Well done sir and Ms. Grand Adventure!! We recall our trip in Montana boulder river. The Whispering Horse movie was being filmed. The river road was busy with trucks and trailers supporting the movie. We of course drove to the small campground at the end with our pickup camper. Great time. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Take care.
Great video to wrap up the season. I knew that you had camped in several nice places this year but I had forgotten just how many there were. You consistently have the best year end wrap up video of any RV channel. Looking forward to what your travels in 2024 may bring.
that was a good trip. Just today I got my miniRV, 2016 Toyota Sienna Le, now to take all the seats out except drivers and build it out to travel in. I have 47 places in LA to explore starting in Feb.
Oh man! I’m not feeling well this evening and forgot it was Grand Adventure night! But I’ve got to say how HAPPY I am that you enjoyed the Springs at Borrego. 😊
You need to hurry up and get old LOL....Those COE campgrounds are half off with the America the Beautiful pass...The Senior one is $80 for a lifetime....COE campgrounds are my favorite and really like the place here in this video...Thanks for sharing that....That Ocean Cove spot you show here i have tent camped at a couple times before motorhome times with a buddy who abalone dives in the cove there...This has always been his go to spot as we only live bout an 1 1/2 hr. away.....You lucky with the weather there this time, ive seen it be pretty darn nasty there....Enjoy relaxing now and look forward to seeing your Quartzsite thing in future video....stay safe, be well...
My husband and I chose Fort Davis as our home base while traveling around the west for 10 years. Loved it there. As a widow i now winter in AZ and like it better than Florida for the reasons you mentioned.
Our deepest condolences for your loss, Kate. We do love Texas too, though. I think that if we weren't running towards the snow each winter for ski season, we might very well be wintering along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Thanks for the recap! My wife got me started this year looking at all your videos. We have binged watched all your past videos. Hope you and yours have a Happy New Year! Safe travels into 2024!
Falling asleep next to a babbling river sounds wonderful. The flowers were beautiful on the desert site. Great best of video! Happy New Year!🥳-Michelle
Thank you sir very much, Michelle! We appreciate your comment, and we are happy to hear that you enjoyed this retrospective. Happy New Year as well to you and yours!
Thank you Tina! The principles are the same now as they were then, but we've thought about another episode walking viewers through GaiaGPS, which we've started using for identifying public land areas. It has the added advantage of working with Android Auto or Apple Car Play to display topo maps, land boundaries and more right on the vehicle's head unit.
Great retrospective Marc. Question #1. Due you carry an onboard generator? Q2. How many days can you comfortable boondock until you need to dump your tanks? Q3. Tank sizes? My vote for the Grand Champion is the Boulder River Montana site, that one is special! Nice job.
Thank you as always, BBB! We do indeed carry a generator, although we seldom use it. We can go about a week on our freshwater and gray tanks, and two to three weeks on a black tank. Our tanks are all 50 gallons each.
Marc, Dawn and I always enjoy your videos. You do a fantastic job with your cinematography, and you have made many suggestions that we enjoyed and visited during our RV travels. Looking forward to your 2024 plans -- hope to run into you on the road someday.
Marc, I always love these best episodes of the year. You did a great selection based upon the most notable criteria. Glad to hear that the whole season went without any trauma. Remember the year your travel trailer axle broke on three separate occasions. Then the slideout failed at the very last episode. What a year that was. So... was it at Whitney Pocket where you snuggled up to a cactus?? I can't remember.🤔🤣 This was a fabulous year and the Anza Borreggo stay was really beautiful. Just lovely accomodations with the mountains as a backdrop. What an incredible desert area with wonderful slot canyons. Such a different part of California. Thanks for making this all available and for the tremendous effort you put into every episode.😊 Looking forward to your next year's travels. Gord
Wow, Gord. We sincerely appreciate that. It's comments like yours that make the effort required to produce an episode like this one so worthwhile. And no, my close-up encounter with a cholla cactus was from our Tucson Mountains episode. 😁
@@GrandAdventure Thanks... and your welcome, Marc. All the fellow UA-camrs and followers feel the same way. You make the effort so worthwhile and enjoyable. I look forward to going to see your movies every Wednesday. This was my fifth year. I can hardly believe it's been that long. Gord
Great stuff, thanks for putting this together. Not a CA guy, but I might have to become one, that oceanside spot is amazing. Nice featuring a HipCamp as well. Happy camping New Year!
Thanks and same to you, Sugar! Despite its diverse natural beauty I'm really not a CA guy either -- for one thing, the price of everything there will kill ya -- but that spot on the Sonoma Coast was oh-so-special.
Vous aussi, Denis! Speaking of things helpful for your own adventures, you may find our interactive episode map useful: grandadventure.tv/2019/07/28/interactive-episode-map/
Thank you very much Mark. It's really awesome. No doubt it will be useful to us in our future adventures. We did not know the existence of this map and this also allowed us to become aware of your website. A few weeks ago, we began to listen to all your episodes from the first. Hours and hours of fun ahead. 😃@@GrandAdventure
Hello Marc! We were off on our anniversary dinner during you live. This is always one of my favorite videos of the year!! Thank you for your videos, narration, history lessons, and just overall vicarious travels! Safe travels!
Ah, what a great year-end review. These are amazing camping spots. Like in the past we surely will try the one or the other on one of our next trips. Thank you for sharing.👍🙂 Greetings from Pooneh & Werner
Congratulations and thank you on a great travel season Marc. This “best of” vlog was well done. We don’t always make it to your “premier”, but thanks to streaming we never miss a post. Have fun on the mountain in the off season. Looking forward to what 2024 has to offer to us “Grand Adventurers”. Safe travels.
Marc - 2023 was indeed a great year for you. I enjoyed going along and also getting some ideas for us to travel as well. Happy New Year to you and yours and I look forward to seeing what's in store in 2024 ! I'm sure it will be...ready for it...a Grand Adventure !!!!!
Simply amazing. Thank you very much for bringing us along on your adventures. We truly live in a great country just waiting to be explored. Look forward to what 2024 brings us. Till then safe travels 🤙🏽
This is another great video Mark, Tons of information to save. Question; you keep saying we? are you referring to your dog or do you have someone traveling with you?
Hi Marc, what drone are you using lately. Footage has been fantastic! I’m looking for an upgrade to what I have but trying to keep it very small . Thx E
Thank you for the kind compliment! I am primarily using a DJI Air 3 that I picked up last summer when it was released, although I also have a DJI Mini 2 that I use on occasion and an original DJI Mavic Pro that I pretty much don't use at all anymore.
Our ladder mount is a Flagpole Buddy, whereas our flagpole is the WeValor 16' aluminum telescoping model from Amazon. Both are listed in the Grand Adventure Shop on Amazon: www.amazon.com/shop/GrandAdventure
We prefer to find our own, Lori, because that gives us the best chance of finding it unoccupied when we arrive. We detailed the process that we follow step by step here: ua-cam.com/video/qbIgOAkf6No/v-deo.html
THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO ON RV TRAVELING ON ALL OF YOU TUBE. THANK YOU.
Thank you so very much Stephanie!
I’ve said it before…. You find the best spots!!!!
Yeeeaaaa! Ocean Cove!!!!
There is a couple in this video that we would like to go to.
Thanks for putting this all together.
Ram
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And thanks as always for watching, bud! Definitely put Ocean Cove on your list.
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I’ve been there five times; it’s our “back yard”. Not too crazy taking the trailer on that narrow road.
Ram
@@laughingram7287 sorry, I forgot that you said that. And yeah, I can understand your reluctance to tow on CA-1.
Well done sir and Ms. Grand Adventure!! We recall our trip in Montana boulder river. The Whispering Horse movie was being filmed. The river road was busy with trucks and trailers supporting the movie. We of course drove to the small campground at the end with our pickup camper. Great time. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Take care.
Thank you very much, and thank you as always for coming along. That means the world to us.
Great video to wrap up the season. I knew that you had camped in several nice places this year but I had forgotten just how many there were. You consistently have the best year end wrap up video of any RV channel. Looking forward to what your travels in 2024 may bring.
Thank you very much, Jim!
that was a good trip. Just today I got my miniRV, 2016 Toyota Sienna Le, now to take all the seats out except drivers and build it out to travel in. I have 47 places in LA to explore starting in Feb.
Very cool, Joe! You're going to be a busy man between now and February.
Oh man! I’m not feeling well this evening and forgot it was Grand Adventure night! But I’ve got to say how HAPPY I am that you enjoyed the Springs at Borrego. 😊
We sure did, Penny! Get better soon.
I appreciate a resort stay now that I've become "mature"
As do we Jim, especially at the end of the season when we're dirty, tired, and sun angles for solar are low.
You need to hurry up and get old LOL....Those COE campgrounds are half off with the America the Beautiful pass...The Senior one is $80 for a lifetime....COE campgrounds are my favorite and really like the place here in this video...Thanks for sharing that....That Ocean Cove spot you show here i have tent camped at a couple times before motorhome times with a buddy who abalone dives in the cove there...This has always been his go to spot as we only live bout an 1 1/2 hr. away.....You lucky with the weather there this time, ive seen it be pretty darn nasty there....Enjoy relaxing now and look forward to seeing your Quartzsite thing in future video....stay safe, be well...
I already feel like I'm on the fast-track to getting old. 😆 No need to rush it just for a discount.
@@GrandAdventure 😁 Keep breathing, that fast track keeps getting better the older you get lol....
Thanks for the Best of the Best!
Thank you for watching, Zanobia!
You make the BEST videos!!! you don’t just show the even parks but so much about the area your in. Love it!
Thank you so very much Tanya!
So beautiful thank you
As usual totally enjoyed i❤❤❤
Thank you so very much Joanne!
Always your best of the year video is or favorite. Thank You
You're most welcome, Thomas. Thanks so much for watching!
My husband and I chose Fort Davis as our home base while traveling around the west for 10 years. Loved it there. As a widow i now winter in AZ and like it better than Florida for the reasons you mentioned.
Our deepest condolences for your loss, Kate. We do love Texas too, though. I think that if we weren't running towards the snow each winter for ski season, we might very well be wintering along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Thanks for the recap! My wife got me started this year looking at all your videos. We have binged watched all your past videos. Hope you and yours have a Happy New Year! Safe travels into 2024!
Thank you so very much, Wayne! We sincerely appreciate your viewership. Here's wishing you and yours a wonderful 2024 as well.
Epic. Thanks. Glad to add it to my 'saved' list.
Thank you so very much!
Loved this BEST OF video!
Thank you so very much, SA!
I have enjoyed watching your videos and will continue this journey myself someday and well
Thank you Phillip! Wishing you safe travels on your journey.
Falling asleep next to a babbling river sounds wonderful. The flowers were beautiful on the desert site. Great best of video! Happy New Year!🥳-Michelle
Thank you sir very much, Michelle! We appreciate your comment, and we are happy to hear that you enjoyed this retrospective. Happy New Year as well to you and yours!
Thank you!@@GrandAdventure
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@@benjaminsmith1473 hi there.
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Excellent video to finish out 2023. Have a great new year, cheers
Thank you very much Michael, and here's wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year as well.
Can you help us again with an updated video on dispersed 16:06 camping, navigating USGS, BLM? We love your videos.
Thank you Tina! The principles are the same now as they were then, but we've thought about another episode walking viewers through GaiaGPS, which we've started using for identifying public land areas. It has the added advantage of working with Android Auto or Apple Car Play to display topo maps, land boundaries and more right on the vehicle's head unit.
Another great job Marc!
Thank you!
God bless
Right back at you, Naomi.
Great retrospective Marc. Question #1. Due you carry an onboard generator? Q2. How many days can you comfortable boondock until you need to dump your tanks? Q3. Tank sizes? My vote for the Grand Champion is the Boulder River Montana site, that one is special! Nice job.
Thank you as always, BBB! We do indeed carry a generator, although we seldom use it. We can go about a week on our freshwater and gray tanks, and two to three weeks on a black tank. Our tanks are all 50 gallons each.
I really enjoyed watching your videos this year . I always look forward to Wednesday nights. Take care , God Bless and Happy New Year .😊
Thank you very much, and same to you and yours, John.
Marc,
Dawn and I always enjoy your videos. You do a fantastic job with your cinematography, and you have made many suggestions that we enjoyed and visited during our RV travels. Looking forward to your 2024 plans -- hope to run into you on the road someday.
We sincerely hope so as well, Dawn & Joseph!
When I get out of the chat to hit the thumbs up button I can't get back to the chat. Your channel is the only one that does that.
That's bizarre, Joe. Blame it on the UA-cam gremlins.
@@GrandAdventure it is weird
@@joemiles6917 much like Facebook, I have given up trying to explain or understand why UA-cam does some of the things that it does.
Great 2023 re-cap and we wanted go to Elephant Butt on our New Mexico travels and just couldn't make it work. Next time as they say! thanks
Definitely find space for it next time, it's oh-so-worth it.
Awesome "Best of 2023" Marc. Looking forward to Grand Adventure 2024...
Thank you very much, Blake!
Marc,
I always love these best episodes of the year. You did a great selection based upon the most notable criteria.
Glad to hear that the whole season went without any trauma.
Remember the year your travel trailer axle broke on three separate occasions. Then the slideout failed at the very last episode. What a year that was.
So... was it at Whitney Pocket where you snuggled up to a cactus?? I can't remember.🤔🤣
This was a fabulous year and the Anza Borreggo stay was really beautiful. Just lovely accomodations with the mountains as a backdrop.
What an incredible desert area with wonderful slot canyons. Such a different part of California.
Thanks for making this all available and for the tremendous effort you put into every episode.😊
Looking forward to your next year's travels.
Gord
Wow, Gord. We sincerely appreciate that. It's comments like yours that make the effort required to produce an episode like this one so worthwhile.
And no, my close-up encounter with a cholla cactus was from our Tucson Mountains episode. 😁
@@GrandAdventure Thanks... and your welcome, Marc.
All the fellow UA-camrs and followers feel the same way. You make the effort so worthwhile and enjoyable.
I look forward to going to see your movies every Wednesday. This was my fifth year. I can hardly believe it's been that long.
Gord
@@gorrdd That's certainly makes two of us.
Great stuff, thanks for putting this together. Not a CA guy, but I might have to become one, that oceanside spot is amazing. Nice featuring a HipCamp as well. Happy camping New Year!
Thanks and same to you, Sugar! Despite its diverse natural beauty I'm really not a CA guy either -- for one thing, the price of everything there will kill ya -- but that spot on the Sonoma Coast was oh-so-special.
Thanks!
Thank you Kathleen! 💖💖
Fantastic year and review, Marc. Thanks for all u do. Happy New Year . See you in Quartzsite.
Thank you! Happy New Year to you as well, and see you next month.
Wow! You had awesome time 👍. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thanks so much for coming along, Naj. Your loyal viewership means the world to us.
Wonderful recap of the GRAND ADVENTURE 2023 Marc. So enjoyed everyone. Thanks again, I'll be watching for the 2024 year series. Thomas
Thank you Thomas!
Thanks for this 2023 review. It will be useful for our future adventures. We wish happy new year to you and Bonne Année to Patricia. 😁
Vous aussi, Denis! Speaking of things helpful for your own adventures, you may find our interactive episode map useful: grandadventure.tv/2019/07/28/interactive-episode-map/
Thank you very much Mark. It's really awesome. No doubt it will be useful to us in our future adventures. We did not know the existence of this map and this also allowed us to become aware of your website. A few weeks ago, we began to listen to all your episodes from the first. Hours and hours of fun ahead. 😃@@GrandAdventure
@@U72740 ooh, some of those early episodes are cringe-worthy. 😆
Wow Marc! You had a great year. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks so much for coming along, RR!
Great vid see you at the Q
See you soon, Norm!
Hello Marc! We were off on our anniversary dinner during you live. This is always one of my favorite videos of the year!! Thank you for your videos, narration, history lessons, and just overall vicarious travels!
Safe travels!
Thank you Alan, and happy anniversary to you and Heather!
Ah, what a great year-end review. These are amazing camping spots. Like in the past we surely will try the one or the other on one of our next trips. Thank you for sharing.👍🙂
Greetings from Pooneh & Werner
Thank you so very much MAT, and thanks for watching!
Very nice, looks like a wonderful year. Have a Happy New Year and see you next year. Safe travels ❤
See you then, Deb. Thank you very much!
Congratulations and thank you on a great travel season Marc. This “best of” vlog was well done. We don’t always make it to your “premier”, but thanks to streaming we never miss a post. Have fun on the mountain in the off season. Looking forward to what 2024 has to offer to us “Grand Adventurers”. Safe travels.
Thanks so much as always, Gerald!
Fabulous year Marc, thanks for all your hard work! Always enjoy your videos! Wishing you and your family even better 2024!
Thank you very much, Joyce! We wish the same to you and yours.
What awesome year. Started out a little rough, but all N all, a great year of traveling. Thanks Don
Indeed it did, Don (in fact, the damage from that incident is finally being repaired as I type this), but everything only improved from there.
Very nice, and nice presentation.
Thank you, Mark!
Marc - 2023 was indeed a great year for you. I enjoyed going along and also getting some ideas for us to travel as well. Happy New Year to you and yours and I look forward to seeing what's in store in 2024 ! I'm sure it will be...ready for it...a Grand Adventure !!!!!
Hey George, I see what you did there. 😁We love having you along, and wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year as well!
Terrific year Marc. Thanks for all the great videos.
Thank you so very much, Suzanne!
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@@benjaminsmith1473 hello.
Simply amazing. Thank you very much for bringing us along on your adventures. We truly live in a great country just waiting to be explored. Look forward to what 2024 brings us. Till then safe travels 🤙🏽
Thank you to both of you, and same to you! We are excited by the prospects of 2024 and we look forward to bringing the results to you.
This is another great video Mark, Tons of information to save. Question; you keep saying we? are you referring to your dog or do you have someone traveling with you?
Mrs. GA is very private, and hence as camera shy as they come. You'll only occasionally catch a glimpse of her in a candid shot.
A great year in review! I'm so happy to have followed you along 😊 2023 was a fabulous year! Happy New Year, Grand Adventurer! 😊
We're so happy to have you along, NPP! Thank you very much as always.
Come back to Oklahoma! We have more great camping! Beavers Bend, Robbers Cave and Osage Hills to name a few. 😊 I enjoy your videos!
Oh we will, Steph. Promise. And thank you very much!
When is the rally. We will be in Q at that time and would love. To meet you.
Penelope, it's Jan. 19-29, 2024. Full details are in the event's Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/980141865948737/
Hi Marc, what drone are you using lately. Footage has been fantastic! I’m looking for an upgrade to what I have but trying to keep it very small . Thx E
Thank you for the kind compliment! I am primarily using a DJI Air 3 that I picked up last summer when it was released, although I also have a DJI Mini 2 that I use on occasion and an original DJI Mavic Pro that I pretty much don't use at all anymore.
You’re the best ! ❤
I will be watching and so jelly I'm not there. Have fun, be safe, and lol 😊😊😊😊 can I still be in the giveaway 😉 😄 😅 😜 🎉
Hey Corina! Come on down to Quartzsite for the giveaway. 😁
@GrandAdventure I would love to as you know I'm working, next year 2024
Hello! What flag pole and ladder mount do you use? Thanks.
Our ladder mount is a Flagpole Buddy, whereas our flagpole is the WeValor 16' aluminum telescoping model from Amazon. Both are listed in the Grand Adventure Shop on Amazon: www.amazon.com/shop/GrandAdventure
What's the best resource you suggest foe boondocking spots? Please amd thank you
We prefer to find our own, Lori, because that gives us the best chance of finding it unoccupied when we arrive. We detailed the process that we follow step by step here: ua-cam.com/video/qbIgOAkf6No/v-deo.html
@@GrandAdventure thanks so much. We so appreciate your content. Truly the best for rvers!!
@@lsimonson100
5k miles in 3 1/2 weeks was too much. That was all the time we had but should have done a shorter trip.
Yeah, that's awfully ambitious.
$40 dollars a night boon docking ?? You are on drugs.
Dry camping, not boondocking. And for that spot? I'll gladly pay it.
I’ve said it before…. You find the best spots!!!!
Thank you as always, Lori!