A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
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),…
Into Canyonlands – northeast back into Utah and we took a little detour on our way. Muley Point offered views of the goosenecks of the Colorado, but getting there meant a bunch of switchbacks, so we dropped Scarlet outside of Mexican Hat and headed up. Lots of cool terrain and texture and a nice change…
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…
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…
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…
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…
And then, on to Yosemite. We had a lovely uneventful drive from Sequoia to a spot just outside the southern entrance to Yosemite. I had loaded up on groceries in Visalia, so we just needed a couple of stops in Fresno to refill propane and get a few things at Sam’s. The valley was already…
When we left the Sequoia National Forest, we decided not to head right into the park, not knowing exactly what the conditions were after the cold and snow. We found a spot overlooking Lake Kaweah which was still aways from the entrance we would take into the park, but was warm and had a good…
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. …
After leaving Big Bend, we had an uneventful drive through the rest of Texas to land just over the border in New Mexico. Our home for a couple of days was the Sunland Park Casino, which offered not much in the way of views, but did offer electricity and water, which was fabulous as the…