OK campsite.
There you go and we do that often ourselves. Lately, I've been using my ebike to do the same thing and it's worked out well. Camp the first night and go look for something better the next morning.
Here in Arizona, we call that a flow pot.
You guys have done a great job with all of your projects. Looks like the pine trees are doing great, I see baby trees all over the place. Take care and if you are ever in Klamath Falls, Oregon let me know, it would be a pleasure to buy you guys lunch. Have fun, Mike
Thanks Mike! I was considering Oregon just recently, but the smoke between here and there changed our plans.
Look into hamster bedding for your toilet. To my mind it is less expensive and works better than coir, etc. Make certain you are getting aspen or poplar, the cedar stuff doesn't work well at all.
Because of the auger and drying out of solids in the Ogo toilet, only peat moss or coir is recommended. Pet bedding and sawdust works best in toilets (or buckets) that doesn't have an auger. We used the aspen pet bedding when we had the compost bucket/toilet system.
@@gonagain Didn't realize you had a mechanical component to the toilet. Wife and I are still on bucket...and hamster bedding.
@@gonagain that's ironic because my 25 year old SunMar composting toilet recommended either wood shavings, sawdust or peat moss and yes the SunMar has a simple auger. I never used peat moss simply because I live in a town with sawmills = free sawdust
WHAT??? no pie in Anaconda!
There has to be some somewhere!
I'm talking to the screen "it's not butterflies".😂
Did you check out Gunslinger’s Gulch in Anaconda?
No, I hadn't heard about it until you just mentioned it. It looks like an interesting place.
Just curious if you consider changing rigs? I know what an inconvenience it is with a trailer 🎉
That's been a favorite topic of discussion in our camp for many years! If money wasn't an option and we could have any rig we wanted, what would it be. Guess what? It always comes back to this little 6x10 cargo trailer every time. The main reason is that we can unhook it and go exploring with our 4x4 Yukon without having to bring along a second vehicle and the single axle is important to us because of the ease of getting it turned around in tight places. It's hard to come up with anything that would work better for us personally.
@@gonagain yes, there are so many pros and cons to consider. Have a great day 🎉
Nice video, your travelogues are my favorite. I am also budget minded but the toilet is not a place to try and save a few dollars. Noticed the gas prices, they are also creeping up north of the border.
Yeah, these gas prices have really put a damper on our travels lately.
It would be nice to find the historians' of the ? We have enjoyed you 2 , keep up the good , ty
I use a 4x4 1990 F350 Amulance
Those make great campers, a good friend of ours has one.
They didn't have pie?
Oh oh. Next time, I hope!
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I do not see the Hulu Hoop shower curtain. How frequently do you setup and use the shower? Do you recommend having one?
You know, it's nice to have the hula hoop shower along, and we use it occasionally when it gets hot and muggy, but the large bath wipes, available at Walmart, go a very long way to keeping us clean. Some of those are pretty strong, containing both phosphates AND alcohol, but others are more gentle and can be used everyday.
love please don't try to change it!
Just back in , hahaha
Anaconda copper and. Grandmother my family tunneled udependent life and reduced lung function for a generation.
Aloha from Great Falls! Did something I told myself I would never do as picked up two nice young men hiking the PNT in Jasper Canada yesterday as something just told me they needed a ride. Turns out one of them had a text from his mom that said his dad was back in the hospital and it didn’t look good. So as I took them to a place with cell service his concern and real compassion made me say, I will take you clear down to Banff. Turns out his parents were planning a vacation to pick them up at the end of the PNT as they didn’t have passports only real id’s and they couldn’t fly out of Jasper. One young man was an RN and the other a geologist friend who were taking a sabbatical to do the hike. Well I said, listen I have completed all my bucket lists here and planned to cross the border by August 31st anyway. So ended up taking them clear to Great Falls to catch a flight back to Port Angeles. They bought me dinner and two full tanks of gas! We found one of those roads with no turn around but they helped me maneuver my Promaster 2500 (turned around) so at the end of the road we just stopped for the night. If you’re back in Montana IM me as I would love to meet you!
Yes we're back home! Would love to meet you! Email me your phone number at: opihi4me@gmail.com and we'll see what we can do.
No place to turn around. you can't drive in and disconnect from the trailer then turn your car around and reconnect?
You could do that if there's no place to turn around. Been there a couple of times and don't care to repeat it.
DeJa'Vu just watched Wonderhussy there. I prefer a more mature approach, like yours. Hope ALL your friends and family, in Maui are well thank you stay safe!
Hello Dave. I'll need to watch Wonderhussy and see how she did. She normally does really great travelblogs and can sure tell a great story.
YES, she can, got to love her@@gonagain
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Sure I'm enjoying that music. Wonderhussy just did a video from there
She always does a great job.
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Oh yeah, that would be a good road for our hummer to traverse. We tend to have several options for camping when we are traveling, but when we was in Montana we found that many of the spots we had chosen were either taken or weren't exactly what we was hoping it to be. We did end up staying in a couple of the places we had on our list of possibilities, but some we skipped. Oh see I was going to say it was TLC Waterfalls "🎶Don't go chasing waterfalls 🎶". HMMMM I need to look up this Paul McCartney version. I wonder if TLC did a cover. Good idea to bag up the peat moss. I use pine pellets (pet bedding). I think it works pretty great. I keep it in a plastic kitty litter container. Love all the old buildings in that little town. The county building is really awesome. Wow that's a big old pot! Yes Linda. I like how you think. Tons of chili! LOL. Yup we have the same issue with most people not being subscribed. As for the notification bell, many peeps will say they have it on, but they still don't get notified. I think some don't realize they have it turned off through their device. Anyway, I had to go look up this Paul McCartney song. It's definitley not the same song TLC did in the 90's. I like theirs better. Not a Paul McCartney fan 🤷🏻♀Great vid, guys!
We need to look up the TLC song! There's a lot of places to camp in Montana, but most of those places are west of the Rockies. Aren't these gas prices ridiculous?! We're heading for Nevada soon, but we won't be driving around near as much as we like.
Hi Rick, Hi Linda. Good Morning. Say there, I've been scaling-back on my long winded comments as they take up Too much space, and you have many loyal followers it must take All Day to read and sort them all out. (However your content is very inspiring and always gets me going) But last week, I believe I became one of those Lost in UTube Land. I had responded to your very friendly 'come on up & visit', and how I've been getting many maps of Montana, and gearing-up planning to make the trip. I also asked if you wanted more coffee, as I have a bunch of new n different beans. I have plenty to share. So, if ya did answer a question or two, nothing came through & what you said about UTUBE I had to ask. (and now This, is a long one. I can't win, no such thing as a short story) SORRY. Please Advise and am sending an email today. God Bless.
Hello! Rick hasn't gotten an email from you. So do it again, haha, and use this address: gonagain21@gmail.com. We'll be looking for your email.
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By the way, Wonderhussy was there not long ago.
You may have been mixing the Mccartney song with the one from TLC in the 90s, which is a bit better in my opinion. :) ruclips.net/video/8WEtxJ4-sh4/видео.html
You can say it, if you’re moving here from a blue state leave your politics there, they aren’t welcome here
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You your drone to scout sites! Tan-Ma-Haul being 20’, I need to buy a drone!
I'm taking my Part 107 commercial drone test in a couple of days. The questions are ridiculous for the drone license and I'm a retired commercial pilot who has taken many FAA tests! it could be a lot simpler.
@@paulcurtis5496 the new regs that become effective in a couple weeks limit drones to 400' from the operator and must be in sight of the operator at all times... unless you get a drone operator's license and apply and pay for a permit and file a flight plan each time you use it.... many people are going to either fight the new regs or ignore them. drones sold recently and in the future have the distance limitation built into the firmware of the drone. LOL buy an E Bike... you'll probably enjoy it more.
@@gonagainWhy did you decide to get a license Rick? Just curious.
It's not just the test that ridiculous... the regs are burdensome also. They have gone overboard on this one. I'm taking the test shortly also... and I have to retrofit my drones to make them compliant and that's not exactly cheap I think it's partly because the places that sell the transmitters know that the regs go into effect in a couple weeks..... ADSB out transmitters are not inexpensive anyways but you'd think that for a recreational drone there would be cheap alternatives... probably will be eventually. I really don't see how they can enforce the regs.... without a transmitter on the drone it will be near impossible to detect and there are many thousands of drones out there already without the locating beacon transmitter and the software distance limitations... I seriously doubt that very many of them will be retrofitted to make them compliant. I think that given the FAA's limited resources and manpower the only way they can enforce this is by people filing complaints and it won't be all that easy to locate and identify the operator to do so....
This situation seems like a huge overreach of authority. It seems the minority of careless and ignorant operators have made it tough for everyone by getting the FAA to step in...
I never understood why viewers don't subscribe? Maybe they think it will somehow bring them spam mail? Crazy..........so I say COME ON FOLKS HIT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON
Thank you!
"don't go chasing butterflies"..... you are suffering from Chronic Lyricosis, if it becomes even worse, you start singing like "Weird Al" Yankovic and could turn your condition in to a side hustle