 Hey birdwatchers, I'm about to break camp and go do something that I've been looking forward to for about a year I'm going to go on an adventure deep in the Rocky Mountains with my friend Paul and I Finally get to leave this freaking RV park now you guys know that I am almost always a boondocker So to be stuck in one spot has been tough for me But while I was there, I had a new power system installed Using battle-born and dragonfly energy and so today's going to be the first day that I really get to get out and test that So I'm going to go on this adventure for the day and then come back and see how the system held up So I'm going on a Jeep tour. It's all day it runs about six hours and it goes through the gold belt in Colorado and Listen, I'm a little bit of a weenie if you've been following my channel for a few years you know that I don't like to go over the mountain passes and One time Paul took me out in a four by four at night and I was kind of a weenie on that too So he's brave to go with me on this one But what happens on the Jeep tour is they put you in one of their own vehicles and they drive you for the day We stop for lunch in the middle and luckily this Jeep tour is a harvest host So I get to go and park there and then when I'm done at the end of the day I don't have to find my way back to an RV park or find my way back to a hotel I can just go right into my own rig and relax our six and a half hour Jeep tour takes us from the town of Canyon City Up through windy phantom Canyon to the gold mining towns of Victor and Cripple Creek and then back down another Beautiful mountain road to Canyon City We get to see all of the beautiful scenery along the way and then I get to go back to my rig Which is parked at this choice spot with harvest house. I'm here with well He's the owner of Colorado Jeep tours and he's going to tell us all about everything that they do here Well, thank you Robin. Yes, this is our gift shop here card of Jeep tours and we run Jeep tours out of here Along with a lot of other things. We do whitewater rafting. We do wine tasting ATV tours Horseback riding so even have a VRBO that's upstairs and of course harvest host Oh, wow a lot of harvest host folks. They come and stay here because our property is easy to find It's very very beautiful here and easy to access. Okay before I head out I'm gonna go ahead and check my power supply like I said I just had a new system put in with battle-born lithium batteries and some big drone components by dragonflight energy and These are the things that let me stay overnight at places like a harvest host without having to have a hookup So what I had installed was two lithium batteries a 2000 Watt inverter I have 400 watts of external solar panels, which I don't think I'm gonna have to get out today but I have 90 watts on the roof and Something called a DC to DC charger, which is just a game changer And that is going to charge my batteries while I'm driving and the 90 watt will charge it more While I'm out of my adventure, so I'll check back in again later and let you guys know how it held up Our driver Tom is right there. He's looking at us. I'm sure he's gonna be really gentle with me, right Tom Very gentle he says very gentle, but I'm very excited to to go deep into a Jeep tour In the Colorado mountains. I'll be talking about geology. We'll be talking about history I'm a huge huge history buff also be talking about Dinosaurs because obviously this is dinosaur country and toward the end of the tour when we come down off a shelf road We'll be getting into the mecca of dinosaur discovery I'm a little scared to go over this bridge. Oh, come on. I know I'm in good hands. All right. Tell her I loved her. Oh my god. Here she goes. She's gonna start screaming Well to think that this bridge used to carry thousands of tons of railroad Train and here we are a little tiny keep it weighs like maybe 3000 We made it That wasn't a bad bridge at all actually. I think they're saving the really scary part for the way down Back to town. Maybe Tom says all you have to do is just stay on the road. That's not that hard Obviously don't look very big like well, you know, we're gonna do a four-lane highway through here. No, this this was a train tunnel And it's still used today Fremont County came in here about two years ago and stabilized this simply by blowing concrete in here because there are rocks falling down What did you think in lunch, Paul? It was delicious It was delicious. I bought everything in that store getting up there. What do you think Paul? Is this where we start going down and it gets scary not yet not yet Not that it doesn't happen Robin. It's not yet Oh, yeah, what do you think it was amazing That was a good day. Yeah, that was a really good day outside in the Colorado mountains Yeah, and we learned so much about the local history. Yeah. What was your favorite part? I? think Just the views the view all along the route Yeah, amazing and our tour guide Tom was great. Yeah, and we learned all kinds of stuff About the history of Colorado. That was fun. I would do it again. Yeah, that was so fun I'm glad I did that Now we're done with the Jeep tour I didn't have to go back and try and find in our v park or find my way back to a hotel I came right up from the Jeep and got in my rig And now I'm going to grab a bottle of wine and Paul and I are gonna hang out down to this cute little seating area Here at Colorado Jeep tours And have a class and watch the Sun go down if you guys don't have a membership for harvest house already I have a link down below for 15% off I use it all the time. I absolutely love it. It makes my RV life so much better and thanks to battleborn I got back to my rig and my battery is totally full Because of the 90 watt panel on the roof and because I drove today for an hour and a half Thanks to the DC to DC charger. Okay you guys I'm gonna sign off for now I'll see you all next week with an all-new video until then Everybody have happy travels and be free