A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
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…
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…
On the most perfect days ever, we finally paddled out to Shell Key. Luckily, we had scoped the whole situation out when we were camping at Fort DeSoto a while ago. We would drop the boards and all our gear at a nice put-in north of the park and then drop the truck and trailer…
We enjoyed our time in the Ocala National Forest, but wanted to be able to get down to the Gulf coast before we left Florida. Finally the weather warmed up enough to make us want to spend time out on the boards, so we headed down. We had hoped to do the whole paddle board/…
When we started looking at getting out and about in the trailer, I started stressing out. On this adventure up until now, we had been camping pretty much out of season, but here in Florida, we were in the midst of the busy season. I started looking and had a hard time finding any decent…
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 are always on the lookout for good places to paddle – relatively mild water and interesting things to see which usually means bodies of water that aren’t too big. We settled into the Clark Fork Drift Yard because it was at the mouth of the Clark Fork River where it came into Lake Pend…
Fighting the Wind Part Deux After spending two days enjoying Glacier and logging 25+ miles we decided to take a leisurely float down the North Fork of the Flat Head River. Admittedly we got a little bit of a late start that morning (or afternoon). The plan was that Andrea would bike back to the…
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 enjoyed paddleboard camping so much the first time that we immediately started looking for other opportunities. We decided to head northwest toward the Island River Canoe Route the next day. Before doing so, we wanted to take a little rest day and just enjoy paddling around Whitefish Lake. We headed around the edge of…