Best Campsite In Kyd History ⛺️ Milford Sound Nz

This is what dreams are made of. I mean, this is why we came. This is New Zealand. We have gorgeous mountains, we have water, and we even have a picnic table. This is insanity. Complete insanity. There are three people here. There's Mark over there. He's helping a fellow wilderness traveler with their gray tank. It's kind of cool. It feels like you have a little community on the road. Whenever we see another wilderness rig go by us, everybody waves. It's like we're seeing a lost relative. Good morning. We have moved into the completely un-nutritional breakfast mode. I am making bacon, sausage, and tortillas with brie inside. Well, Trish, it's because we're working out so much. Because we're working out so much. We're going to try and make it over to, I think it's the Queenstown Hill Park. I don't know how long it is, but it's a hefty hike, walk. Then there's little signs along the way that share different things about Queenstown, like facts. You know I love my facts. I don't get them right, but I love reading them. We love being corrected in the comments. Yes. Anyway, after we possibly do that hike, we're going over to Tianu. That is where you stage yourself to go into, what is the fjord? Well, it would be the Milford Sound. The Milford Sound. So you stage yourself there, and then you drive in in the morning because there's nowhere to stay in Milford Sound. You drive in in the morning, and you take a glorious ride. By the way, it really does help the channel quite a bit, reaching more people and growing the channel if you click that like button. Thumbs up. Yeah, so help us reach 5,000 likes in each of the videos as we... Oh my gosh, that would be fantastic. That'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. She learned our lesson. When you see something cute, pull over. That's what the drive is all about. It's not about getting from A to B here in New Zealand. It's about every little thing along the way. Where are we? I couldn't tell you that. Where are we? You're in Gauston. Gaston. Gaston. Gauston. Gauston. And what was your name? Dean. Dean. Dean was born here, lived in Dallas for a bit. Hey, high five. Tyler. And I know there's going to be people watching going, I can't believe you mentioned where I live, because there are people that watch this channel from Tyler Tex. Oh, classic. Yes. Awesome. Yes. Shout out to the old Tyler. Yes. The Rose of Tyler. That's right. All right. Take our coffee and get back on the road. Okay, new rule as we drive. I no longer say, should I pull over? I just simply stop. Yeah. Because there's been too many times, and this is just not New Zealand, this is in the States, anywhere you're traveling by RV, if you see something, pull over, stop, find a safe spot, get the Google out. Get the Google out. Get the Google, get the maps, decide what do you want to do now, now that you've stopped. Yeah. Because it, you know, if you miss that opportunity, 30 seconds down the road, there's not going to be a place to turn around. Right. And you're going to miss it. And some of the best things in travel are just spontaneously and stumbling across. There's two dogs that are herding the cows. Look, look, look, oh my gosh, it's so good. And they're, the farmers are standing right here, and now the cows are going to cross. The cows are crossing. And we got a front row seat for this. There's some feisty cows over on the edge. Look, look, look, look, cow on the loose, cow on the loose. The two dogs are like, nay, nay, you're getting back there with your friends. That was the teenager cow. That was awesome. That was great. It was amazing. He's like, yep, just doing my job. I'm just moving the stock from this side of the street to that side of the street, but you are welcome. When's the next show, please? We are at Teano Auto Services in Teano, and this is where Wilderness sent the window. But our plan is to see if they have time to throw it on. And if they don't, our plan is to take the window, keep it in the boot and see. Yeah, it's not very difficult to put on. I could probably just put it on. But anyway, I'm sure Wilderness would prefer to go to a service center and have it put on. So that's the plan. And then once we do this, you have, where are we staying tonight? I'll look it up to confirm, but I think it's one of those campable places. Oh, like a, like not free, but freedom camping through the app, the campable app? Yes. Like a farm or something? Yeah. Cool. Like massive acreage. Nice. But we'll probably get maybe that restaurant in town first so that we can have some lunch. All right. I'll be right back. You ready to just put this window behind you, Trish? I really am. Quite proud of that job. That tight, good for everything. I'll tell you what, it never rained at all until we broke the window and then it's rained almost every day. My God, hopefully every day it'll stop raining. Yeah. It's a souvenir? Yes. Perfect. I think it'll go in my carry-on luggage. Yeah. Do you think I can hold out for that? No, I think you'd make a key chain out of that. It'd be the bathroom key to the RV. Yes. Perfect. A little different. Oh, it's not the same one. All right. Wrong window. So we're going to mask it back up, but at least we're masking it up in the daylight. Yes. New materials. And you took off all the sharp edges for us. So thank you. So it'll be a better job. And we have a ladder. We didn't have that when we did it. Didn't have a ladder. I was sticking my head out upside down. So we'll remask it up and let's do it. Let's do it this time so that aerial shots of the rig from this side, it doesn't stick out so much. You know what I mean? I think I did a solid job. No, you did a great job. You did a great job, but you know, maybe we can round the corners and it'll, it'll, it'll make it look more like a black window. So cute. So cute. When your OCD comes out. Bless your heart. This is insane. These mounds are gorgeous. We're right next to the water. We have a picnic table. You ready to have a happy hour? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You realize that we are at another site where the boys have disappeared as soon as we've shown up. It's not that we want them to disappear. We want them to have fun. Anybody who has teenagers, especially teenage boys is booking their flights to New Zealand as we speak. Okay. So don't, don't apologize for it. This is why we came. Yeah. I want them to be exploring and having fun. So the boys are not on their phones, on their devices, on Snapchat, on that stuff. You pull up to a site and then they go out to the river. That's why we came. They haven't seen their Xbox in four weeks. Oh yeah, baby. Yeah. It's so cold. Oh, I didn't know what I was going to do. This is the most stunning place I've ever spent the night. You mean like dry camp or spent the night period at the end? Probably period at the end. Wow. That says a lot. We've been a lot of places. This is phenomenal. It's like being in the green version of Yosemite, like on the floor, but by yourself. Yeah. Like, you know, we're half an hour. Yeah. Like the little Yosemite Valley. Yes. Yeah. That's what it feels like. But green. If you're wondering what we're doing, where we're going, we're going to walk over to the maybe register check-in area, probably the first place you should stop and pay. But we saw the river. And so we did river. But we also wanted to see what, you know, where we were going to be, if we're really going to do this. Yeah. But we figured that out in about two seconds, poured a glass of wine and then did river antics. Yeah, we did. And then, and then just now I was editing a podcast and I saw Toyota with a green and yellow stripes on the side. And I said to Trish, Hey, maybe we should go get a little ticket or something. So we're walking over here to go figure out what the situation is. I'm sure it's like a self pay, write a check, rip off a stub, put it in your windshield wiper kind of a We came to confess our sins, turn ourselves in. No sin has been committed. So we're thinking we'd just give you cash because we don't have checks or can we give you a credit card or I didn't see any. We don't pay for children here. So it's just the adults. Okay. We do. I'm sure we do. Where's your wallet Mark? It's in my pocket. It's in your pocket. Okay. See how good I am at doing that. You are. You're very good at that. 20. Can I just get your name out? Trisha, T-R-I-C-I-A. You need to allow at least an hour and a half. It's only 43 kilometers, but you've got a lot of things to get through. The tunnel is single lane with traffic lights. So you might have to wait if it's a red. When you get down to there's a car park and then you have to walk down to the boat terminal. It's about 10 minutes down a boardwalk. Okay. You might get a lot of traffic. You, if you have a lot of motor homes or slow vehicles, it'd be a while before you get there. So the road is pretty awesome. Oh yeah. Okay. It's not just something that's extreme, it gets more spectacular. It gets more spectacular? Yeah. On the fast side of the tunnel, you don't have time to film. Oh my gosh. Wow. It is lovely. And if it's raining, you'll get the waterfalls down. Oh, that's what we heard. You're right up close and personal to the heat. Now this right here was a glacier five hours ago. In fact, we're looking at it right there. There's all just waterfalls melting and bringing it down all the way down to here. So this is all fresh. All fresh. So this glacier here has been melting for thousands of years. And apparently we just heard that it only takes five hours for it to go right from the top of there into the water that we're floating on right now. Incredible. Isn't it though? I have found myself so many times on this trip, just sitting and looking and like being totally lost in the woods. Yeah. But then there's sand flies. So Milford Sound has had a lot of names. The Maori name, which by the way, they thought they were here second. So they were, when they came in, they were preparing for war. Turns out no one was here. They were all by themselves. But there was a bird here. The bird was a Pio Pio bird. Tiha, I believe means like solitude or alone. And so it was the only thing here. And so they named Milford Sound Pio Pio Tiha. So that was the true original name before. Named it Milford Haven. Out of the pub, I believe somewhere over in the UK that he was familiar with. He called it Milford. Later it was renamed Milford Sound, even though it's a fjord. Just like all names, all national parks, there's quite a lot of names, a lot of names changing. It's fun to hear the history of the Okay. We're back on this gorgeous drive about to go through this tunnel. Oops. Here, let me give you an arm rest. Seems like you're the one who needs you. Man, I am whooped. Yeah. All right. We're back in the motor home and we're about to go through this two-mile. Can't talk. Oh, all right. We're back in the motor home and we're winding our way back through Tiana and get there. Our expected wait is one minute and 38 seconds before we can go through this massive tunnel. One-way tunnel. Reminds us a lot of going into where in Alaska? Whittier. Good job. Whittier. Anyhow. So a couple, a couple of final points on going into the Milford Sound. First of all, if your budget does not allow for you to go out with Southern Discoveries, just this drive, especially in the morning, but just this drive alone and then going down there is magnificent, particularly through the valleys where we drove and the, and the free, not free camping, but the, but the camping. Yes. And the isolated camping, I should say. You can camp all in the approach to the national park. Yeah. Yeah. And so, and then you can get down there and have a little cup of coffee and you can watch the clouds move around and you can still get a spectacular view. Yes. And so there's that to do. And then of course, if your budget does allow, you can go out with Southern Discoveries on the cruise and then there's tiers that you can do. You can go out and kayak like we did, or you can go just to their underwater observatory where they drop you off and they kind of go down into a tunnel and you look at the observatory underwater. Anyhow. Prepare to go. So anyhow, lots of options to come down there. If I was going to do it, I'd do the ship and then the kayak. Yeah. All right. So that's what we have to say about that. Time to go.