America Adventure Rally Expands Boundaries Through RVing

Nov 1, 2019 Amanda Bungartz, Partner Editor at Roadtrippers

Seeing a 22-foot-long, gleaming white, class-C motorhome make its way up the winding mountain road posed a lot of questions.

“You’re really going to take that all the way to Montana?” people asked. “Have you ever driven one of these before?” (My answers were yes and no, respectively).

It was day one of the 2019 America Adventure Rally—an annual driving competition where teams solve clues to figure out what route they need to take in order to arrive at a final destination—and all participants had just converged at the top of Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, Colorado to kick off the race. All we knew was that the correct route consisted of almost no major highways, and that we should end up in Whitefish, Montana six days later.

Some might think it’s crazy to drive more than 1,000 miles in an RV with no real plan. But this “crazy” trip brought me face-to-face with an undeniable truth: Even though towns may be small and roads are often narrow, America conceals immense things.

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Photo credit: Amanda Bungartz