A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
And we headed off to Florida! We had been trying to limit our long days of driving on this trip and had done pretty well so far. Now we had 2767 miles to drive in 5 days. Drive, stop to refuel us and the truck, use the bathroom in the trailer and then hit the…
As we had been working our way north toward the coast over the last few weeks, we had been having several discussions about whether we should be there at all. Mike’s mom had been dealing with some health issues and despite his dad’s assurances that things were ok, we felt like we should be with…
After a couple of days in the national park part of the area, we headed a little south from our campsite to Patrick’s Point State Park. It was a lot smaller than any of the state or national Redwood Parks, but our gentleman friend of the air quotes recommended it, so we thought we would…
Ahh! We had a destination planned. I found a campsite on the way down on National Forest Land that looked good online and we didn’t even make it to the actual campground. There was a lovely pull-off on a tiny road that seemed to lead to nowhere – a bluff across the road a babbling…
When we left Whiskey Run, we were floundering a little bit for a plan. We wanted to try to find some tide pools somewhere, but other than that, we felt like we were ok with how much coast we had seen. We did a quick run out to Cape Blanco, but it was so windy…
We made it to the coast at Florence and headed a little north to explore Cape Perpetua at Andrea N.’s recommendation. We got to the beach around mid-morning and warmed up in the sun as we walked down the beach finding little jellyfish, crab shells and even watching a seagull make breakfast out of a…
As we planned our course toward the coast, I once again took advantage of an old friendship for a mail delivery. I hadn’t seen Andrea N. since high school, but knew she lived in Eugene and connected via Facebook. We weren’t able to make much use of her hike suggestions as Mike’s back was still…
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? …
When we left the Zion area, we planned on heading north and wanted to take advantage of the larger cities in order to get some work done on the truck and trailer. Buying a five year old trailer meant that we had tires that were not brand spanking new and I had been a little…
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…