A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
After getting the car work done, we again headed toward Idaho. We wanted to try to see a little more of the state as we had thought it lovely before the smoke rolled in, but we were heading into fall and the weather looked a little iffy in the higher elevations. Snow in the forecast? …
We don’t do a whole lot of planning ahead in our lives right now, so when we started looking ahead to Zion, we found out that we were in a bit of a bind. A lot of Zion’s activities require some pre-planning, requiring permits or tickets that need to be booked ahead. We originally wanted…
After leaving Fantasy Canyon (and having to go back for a forgotten water bottle), we had a long drive to get to our stop just north of Arches National Park. We headed across more mountains, into Colorado for a bit and then back into Utah. We were driving on pretty desolate roads some of the…
We had gotten a taste of Jewel Basin when Jenn took us on our first hike in Montana and we wanted to spend some more time exploring it. We got our backpacks ready for a couple of nights in the basin and drove up to Camp Misery to set off. Last time we headed south…
Jenn gave us some good hiking and camping recommendations in the Whitefish Range so we dropped the trailer at their house and then headed back north for our first car/ tent camping of the trip. The Whitefish range is west of glacier and runs up to Canada. We made our way on gravel roads through…
On a map, nothing in Montana looks too far away, but it is a big state and the mountains do tend to make straight line travel a little difficult. It was about an hour from Jenn and James’s to the Upper Stillwater Campground and when we started looking around, we realized that we would probably…
We decided to head west across North Dakota on Route 2, but popped down to 94 to check out something that I saw a little of on a previous trip. My friend Tina and I visited Glacier several years ago and were intrigued by the Enchanted Highway as we passed by, but did not have…
Moving campsites is always a bit of an ordeal: packing up, stowing, organizing, etc. You would think that having a trailer would make it easier, but it really is not. On top of the normal camping stuff to put away (getting the truck packed up, putting away hammocks, chairs, and clotheslines, etc.), we now have…
While we are planning on being out “in nature” a lot, we really weren’t planning on having a lot of run-ins with wildlife. We have enjoyed the antics of the red squirrels and chipmunks that run around our sites, yelling at each other and eating any scraps we may drop. We haven’t enjoyed the hitchhikers…
We headed north from Silver Bay looking for our next find from freecampsites.net. North of Tofte, MN, we found the Oxbow Rustic Campground off Sawbill Trail. There were four sites at this campground and we lucked out at site #2 – room for the trailer, a picnic table and fire pit at the main site…