No Time Left: Getting the Camper Ready for Colorado Winter

This stretch of the journey wasn’t planned so much as forced. Winter was closing in, my Moonlander X still wasn’t insulated, and I had almost no time to solve it. What followed was one of the most compressed travel-and-work windows I’ve had since starting This Way Wild — and it became the longest episode I’ve ever had to edit.

I left Phoenix and ran north through Utah, stopping at Meadow Hot Springs before pushing across Colorado on I-70. From Summit County, I explored Boreas Pass and found a quiet place to camp near Kenosha Pass before heading to Radica HQ to drop the camper for a full insulation install.

With the camper torn apart in Colorado, I flew back to Phoenix for a two-day shoot in Scottsdale, then immediately returned to pick it up. After the install, I camped with Logan (Logan Lets Go) and Luke from Radica before heading south through Salida and Gunnison and back into the San Juans. I walked through Ouray and tried to reach Clear Lake before getting stopped by a landslide. By that point, the clock had run out — I had to push back to Arizona.

I filmed less during this stretch on purpose. Some episodes are meant to be dense and cinematic; this one needed to be honest about the pace, the pressure, and the reality of living on the road while trying to keep a production schedule alive. Breaking my foot, rethinking how I shoot, and managing commercial work in between didn’t help — but all of it forced me to tighten the workflow and rethink how I tell these stories.

This episode marked the start of winter prep in earnest and the beginning of a more streamlined approach to filming TWW moving forward.