Last Sunday I was wandering the isles of the “general store” outside of Capitol Reef National Park. We had no more fresh vegetables or fruit in the RV. Despite checking Yelp and TripAdvisor I had come up empty handed other than this general store for groceries. I grabbed some limp asparagus and asked the owner […]
Archives for May 2016
Hike Willis Creek Slot Canyon in Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument
Thanks to my brother-in-law, we left Bryce Canyon National Park for a quick excursion to Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument to hike through a slot canyon. The hike is called Willis Creek, and the trail is six miles down a dirt road just outside of Cannonville, UT. The canyon floor is relatively flat, and […]
How I left my job and got a part-time job for the adventure (Part I)
While we’re traveling around the country by RV, I’m working remotely, about ten hours a week, for the company for which I worked full-time before I left. The ability to work remotely part-time has been a real privilege. Not only does the work bring in some money to cover the burn, but also it helps […]
Squirrel!
I’m not going to do this story justice. I’m sure it was one of those things that “you had to be there”. Plus I’m not the best story teller. But here goes… We spent one day in Zion biking to a series of small trails throughout the park. We did the Weeping Rock Trail. We […]
Airstream Belly Skin Repairs on the Road
RVs are rolling earthquakes. We drag our Airstream hundreds of miles each week on the highways and inevitably a few miles on dirt roads. It bounces, bangs, and shutters behind our Tahoe. Screws are often rattling loose and falling to the floor. We find one or two scattered around about each time we move to […]
Things I Can’t Live Without: LUCI
Both my family and Mark’s do a “Secret Santa” gift exchange for Christmas each year. It makes it super stress free on everyone. We each only have to buy 2 gifts for our families! It just decreases the amount of “stuff” you get that you don’t want or will never wear. We love it! Mark […]
Visit Rhyolite Ghost Town – Beatty, NV
I love a good ghost town. I biked through a few while cycling across America on some rarely traveled roads in the northwest US. I am always interested in how towns fail and curious what the last person to leave thought as they loaded up their belongings and left an empty town. General stores, saloons, […]
I HATE Hand Washing Dishes
All in all I really am happy most of the time living and traveling in the RV. I’ve really come around. GO ME! However, there are still some things that make me fee like I’m living in a trailer with my family. Which I am. But, like because we’re traveling I don’t feel like we’re […]
Day Trip Itinerary for visiting Death Valley with Kids
Death Valley is hot. Believe what you read about the heat. It is oppressive and dangerous. It’s dangerous for adults, and it’s especially dangerous for little kids. We visited Death Valley National Park with our 1 and 4 year old kids in May. By 9am, temperatures in the valley reached 90 degrees F. The hottest […]
Biking Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite is fantastic. The landscape is stunning, and the opportunities for hiking, climbing, and biking are plentiful. We spent most of our week in Yosemite Valley, taking in the waterfalls and cliffs throughs some short day hikes, but when possible we tried to find a little elbow room in a crowded park. We hiked a […]