Ep. 182: Best RV Camping of 2020 | travel US roadtrip full-time | Full season edit

Thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, 2020 has been a bizarre year, and we don't think many folks will shed a tear to see it disappear in the rearview mirror come 1/1/2021. We nevertheless spent 2020 traveling over 8,000 miles through 33 campsites and 19 states, and have great memories from every one of those stops. This video is a high-speed journey through our entire 2020 camping season in one full-length documentary, the "how" and "why" tying all of our travels together in one cohesive story. We're only top-sheeting each destination in this video, so for an in-depth look we've linked to each individual destination's episode below.
GRAND ADVENTURE 2020 PLAYLIST
• 2020
INDIVIDUAL EPISODES
Ep. 143: Tombstone, • Ep. 143: Tombstone | A...
Ep. 144: Bisbee • Ep. 144: Bisbee, Arizo...
Ep. 145: Tucson & Saguaro National Park • Ep. 145: Tucson & Sagu...
Ep. 146: Superstition Mountains - Lost Dutchman State Park • Ep. 146: Superstition ...
Ep. 147: Saddle Mountain • Ep. 147: Saddle Mounta...
Ep. 148: Prescott • Ep. 148: Prescott | Ar...
Ep. 149: Jerome & Camp Verde • Ep. 149: Jerome & Camp...
Ep. 150: Sedona • Ep. 150: Sedona | Ariz...
Ep. 151: Bryce Canyon Country • Ep. 151: Bryce Canyon ...
Ep. 153: St. George • Ep. 153: St. George | ...
Ep. 154: Pine Ridge • Ep. 154: Pine Ridge | ...
Ep. 155: Pierre • Ep. 155: Pierre, South...
Ep. 156: Aberdeen, South Dakota • Ep. 156: Aberdeen, Sou...
Ep. 157: Sioux Falls & Sioux City • Ep. 157: Sioux Falls &...
Ep. 158: Lake of the Ozarks • Ep. 158: Lake of the O...
Ep. 159: Nashville • Ep. 159: Nashville | T...
Ep. 160: Great Smoky Mountains • Ep. 160: Great Smoky M...
Ep. 161: Lookout Mountain • Ep. 161: Lookout Mount...
Ep. 162: Hot Springs National Park • Ep. 162: Hot Springs N...
Ep. 163: Table Rock Lake | Branson Missouri • Ep. 163: Table Rock La...
Ep. 164: Land of Lincoln • Ep. 164: Land of Linco...
Ep. 165: Door County | Wisconsin • Ep. 165: Door County |...
Ep. 166: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore • Ep. 166: Pictured Rock...
Ep. 167: Keweenaw Peninsula • Ep. 167: Keweenaw Peni...
Ep. 168: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore • Ep. 168: Apostle Islan...
Ep. 169: Headwaters of the Mississippi River • Ep. 169: Headwaters of...
Ep. 170: Fargo • Ep. 170: Fargo | North...
Ep. 171: Small Town America • Ep. 171: Small Town Am...
Ep. 172: Devils Lake • Ep. 172: Devils Lake |...
Ep. 173: North Dakota Ghost Town • Ep. 173: North Dakota ...
Ep. 174: Theodore Roosevelt National Park & Medora • Ep. 174: Theodore Roos...
Ep. 175: Custer State Park | Buffalo Roundup • Ep. 175: Custer State ...
Ep. 176: Pinedale, Wyoming • Ep. 176: Pinedale, Wyo...
Ep. 177: The Wedge • Ep. 177: The Wedge | S...
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[@bhuff123]

This video is a must Video and is worth every minute of the time you spent watching it so have fun

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you so much Clark! It was a lot of fun having you join us at the Premiere event, too. Merry Christmas!

[@conniewaite1996]

So happy Zoe was found safe

[@GrandAdventure]

You have no idea...I was playing over and over in my head how I was going to explain that to Patricia.

[@johannadelbusto7987]

How scary! 😞 glad Zoe was well 💕

[@GrandAdventure]

@@johannadelbusto7987 From the sound of it, she was just as panicked as I was when her food source just drove away.

[@gina50gina]

Marc, it was amazing to see your year's travel in review. It could not have been easy to pull that together while packing up and selling your unneeded things. It was a perfect way for me to settle back home after spending Christmas at my son's home with my grandchildren, and to relax. Thank you.

[@GrandAdventure]

They sure do, Suzane! Thanks for sharing your enjoyment of the episode, it was certainly the wrong time for me to take on an edit that required >40 hours of effort, but we managed to squeak it through. We started the transition to the rig on Christmas Day and expect to wrap it up today -- barely on time. It sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas, and we're very happy to hear that.

[@TheSteelerider]

So glad you found Zoe. As a fellow dog lover my heart was racing as you were telling the story.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you! At the time I thought that my heart would pound out of my chest.

[@TheSteelerider]

@@GrandAdventure we love your channel Mark.

[@stuwardw]

Great video Marc! Every RV who travels with pets worst nightmare is if they get out without notice or run away, im glad it all worked out. Thank you!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks as always Stu! Yep, this one was a heart-stopper for me for sure.

[@lindythompson6196]

What a beautiful recap of your heartland tour. I have enjoyed each and every episode weekly but the recap was lots of fun. Thanks for the shout out! I’m anxiously awaiting to find out where you are touring next. I know you’ll love full timing it! I’ve been full timing on and off since the mid 90s. I’m sure I’ll see you on the road. Have a wonderful new year.

[@GrandAdventure]

Looking forward to seeing you out there, Lindy! We suspect that it'll happen just like the last time, we'll just pull in somewhere and coincidentally find you there.

[@gdan8259]

A great job putting the highlights of your trips together along with the narration. I'm about to start a similar journey in my first travel trailer and head to Arizona, so the first segment is apropos. Based in Colorado, your western adventures will provide a roadmap to go along with my own bucket list of places to see as an amateur photographer. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Dan! We're thrilled that the episode is on point for your own travel plans. We look forward to seeing some of your photography to come from your plans.

[@RVKevin]

I thought i was the only one making my best buddy dog wear protecting shoes ! Wow, i am so glad you found her. That would have been heartbreak.

[@GrandAdventure]

Darned near gave me a heart attack. She doesn't usually wear booties, but it was the fastest way to let her pads heal, and we've always got them now for necessary occasions. Those are the Ruffwear ones, and I literally laughed out loud when I saw they had Vibram soles, complete with the Vibram logo and all.

[@2CorgiMom]

Thank you for such incredible footage of your American Heartland Tour for 2020. You two are a great example of how to made lemonade out lemons! It felt like we were right there along side of you every step of the way. I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating that your video and drone footage is the best on KZbin out of all the RVers we follow. Thank you again Marc and Patricia and Merry Christmas!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you so much Steph. We actually feel like we're bringing you all with us, too. Here's wishing you a very merry Christmas season.

[@joelshattlesjr1733]

Great ‘roundup’ Marc! I was truly apprehensive when Zoe wasn’t in your truck! Glad that panned out so well!!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Joel! I admit it was terrifying when I turned around and she wasn't there. I even flipped up the back seat to check underneath, even though I knew that wasn't even a possibility. I was in straight panic mode.

[@johannadelbusto7987]

Here a day later...enjoying every minute and living vicariously thru you! 😄 Thank you dear Marc and Happy Holidays 🎄✨

[@GrandAdventure]

Glad you're here, Johanna, and same to you and yours!

[@johannadelbusto7987]

@@GrandAdventure 🙏✨🎄⭐

[@DanyRivard]

Comme toujours de toute beauté ! Happy Xmas to you Marc, Patricia, your family .............., and Zoé too !!!

[@GrandAdventure]

Merci comme toujours Dany! Joyeux Noël à toi et à ta famille.

[@starshipadventure361]

Zoeeeeeeee! I'm hating to admit I've had the same lost and desperate experience with my Beagle buddy, HarryPotter. And, thankfully, he forgave me and is still my Boondocking buddy 6 years later!! Lesson learned.

[@GrandAdventure]

Exactly! I don't stupidly leave the driver's door open anymore. And I check on her a bit more frequently, too. 😁 Happy to hear that all ended well with HarryPotter, too.

[@newsuperpowermiku760]

Absolutely beautiful. Been through there a couple of times, but never got explore. Now retired with a newly purchased fifth wheel plan to make that trip next year. Thanks for the videos!

[@GrandAdventure]

Our pleasure, Scott - thank you!

[@GimpyCamper]

I recognized a lot of those special guests!

[@carigutierrez2609]

Saw your story about your dog 🐶 I was in tears of joy that Zoe was found safe 🥰🙏🏼

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you so much! You can only imagine what a scare that was.

[@carigutierrez2609]

@@GrandAdventure I was with you on your journey driving through the mountain terrain thinking about ever word you said and my heart dropped when you said Zoe wasn’t there in the back seat when you went to pet him💔 I heard a similar story from a guy working at a local Tractor supply store someone had abandon their dog up in the mountain area where he was camping and this pup just came up to him out of nowhere and wouldn’t leave his side😢Can’t imagine how some people could be so cruel but the story turned out great! because he took the dog to a vet to have him checked out looks like he might’ve been attacked by a bear because he had a claw mark imprinted on his back 😢but now the dog is safe and has a great human best friend 🥰

[@GrandAdventure]

@@carigutierrez2609 that's a tear jerker for sure! But heartwarming the way it turned out. It sounds as if like us, your pets are family. I've never felt so empty as I felt searching for Zoe that day.

[@wallywilliams1945]

Thank you for the great video! Merry Christmas and looking forward to more Grand Adventures!

[@sep649]

I need popcorn

[@GrandAdventure]

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[@CampTravelExplore]

Such a great episode Marc! Of course the best parts were you hiking the Bradshaw mountains and then hiking with the Bradshaw's in Georgia! Oh the kayaking was awesome too! :) You do a tremendous job on your channel and deserve all of the success you are having! Have a blessed Holiday season and much success to you my friend in 2021!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Tom & Cindy! One of our highlights of 2020 was connecting with you folks in Georgia, and we look forward to the next time -- I seem to remember that we still have an Angels Landing hike to do? Wishing you and the family a very Merry Christmas, and a terrific New Year!

[@TheCampoholics]

Great wrap! Merry Christmas Marc!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks! You folks too, from both of us.

[@WeekendRVing]

this is some great info! thank you for sharing

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you, thrilled that you enjoyed it!

[@laurafeldt3567]

Always love all your details!!! I appreciate every detail of every city you visit !!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Laura! We sincerely appreciate your feedback.

[@johnholliday6011]

What a great video.Thank you and happy travels in 2021

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you John, and happy trails to you as well. Things can only get better, right?

[@kentarnold4010]

Great video Marc, enjoyed every minute of it.

[@GrandAdventure]

Awesome, thank you Kent! Here's wishing you and Katy a very merry Arizona desert Christmas.

[@LifeWithMikeandMJ]

Always a pleasure watching

[@GrandAdventure]

And always a pleasure hearing from the two of you.

[@thomasholder8845]

Thanks Marc, always love the recap. Now I have to go back and binge watch 2020.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Thomas, happy binging! 😁

[@fwagoner]

Thank you for all the great ideas on places to go!

[@GrandAdventure]

You're most welcome RVF, thanks so much for watching!

[@intelligentdesign9911]

T Omg! Im so relieved that you found Zoey!

[@GrandAdventure]

You have no idea how relieved I was.

[@montyhowell6050]

Thanks for the year, Marc.

[@GrandAdventure]

And Monty, we thank you and all of our viewers for the same thing!

[@rickskidmore3075]

What an awesome video. We look so forward to watching your videos along with other KZbinrs as we are saving to buy our RV (hopefully this year).

[@marianfrances4959]

Wonderful! Thank you so much! Happy holidays! 😉👍🇨🇦🦌🎄🎁🎅🐾

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you as always Marian, a very merry Christmas season to you and your family!

[@starshipadventure361]

Thanks for taking us along on your adventures in 2020. Great work. Great videos!

[@GrandAdventure]

We love bringing folks like you along for the ride, thanks for watching!

[@laughingram7287]

Nice recap of your 2020 Grand Adventures! Pretty cool ending the year with your last trip in your old rig and closing the chapter, looking forward to the next chapter, the news rig and hopefully a much better year! Wishing you both a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year. Safe travels. 👍🏼👍🏽 Ram and Kuuipo

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to both of you from both of us, bud. We sincerely appreciate you.

[@10aemery]

Great wrap up of your season! I love your videos! So well done and always focused on the travel, which is what we love. I can only watch so many "fix-it" and "how-to" videos! Looking forward to your next season!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you so much! We sincerely appreciate that. We'll be bringing you lots more travel coming up this spring, so stay tuned.

[@garyfrailey8704]

Thank you for this great video. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to you and yours from both of us, Gary!

[@larryburkett9837]

Mark, enjoyed your Grand Adventure with you this year, and wish you a very Merry Christmas,

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Larry! That's wonderful to hear, and a very Merry Christmas from the both of us to you and yours, too.

[@johnglascock5079]

Great video Marc! Have a wonderful Holiday season and best of luck on starting your new adventure.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you John! Merry Christmas to you and yours from the both of us.

[@philiptarnaski1667]

Merry Christmas to you all and Happy New Year 🎊 Thanks for sharing your travels 👍

[@GrandAdventure]

Same from us to you and yours, Philip!

[@MrChip9821]

Awesome review of the year 😀

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Grant, and thanks for watching!

[@gorilladogbeds5383]

We love your videos and are glad Zoe made it back to you. Thank you for sharing...

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you! I was so, so relieved...

[@artswanson2906]

Congratulations on the big step forward. Thanks for your excellent work.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Art! Your comment is sincerely appreciated.

[@jonminer9891]

Hi, Mark. Congratulations on a great year and almost 50 thousand subscribers. Keep up the good work! Merry Christmas! and a Very Happy New Year!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Jon! We wish you a wonderful holiday season for you and yours, and a much improved 2021.

[@asadventures_moriicoddiwomple]

Very good compilation of your year! Good luck on your full-time plans! We'll be watching.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks so much Tina, we look forward to bringing you along!

[@TMoore-ko6lj]

Awesome video, great to see the highlights of the year. Hopefully 2021 will be better.

[@GrandAdventure]

We're counting on it, thanks for watching!

[@moore_2_explore]

Your videos are great and so informative! We love to hike too, and really I don't know how we hadn't found your channel yet, but we are now subscribing. Really happy Zoe is still with ya!...and yep, 2020 was swirl of plusses and minuses for our RV travel too. Thanks for all your hard work! Dave and Lorrie

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you very much, David Lorrie! We're thrilled to have you along for the ride, and here's hoping that 2021 is a better year for all of us! We have nowhere to go but up.

[@timothyjohnson8036]

Very nice video... Glad you got out to do as much travel as you did in this crazy year...

[@GrandAdventure]

Us too! No one really knew what to expect this year, but we truly didn't find that it affected us much at all. Thanks for watching Timothy!

[@michaelmccall476]

Thanks for doing this review video. Some great destination ideas for 2021. Will go back and watch full episodes of ones I missed. Happy new year and safe travels in 2021.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Michael, and same to you!

[@bobcrispycritterrv2706]

I so enjoy all of your adventures. So much more so did I enjoy your 2020 final presentation. If I get the guts to break out I hope we can some day meet on the road. Meanwhile have a Merry Christmas and hopefully our new year will loosen up for more pleasurable adventures

[@GrandAdventure]

Hear hear, Bob! Same to you and yours, and we too hope that someday our paths will cross.

[@CowboyBikerAdventures]

Marc, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Don

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to you and yours from the two of us, Don!

[@bryongates7893]

Great I enjoyed the video!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Bryon, glad you enjoyed it!

[@lorih379]

Your footage is so scenic and beautiful.

[@GrandAdventure]

Awww shucks... ♥

[@najruqwi7008]

🎄🦌❄️ Merry Christmas ❄️🦌🎄

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to you!

[@joyforeveryoung]

Outstanding Video.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Mya! We're thrilled that you enjoyed it.

[@uncagedtravels6391]

Congratulations on your next adventure. Look forward to following along.

[@GrandAdventure]

And we look forward to bringing you along, thank you very much!

[@buswellhouse]

Great job on a very entertaining video. Your so good at this. 👍

[@GrandAdventure]

You're much too kind, thank you very much! We're thrilled that you enjoyed it.

[@waterandlandadventures4319]

Well done, Kept me the whole 80 minutes. Beautiful travels.

[@GrandAdventure]

You've got longer attention spans that we do. 🤣 Thank you.

[@waterandlandadventures4319]

@@GrandAdventure No I really don't. You do a great job and the story keeps you involved.

[@bobr7867]

So enjoyed reliving your travels in 2020! So many of the places you visited are now on our “places to visit” list as well and we thank you for your inspiration to get out there and do it! Happy New Year and best wishes for your new Grand Adventures!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Bob! Your comment is heartwarming to us, and we likewise wish you a wonderful New Year!

[@scenicdriveways6708]

Nice recap of your 2020 travels Marc. Jo-Ann and I really enjoy your videography and video narration, you do a great job at it. Merry Christmas. May 2021 bring you to a whole bunch of beautiful new places and introduce you to many more beautiful souls. God bless. JT & Jo-Ann ( Scenic Driveways )

[@GrandAdventure]

That's beautiful JT -- thank you! Same from both of us to the two of you, we look forward to the next time that our paths will cross.

[@johntoms9666]

I totally enjoyed this video, you are a professional, especially using your drone!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you John! So happy that you enjoyed it.

[@m2c2treks]

Merry Christmas!

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to you from the two of us!

[@coveredbridgeukulelebullin6163]

We just found your channel this weekend and love it your video work and editing is great! Look forward to following you and your adventures! Great work! We are part timing for now

[@GrandAdventure]

Excellent to hear, thank you very much! We're thrilled to have you aboard.

[@sep649]

Look forward to hearing and seeing your observations.

[@GrandAdventure]

We look forward to seeing you there.

[@randybirkelbach3333]

A great video. I was leery about watching due to length but It was done very well and I enjoyed watching it. You do great work. Best wishes on your full time travels. Hope to meet up with you one day.

[@GrandAdventure]

Glad you enjoyed it Randy! We were also leery about the length, but I'm pleased by how our audience has been reacting to it. Thank you very much, wishing you a joyous holiday season, and we too hope to cross paths one day.

[@ricksplace55]

Followed your Google map on my iPad, found the area on Route 12 and the spot with the juniper trees. But the side road numbers (153) or others were not on our display map. Still found your instructions great. We live in S. Florida and hope to venture out west. Thanks for great adventures.

[@GrandAdventure]

You're most welcome Rick, and thank you! Sometimes with Google Maps you have to zoom in pretty far to get road numbers on insignificant roads like Forest Roads to appear. We love Florida too (we used to live in Sarasota), but from an RV camping perspective we promised that a trip out West will change your life.

[@MastMaulaPuran]

Wow really great share. Thanks for sharing. Lot's of love from Globetrotter travel with Puran and Karen. Happy holidays. 👍

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Puran and Karen! Here's wishing both of you a wonderful holiday season as well.

[@SharpCats371]

Merry Christmas 🕯🕯🕯🕯🐾🐾😻🕯🎄

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to you and yours from the both of us!

[@henrycagle7827]

SPECTACULAR video.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Henry!

[@henryxavier3751]

@@GrandAdventure am ready to join your party ....

[@texmcs9588]

Nice recap!

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Tim!

[@mikedewitt5880]

Wow you had a great year after all. We started out good and planned to go to Mexico next for surf and fishing but canceled ,left our trailer in California and went home to kauai for winter surf .will try again when things open up again. Thanks for the nice video

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks Mike, you're most welcome! You've demonstrated the 2020 strategy of "go with the flow" and make necessary changes on the fly. Sounds like you had a fun year after all as well!

[@moretoliving2236]

omg finally I am able to watch youtube again. I live out in the boonies and have 4g internet with boosters and all and with all the craziness happening in the country my internet just came to a crawl. Watching this in 480p but better than nothing.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thrilled to have you back, MTL!

[@tenkaraintheiowadriftless]

Thanks for your nice encapsulation. Too bad you missed the “Driftless Region,” i.e., the Paleozoic Plateau area of SW Wisconsin/ SE Minn / NE Iowa during your travels. It’s our best kept secret (at least for now). ;-)

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks Gary! There's only so much we can see and do in one summer, but we're taking notes for future seasons.

[@wendybeiermann815]

Thank you. Going to learn how to operate a drone. Breath taking footage.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Wendy! Just think, a drone allows you to capture a unique perspective that you could previously only obtain if you hired a heli. It's a game changer.

[@darisanshanger1616]

This recap episode makes me want to retire super early :-) I gotta hang on though .. soon! Love all these adventures

[@GrandAdventure]

Hang in there, but take your first opportunity. Here's our perspective: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJemq4WDoZ2ZgdE

[@darisanshanger1616]

@@GrandAdventure two years ago!! Wow.. I’m on it

[@ChosenAdventures]

Great video, really enjoyed it! I must say I'm jealous of how much you are able to get out and about... and now going "full time" of course. I want to be like you when I grow up :)

[@GrandAdventure]

Dwayne, what is this "growing up" that you speak of? You'll have to explain that to me. 😁

[@iMobileAdvantage]

@@GrandAdventure haha, I guess I’m in denial of getting older... but seriously, someday when I retire I would like to be on the road at least half the year.

[@GrandAdventure]

@@iMobileAdvantage make it happen.

[@normgibson6565]

Merry Christmas

[@GrandAdventure]

Same to you and yours, Norm, from both of us!

[@camperbum]

Sorry Dude, can't stay awake any longer, I'll catch the rest later👋😊

[@GrandAdventure]

No worries, thanks for coming tonight!

[@greggbixel8912]

Thanks for another great adventure. One thing I would like to see is a few more map locations of where you travel.

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you, we appreciate the feedback. We thought about including more maps in this one, but to be honest with you that would have added hours to a video that already required over 40 hours to edit, and we were under the crunch for time.

[@rd4660]

It was crazy that the USFS closed so many boondocking sites to fight corona virus. Didn’t make a lick of sense. Luckily our 4x4 camper can get waaaaay back there, much farther than the government’s two wheel drive ranger trucks can go. And later in the year most of the ND, Montana, and Wyoming state parks were empty, so we enjoyed the peace and quiet! Yep, it was a weird year.

[@GrandAdventure]

Yep, a lot of that made no sense at all to us. For example, when we were in Sedona the USFS closed many of the more popular hiking trailheads to maintain social distancing -- which only meant that instead of spreading people out, the less popular trailheads that they didn't close had 3x as many people hiking. It was a bizarre year, yet it was no riskier for us traveling in an RV than it would've been locked down at home. Either way you're still getting groceries, pumping gas, etc.

[@rd4660]

What really frustrated us was that all USFS and BLM offices were closed to the public. We like to stop by and get maps and advice. Not this year. There was two exceptions, the BLM office in Dillon, Montana and a USFS ranger in Minnesota. The Dillion, Montana BLM office door was locked but I called the number on the door. A very nice lady answered and said “Come on in, I’ll unlock the door!”. She was sooo helpful with finding boondocking spots and gave us a list of her favorite spots. She was so thankful that we called because all summer she was in the office with no visitors. In northern Minnesota all the USFS campground were closed, all of them. Grrrrr. We were parked outside the closed gates of one campground near Cass Lake looking at our maps and a very nice ranger lady drove up gave us directions to her “secret” camping spot. Oh lordy! It was a smallish USFS road with a lake on each side of the boondock site. It was unreal!

[@WILDEBILL308]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@GrandAdventure]

Right back at ya William! Thank you.

[@WILDEBILL308]

@@GrandAdventure Watched this again. Just querious what was the place you said you definitely would be back to spend more time? LOL I have so many it is like I haven't been anywhere. So many place just whet your appetite for more.

[@GrandAdventure]

@@WILDEBILL308 that's so, so true. Honestly I'd speculate that there are far more places that we'd return to than those that we wouldn't.

[@WILDEBILL308]

@@GrandAdventure I definitely agree on that. Most of the time the first time is to let you see opportunities for the next trip.

[@e-square9976]

Fantastic! Truly inspirational. Thank you. Going forward, I know on occasion you add episodes on products you trial or use; are you planning on filming any upfitting to the new rig or are will the channel be strictly adventure. Peace to you on your new adventure. Hopefully we will meet on the road one day. We just picked our new rig a month ago. Still trying to work through it and understand its nuances. ~E^2

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks E! We too look forward to crossing paths one day. We'll be mixing in gear, techniques, etc. mostly during the colder months, and focusing primarily on travel during the warmer months. Right now we're not enjoying our typical lead time on videos (this one was only ready literally hours before Premiere time, way too close for my comfort). We burned away our usual 4-week lead time while downsizing and preparing to move out of the house. But if we can get it done, for example we're planning to install, test and profile the RV Whisper system for next week's episode.

[@christinecharbonneau4448]

Gorgeous scenery. No masks to be seen. 2021 is going to start rough.

[@GrandAdventure]

Realize that we didn't even hit a mask mandate until Illinois and Wisconsin in late August, largely due to the states that we chose to visit. While I believe that COVID-19-wise things will get a bit worse before they get better, I truly see light at the end of the tunnel for our world as 2021 gets underway.

[@AVisceralLife]

Mark, One of the coolest parts of this video was all the people from the KZbin camping/RV community you connected with. It would be nice if you included links to their channels in the description so we could check out their channels too. ;)

[@GrandAdventure]

Great suggestion GWW. We did so in each individual episode where we connected with these folks, and we intended to in this wrap-up too, but we ran out of room in the video description due to KZbin's character number limitation. We may go back and massage that a bit in response to your feedback.

[@AVisceralLife]

@@GrandAdventure That would be great. I will have to go back and watch some of the episodes I missed too!

[@gorrdd]

Thanks Marc. What a great tour! I can hardly believe you covered it all. Fond memories, even from this remote viewing side. Although there were many lovely video images, the one that stood out as being the most memorable... is you walking in the brilliant green woods in that bright green t-shirt. It just really wowed my eyes to see that. I think that was somewhere in Tennessee. Gord

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Gord! I believe that the scene you might be referencing was hiking at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on the UP of Michigan. For a westerner of 16 years, now mostly used to varying shades of brown, that was green sensory overload for me. But oh so beautiful! In a subsequent clip, just a few seconds later you can see that I just paused for a moment to pan the lens across the forest. It was a remarkable moment.

[@gorrdd]

@@GrandAdventure Cool... it wasn't just my eyes playing tricks on me. Even on the video the intensity of the green was like WOW!!! And then your t-shirt was the same shade and it's like your coming through the intense green and your clothes are getting covered in it. The combination of all those things made me stop and take notice how unusual it was. And then to hear that is exactly the kind of sensory overload you experienced in the moment... was just great. Every once a while in a lifetime you experienced a visual sensory overload like this when the lighting conditions are perfect. I recall back around 1989-1990 one evening on Siesta Key beach in Sarasota at sunset, something very unusual like this happened. Sunsets are beautiful over the Gulf of Mexico. But when the atmosphere, the earth's exposure in its it's orbit around the sun placing the sun on the horizon at just the right place, the clouds on the horizon set up in a certain way, and the gentle lilt of the Gulf water near the shore caused some dramatic sensory overload effects. In this evening, as the sun was setting, the lighting went through three major phases. The first phase resulted in the sun reflecting off the Gulf at a distance, casting a blue-green hue against the bottom of intermittent broken clouds and then reflected back down on the shore line. What was reflected was mostly blue blue-green... but it was an iridescent shade of blue blue-green that was really intense and sparkled off the gentle lilt on the waters surface. Within a few minutes, this then turned from iridescent blue blue-green to an iridescent shade of blue-green. And as the sun began to set more it cast down golden yellow light over the Gulf that was reflected off the intermittent clouds and back down onto the shore line. As a result, the blue-green iridescent hue gave way to a bright yellow iridescent hue. And as the sun set further the iridescent yellow turned into deeper and deeper shades of iridescent golden hues. The effect was so dramatic that many of the people on the beach stopped what they were doing and just looked around at what was happening in a kind of hush of silence. I never forgot that experience. And it has never happened again like that in my presence in all the remaining years I lived in Sarasota. It was a once in a lifetime experience. Gord

[@GrandAdventure]

@@gorrdd yep, having lived for a time one barrier island to the north of Siesta Key, on Anna Maria Island, I've experienced that effect once or twice myself while sailing our boat between Anna Maria and Passage/Egmont Keys. It's absolutely remarkable, especially when dolphins were concurrently checking out our hull at sunset -- thanks for sharing your perspective in such vivid detail!

[@gorrdd]

@@GrandAdventure Marc, that is such a rare occurrence... I'm wondering if you witnessed the same event as I did. If you lived on Anna Maria around 1989-1990, you likely did. Gord

[@GrandAdventure]

@@gorrdd I was there in the mid 90's.

[@SevenBears1]

Love your quality videos. Just watched this episode here at work. Sorry I missed it live yesterday. Recommend a rv park central to what I'd want to see in Utah. I'll have two weeks to see all I can.. Thanks GA

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks as always J! Your loyalty to the channel has been unmatched, and we sincerely appreciate it. Wishing you a very merry. Where do you want to go in Utah? We'll be happy to try to help.

[@SevenBears1]

@@GrandAdventuresouthern Utah as I'm coming from socal..

[@GrandAdventure]

@@SevenBears1 I wish that narrowed it down, J. SW as in St. George/Zion, or southwestern as in Bryce Canyon/Grand Staircase-Escalante? South-central as in Kanab, or Lake Powell? Southeastern as in San Juan County/Bears Ears National Monument/Natural Bridges?

[@SevenBears1]

@@GrandAdventure I see I'll need more than two weeks.. Thanks for the many choices as now I have some research to do..

[@oddopops1327]

👍👍😊

[@GrandAdventure]

Thanks Pops!

[@oddopops1327]

@@GrandAdventure 👍😊

[@travelingmertonandsue]

What a wonderful video you put together here, marc. It must have been a hard one to edit, it must have taken an immense amount of time to put all of that together, thank you! My heart sank for you when you lost Zoey. Thank heavens for both of you that you ended up finding her. Her because you are such a fine dog owner obviously, and yourself because you would have never forgiven yourself for losing her, my God it would have been awful! Anyways thanks for sharing. >Merton 👌✌😎

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Merton! Zoe sure gave me a heart attack, but her Fi collar will help to ensure that will never happen again.

[@jessemsparks]

What app did you use to track your path and show in the video thumbnail?

[@GrandAdventure]

Jesse, that's done with Google My Maps.

[@rtgood]

Could you, please, put a notation under each video describing what we’re looking at? We saw an obelisk and no idea where it can be found, and many of the other gorgeous videos. Thanks

[@GrandAdventure]

Ric, that can't be added after the fact. However, each individual destination video included in this best-of compilation has the detail that you are seeking.

[@rtgood]

@@GrandAdventure thanks!

[@biologistjim4905]

What a tremendous video‼️ where can I learn to take and edit videos like this......😯? What camera should I start with?

[@GrandAdventure]

Thank you Jim! It's from lots and lots of trial and error, we speak from experience. 😄 We put all of the camera and other gear we use in a special section of our Grand Adventure Shop on Amazon: www.amazon.com/shop/GrandAdventure?listId=29P8DKMLOCJAX . Our workhorse camera is the Sony A6500 body with the 18-105mm G-series lens that you see there.

[@biologistjim4905]

@@GrandAdventure thank you, keep traveling safely👊

[@GrandAdventure]

@@biologistjim4905 same to you, friend. 👊

[@SevenBears1]

I'm going to be a little late so don't start without me 😅

[@GrandAdventure]

You bet, I'll stall the others and keep them occupied.

[@mycull]

8:35 I think you meant to say east of Phoenix. I certainly could not describe Lost Dutchman as east of Tucson.

[@GrandAdventure]

Wow, did we say that? I can't believe you're the first in all this time to catch that mistake. You're of course absolutely correct.

[@mycull]

@@GrandAdventure loving your video series! Great job!

[@GrandAdventure]

@@mycull thank you!

[@mrelectric4577]

Gas was wonderfully cheap... Then along came Biden...

[@GrandAdventure]

Gas prices are getting nutty. We're presently in Idaho and we've been seeing $3.85-3.99/gal here this week. Little more than a year ago we were paying

[@mrelectric4577]

@@GrandAdventure "Progress" they'll call it... Lol