ROADTRIP WITH US! (driving our RV from Canada to Utah) PART 1

Today's video is sponsored by Safety Wing Nomad Insurance. We'll figure it out. We'll just go and figure it out. Yeah, just wing it. We're driving towards Yellowstone hoping to see some signs or get some service so we can check our maps and find a fuel station because we've only got about a quarter of a tank left which for this isn't that much and so far we haven't seen anything and we don't have any phone service. We're Lloyd and Mandy, a Canadian-Aussie couple that spent the last 18 months traveling as digital nomads through Southeast Asia and Mexico. Now we're in North America having a crack at full-time RV life. All right we're just somewhere in Montana. Where are we? Philipsburg. Philipsburg. And we're making our way down slowly but surely to Yellowstone. We're driving to big Sky. Big Sky. Big Sky today because it looks awesome. It's a ski town. We're gonna spend a couple days there. We've been to a few places that have a name with big in it. We've been to Big Arm, Big Fork and now we're going to Big Sky. Everything's bigger in America. Everything's very big in Montana and Mandy's driving for the first time since the day we bought this RV. What made you decide to drive today? I feel bad but also I need to do more. It's okay I don't mind driving but cool if I get to be a passenger today and I'm gonna film maybe. But I've got a bear on me. This is why you wanted to drive. Yeah I needed a break from bear. Use your mirrors. All right we just got to Big Sky Montana and first impressions pretty bloody awesome. We really like it. It's sort of a strange little town. All the buildings and all the houses and stuff look like they were built like on the same day like with the same materials but it's really cool. Yeah it looks like a brand new town. I'm not sure how long it's been around for but the houses here are really nice. The shops are all really nice. It's very quiet at the moment. We went to one of the local bars for a beer and it was pretty much empty but it is a Sunday. One of the locals gave us a tip to check out some waterfalls. Remember what they Usal Falls. We're going to check them out do a bit of exploring and then we'll find a campsite for tonight but we really like it here. We want pizzas every day from seven to eight. Well that's us tonight. Is that every day though? Because that other bar we went to yesterday said every day. Yeah. And when I asked her about it she said no not on Sundays. Sunday's a day. We could try. A couple stickers and a couple beer stubby coolers. Stubby holders. Stubby holders. I don't know what to call them anymore. The acoosie. They just went into the visitor center here in Bay Sky and the girls in there were so helpful. Got some nice little touristy things so we can keep for the RV. We really needed beer coolers. They just pretty much gave us a full rundown on the best way to head into Yellowstone so that's what we're going to be doing tomorrow. We're going to do just a day trip through Yellowstone and head in through the west entrance they said was the best way. Yeah we need to figure out where we're going to stay in Yellowstone. Yeah. I think we need two days there and that means we have to stay overnight. Yeah. But it looks like everything's booked out. We'll figure it out. We'll just go and figure it out. Yeah. Just wing it. We're just gonna go check out the cinema because Lloyd says that it plays NBA and NHL playoffs in there so we'll go check that out. It's weirdly dead here. I know we're here in the wrong season but it's so nice it's weird that there's not more people here. We only missed the video games tonight. Do you want to go play video games? Not really. Basketball on Friday Saturdays. 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So the waterfall was a lot more hectic than the pictures that we were shown wasn't it? Oh yeah. The pictures that she showed us were like really mellow and the waterfalls look like you could actually go down into them and like take pictures and stuff in front of them but yeah as you can see overflowing and probably just because all the snow that's melting at the moment but still very beautiful and this walk has been amazing. Every hike that we've been on in North America everything's just like so well kept and clean but and easy to access the trails like kind of take that for granted when I was a kid. Definitely. All right so we just left our campsite where there was no service and we're driving towards Yellowstone hoping to see some signs or get some service so we can check our maps and find a fuel station because we've only got about a quarter of tank left which for this isn't that much and so far we haven't seen anything and we don't have any phone service and I think we're in Yellowstone already because Mandy saw a sign saying what did it say? Welcome to Yellowstone. Yeah. So my guess is there's probably not any gas stations in a national park right? Yeah that sucks. Should we turn around? I don't know I'm gonna keep driving for a bit. Okay. It's about 20 minutes back to town. Yeah we're gonna add like an hour. Yeah and it's already... That's better than adding being stranded somewhere. I just wish there was phone service so we could check. I know. Okay we're turning around but I know exactly what's gonna happen. It's gonna be just past where we yeah. We're gonna get fuel we're gonna come back and we would have been five minutes away from a gas station. It is what it is. Oh man. It wasn't that far, 15 minutes believe me. Yeah. And a pump open already? Wow. Wowee. Never lets me pre-authorize with our card eh? Worst travel money card on the planet. We get frequent fly miles so. We'll just stick with it. Yeah. I've got service here so. We can actually know where we're going. West Yellowstone entrance here. Yeah.