In this family travel vlog, Nate Ritter narrates a day-long adventure with his children Asher and Everly as they drive along Colorado’s Skyline/Tunnel Drive, a cliff‑side road that feels like driving on a ridge. The family hikes a short, steep trail with dramatic drop‑offs, praises the views, and gives a “Ritter family stamp of approval” for the walk. Interwoven with the scenic footage is a discussion of RV winter travel logistics: concerns about freezing water lines, propane, and power; how the rig’s winter package, tank heaters, and a simple freshwater‑tank‑fill method prevented any freeze‑over during a cold night. The vlog ends with the family preparing to leave for the Grand Canyon, reflecting on the successful cold‑weather test, and sharing light‑hearted family banter about sledding and mountain passes. The video blends awe‑inspiring scenery, practical RV advice, and casual family interaction.
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It's cool. It looks like a painting.
It is like a painting, isn't it? Asher, what do you think this painting is? Do you think it's covered in bird poop?
I think so too. I'm so excited!
It's large and it's a city park in the middle of Goodland, Kansas. Well, I don't know if it's the middle. We might be on the fringes of Goodland, Kansas. I don't know because it all kind of looks like fringes. What is it? What is it? I'm so excited!
It's the—
this has got to be the largest easel in Kansas. It is attractive from the roadside. For scale, there's Everly. There's the biggest easel on the roadsides of Texas. Nope, not Texas. Kansas. Okay, Everly, what do you think about full-time camping?
Uh-huh.
What do you think about it? Well, did you call the manager?
How rude.
Next week we're going to be in an RV park south of Denver, and I just checked the weather and it's supposed to freeze. I did not want to be taking our first major RV trip in freezing temperatures. So we'll see how that goes. I guess with all things RV, you just roll with it. So I'll be doing some research and trying to figure out how do we make sure our lines don't freeze or, you know, our power goes out. And I don't know, we'll figure it out. This is the longest suspension bridge in America. So this is called Skyline, and you are definitely touching the sky because we're in Colorado already, and that's the Rockies, and we're on the edge of cliff on both sides. I think Asher wants me to stop driving with one hand. Okay, this is the road we're driving on, and that's the road that we normally drive on. It's like seriously just cliffs. We're literally driving on the ridge on a cliff. That's incredible. This is one of the most incredible drives ever. What do you guys think?
I hate it.
You hate it?
It's scary. It is tiny.
What's cool is I can see right behind you where we came.
Are some cactuses poison?
No, not that I know of. Maybe that one is though.
It's Starting to rain.
We might be stuck in a tunnel. It's coming from that direction. Well, looks like the rain might have missed us. The name of this trail is Tunnel Drive. Really, you're not driving, you're walking. So, hon, tell us about it. How was it? Was it easy?
Hard? Uh, it was easy, but there's quite an incline. Incline at the beginning, which I wasn't expecting.
So, which we're going down now.
Yeah, we're walking downhill, which is pretty easy, and it's nice.
That part's paved, but it's a really good hike.
I just hadn't anticipated the steep start, and then it goes right along a very sheer drop-off cliff.
Probably not a good idea.
It's also a little nerve-wracking for us, but super fun. Totally worth it.
Pretty easy once you get up there.
Gorgeous view of like cliffs and a river and the valley. Really, really pretty.
All right, there you have it. So should we, should we suggest it? It's a good, it's a good walk, right?
It's a great walk.
It's a good walk. Okay, we suggest it. Stamp of approval by the Ritter family. It is 29 degrees, about almost 7 AM, and we made it. We're leaving today. It didn't snow, nothing froze, nothing broke, so my fears did not come true, which is fantastic. And so now we're out here dumping the tanks and getting ready to go. We're going to be on our way to the Grand Canyon next, but the nice part is we kind of lasted through like a really small amount of cold, which I mentioned I was really worried about all that. But after doing a little research, the nice thing that I found out was that I could just fill up the freshwater tank and undo the hose from the source. And in this particular weather where it was like super cold at night but, but not frozen during the day, then, you know, our tanks aren't going to freeze. There's too much water there, and it didn't stay cold enough for long enough. So totally worked out. We didn't get snowed in, which is great. So it is cold outside, but we had enough propane and enough electricity and everything to keep the inside nice and warm. And because we have the winter package, it kept the underbelly warm too. And we even had the ability to turn on tank heaters, but we didn't even have to do that. So found some new features in the rig that I didn't know about.
Dad, next time we go sledding, you're not allowed on my sled. You break them all. You broke like 3 sleds last, like, couple years ago.
Things were cheap.
You're fat. I'm—
I am so not offended at all.
You just drove through your first mountain pass, babe. How'd it go?
It was all right. It was slow, a little snow on the ground, a little icy, but we made it. It was probably one of the weeniest little mountain passes ever. I'll take it for a first run. It was like the bunny hill, the bunny hill of mountain passes. I'm all right with it. No, it was easy. I was still very serious. You like our backyard?
Oh yeah, I like these bushes. In the trees, and it was really fun. Our backyard is pretty cool.
