Howdy ya’ll, the past 48 hours have been some of the most fun, exhausting, exciting, anxious, and happiest hours of my life. I am writing this at 6:03AM (was too excited to sleep in) in a hotel room about 3 miles away from the GFC warehouse in Bellgrade, MT. To give some backstory, my camper was miraculously finished in a span of 3 weeks. I was so stoked to get each update about the camper and knowing people before mine got theirs finished quickly too. So basically around mid-November I was already planning my trip to MT. Not knowing when it would be finished or even the fact the GFC would be closed almost a whole week I aimed for the end of December, predicting it would be done by then. Furthermore, due to Covid and my strict leave days allotted by work, I predicted to be up here the week of Christmas. The good news is that my camper finished insanely quick. Bad news being that there were zero appointment slots for my allotted leave period. So, being the awesome company that GFC is, Rachel was able to communicate to their team my circumstances, and they got me an appointment at Friday 4pm in Bozeman. COOL! So here is where the chaos goes down, for unfortunate life reasons, we could not leave our beach town in San Diego until 4pm on Thursday. Meaning we would have 23 hours (time difference) to drive 1,164 miles to pick up our camper (spoiler alert - mission successful). Google Maps predicted a 17 hour and 29 minute drive. Ok cool, but what they didn’t predict was the ungodly traffic in Temecula and San Bernardino during rush hour leaving SD. Sooooooo we sat in a lot of traffic and eventually hit open road. Long story short, we made it. 4 cups of coffee, 2 redbulls, and a lot of good Spotify music we made it. My co-pilot (Justine) was amazing and I think she got some ok sleep. But nearly 21 hours later we found ourselves stoking out in Montana on a beautiful Friday evening with some cool guys and gals. Safely. And at that point, when we pulled into the complex and put the truck in Park, I could literally feel a sigh of relief. We freaking made it. We spent the next couple of hours there, touring the cool complex, meeting Taylor, Graham, Rachel, John, and the rest of the GFC Crew. Oh, and they just so happened to be having a wedding there…nbd right? Safe to say this was the most insane trip of my life, my camper is on my truck and the vibes were just nuts. We still plan on finishing our road trip to SLC, Tahoe, and then putting the camper to the test over the next few days along the good ol’ 395. But man, I cannot thank the awesome company enough and their dedication to their customers and products! Yeeewwwww
thanks for reading, k ima go drink more coffee now - Jonny
