Immediately following my last blog post, two things happened; First, my back decided to play 90-year-old again and nearly freeze up. I caught it quickly and instead of fighting the initial f...
Added: 6/30/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
I have been looking forward to this part of the country for a long time. And the timing was perfect, after a tough final week in Louisiana for me. A slight back-track and a hop to the North...
Added: 5/26/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
With the Rocky Springs Campground being only a single night stay, we had nearly 200 miles of driving before we made it to our destination to spend the work week. The Jeff Busby Campground si...
Added: 5/26/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Prior to our yak-packing trip in Grand Teton back in Sept of last year, we had gone almost one full year since putting the kayaks in the water. Since that time, the kayaks have been used no...
Added: 5/26/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
We pulled in too, and camped at, Bayou La Rose for our first full work-week in Louisiana. Kerri found this small campground and decided to stay out here, as opposed to closer to Lafayette-pr...
Added: 5/26/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Our final weekend in the area, I made sure to score one of the few back-country camping sites in Big Bend National Park (park #79 for me) that would fit the trailer. The NPS doesn’t make it eas...
Added: 2/14/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Our time in the Western part of Big Bend National Park was spent camping at the Cottonwood Campground. It is a no-frills campground, but the only established campground nearby the Saint Elena C...
Added: 2/14/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Texas…. The last time I was here it was not all that to me. It has been a while (just over 4 years) and I’ve changed a lot since then, but I still wasn’t looking forward to Texas again. Maybe i...
Added: 2/14/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
After leaving our New Years get together we moved onward, towards our ultimate winter destination of New Orleans. There are a large number of places in Arizona to stay for the work week, but we...
Added: 2/3/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
After leaving Southern California, we made our way all the way to the Phoenix area where we originally planned to stay the work week at Buckeye Regional Park. Instead, we continued on, turning...
Added: 2/3/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Over the past two years, Kerri has always spoke so highly of camping at Rincon Parkway in Ventura. I’ve driven past the place a few times and always wondered why anyone would pay to camp there....
Added: 2/3/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Our original plan to start our 2017 year has been to jump over the Sierras and bring Kerri down into Death Valley for her first time. Unfortunately, the recent cold snap steered us to lower ele...
Added: 2/3/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
The Airstream went in for a few weeks of repairs – minor repairs, nothing to be worried about – so we piled into the ‘vacation home’ that is Big Blue (yes, he will still be known as Big Blue) a...
Added: 2/3/2017
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
We left Bend with the purpose of visiting Crater Lake National Park, which Kerri had not yet been too. Originally, the plan was to migrate all the way to Klamath Falls and day-trip into the par...
Added: 10/31/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
I happily went along with the idea of extending our stay in Oregon. Kerri discussed it with me back in Idaho, and she knows damn well how I feel about California. I am forced to return to my mo...
Added: 10/31/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Ah… Craters of the Moon. I’ve had you on my to-do list every single year I’ve been traveling yet I never really made it into Idaho to drop in for a visit. This time around we get to meet.
Every...
Added: 9/27/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
On the drive from the Grand Teton area to Craters of the Moon, we dropped in on Hell’s half acre. Although not a national park (or even a State park) Hell’s half acre is a lava field of more th...
Added: 9/27/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
So, yea, I’m a little behind in my blogging…
Back at the end of August we rolled into Alpine, Wyoming to stay near enough to the Grand Teton National Park – as it was our destination the follo...
Added: 9/21/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
A planned stop – or at least one added to the plan once we realized we were coming back into Colorado – and another National Park that Kerri had not visited but I had; Black Canyon of the Gunn...
Added: 9/21/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
I didn’t do a very good job conveying just how much I have enjoyed camping up here above Twin Lakes, Colorado. We were lucky to have scored the boondocking spot we have. The place is beyond be...
Added: 9/21/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
We nearly had to pass by Badlands National Park in central South Dakota, but as luck would have it (what does that saying even mean?) we had made the trip out no matter the hell-on-earth-heat...
Added: 8/3/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
A rendezvous of sorts. My son and I planned to meet up in Wyoming one last time before we moved on out of the area. It was a two-hour drive for him, coming from the Boulder area, and his first...
Added: 7/18/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
The Vedauwoo is an area of large granite rock formations just off Interstate 80 near Laramie, WY. The granite is said to be 1.4 billion years old, and some of the oldest (and most fun, in my o...
Added: 7/18/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
As luck would have it, I knew a place to spend the week before making the leap over the Rocky Mountains. Rabbit Valley BLM is a large area of land straddling the Utah and Colorado state line....
Added: 6/28/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
As luck would have it, I knew a place to spend the week before making the leap over the Rocky Mountains. Rabbit Valley BLM is a large area of land straddling the Utah and Colorado state line....
Added: 6/28/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
It feels good to be out of the city and back into some mountains. At just under 8,000 foot elevation, Buena Vista – or just outside BV – has been our home for the past week. I’ve passed throu...
Added: 6/28/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Sometimes you just have to take them as they come, and Saturday was one of those days. After a long-haul from Crested Butte we were nearing our destination of Hot Sulphur Springs. With the sun...
Added: 6/28/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
So, yea… our plans changed [again] since we were last at Crested Butte. With a heat wave rolling through the state, we decided against going to Black Canyon of the Gunnison and then off to Din...
Added: 6/28/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
On our way up to Steamboat Springs we passed by a brown-sign beckoning us to follow a gravel road to something called “Chimney Rock”. A quick search netted Chimney Rock National Monument, but...
Added: 6/28/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
We left Buena Vista’s 8000 foot elevations to burrow deeper, and higher, into the Rocky Mountains. Deeper and deeper… deeper and deeper (see Office Space reference) to Crested Butte, Colorado,...
Added: 6/21/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Kerri and I took a drive last Sunday, not only to spot a couple boondocking spots for Campendium.com, but to take the Weston Pass between Fairplay and Leadville. Weston Pass Road w...
Added: 6/3/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Kerri and I took a drive last Sunday, not only to spot a couple boondocking spots for Campendium.com, but to take the Weston Pass between Fairplay and Leadville. Weston Pass Road w...
Added: 6/3/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
The original plan was to stay two weeks in the Zion National Park area, but family issues in Colorado have somewhat expedited our arrival. Although not super urgent, that need may arise at any momen...
Added: 4/26/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Yea, we are back in Northern California, specifically to drop Big Blue off in storage for the rest of the year. A quick visit to my family, then off we went to Bodega Bay to get in one final w...
Added: 4/4/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
Now that we are in (or near) the tropics, the heat laid it on thick and Kerri’s ability to do anything came to a staggering halt. Eventually she just laying in the van until the sun began to s...
Added: 3/15/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
The time has come for us to start heading North, and I must admit that I am happy about it. Surely, Baja has been great (at least parts of it), but I can only take so much desert-camping and b...
Added: 3/15/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
When we arrived at Cabo Pulmo, we arrived freshly showered. Or, at least we got to shower within the past 24 hours of that day, which is pretty freshly showered by our definition. We spent a week in...
Added: 3/15/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
In a flurry of discussion the decision was made. We would skip La Paz on our Southern route and instead visit it when we head North. I mean, we have to pass through it again no matter what, so...
Added: 3/15/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
“Wait, did I only shave one armpit?” – Kerri
An unknown amount of miles on a dirt road, once again rewards the risk with a gem of a beach and town. The tiny town of Cabo Pulmo rests within a Natio...
Added: 3/15/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
After leaving the zombies and oranges, we moved to the only campground within walking distance of the town for a single night of exploring Historic Mulege. Huerta Don Chano Campground...
Added: 2/19/2016
Edit Blog Post
Delete Blog Post
