MacNeils On Wheels

Jennifer and Luke MacNeil are Nomads traveling and photographing the United States in a 36 Foot Fifth Wheel. Come along and learn what it's like to be a self-sufficient traveler living off-grid in the most beautiful places in the country.

MacNeils On Wheels
We're fulltime RV nomads and we've been stationary in Escalante Utah for a year. Join us for a walk through some of the incredible landscapes of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Jenn posts a weekly blog on our website rvnomadphotos.com - tune in for more about the nomad life!
For the last few months, we've been stationary in Escalante Utah. Jenn has been workamping here at a campground in exchange for a site and hookups. It's the longest we've been stationary in one area, so we've had a good bit of time to explore. Escalante and it's surrounding towns do not disappoint. The roads here are scenic byways, including UT RT 12, which is designated an "All American Road". In this video, we explore around UT12, Hell's Backbone Road, Hole in the Rock Road, and random dirt roads. There are mountains of every color, deep canyons filled with lush green trees, incredible monsoon season lightning storms, and wide open areas that give way to majestic cloud covered skies. It's not our normal type of content, but we're not normal kinds of people. All footage shot with the DJI Mavic Pro 2. #utah #grandstaircaseescalante #escalante #landscapes
Utah State Road 12, or Scenic Byway 12 is designated an All-American Road. That's not just a cute thing people say, it's an actual federal designation. A scenic byway is recognized by the US Department of Transportation for having one of 6 intrinsic qualities. Those qualities are "archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic". An All-American Road however, must have at least 2 of those qualities and contain features that don't exist anywhere else in the United States. There are 31 All-American Roads. Highway 12 runs 122 miles through The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. It's not really what you would think of as a monument - this is huge. Almost 2 million acres huge. This monument is almost twice the size of all of Utah's 5 National Parks - or about the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. It is massive. The Grand Staircase is named after the layers of rock that form what looks like a staircase. The Chocolate Cliffs, The Vermilion Cliffs, The White Cliffs, The Gray Cliffs, and the Pink Cliffs. All of these layers of rock are formed by different types of sediment, from different eras. The bottom step of the Grand Staircase is the oldest, made of Kaibab limestone 200 million years ago. It's the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The next layer, vermillion, was made of deposited silt and desert dunes 175 million years ago. This is The Wave, White Pocket. The White Cliffs from 150 million years ago are made of Navajo Sandstone - from sand dunes, these are the epic cliffs of Zion National Park. The Grey Cliffs, which is where we found some of the best dinosaur fossils - are made up of cretaceous shale (very old mud) and sandstone from 130 million years ago. The Pink Cliffs - where we are now, are the bright orange hoodoos of Bryce National Park, it's (only) 60 million years old, made of eroding Claron Formation limestones. So basically, the sediment from a prehistoric lake environment on top of a river environment, on top of a desert environment, on top of a river environment on top of an ocean environment... climbing to 9600 feet above sea level. It's several chapters of the Earth's history with it's pages slowly being turned by the forces of erosion. Rain falls on the pink cliffs, the highest point of the staircase - and it works it's way down. It grows into flash floods quickly, that carry boulders and tree trunks violently through narrow canyons, smashing into walls and carving even deeper canyons eventually dumping into the Colorado River. The same Colorado River that carved the giant gash in the Earth big enough to be seen from space that we call The Grand Canyon. The water then freezes and cracks, splits, and weakens the exposed stone walls... and then it thaws and starts again - carrying snowmelt and more broken stone to chisel the landscape and uncover new secrets. Highway 12, completed in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps overlooks all of this. The road is paved and well maintained. It is incredible to think about how it was made and how difficult and dangerous that must have been in an area this rugged and desolate. This is not a place people have ever come on the way to anywhere else. You have to want to get here. The land is impossibly difficult and the weather is offensive. They didn't have air conditioning in 1940s when this road was built. The Escalante River here, in fact, is the last river to have been mapped in the United States. We mapped the rivers of Alaska before top of the Grand Staircase. That's how remote this place is. At one point, the road passes over the crest of Hogback Ridge. At times the road here is as narrow as the ridge itself, with very steep edges where a fall would no doubt immediately result in certain death. There's no room for guardrails on The Hogback. This is America. It's hard to articulate in words, in photos, or even in video how beautiful and awe-inspiring this landscape is, and this is just the side of the road. #utah #landscapes #grandstaircaseescalante
Our neighbors Chad and Cindy here in our boondocking spot at The Barracks in Mt Carmel Utah have an awesome Side by Side. We take the Honda Talon out ripping off road through the trails. If you'e ever wondered if an sxs is any fun at all, we can definitively tell you YES, it is such a good time. This thing can go anywhere. There are plenty available for rent in Orderville and Kanab. Strap on your dust goggles and fasten your seatbelt as we take you across the Virgin River outside Zion National park on one of the most fun offroad vehicles you can get. If you like this kind of content, don't forget to subscribe to our channel, we never know what, or who we're going to come across on this crazy fulltime rv living adventure!
Our new friends Chad and Cindy brought us on a ride on their SxS through some deep sand up into Peek-a-boo slot canyon in Kanab, UT this afternoon. Slot canyons are super cool. When the sun hits them just right it’s a pretty magical experience, but you have to be careful. With even just a little rain rushing through these canyons it would be easy to get yourself stuck in a James Franco 127 hours situation. I personally don’t want to cut off my own arm with a swiss army knife if I can help it. Luckily, no rain today!
We meet some interesting people out here on the road and our neighbors here in Utah have a Talon Side by Side. We had to take them up on it the second they offered us a ride, and now I want a SxS.
We had the opportunity to visit the Tuscon Rodeo in Arizona, La Fiesta de los Vaqueros. Let me tell you, there is something compelling about watching a grown man jump off a moving animal onto another moving animal and wrestle it to the ground. Luke and Jenn MacNeil are fulltime RV travelers exploring and photographing the country and it's most beautiful landscapes and interesting people. Subscribe to our channel for more RV Adventures, Tips, and Tricks. #rodeo #cowboys #yellowstone
The most common question we get is "How do you get internet on the road". Well, here's how.
How to get fast RV internet in 2022 using the gear you probably already have. The most common questions we get relating to Full Time RV Living are "what's the best rv internet" and "what WIFI is best". Well, in this video we explain to you how we get online using the cell services that we already have using AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Many RVs have a Winegard antenna pre-installed. We'll show you how you can take the SIM card out of your phone, pop it into the Winegard router (or other mobile router) and save on the premium pricing with just an inexpensive SIM card adapter that you can get off Amazon here for about $5. https://www.amazon.com/iSYFIX-Card-Adapter-Nano-Micro/dp/B00R25GJJW 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - How We Get Internet On The Road 00:50 - Which Cell Provider is Best? 01:05 - The Calyx Institute 01:34 - AT&T Business Plan 02:06 - SIM Cards and Adapters 04:36 - Winegard 360 and Winegard Connect 05:17 - Installing the SIM card in the Winegard Connect Router 06:44 - Configuring the Winegard Connect Router With a Phone SIM Card 08:55 - Carrier APN Numbers 10:37 - Testing Internet Speed 11:02 - Pepwave Transit Duo & Poynting Antenna 14:10 - Outro Jennifer and Luke MacNeil are full time rv nomads living in their 36 foot fifth wheel and traveling the country in search of the most beautiful places and interesting people that our country has to offer. If you enjoyed or learned something from how we get unlimited rv internet on the road, please consider subscribing! We really appreciate hearing from you!
We're Jenn and Luke and we travel the country full time in search of dark skies, the milky way, amazing landscapes, and interesting people. Some of our favorite places to photograph are dark sky locations across the southwest United States. Subscribe to our channel for rv travel photography, tips, tricks, and adventures.
Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon located in Page Arizona. It's one of the coolest places in America. Jenn and Luke MacNeil are full time RV travelers documenting the most beautiful and inspiring places in the country. Subscribe to our channel for RV travel, tips, tricks, and adventures. #antelopecanyon #slotcanyon #rvlife #rvtravel #fulltimerv #fulltimervliving
Jenn and Luke MacNeil RV Traveling the USA in a fifth wheel in search of the most beautiful landscapes and interesting people this world has to offer. Subscribe to our channel for RV Adventures, Travels, Tips and Tricks. #rvtravel #rvlife #travel #travelphotography #nationalparksweek
White Sands National Park is one of the coolest places in America. We're Luke and Jenn MacNeil, MacNeil's on Wheels. We travel the country full time in our 36 foot making content of some of the most beautiful places in the country. White Sands is located in Alamogordo New Mexico and is full of sweeping views of this incredible white gypsum sand. You can even stop by the visitor center and get a sled to go ripping through the dunes. It's one of our favorite places. If you like content like this, consider subscribing to our channel for more shorts and long form fulltime rv living tips, tricks, and adventures! See you down the road! #shorts #nationalparks #nationalparksweek #rvliving #travel
Here's a #shorts trailer for our recent video about Boondocking and free camping in Marble Canyon Arizona. Here's the full video: https://youtu.be/ylaxYYpZBgk We're Jenn and Luke MacNeil. We travel the country full time in our 36 foot fifth wheel making content about the most beautiful places and inspiring people in America. Subscribe for RV travel tips, tricks and adventures. See you down the road!
Are you interested in completely FREE Camping Near Grand Canyon National Park? We've been staying at Soap Creek, FREE BLM dispersed camping in Marble Canyon, Arizona. This spot is close to some of the best attractions in the state and the country! Less than 100 miles from The Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, The Wave, Antelope Canyon, The Vermilion Cliffs, Glen Canyon, and White Pocket and located off one of the most scenic highways in the entire USA. Route 89A winds through Navajo Nation and around the most beautiful cliffs, canyons, slot canyons, and geological formations in America. We show you where it is, where to get resources, and how to traverse the landscape. See the majestic and endangered California Condor and The Grand Canyon National Park. If you find this content helpful and/or entertaining please consider subscribing to our channel. We make this content to help other full time rv nomads find free places to stay across the country. Join us for more tips, tricks, photography, and adventures.
We spoke to Reverend Lawless of Uranium Springs and he was kind enough to grant us entry to his post apocalyptic desert compound out in the badlands of Arizona. Take a look at this real life wasteland community. Burned out cars, apocalypse games, performers and cosplay abound. Celebrate the End of Days at Uranium Springs. Learn more at http://www.detonation.us
Check out this FREE campground right outside The Petrified Forest National Park and The Painted Desert in Holbrook Arizona. The Crystal Forest Museum and Gift Shop offers totally free camping for self contained RVs. You couldn't possibly get any closer to The Petrified Forest. Mineralized wood 250 Million Years old is all around this park as well as sweeping views of The Painted Desert - colorful badlands that give us a glimpse into the history of the earth. It's a pretty special place and we recommend it if you're traveling around Old Route 66, which appears to be everywhere in Holbrook. See part 1 to learn about Route 66. https://youtu.be/7GNTcE06pvw
We're boondocking in a free campground out in Holbrook Arizona, home of legendary Route 66. Explore downtown with us and learn where to find food, water, and propane. See classic old motels, wigwams, rock shops, and saloons. This is part one of a two part series. Stay tuned and we'll take you for a ride through the Petrified Forest National Park, one of Arizona's best kept treasures. There's a lot to see and do in Holbrook.
Get Petrified with Luke on an overnight backpacking adventure through The Petrified Forest National Park in search of the Milky Way. Learn how to take night sky and astro photographs in one of the darkest places on Earth. Come along for the laughs and the tears as Luke traverses the desert landscape in search of a place to call camp. What could go wrong? 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Gearing Up 01:23 - The Journey Begins 03:22 - Hiking Into the Petrified Forest 09:00 - Setting Up Camp 14:40 - Waiting for Dark 15:05 - Taking Photos of the Milky Way 18:07 - Going to Bed 19:31 - Sunrise 19:49 - Packing Up 20:57 - Heading Out 23:07 - Hiking Uphill is Hard 25:15 - Emerging From The Desert Buy Our Travel Photos at https://macneilsonwheels.com
Learn how to make exquisite RV meals just like Jennie Mac. This week, we're making coconut crusted air fryer shrimp in the instant pot with the air fryer lid. No salt necessary, you're salty enough. Maybe not the best boondocking meal, but she's a professional.
We've been boondocking out in southern Arizona for a while now, and the Mini Time Machine has been on the hit list for some time. Jenn loves miniatures, so we take a day to go explore the Mini Time Machine museum in Tucson AZ. It's a pretty cool place and it's worth a visit if you're in the area.
Does the hat make the man? Join full time RV travelers Jenn and Luke as they visit Spur Western Wear in Sierra Vista Arizona and Luke gets outfitted with some kinda beaver felt cowboy hat headwear. Check out Spur Western Wear for all sorts of fun cowboy clothes.
Howdy Pardner, ever wonder what to cook when boondocking off grid in a camper and conserving water? Jennie Mac will show you in this weeks installment of Camper Cooking with Jennie Mac. Join Jennie as she tackles the historically significant Sonoran Dog from the 1980s. Hotdogs wrapped in bacon? Yes please. It's appetite pleasin'!
There's a lot going on in The Sky Islands.Today we're exploring Elgin Ariziona. Join us as we stop by Dana's camel farm. Camels are awesome. We never knew. Did you know they pee backwards? Yeah, that's just good fun! Some day soon these camels will learn how to draw a carriage through wine country! America!
Can Luke produce a song from an RV? Of course he can. All it takes is an acoustic guitar an ego the size of Arizona. What goes on inside the RV when we aren't traveling and exploring. Well... this does.
Come along with us today as we traverse southern Arizona on any given day. We dump the trash, fill our water with a bag, and talk about how we get mail on the road. Some of our videos are made to be educational... This one isn't. Here, we're just going about our normal day and living full time in an RV out in the desert.
Here are 27 Items that we find useful for boondocking and full time rv living. We are not sponsored by any of these brands, they're just actually things that we use. We came up with about 50 more items that we find useful, let us know if you want to hear about them! 00:00 - Start 00:32 - #1 - Collapsible Dishpan 00:51 - #2 - Silicon Food Storage 01:22 - #3 - Kettle and Aeropress 02:27 - #4 - Plastic Bags 02:49 - #5 - Instant Pot and Air Fryer Lid 03:50 - #6 - Flypaper 04:19 - #7 - Collapsible Bucket 04:46 - #8 - Oxygenics Showerhead 05:28 - #9 - Wet Wipes 05:50 - #10 - Microfiber Towels 06:14 - #11 - Buddy Heater 07:36 - #12 - USB Chargeable Fan 07:58 - #13 - 1000w Jackery Solar Generator with 2 100w Panels 09:00 - #14 - SUAOKI Power Station 09:20 - #15 - More Chargers 10:07 - #16 - RVLock 10:43 - #17 - Argus Security Cameras 11:24 - #18 - Proven Industries Hitch Lock 11:57 - #19 - Pistol 12:32 - #20 - Honda E2200i Inverter Generator and Hutch Mountain Propane Conversion Kit 14:47 - #21 - Xtend & Climb 785P+ Telescoping Ladder 15:33 - #22 - Zero G Hoses 16:18 - #23 - Aquatank II 60 Gallon Water Bladder 17:36 - #24 - Ham Radios and Walkie Talkies 19:46 - #25 - Portable Solar Panels 20:22 - #26 - Flex Tape and Dicor 21:01 - #27 - Onewheel XR 21:28 - Outro Thanks to David with @fateunbound for the install video on the Hutch Mountain Conversion Kit. Check out their channel, it's full of great info. https://www.youtube.com/c/FateUnbound Check out the photos we take traveling across the country. https://rvnomadphotos.com #boondocking #fulltimervliving #rvlife
We're Jennifer and Luke MacNeil. We're full-time RV travelers exploring the country in our 36 foot Fifth Wheel. It's not all about maintaining the RV. We've been boondocking in the Coronado National Forrest for a while now and we decided to get out for a while to explore the little town of Patagonia, Arizona. It's a tiny little slice of Americana just north of the Mexico border. Travelers here enjoy vast mountainous overlooks, offroad sports, horseback riding, mountain biking, birdwatching, and hunting. We stopped by Velvet Elvis pizza on the way home. Pineapple Pepperoni. The Double P. Oh yeah.
We're Jennifer and Luke MacNeil and we're traveling the country in our 36 foot fifth wheel. Subscribe to our channel for insane footage, full time rv living tips and tricks, and just for fun. We'll make it worth your while, we promise.
AWESOME FREE Camping around Sonoita and Elgin Arizona at the Cieneguita Camping Area in Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. Join us as we explore the area for campsites. This is boondocking at its finest! The Las Ciengas is about 45 miles Southeast of Tuscon. The camping areas we explored are between Sonoita and Elgin. This area is a unique oasis as the Cienega Creek runs year round whereas many of the streams and washes in the desert are bone dry except for right after infrequent rain. Cienegas are marshes that occur along the length of this creek and offer life to rare vegetation for the Southwest. This is the transition zone between the Sonoran Desert and the Chihuahuan Desert and is bounded by separate mountain ranges in each direction. There are over 45,000 acres of grass and woodlands here in these hills that connect the “sky island” mountain ranges in this region. Check out the photos from our adventures at rvnomadphotos.com
** This video is NOT sponsored and we have no affiliation with any of the sites or apps discussed throughout this video. These are the tools that we actually use to traverse the country and camp for cheap or free. There are no discount codes or referral bonuses here and this content is biased only by our personal experience. Are you overwhelmed with the amount of RV trip planning and boondocking apps available? Not sure where to start? How do all these fulltimers find amazing off the grid locations to camp for free? Where can you find water, propane, and dump stations? Come along with us as Jennie Two Pens finds us a new spot to set up camp. She'll show you what apps she uses, how she uses them, and what we're looking for in a campsite. Watch how she uses helpful RV travel apps like: windy.com campendium.com rvtripwizard.com boondockers welcome and harvest hosts ioverlander.com recreation.gov rvdumps.com allstays.com passport-america.com This is how we travel. It's not the only way and these are not the only apps, but this video can serve as a starting point whether you consider yourself a fastidious planner or a fly by the seat of your pants nomad camper. Don't get stuck in a windstorm or run of fuel in the middle of nowhere. These apps can point the way and keep you supplied and safe. Thank you for watching, and if you get value out of this video, please subscribe.
This is the first in a series of videos that explains RV Electrical systems and our fulltime rv living solar installation and components. Before discussing how energy is harvested from the sun, we must first discuss electrical energy itself - otherwise, the words won't make any sense. Vanlifers, Fulltime and Recreational RVers, Tiny Homes, and other off-grid dwellers can benefit from this video - as well as those curious about the lifestyle or electricity in general. We are not licensed electricians and you should not listen to, or take any of our advice for any reason.
Are you interested in full time RV living? We're MacNeils on Wheels. Come along for a tour of the Fifth Wheel, the 2021 Jayco North Point 310 RLTS. We're boondocking off the grid in southern Arizona and we invite you to take a look into our rig! We cover storage solutions, a few repairs we've had to make, our electricity system and solar, cooking, showering, sleeping, and what life is actually like living off the grid. Maybe going full-time is a goal of yours in 2022. Take a peek into real nomad life behind the scenes with Jenn and Luke.
Join Luke and Jennifer MacNeil as they pack up the fifth wheel in the boondocks of Alamogordo New Mexico and travel to a campground in Silver City. See what it's like to get ready, pull in the slides, secure all the stuff, hitch up the rig, hit the road, and then set up in a new place. Prints from these adventures available from rvnomadphotos.com
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