We left the smoke of Island in the Sky and said goodbye to Utah as we headed into southwestern Colorado. I started planning things for us to do: with our CO-VID vaccines fully active, we finally felt comfortable enough to be out and about more in groups of people. While Mike worked, I booked us…
Category: Exploring
Pisgah – 8/26 – 8/28
With no big plan in sight yet, we made a small plan: head a few hours southwest to the Pisgah National Forest. We took the long way around the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Curtis Creek Campground. We were hoping to snag a spot out of the official campground (close spots on a paved circle),…
Canyonlands – Island in the Sky – 6/9 – 6/10
Disclaimer: The following couple of posts were written well after the adventures actually took place. I’m afraid some details were probably lost in the delay. While the different sections of Canyonlands all abut one another, getting to each of them requires some travel. We headed north through Moab and then west toward Island in the…
Paddling the Colorado Again – 6/3 – 6/4
The big reason we came down to Arizona was to spend time on the water. Besides Lake Powell, the stretch of the Colorado River between Page and Lee’s Ferry sounded like it would be perfect for paddle board camping. The Glen Canyon Dam resides in Page, so the river below it is calm, clear, and…
Glen Canyon and Lake Powell – 5/28 – 6/3
We only drove about 3 hours, but went from cool mountain weather to hot desert. Our next area to explore was around the southern end of Lake Powell, near Page Utah. Our goal was to get on the water again. We had the lake above the dam in Page and the Colorado River below. We…
Over the Mountain (Again) – 5/27 – 5/28
We said goodbye to Parowan Gap and headed toward the mountains just east of Cedar City. We had come through this route in the fall in the opposite direction and I remember being stressed out by both the climb up and the descent (the brakes were not working well at that point). Now we had…
Cedar City – 5/16 – 5/26
On our way toward Utah, we passed through the corner of Nevada and waved to Las Vegas as we went by. We spent one night outside of Mesquite, AZ and then moved on when we figured out it wasn’t going to be great for Mike’s word days – too hot, bad signal and just not…
Death Valley – 5/14 – 5/16
We went back and forth a little about the route we would take to head to Death Valley from Yosemite and eventually decided to head back south to get mostly around instead of over the Sierras. The route was quite a bit shorter and easier and the lure of Lake Tahoe was just not enough…
Sequoia National Forest – 4/23 – 4/25
We left Joshua Tree only one day later than planned after figuring out how to get Mike a driver’s license. I had spent a lot of time researching what was open this time of year, where we could take the trailer and all that good stuff. I had read that snow was pretty much gone…
Joshua Tree – 4/15 -4/21
With just a couple of stops along the way, we made our way into southern California and on to Joshua Tree. We had done a drive-by on the north side on our way to Florida in the fall and we were happy to be able to get back with plenty of time to explore now. …