If you want a treat, do yourself a favor and go over to Watch Wes Work and check out his version of this RV saga here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ft6Fg7pnzr2YdmQ.html

You couldn't have broken down in a better place. Wes is one of the best mechanics and troubleshooters I've come across. His work ethic is second to none.

Listen everyone, this is the American dream right here! Being a honest blue collar father who takes care of his family and fixes his problems himself. Awesome buddy glad you guys are safe

More like, dig-drive-diy- and positive mental well-being channel. I love you guys! This is some of the most wholesome and kind content on YT at the moment.

Wes shifted me, and probably several folks your direction-within minutes, I knew I’d discovered some more folks I wanted to know a bit more about. I look forward to watching your videos and learning about the things you’re interested in doing and sharing? ✌🏻

Wes is a national/international treasure for sure!

Your videos are just the best Neil. Thank you for not only teaching us so many things, but sharing your life and all the “good” in it.

That "tow truck driver", needs to find a job he can handle, if he doesn't know to disconnect the drive line before towing anything with an automatic transmission! It's great to know Good People, Wes is one of them for sure. Glad your vacation turned out as a memorable occurrence.

I've became a big fan of your channel from stumbling upon your pond build series. This led me to watching through a wide variety of your other videos as you're living every little boy's dream of operating dump trucks, heavy equipment, and working in the dirt. The interactions and relationship you have with your family are heart warming and you seem like a hell of a guy. The icing on the cake was the surprise MKIV Supra in this episode, an unexpected foray into my world. I couldn't help but smile when I saw it. Keep up the great work, Neil. I look forward to your videos each week and will continue watching through old episodes to get fully up to speed in the meantime.

Wes is an awesome mechanic. I'm pretty sure he could fix just about anything.

You really couldn't have picked a better place to break down if you'd planned it Neil! Happy anniversary and glad you all had a good vacation. Looking forward to seeing the diagnosis and repair on @WatchWesWork .

Keg of beer and umbrella at the end, just topped off this trip you took us on!!! Man I love this channel!

Wes and family are good people and good people deserve to have good friends

Wes is a great dude. Incredible trip. Fun video to watch. 👍

WOW a DDD and WWW crossover event!! Like a dream YT Sunday for me!!!

Watch Wes work is one of the best KZfaq channels there is. IMO.

Epic Dad move assembling the carrier in the store!

I expect that half-way *down* Pikes Peak you found a whole new level of satisfaction that you fixed the brake problem before that excursion. 😅

Adapt and overcome, well worth it. Another memory for the books. Thanks for sharing

If you had to break down, it was near one of the best. Something providential about that. Thanks for sharing and being a good sport.

Neil, many years ago, my folks and two brothers and I were on vacation from central New Mexico to eastern Pennsylvania, and we were driving a dodge van with a trailer behind, and my mom was driving, got into a bad stretch of highway in St. Roberts, Mo. My mom drifted a bit to the right in her driving and the shoulder dropped off abruptly. She tried to get back on the road, oversteered, and flipped the van, and it got totalled. My dad bought a 74 Buick, and we continued to our destination, and returned without any additional mayhem. It was not easy fitting 5 people in the car, but we did the best that we could. Needless to say, we lost most of our belongings on our trip as the van had flipped and burned. Making the best of things is sometimes all we can do.

Neil, the money you saved on gas, you spent on accommodation. In the North we use screen on the rad, or a proper bug/summer front , or the rads would be well and truly plugged. Love the kittens. I watched Wes's channel first, as I have been following him for a few more years than you.👍 Take care, and best wishes from the far North.

Great family + Great friends = a Great vacation

Just started following your channel recently when one of the pond build videos was recommended to me. But this one has to be my favorite so far! Isn't it reassuring to know that not one detail of your trip was unknown to God? Think of some of the "bonding" experiences you would have missed with your family if you had been in that spacious RV or had not stayed with family in Longmont. :) The video of the Estes Park & RMNP area made me feel homesick. I've been out in that area just about every summer since 1966, and when it gets sweltering back here in KC it makes me miss it even more. And welcome to Kansas. I've driven through a bug storm before and they are not fun. Really makes ya realize how an insect swarm can change things. I have family there in Hutchinson, and my dad grew up about an hour west of there, so I've traveled those roads many a time. And what a blessing to have a friend so close who could take in your wounded RV and make it right again. Who knows, maybe your "unplanned" vacation turned out better than your other one would have. :)

Wes family and your cousin’s family, have shown their generosity soooo much! Hope you and your family NEVER forget!

My thanks to all that helped you and your family have a good vacation.

Neil a jeep would've been more than welcome when I was a kid. We went from Cleveland Ohio to McAllen Texas which amounts to 24 hrs in a Buick Lesabre and those are some of my best memories of vacation across the USA. You're all good man, it's what it's all about!

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, just like you and your family did, it still looked like a pretty nice trip, glad you got the RV back and all is well.

Hi Neil. You couldn't have picked a better place to break down! I watch Wes all the time and he cracks me up. Even on his second channel. What a great trip. You are so right in saying that there is a lot of good in the world if we stop to look for it. Sometimes it finds us even if we aren't looking for it. Glad everything worked out well. Thanks for the video! -mike

Thanks for sharing the Koch Family Big Vacation Adventure! Your comment about hospitality was so spot on. It was great to "ride along" with you all.

Just watched WWW. How wonderful to have people like Wes and his family as friends :)

I’m a long time Wes & Mrs. Wes viewer. I’m glad he linked up your channel on his video. Great stuff!

What’s more amazing is the Jeep made it.

Wes brought me here. Looked at your videos youve put out, liked what i seen, and now subbed. Hopefully more of Wes watchers come over to support your channel.

Wifey is right …. head back home The best hubby- dad on earth saved the day….!

Hello from the Netherlands Koch Family . thanks for the video Neil . Sincerely Hollandduck

Glad to see you salvaged your trip! Wes has an awesome channel and a very helpful person!

What was that on the walkway? Headless teen? Freaky Try Mount Washington in NH. NO edge, straight down.😮 Beautiful, thank you for taking us along. Thank you Wes and God bless you.

Neil, back in the 80's, I did security for a new industrial building on 19th street in Boulder, Co. One day after work, I headed up into the mountains right after work. It was a nice walk that day.

Neil, Thank You for the reminder to be positive!

24:05 Thank you for this reminder, Neil! It's really easy to forget this perspective if I don't stay on top of being mindful of my thought processes. Best wishes to you and your family, can't wait to see the next pond/pool update. ✌️💕

Wes and you Neil are a good team.....oh and your wife and kids as well.

The girls embarrassed of their dad doing something weird in the store is the greatest 😂😂

Thank you and the girls for sharing your vacation with us. The highs and lows. Glad yall had a good time and got to see some of our fantastic country. Thank you Wes and John for helping them out.

Glad to have met you at Wes’s shop! I’m sad to hear that the tow driver didn’t remove the driveshaft, might have been a simple fix. Awesome to see that you were able to salvage the vacay, good times!

You have good people. Family, friends and followers.

One of the best channels on the tube!!!! Thanks!

Always worth watching. I look forward to every episode.

I came to your channel via Watch Wes Work. Not only is he a brilliant mechanic, who explains everything in a way that anyone can understand and learn all sorts of information from his explanation. Apart from anything with engines I have also seen Wes repair a washing machine, a welder, a generator, a milling machine etc. I hope the invoice included the following fees. Repair RV - double the cost, RV belongs to a KZfaqr - double the cost. KZfaqr assisting the repair - double the cost.

Two of my favorite channels ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸

When you tightened the ratchet strap on the toats you forgot to say “that’s not goin nowhere”. Perhaps the breakdown knocked you off your square…..thanks for making a simple travel video that wasn’t over hyped….just a nice family vacation

My goodness you are a man of many talents, and you must attract the same with such talented friends and family as well 😊 I’m a bit jealous

Yes there is still great people about, and I thank them for their help, so thanks you guys 🎉❤

Wes is a great guy. You're lucky he was able to fit you in. And his wife is a lovely woman. Did you meet.'Pup'? Best regards from South Wales, UK. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Blackbird is still so amazing I just stare in awe at it everytime I see one in person. Wes is a good dude.

Born in Boulder lived in Longmont where I was born! Wes is a pretty awesome guy for sure!

The more I watch DIG DRIVE DIY. The more I want to move to the states. Love it! 👍

Good job salvaging the trip! Looks like you guys had a blast.

So glad you were able to salvage your vacation and get to the best repair shop possible. Great video! *Keep on tractoring!*

Everyone should have a Mr and Mrs Wes in there friend circle, such genuine people

What a great story. Wonderful. This will be one for the campfire for years to come. 😊

One of the most white knuckled drives I ever did was Kansas City to Denver. By the time we hit Topeka we were in a blizzard. Withing an hour or so we were passing off ramps right before they were closing them. I had a new 1990 F 250 4x4 with a port fuel injected 460 in it with 33" Mud terrain tires. if there was a gas stating we stopped. It was a white out and every once in a while a tumble weed would blow across the front of the truck and it seemed like the end. I was physically wore out and stopped in Limon Colorado to get a room. Next day there wasn't a cloud in the sky. In 93 the year of the flood I was where the Missouri and the Mississippi meet. Road graders had literally cleared several feet of mud off the roads and the bugs were like small animals smashed om the windshield. The things we do while traveling...

It's so great to have awesome friends in your life to help in when times are tough!

At least u have spare front calipers no lol man u had a rough start to ur trip and u still managed to have a blast I don't know how anybody especially Barbara Streisand can say Colorado is a dump 😮 it's beautiful and Wes and ur family are awesome to help u guys out like that rare to find good people 🤗

My wife would have wanted to call it quits too after the motorhome broke down. If she would have walked past that sign warning of rattlesnakes, she would have been sprinting for Kentucky and yelling over her shoulder for me to keep up.

Family, friends and personal networks make all the difference when you need a hand, help or somebody to talk to. Thanks for being there for each other.

Looks like you turned lemons into lemonade! Very nice to have friends and family that are welcoming and so helpful! My wife and I are retired and live in the country in NE Iowa and would love to travel again, but it would be a challenge without knowing there were some helpful stops (if needed!) along the way! So we're content enjoying our annual 'stay-cations' right here on our humble acreage with trout streams just a few miles away and beautiful limestone bluffs! We love feeling secure in our golden years vs. the instinct to roam - and we have certainly done our share over the years! You young'nz take care and happy you made it home safe! Hoping you have success in your search for shallow water nearby!

I watch Wes' you tube channel. He is the best. Glad you had a good time.

Neil glad your trip want lost and your right there are good people in this world still

I went to Colorado Springs in July 1986 for a little vacation. Went back to SD long enough to pack up my stuff and I've been here ever since. Thanks for sharing your trip with us and hope you enjoyed your visit!

Beautiful scenery! Glad everything worked out for you!

Wes's channel is really good. What makes it good is Wes himself. He's a quiet achiever, dry wit, and just a good person. I hope your subscribers give Wes ago. I subscribed to yours because you have a good choice of friends.

I've come to learn after 35 years, that Illinois can suck the fun out of just about anything. However, the kids won't forget this vacation. I remember loading into the car for cross county journeys with my folks... they were always fun.

I love how you are able to turn out so many obstacles in life to positives and smile on, thanks for bringing us along on your vacation and also a big thanks to Watch Wes work for making it all happen.

It's fascinating how similar you and Wes sound. 8:44 Yikes! Big cast-off from a semi tire. Great to see it all worked out! Gosh, those are some adorable kitties!

I’m confused as to how my comment should go. You had versions of luck, both terrible and amazing news both with the motor home and the Jeep! So great making lemons into lemonade the whole trip! So great and it looked like you totally made the best of it in Colorado! Going to Wes’ channel right now!

When someone helps someone else… I will subscribe to them :) Great channel @wes!

You have one of the best kindest personalities and seem to be a good dad. I have recently joined your Chanel after seeing the pond. Then you have a jeep. I’m a do it yourselfer type person too. So I joined. But I just wanted to say thank you for being you and inviting us all into your lives. God bless

Way to salvage the trip !!! You guys are awesome !!

I know how you feel through experience. My RV had a catastrophic rear axel seizure after a $1 spring broke in a rear brake drum causing a brake shoe to rub on the drum. After driving 150 miles at 60 mph on a motorway to the Lake District in the UK the rubbing built up so much heat that it caused all the grease to run out of the bearings on both rear wheels locking them up completely resulting in a low loader trip to a garage where we spent a £1000 in repairs and the first three days of our vacation. In the following few days we then had a collapse of the RV's awning after torrential rain and then ripped both front tyres off a rental car after driving into the biggest pothole I've ever seen! Never again going on another RV vacation. As ever great video and hit the thumbs up on Watch Wes Works channel

Got a great laugh at the “in store” hitch hauler assembly! You’d travel the world over and never find such a family! TRUELY BLESSED!

As a new father, this is the content I need right now. Thank you.

Being a QC native and a John Deere employee, I love that you stopped in the QC and filmed right next to the John Deere Pavilion! Hopefully you stopped in for a visit!

Thank you for sharing this. I've been almost every place you and your family went. Brought back memories. So fun

I actually found you because of Wes, I enjoyed your video, and the way you took that crappy situation and hit what appears to be a GrandSlam for a vacation. Great job you earned my subscription.

I never would’ve thought my old house was gonna be in your video I used to live in watch Wes works house my dad built the shop there crazy to see things I see every day on your video

So happy to follow you. I have knowing you as you grew up as a student at Harlan Elementary. I was you School Principal. Thanks for sharing your talents.

I am, by nature, a person who finds gratitude in life. By every measure one could look at my life and say, “he’s got it all.” I’ve been very fortunate and I hope I’ve paid it forward time and again. But Neil, your spirit coupled with your beautiful family makes me even more grateful that I somehow stumbled upon your channel so I can find another source of beauty and gratitude in life. Thank you.

Two of my favourite youtube channels 😀😀😀🇦🇺

Thank you for sharing these words Faith in Humanity when it is so easy to dwell on the negative....we know there are more good people than bad. Our children need to see the bright side when they are surrounded by negative images on social platforms. God Bless you and your family. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY here is to many more!

Hell of a trip our hero wes 👍👍👍

Don't know exactly what it is, I would say just the joy of a Simple, Honest life, it's what attracts me to you videos. Thanks, all the way from central Mexico (and more than welcome to say over with us). I have a coming conference in Colorados Spongs and I was thinking about taking kids and wife. After this video, absolutely. So Colorado Tourists Office, give this guy a THANKS

Now that's how you make Lemonade when life gives you lemons! Thank goodness you had the Jeep with you. Huge Shout Out to @WatchWesWork for his kindness and generosity! Huge Shout Out to your cousin for the save and the use of his garage and lift! How cool is it to have a lift in your garage? Did it give you any ideas, Neil? Colorado looked so pretty. Thank you for taking us with you and your family! Can't wait to watch the next video! See you in the next one! P.S. The kittens are adorable and who had the pool party at the pond?

Its not the trip its the memories and the people just like you said. What a wonderful story and so glad you shared it with us.

They race up that road on Pikes peak 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

Always good to see my home through somebody else's eyes. Glad your trip was salvaged. Cheers.

I had never heard of Wes..I watched him working on your rv, liked and subscribed...He is awesome

Wandering over from Watch Wes Work. Great video, and you now have a new subscriber! Also, I learned about the acronym for Jeep recently (Just Empty Every Pocket) that seems appropriate, just like Found On Road Dead is suitable for your Ford.

Thank you for sharing precious family moments with all of us. God bless you and God bless your friend Wes.

I watch WWW every episode did watch the one on the motorhome .You were lucky to have been able to catch him there at his shop .He and his wife seem to be wonderful people . In my travel around this great country I find that there are more wonderful ,kind people of all types . It's to bad that the media only show the bad actors out there !! Glad to see you turned a bad situation into a positive time with the family !! p.s. Can't wait to see the pond full and functional ! sharpen up those ice scares girls 😊😊