Overlanding to Overland East Expo in my Ford Ranger

[Music] good morning we are on our way on day one of our overland adventure we are on our way up through south carolina up to pisgah national forest we're going to be doing some hiking checking out some waterfalls and we're going to be doing some primitive camping there so stay tuned [Music] about to do pisco national forest looking glass rock trail you ready to go [Music] all right so sorry for the darkness it's getting late so we spent probably a good what two hours babe searching for a uh the primitive campsites that had marked i had marked several um there was a lot of closures um road closures that so we weren't able to get and we tried alternate routes and we're still unable to get to it so we came up a place called sunset sunburst there we go sunburst um it's a primitive it's you have your campsites but there's no bathrooms or anything or showers so it is a little primitive it's 15 bucks for the night it's been raining non-stop so we got our canopy up we just got our fire pit going we just cooked some chicken over the fire and uh we're having chicken and corn tonight so uh weather kind of sucks so i'll probably see you guys in the morning good morning it is day two of our overland adventure last night was pretty terrible it uh it rained on us pretty much like ninety percent of the night until this morning when it finally cleared up um so it was cold and wet but we were able to stay dry in our tent at least but setup was was a was a mission so today we're on our way to um a hiking trail forget the name of it right now um we're headed north though towards a little north of waynesville close to uh gatlinburg and we're going to be doing hiking trail and then going to town for some supplies and then we are staying at a campground today um called indian creek it's a really nice campground it's very up in the mountains and your our spot will be right literally on a creek so i'll show you guys that later so see in a bit [Music] [Music] there's a baby um he's not very tall but what's going on guys we're about to do a lum alum cave natural trail um we're not sure if we're gonna go all the way to the top of the mountain just because um it is about 5.5 miles so the miles isn't the problem but weather is supposed to get ugly around four o'clock later today so we'll play by ear and see how far we get but we'll keep you updated [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so we just made it to our site for the night at indian creek campground i got the ranger behind me we just pulled up so this is our campground for the night we're right on indian creek right there um it's a really beautiful sight so uh super excited to set up and see how it goes um never slept this close to a creek before so so we're kind of hungry so uh we started cooking some dinner got some uh tacos taco meat going we're gonna make we're gonna have some tacos tonight i got the fire going set up the chairs it's gonna be a great view for dinner so we just finished dinner got our fire our chairs and then we got our tent what's great about it is got the front door facing the creek should be a really nice night well i'll see you guys in the morning because we're just gonna be sitting by the fire and enjoying the night and uh see you guys in the morning for our next location so good morning it is day three of our adventure um we are leaving the campgrounds and we are headed uh northeast on the blue ridge parkway uh today we're gonna be going up in through cherokee national forest and pisco again national forest pretty much heading all the way up to virginia into jefferson forest so we will keep you updated on our little adventure here stay tuned [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] alrighty so update so we've gotten pretty far down our uh trail about to do another river crossing but there was two trucks that were coming back the other way and they notified us that um about a half a mile more it was pretty much uh unpassable with like super deep mud ruts and uh they would say that it was getting pretty sketchy because it's been raining here for the last few days so um so i guess it's created a lot of mud and slick surfaces so since we're by ourselves and uh don't wanna deal if i don't wanna deal with risking damaging the truck or getting stuck we're gonna turn around and find an alternate route so i'll keep you guys updated good morning it is now date for of our uh overland adventure uh last night i ended up staying in a hotel nicole wasn't feeling very well and uh she we she we didn't want to camp in the rain for three nights in a row so we took a break in a hotel so right now we are coming uh we're coming from bristol we ended up saying the name bristol and we are headed northeast on i-81 up to where i'm gonna join the rest of the route i planned to make up some time and to obviously if you hear it's the rain in the background try to beat the rain um where we'll be up in the jefferson national forest so weather looks a lot better up north so hoping for the best for tonight and for the rest of the day so we'll see how it goes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so we're uh back on uh pavement roads some blacktop um so currently right now on the ranger airing it up um we gotta go back and around because we're kind of running short on time for today and we wanted to uh get to our campground today on time and early because especially since we're doing overland expo overland expo starts tomorrow there'll probably be a lot of people camping in the area so we want to get there early so i will update you on the next when we hit the next trailhead so i just finished airing down um we finally reached our next uh trailhead um we're gonna be going down there and finding a camp campsite to set up camp for tonight so we'll see how that goes with a lot of vehicles being in the area for the expo so hopefully we can find one but we'll see but there's a amazing views here [Music] [Music] what's going on guys we just found a campsite in the jefferson forest um after some time searching we found a pretty nice one here [Music] it's a pretty open spot you can definitely fit a few rigs here if you had some has a nice fireplace and is beautiful creekside camp spot it's really really nice so definitely can't wait to camp here tonight and uh so we're just gonna start unpacking everything and have everything set up shortly so we just finished cooking up dinner some burgers over the campfire get our tent set up back there chairs got the fire and then this beautiful little creek [Music] [Music] so we are now leaving the campground it is 6 50 in the morning um that's pretty much it for our overland part of it now we're going to do some exploring of lynchburg checking out some some sites we wanted to see and some activities we wanted to do and then we're going to the expo so we'll catch catch you in the next video i'll probably throw in some some videos of the our activities but after that i'll see you guys at the expo so we are here at uh natural state park natural bridge state park um we're the first ones here we got here right when they're open and there is absolutely nobody and it's it's a really breathtaking wheel which is crazy is we actually drove over the road to get to here but you on top you don't even notice what's underneath you so it's it's really cool to see the underneath portion of it absolutely breathtaking [Music] thank you guys for watching our adventure i hope you guys all enjoyed the video uh if you haven't already check out the overland east expo video that we have on our page that's pretty much part two to this make sure to subscribe like and comment on what you guys would like to see more of on this channel and i'll see you guys in the next video [Music]