Trips to New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma
It was shortly after lunch when we pulled off the pavement on to one of the dirt roads in Big Bend National Park. While the temperature was a balmy 71, we knew…
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Four Day Itinerary for Big Bend National Park
by Bonnie May 1, 2018When we first started planning our visit to Big Bend National Park, I felt completely overwhelmed. To be fair, I suppose planning a first visit to most anywhere is overwhelming, but this…
My Song of the Open Road
by Grant April 18, 2018For this post, I am taking a bit of a different direction and I hope you will indulge me. In my American Literature class, I assign students to read “Song of the…
Finding RV Service on the Road
by Grant June 29, 2017Fixing something when you are on the road is never easy. Getting RV service… even more difficult, even when it is a relatively simple fix. RV Service Problem #1 On Friday of…
Great Basin NP: An Alpine Oasis in the Desert
by Bonnie June 25, 2017Great Basin National Park is not a place that you will run across accidentally. You have to want to go there. And you should want to go there. Mountains, caves, a glacier,…
Crossing Nevada’s Wide Open Spaces
by Grant June 22, 2017“There’s not a lot out here in Nevada.” “Nope, there sure isn’t.” That was our conversation driving from Lee Vining, California to Caliente, Nevada. That and will we have enough gas to…
Visiting the Flagstaff Area National Monuments
by Grant June 8, 2017Today is an important day. It’s June 8, 2017, the 101st anniversary of the Antiquities Act of 1906. The law gave the President of the United States the ability to set aside…
Three Stops on Route 66 in Arizona
by Bonnie June 5, 2017Our seven-week road trip through the American West started with us driving from Woodstock, GA to Yosemite National Park (in California). Our route west includes about 1,900 miles of Interstate-40, from Nashville,…
Home Sweet Home, Driving Back via Interstate 40
by Bonnie January 3, 2016January 2 – Across Oklahoma We drove I-40 towards home today. While our route across the panhandle of Texas, Oklahoma, and into Clarksville, Ark. is WAAAAY better than driving north to St.…
A great start to a New Year
by Bonnie January 1, 2016This morning we returned to my (Bonnie’s) uncle’s place to get the full tour of his property. He has a large lot (30-40 acres) just west of Pagosa Springs. In addition to…
A Very Long Day
by Grant December 30, 2015We got up and were in Arches National Park (our 100th unit of the National Park Service!) before dawn to take pictures of the sunrise, which was obscured by clouds. On a…
Canyonlands National Park
by Bonnie December 29, 2015This morning we woke up to about a half-inch of snow on the truck and still falling. Thankfully, it was light snow and didn’t last too long, so no major problems getting…
More National Parks Sites
by Bonnie December 28, 2015Today, we continued our quest to visit as many National Park Sites as possible. Ideally, we would visit all of them (currently a little over 400), but a few of them are…
Across Oklahoma and “Out West”
by Grant December 20, 2015Across Oklahoma Today, we drove across Oklahoma and into the panhandle of Texas, stopping in Dumas, Texas. You might be asking why we have routed ourselves this way to get to Laramie,…
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