Ultimate RV Trip to Laramie Wyoming [RV Living at its BEST]

When we left Colorado to come to the least populated state in America, we didn't know what to expect. And yes, we know all about the Grand Tetons in western Wyoming, but this is Laramie, and no one ever told us about what you can do in your RV on this side of windy Wyoming. Which seems like the perfect excuse to eat out and make our own food tour, trying restaurants that were featured in the hit show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, and then finding ourselves locked up in In a Wyoming state prison, make sure you stick around to the end because we did a little experiment testing out a few methods of transferring water to our Brinkley RV while boondocking to see which one was the fastest. Wow, that kind of surprised me. I didn't think it would be that good. Heading out on the town tonight in Laramie, we're doing a food tour because there are numerous restaurants that have been featured on Guy Fieri's Diner Drive-Ins and Dives and tonight we've got to choose between Bulgogi, Korean fries, or jalapeno popper burgers? Ooh. Which one would you choose? Let us know in the comments. Clearly, we know what Craig wants. I don't know why she said we're doing a food tour tonight. I'm definitely only eating once. Well, this week. We're going to do a food tour this week while we're in Laramie because there's apparently a bunch of good food here. Well, we're about to find out, I guess. Yeah. So which one? Which one? I don't like a lot of stuff. I'm really picky. I don't know. Right now, I'm leaning towards the burgers because I don't even know what the other thing is she just said, so I think them. Craig's palette is not quite as refined as mine. And don't worry. I'll pick up after you. I'm going to pick that up. I'll pick up after you. Well, thank you. Why would I have tools out anyways? Why would you get them out? You don't even know how to use them. If you saw last week's video, they might have been a prop. Well, we've decided on the jalapeno popper burger place. No surprise, no surprise, but it looks pretty good. Finally found a road that we can actually cross. That one's closed. This whole section of the main downtown is apparently closed. Turn left. It's weird that they didn't do just one half at a time. Yeah, well, we are in a place with... We are in the least populated state in America so they don't have that much traffic to deal with I guess. Going to the jalapeno popper place. That was hard to say. Jalapeno popper place. Tongue twister. Say it five times fast. Jalapeno popper place. We're on a wait list. We got like half an hour that we got to kill. The place is pretty popular I guess. What you do? It's raining but that was really good. They did their like two patties but thinner which I like a lot and the jalapenos were fresh. Everything was really good. There was supposed to which it was there was like some kind of raspberry like sauce or something that jelly that they also put on it. They could have added a little bit more of that like it was kind of hard to really taste but It was like all the ingredients are really good. The bread they use is good. The patties were different. It tasted really good. I definitely recommend this place. Good choice. Good choice. Is this the way you find good places? Yeah. Just go wherever Guy Fieri went. Yeah, I guess so. This spot that we're boondocking at is one of the coolest spots. It's the Vida Vu Recreation Area near Laramie, and we've gotten to go exploring with the dogs right in our backyard at some of the coolest rock formations. All these rocks are actually Sherman granite that have been weathered throughout the years from the wind and the rain creating these really unique formations with little caves and crevices and rocks balancing on top of each other. The dogs and us thoroughly enjoyed exploring above them and below them. It's basically just like a big playground in nature and such a unique place to park the RV. And as you know we're in the middle of our food tour in Laramie and now we're going to go look at this old prison which should be pretty interesting. It was built in the 1800s and it's like I think nine or ten dollars to go and explore and do like a self-guided tour so that's where we're headed. We are boondocking so while we're out dropping Victoria off to To our new home, prison, for our crimes, we're going to top off our water. And find somewhere to put that trash. Yep, and we got their trash away, of course. Maverick, you have to go back inside. Why did we let you escape? He's usually pretty good about listening, except for when he knows we're leaving. And then he likes to run out and refuse to go back inside. Sorry, Maverick. Go inside. Inside. Maverick. Maverick. Get in. Go. And Craig went back inside because he forgot his keys, as usual. We never leave the house just once. We always leave multiple times. If that's you, drop it in the comments below. Okay, that wasn't full. Just enough room. I know, but apparently there's a whole dump station here. I don't know if you can see the line of campers behind me waiting for it. You can smell it, though. Smells like a big old fart. So, it's at the old historic prison. Dump station available. Nine dollars to enter, open October through September pretty much all the time. We're starting at the warden's house which was of course built using convict labor. It has six rooms and a basement, very creaky floors, and actually has two entrances because the front of the house was used for prison guards and in the rest house the warden and his family. Now we're heading into the prison. It was built in 1872. It's over 18,000 square feet big and it's one of the oldest buildings that's still standing in Wyoming and was the only prison to ever house the notorious Butch Cassidy. So I think we've got a whole room dedicated to him. Oh this is the processing room. Where people would get their numbers and have photographs taken. You will not be allowed to converse with each other on any subject. Oh, are these the rules? Mm-hmm. No talking? Wow. The prisoners escaped. 25% of the prisoners escaped? Yeah, before 1975. Not going to lie, with a 25% chance of success, I might have tried to escape too. Well, this is very small. And this prison didn't just hold men, it also had 12 women in it throughout its time open. What did they do? What did she do? She was a postmaster, and she would steal stuff from people's mail. And her statement was, why she did it, was because since she was a child, she was just a klepto. And she would black out, and stuff would just end up in her purse. It would just end up in her purse, huh? Yeah, yeah. It just happened. So once you've done the prison tour, they also have several other areas to tour, like a ranch setting where they move some historical structures here. It looks like there's going to be a little downtown general store area, which is pretty cool because you get a kind of, you get more for the nine dollars, and I'm always all about more for money. Hello sir. I'm gonna need you to bring my horse around for my buggy. I don't know why I have an accent when I'm from the old wild west. Wyoming people used to be British or something. Pretty cool though. Check it out. What'd you think? I think it was good. It was worth nine dollars. I enjoyed it. I think it was cool to learn about the prison and everything and then the extra buildings on the property just kind of adds to the experience so I think it was well worth it. I agree. And now we are off to eat. I want those beef bulgogi fries, so we're going there. Craig still doesn't know what that is. They better be good. That's all I know. I'm blaming you. Craig got the Nashville hot chicken fries. Bulgogi fries. Yum. That was pretty good. I think that the Born in the Barn place that we ate at with the burgers wins out just a bit, but this was pretty unique and yummy. It's getting windy out there. We got our water. We've had some fun. We dumped our trash earlier. Now we're going to head home to the doggos. Yeah, I didn't get showered enough. Because you stink. You stink. He always just comes barreling out. It's like a water bed. Always reminds me of. So we meant to take this with us when we were putting water in the bladder, but we forgot to grab it. But I'm still curious to see how much we actually got in the bladder, so I'm going to see how much goes through it while we're putting it inside the RV. Just curious to see how much water we have. Got this little thing off Amazon. So far it has worked pretty good. Pretty good. Basic water meter calculator. Well, you wouldn't jam my thumb this morning. You can't hardly use this hand now. I'm just going through it, guys. I've been sick, my hand's broken, the RV's not broken anymore, which is good, so that's a plus. Yay, yay. Oh, I do want to mention our pump. Some of the guys or some of the people have commented that the way our RV puts the water into the tank is through our pump or whatever, and the worry is that it's a lot of run time on that pump or maybe the water's not getting to the pump fast enough. However, I think it's... It's fine, I mean it's been working. The biggest thing is the pumps are not super expensive, they're pretty inexpensive and I think we'll get at least two years out of it and by the time we get two years out of this pump, if it does decide to break, we have our other pump to get us through temporarily but I'll just replace that pump. I don't think it's going to, it's probably a hundred bucks maybe, maybe a little more because it's RV related but you don't necessarily have to get an RV related pump. So not too worried about it. We got gallons per minute on. Zeroed out. Zeroed out. Let's turn the knob. Oh, there we go. We have a total of? 0.7 gallons per minute. So 0.8. It's going a little bit faster. And now we've got a half a gallon total in. What are we doing? One gallon a minute at this rate. All right. That's why it takes so long to fill up. It's so stinking slow. You gotta think if we put 60 gallons in here, we'd be standing out here for an hour. Wow. How many gallons have we put in so far? How many? Five? Five? Yeah, 5.30. Wow. Well, pull a chair up and get comfortable. I knew it was slow. I didn't know it was this bad though. I'm trying to think. Okay, so we have our Milwaukee pump. Can I use this hose? Can I put I shouldn't need to do anything just put the Milwaukee pump on that side and then pump it faster Yeah with the little hose. Let's try the concern was what I can it can hurt how fast the water runs to that pump or I mean no because it shouldn't be able to it won't regulate it Um, if we're connected to city, so this is like basically if we're connected to city, which means we might have to switch a setting, power fill tank, so we'll go there, and that's it. Okay. I am so curious to see what's about to happen. We're doing what? One gallon a minute? Yes. Well now it's saying zero of course. Of course. About one gallon a minute so. But. So let's uh block that off. Y'all are about to be. We're experimenting. You're about to be sold on this Milwaukee pump. Like it's when we used to have to use it it's so fast and good. I don't know. I really do like this pump. We want it to go this way. This might be the way we do it for now. I get so tired of standing out here waiting on this. It should. Oh and the pump doesn't have to run as long so it should actually. Save our pump some run time, right? Sure. Yeah. Well, actually, we shouldn't even need to use the pump because it's like city water. That's why we put it in a different setting. Yeah, we won't use that pump. Yeah. I'm just standing here for moral support. I don't know what I'm talking about. I have to do it from that one. That's right. Why? That was the weird thing about this. Oh, because it has to... It's kind of like backwards. That's right. Because we have to be able to screw it onto that side. Another thing is if you do use an external pump like this to pump into your tank or if like you're planning on doing boondocking for your first time this is probably more for you than people that's been doing it because you'll probably know. But you want like a more rigid hose than this because the pump is sucking versus pumping through this hose so it collapses the hose. I'm hoping they don't collapse it this time and I have to go and find a different hose but we're gonna give it a So just keep that in mind. It is but I always put it on um yeah and it did fine but as this hose does get older. But we had this one we tried to use this one before and that does not work. But now this one's been kind of left out and in the heat and everything so we're gonna see maybe it'll work. We're at 5.7 gallons. We don't want to leave that. Here we go. We're doing 1.6 1.7 somewhere in there. Turn it on to see how much will spray out with the leftover water and see what it could do because I imagine this small diameter hose restricts how much can be pushed through. Oh but we are getting a little bit more than half a gallon more per minute It's faster, and we're not using the pump, so that's a plus. All right we're full. 24 gallons. 24 gallons. We've still got some left in the bladder. And now I want to see if we unhook this. I'm gonna get out of the way before you start shooting water at me. All right let's see how much it will do. Ready? Yeah. Wow so this pump will do 6.7, 6.6 gallons per minute. Dang. When we did the gravity fill, it was so much faster. Wow. So much faster when we did the gravity fill. And I don't know, I don't know, like... Like we could do it like where I take this off because this just screws into this piece. That's true. But yeah, so that pump, if you need a pump, I'm telling you that pump does really well. Almost seven gallons per minute. That's insane. That kind of surprised me. I didn't think it would be that good. But yeah, so it works really well. We were sent this pump a long time ago. So just for you guys who haven't followed our entire journey, when we first started RVing and boondocking, I would fill up Buckets, five gallon buckets, I'd keep two of them so when we got to our boondocking spot our tank would be full, but every time we'd go into town I'd fill up our five gallon bucket. Well, to get the water from the bucket into the RV with our gravity-filled thing that we had on the side right here, I would just pick the bucket up, siphon it through the hose and then shove it down in there and have to hold the bucket while it's siphoned because it has to be higher than where it's going. A guy that works for Acme Tools was watching our videos and reached out and said he'd send us this pump and some other tools or whatever to help us with our boondocking journey, and it's been super great. Shout out to Acme Tools. I would recommend if you order tools offline or anything like that or even just need a tool, go check them out. And this isn't, he didn't sponsor this video at all or anything. This was over a year ago that he sent this stuff, and it's just worked so great that I literally still talk about it. But, yeah, so try them out. Check them out. Now what are we going to do with this water? We've got some extra. I don't know. Probably save it until I get a shower. Put the rest in. As you can see, it's rainy and cloudy and nasty out this morning and we killed our batteries just as I was about to get out of bed and get to work. I was laying there and all of a sudden the fan turned off and that is like the classic sign that you have killed your batteries. You're like laying in bed and the fan just dripped off and you're like uh oh. So needless to say after I blow dried my hair last night we ran the microwave and did all of the things and the sun didn't come out this morning. We did not have enough battery juice to last this. I was running off my you know battery and luckily I have a hot We can hotspot here. We have cell service, so we've been able to have internet, but just had to pull out the trusty Jackery to keep my computer running. We're basically just trying to avoid having to pull the generator out in this nasty rain. We're bringing in about... 100 watts of solar right now even though it looks like this outside so I don't even know how that's how we're managing that but I'm still hopeful that we'll be able to charge this battery up without having to get the generator out. We're going to take a little lunch break anyways because we have our last diner to go to from our list of Guy Fieri's diners drive-ins and dives for Laramie. I mean, did not expect there to be so much cool stuff to do here, so. I think it's about time to go. I'm getting hungry. Are you hungry? I need a hat. Yeah, you do. My goodness. And the rain brought in the cold. On the way back, we'll show you some of your other camping options for you to come and check out this hidden gem of a place, totally underrated, Laramie is, in my opinion, because we've had a really fun time here so far, don't you think? Yeah. But there's really only about one RV park and then a bunch of great boondocking locations Hopefully, I mean it doesn't really look like the sun is coming out, but I'm still hopeful that by the time we get home, our batteries will be back on. Fingers crossed with us! This is Jay's Prairie Rose, and they're supposed to be famous for their breakfast burritos, but we're going to be the judge of that today. We learned that trick from our friends at EatCRV. Makes the food look fancier. Look at this, this looks so good! The burrito is really good, and the hash browns even inside the burrito are crunchy, which just takes it to the next level. So the place was very good, service, everything was really good about the place. However, I did not get a burrito, Victoria did, but I am still very pleased with what I got. It was good, like the gravy that they had on it was very good. Everything seemed very homemade, which has been the case for everywhere we've ate at in this town. which which is nice like a lot of times you don't find that but i definitely recommend it if you come here these the places we've ate at and showed you guys you definitely have to try them so if you're wanting to come to Laramie but you don't want to be boondocking you're looking for more of the full hookup experience they do have one rv resort the Laramie RV Resort that has some pretty nice spacious sites especially up at the front there's like good Living area outside living area for with the picnic table and everything Big green space even some cabins in the back. It looks like they have some more there call them economy sites They're a little bit smaller maybe for long-term stays probably a little bit cheaper But that's pretty much your only option for pullouts right now in Laramie Maybe somebody needs to come and open up an RV park. It is right down the road from the prison Oh, yes, the historic prison that we visited not Not like a regular person. That wouldn't be an amenity. No, if you went to this, if you was an inmate at this, then you've probably been dead for a while. Oh. But if you get on Campendium and set that filter to free, you'll see some awesome boondocking sites all around Laramie besides the one that we've been staying at. Now, it doesn't look like it, but it's gotten slightly brighter outside. So do we think our batteries are going to be on when we get back? Yes. Yes? I hope. Fingers crossed. What do you think? Let us know in the comments. Are we gonna have power or are we still gonna be just camping for real? Hey. Fueling up for travel day tomorrow before we head back home so we don't end up on the side of the road. Are we leaving tomorrow? Yes. And y'all didn't even come visit. We're here for like a week and y'all never even came to visit us. Shame. Shame on you guys. Just kidding. By the time you see this, it'll have been gone for at least a week. 51. We are starting to almost have waterfront property here in Wyoming with all this rain. Oh, look at all these puddles. Luckily on the backside of the RV and not the front cause or else Maverick would be trying to go swimming every time he stepped out the front door. Okay, let's see if we have power. What do we check? Microwave? Microwave. That's the telltale sign. Boom! Yay! Barely, it's flickering a little bit. Oh, it is flickering a little bit. Power! We don't know how much. We'll see. It's a little better, so... So we have 13% left on our batteries for now. We'll see. Okay. Okay. Left? Left? We've gotten up to 13%. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're slowly but surely getting there. Okay. Okay. We're only getting like five amps into the battery Okay. Okay. bank right now at a time. Okay. Okay. But hit that subscribe button because next week we are starting a Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. massive trek across the United States. Okay. We're going far and we don't know what's going to happen but If there's anything you've learned watching our channel so far, you should know it should be interesting. It won't be boring, I'm sure. It won't be boring. So thank you guys for watching. Let us know what you think of Laramie in the comments. If you've been here, if you thought it was as underrated as we did. And we'll see you guys next week. Bye.